.ml is great if you need to borrow some crayons. But that's pretty much all they're good for.
MeanwhileOnGrad
"Oh, this is calamity! Calamity! Oh no, he's on the floor!"
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Meanwhile On Grad
Documenting hate speech, conspiracy theories, apologia/revisionism, and general tankie behaviour across the fediverse. Memes are welcome!
What is a Tankie?
Alternatively, a detailed blog post about Tankies.
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This is why I don't donate to the devs because it indirectly goes to .ml. This is also why people think Lemmy is nothing but tankies because they're ok with that image.
Oh damn, they're not even pretending to not being a Russian mouthpiece anymore?
This is why I've blocked every major .ml instance that pops up on my feed.
Mmm yes, must be a very reasonable author that goes by the name "AVATAR OF VENGEANCE" on the internet
I just encountered the OP of that post today, saying EU is not real. You just can't with these people.
They're still pushing the "Ukraine are Nazis, here's zero proof!" narrative?
This is all just what I remember from research years ago, but at one point there was a pretty large chunk of nazis/sympathizers in azov specifically. They cracked down on extremism since then, but it's conceivable there's a few left.
Now using that to call every single Ukrainian servicemember and child a nazi to justify actual imperialism? Average braindead tankie take.
They cracked down on extremism since then, but it’s conceivable there’s a few left.
Also the most extreme ones are the ones that died first and after broad mobilization the relative proportion shrank naturally. That's just maths.
And even if these two were not the case, Ukraine has a simple explanation:
When asked about one of the two Russian groups fighting on Ukraine's side, one being extreme racists who want to make Russia smaller to get rid of regions with non-Russian ethnicities, a government official, maybe even Zelensky personally, said to the press that Ukraine does not have the luxury to pick who fights on their side when the alternative is rape and genocide.