Appreciate the informative list of links! (Very common u/davel W).

Also lol at my comment being reported to mods as propaganda for stating a simple, verifiable fact. Always funny how the dronies think it’s “propaganda” just for going against what they want to believe even when their beloved western sources reported on it back before it became no-no to do so. (A NATO No-No, if you will). I’d ask what instance the [redacted] reporter was from, but I guess that might give away exactly who it was.

The Eastern provinces that the neonazi-led Ukrainian government was ethnically cleansing, and who had been asking for Russia’s help (and to join Russia) since long before February of of 2022? Yes. Yes, they should be Russia.

Russia is much more democratic than Ukraine. While Russia is unfortunately still capitalist and therefore ruled by a dictatorship of the bourgeoisie, it is no less democratic than the western countries - countries that are also bourgeois dictatorships - that call Russia autocratic as a convenient way to demonize their enemy. Meanwhile Ukraine is ruled by a fascist coup regime installed by NATO, a regime that has indefinitely suspended elections and regularly kidnaps members of its population off the street in unmarked vans to be sent off to the front lines of the war as cannon fodder. It is the most openly neo-Nazi country on the planet, much to the consternation of western journos and politicians who have to keep making excuses and trying to redirect everyone’s attention away from the swastikas and cult-like deference to a dead Nazi nationalist.

So if you’re disregarding the previous comment because you think its sources are dubious all because they report on topics you find distasteful, it’s time you started questioning the sources that you have mistakenly trusted, the ones that are telling you the lies about Ukraine that you seem to have swallowed without any critical thought or questioning.

Hopefully we can all agree at least that yes, China is far more democratic than any of the above in that its people can and do effect change in the system that governs them, and they are almost universally happy with their government.

The “tankie” instances are the least likely to have bots. They’re the most vehemently anti-AI and the moderators most active in banning any kind of bot-like activity. Hexbear, the one that all the dronies clutch their pearls about most and accuse of brigading the most doesn’t even have downvotes - they are incapable of mass downvoting.

Diseases did not conquer hundreds of tribes.

Disease played a major role in the European’s ability to conquer those tribes. It’s not an either/or situation. It is true that the “Americas” that the English started colonizing had already been devastated by the contagions brought by the Spanish. The English undoubtedly would have found it far more difficult and maybe even impossible to conquer those hundreds of tribes had they not first been so severely depopulated by pandemic. Acknowledging this does not absolve or even lessen the atrocities committed by the English.

You’re a reactionary cosplaying as a leftist

Every accusation a confession.

I am fully convinced that a small number of users on this instance are here with the intention of making anarchists look bad, the intention to really drive in the nail (one crafted by the enemies of all of the left) that anarchism is the ideology of spoiled, tantrum-throwing children. Because that’s how @masquenox@lemmy.dbzer0.com and a few others like them are behaving. Actual anarchism is not this, of course, but that’s why I am so convinced that either these puerile users don’t know what real anarchism is, or they do but are only pretending to be anarchists online to “troll” real leftists, be their targets Marxist-Leninist or real anarchists or any other genuine leftist tendency.

Anyone reading these exchanges (even lurking liberals) who have any experience interacting with their fellow humans, can immediately spot who in these threads are speaking in good faith, are interested in learning and understanding the world, interested in presenting valid evidence and reasoning for their beliefs (people like @CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net in this particular subthread), versus which other participants in this thread are acting completely, openly, and smugly in bad faith with no interest in either the truth or in learning, let alone any interest in having a real discussion, because they make it clear the only interest they have is “owning” opponents, or since they can’t manage that, just being inflammatory and saying things we all know are absurd but are designed to cause upset even when it lays bare their own pathetic ignorance. Trolling, in other words. It is so blatantly obvious who is just here spewing whatever they can with the intent to make people angry. It doesn’t have to be reflective of reality, they don’t have to even make sense, they just say things in a transparent attempt to shit-fling.

I say let them keep at it, they will wear themselves out eventually, as conniption-having toddlers always do. But also because it is so obvious what they’re doing, anyone watching from the sidelines, especially anyone “without a horse in this race” can see that the “tankies” and actual anarchists (like @Nakoichi@hexbear.net), at least in this thread, are the ones who know what they’re talking about and have genuine convictions and a dedication to justice. I want to reiterate that (real) anarchists have these positive qualities too, but a select few of the cringe users in this thread like masquenox who claim to be anarchists should not be taken as being even remotely representative of what people who belong to that tendency are like or what they believe. The anarchists I know irl and consider friends and comrades wouldn’t be caught dead associating with these tantrum-throwing, “tankie-hating” children.