vovchik_ilich [he/him]

The only real communism is gay communism

Russia’s Putin as opposed to…? Just funny phrasing

Me gusta practicarlo a mi español algunas veces para que aprendo más en vez de perderlo.

Lo corrijo: “me gusta practicar mi español algunas veces para aprender más en vez de perderlo”

pero no recuerdo mucho de ellas

No pasa nada, principalmente en algunos sitios de España tenemos el sonido equivalente al “th” en inglés (as in “thesis”). Por ejemplo, al decir “zorro” (which means fox) , en inglés se pronunciaría algo así como “tho-rro”. En Latinoamérica, y en el sur de España, se pronunciaría “sorro”.

Dismissing entire sections of information simply because they don’t fit into your narrative or are associated with even a government source isn’t good

I routinely do this with US propaganda against China and with Israel anti-palestine propaganda, and I’m not ashamed to say it. I flat-out refuse to listen to news from these sources for the most part

Hey! ¡Hablas bastante bien español! Si quieres algún consejo o ayuda con el idioma, mándame un mensaje o algo. Pero te aviso de que yo hablo español de España, que es distinto al de Méjico (que probablemente sea el que hablas si eres estadounidense)

Surely not my point that we should automatically discard and ignore everything from russian government sources, just to be very careful when listening to all recounts and information about an ongoing military conflict

Honest question: why did we accept the nickname Holodomor? Why don’t we have catchy nicknames for the actually genocidal famines that the British did in their colonies? Why is it the “Belgian Congo atrocities” and not, idk, the “belgienocide” or the “capitalist turbo hand-cutter 3000”?

Can relate. I made my account a few days ago on hexbear because I’m Spanish and it’s unreasonable that I’ve been exposed to every fucking detail about the presidential race of a country on the other side of the ocean, while I literally don’t know the name of Portugal’s president…

The source isn’t a random russian person though, it’s a “Russian military administration” source, hard for me to trust a source from either government during wartime

Concerning.

I think the comment above yours is legit. There are a few people in the comment section taking the news seemingly at face value, or arguing “if this is true, then…”. All news are propaganda, just different sides, which makes the comment a bit naive, but I get the meaning given the comment section.

Elon energy on your comment

The U.S. has been gunning for Russia for centuries

Technically one century but sure, I don’t deny that the US attitude towards Russia stems from imperialism.

It’s borderline racist to claim that Russia is imperialist

“It’s borderline to say Russia has reached the final stage of capitalism, with the financialization of the economy and the concentration of capital in the hands of a few oligarchs” I really don’t see how it’s racist to say that.

when you claim that Russia is imperialist for defending it’s people from a decades-long siege that is generations old

Establishing a continuity in “Russia” and the reasons for the US hostility towards it for the past 100+ years is absurd. The reasons why Tsarist Russia was expansionist (although not imperialist since it was barely industrialized), weren’t the same as why the USSR invested in military and the US was hostile to it, and aren’t the same as to why modern Russia invests in military and why the US is hostile to it.

for defending it’s people

And I don’t claim that Russia is imperialist because it engages in warfare, that’s not my criteria. The USSR engaged in warfare and Afghanistan and it wasn’t imperialist, the argument could be made that something relatively similar is happening in Ukraine now. My point as to why it’s imperialist is the consolidation of capital in the hands of a few, and the financialization of the economy. The EU is also an empire in this regard. It’s harder to say for China given the wide state control over the private companies. I really fail to see how comparing highly developed capitalism in country A with highly developed capitalism in country B is racist of a State Department talking point.

Again, we’re talking of different definitions of imperialism.

Despite the power of the oligarchs, this battle is about the survival of Russia as a nation-state as a whole, not just the wealth of the rich.

Ok, but that’s exactly the point. The economic interests of capitalist Russia directly oppose those of capitalist USA, why else would the USA be hostile to Russia and push NATO to its borders and blow up the NordStream? Why not do all of those things against, say, Germany? That’s exactly what I mean by imperialist nations colliding, the private capital having opposed interests.

Russia has no case of exporting money abroad to directly influence the outcome of elections

It tries through hackers though, but yes, not remotely on the scale of the US. I’m not saying “Russia is worse than the US” here, I’m saying that according to Lenin’s definition of imperialism, Russia is currently an imperialist state.

Financialization is a feature of capitalism in general

Again, yes, exactly my point, I suggest you read the book I mentioned if you wanna understand what I mean. We agree, we’re just hung up in semantics

The definition of imperialist I’m using is that one of Lenin’s “Imperialism: highest stage of capitalism”. I.e. a developed, capitalist industrial nation, where the financialization of the economy has already taken place, and the competition of small capitalists among each other has given way to cartels, oligopolies and immense concentration of capital in the hands of a few. It’s precisely the conflict between the capitalists in Russia and the capitalists in US that gives rise to conflicts such as the Ukraine war. US is more advanced in imperialism and is the #1 empire on earth right now, but Russia is also an imperialist country by that definition.

No no, I get it, it’s exhausting being a commie and getting constantly these cringelord libs being like “ackchually”

Ok, then I apologize for my first comment

Normally no, and I would be equally surprised if I saw them in this community

You’d find me complaining here too if I saw posts by western mainstream media, but fair enough I see your point. I just say we should take russian state apparatus propaganda (or any state propaganda for that matter) which a handful of salt

Fair enough, that’s a good perspective. I tend to just ignore lib media propaganda and also ignore russian state apparatus propaganda, but I suppose this is another way to do it