• tired_n_bored@lemmy.world
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    Don’t show this meme to .ml users.

    According to them Russia could invade Ukraine in 2014 but Ukraine shouldn’t have fired back because “what about the kids?!”

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      Never happened, also it was just a few thousand, also they were kulaks and Ukrainians did it anyway. But also never happened, western propaganda. And what about NATO bombing Belgrade?!?!?!?!

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    Marxist-Leninists support Soviet and Chinese imperialism for the same reason liberals support Western imperialism: they’re both ideologues who want their people and ideals at the top of the global hegemonic order. They’re in a war for global ideological (and possibly ethnic) supremacy, with the winner getting to rule the world.

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      Hate to break it to you bud but capitalism is already the world order. Now I need you to stay late tonight so we can get this shipment of bombs out to countries in Europe and the Middle East.

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        Of course, I should have said the Western liberals are defending their position atop the global hegemonic order, and the MLs are trying to unseat them.

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          But Russia and China are both capitalist countries.

          The tankies are tools/useful idiots used by them.

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            But Russia and China are both capitalist countries.

            They’re certainly not ideologically liberal, even if they have embraced some liberal economic principles, albeit under significant state control and direction.

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              They’re certainly not ideologically liberal,

              But they’re very much still ideologically capitalist.