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The main thing the USA is ALWAYS responsible for is preventing the threat of a "Good Example" by destabilizing every socialist government for almost the past decade.
True, though this post is mostly about stuff like modern support of Russia.
"Russia's defending itself from NATO incursion" - Tankies on Ukraine
"The Uyghur Genocide is western propaganda"
"Tiananmen Square doesn't even make sense. It's all western propaganda"
Tankie positions, everybody.
Check the !tankiejerk@lemmy.dbzer0.com post ( https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/45135755 ), that's literally what some of those people are saying.
I hope that they're all highly upvoted is just Hexbear brigading.
Ew. That thread is infested with hexbear tankies. Do they have nothing better to do than brigade. I suppose they are opposed to working real jobs and contributing to the "capitalist system".
Not if see it, they aren’t.
Just want to mention, most of the removals and votes aren't federating to lemm.ee for some reason: https://lemm.ee/post/64973610
Which is real fun when you realize the consensus is that the USSR fell entirely due to their own incompetence. It makes the "USA prevented the success of socialism" a lot more questionable
Yeah cause the USA did nothing at all to undermine the USSR during the Cold War....
They tried but were largely unsuccessful.