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You mean they've been fighting Russian backed separatists that were trying to join their regions with Russia

If they want to live under a totalitarian regime they were always free to move to Russia themselves

[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 41 points 1 year ago

Ah yes the ever popular "they should have self deported instead of getting ethnically cleansed"

How come you guys were okay with kosovo 'voting' to leave Serbia, but suddenly this is a bridge too far?

[-] 420blazeit69@hexbear.net 22 points 1 year ago

The trick is they know zero specifics of either situation

[-] StalinwasaGryffindor@hexbear.net 35 points 1 year ago

Do you realize how sociopathic this sounds? Are all separatists deserving of being bombed by the country they live under? Would you say the same to the people of Yemen, or Palestine or Ethiopia? “You’re being bombed, so just leave”?

[-] combat_brandonism@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

Would you say the same to the people of Yemen, or Palestine or Ethiopia?

Depressingly for many libs the answer is yes because guy with blue tie was president and responsible for bombing them. Guy in red tie too but that's less relevant. Kosovo and Syria are better examples.

If they are trying to join Russia, yes. No need to pull their neighbours into that

[-] sharedburdens@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

But it's okay for neighbors to pull their neighbors into IMF debt servitude, to say nothing of couping the government because it wasn't pro-west enough. Really letting the euro chauvinism fly there.

[-] HornyOnMain@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If they want to live under a totalitarian regime they were always free to move to Russia themselves

This is literally just "if you hate ~~america~~ ukraine so much, go back to your own country!" repainted as a liberal viewpoint

Should the Bosnian Muslims just have gone back to their own country to avoid being murdered by right wing paramilitaries too?

Wait so you believe paramilitary groups were ethnically cleansing ethnic Russians in the Donbas in/pre 2014? Do you have any sources for this?

[-] Pili@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Careful not to let your MAGA hat fall when you yell at the clouds.

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 9 points 1 year ago

Well for one example: if you pose a real political threat to the regime, you get thrown into prison or out of a window

[-] Rod_Blagojevic@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

How is that different than any functioning state?

What would happen to you if you started a tv show where you publicly talk about the crimes of your government? It might come as a shock but there are plenty of countries where you can do this without falling out of your window

[-] brain_in_a_box@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Thinking "starting a TV show" = "pose a real political threat to the regime" is the most liberal brained thing I can imagine.

Ask Fred Hampton what happens to actual threats to the regime.

Sure that's one good example (although it's always a bit more risky if you're starting an armed self defense force). But you might just want to ponder a little bit on why you have to go back 50+ years for it.

[-] StalinForTime@hexbear.net 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I see. So are you going to follow this line of thought to it's natural conclusion and become an anarchist? /s

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