Oh really? If he’s such a strong anti-imperialist how is he a piece of shit? Maybe explain that instead of just hand waving literally every concern your comrades reply with and calling them libs.

Some of you read the front cover of ‘Imperialism: the highest stage of capitalism’ and decided that there’s no material basis for the idea?

No, seriously, let’s have a struggle sesh about this, defend the fash in front of the entire community. If his faux anti-imperialism is good enough for you to throw others under the bus, explain why the rest of us deserve to die

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[–] darkcalling@hexbear.net 2 points 10 hours ago

There are not that many flavors of reactionary. What Russia tries to use for soft power influence peddling itself as a "trad" defender of traditional values, the family, against the gays, etc is a strain of thought that originated in the west more than Russia which was we must recall the USSR from 1917 to 1990.

These are simply the suppressed nativist conservatives who were shoved out of the way in favor of neo-cons and their agenda in the 90s and 2000s. And they're trying to reassert themselves against very powerfully funded imperialists whose thinking has made weapons companies a lot of money and whose thinking has captivated the higher echelons of the intelligence and state apparatus. They at least on the surface care more about too many brown people in the US than someone not bowing to the US 22,000 miles away. These people are true believers in the culture war or at least using the appearance of that to attempt to gain power.