I won't sit by and let authoritarians brainwash people.

Good, hit the terrorists in the Kremlin in the wallet, that's all they care about.

Yeah, some news from another country, some authoritarian propaganda from a murderous government, some memes, it's great

Yeah, fair points.

I'll always downvote Fox News.

You have a twisted perspective... are you getting your info from YouTube or something?

Congrats on ur stick

It's ridiculous, on its face. They wanted a "buffer zone?" So that gave them the right to violently invade people's countries? Justified the next half century of murder and torture after the Nazis were defeated? Come on.

Regarding the non-aggression pact, if they were scared of the Nazis they would have fought them while the Allies fought them. Hitler broke the Ribbentrop Pact, not the USSR. More revisionism propaganda.

They did both of those things because the Kremlin is a violent imperial power that has put many millions of innocent people under the ground, with or without the facade of communism. The gulag isn't just a meme, and there are good reasons their neighbors hate them.

Yeah Israel is a state and I agree it should remain a state, again, you're conflating issues. I'm not going to translate from another language....

I think you're almost completely conflating anti-Israeli sentiment and anti-semitism.

Continuing to push this will only piss people off because it's insulting to their intelligence that you think they might believe it.

"You don't understand!! The USSR was allied with the Nazis because they were fighting the Nazis!!!"

I've seen you post a lot of fantastic stuff on here and appreciate the good changes you're actively bringing to the Fediverse, but I have to disagree on this one.

The shills don't want a real debate, they want to frustrate, waste time, and distract you from engagement with a real person or in a more visible comment.

Banged out a tankieKremlin shill from while enjoying his soy latte borscht in Brooklyn coffee shop St Petersburg.

He's a masterful sociopathic manipulator who's happy to fill the news with trivial nonsense making him look stupid and petty on order to distract from what he's actually doing.

Same with Trump.

Useful idiots.

IDK they're both pretty bad

I don't want governments controlling what we see, hear, and say.

Might want to find a new instance

Because the Fediverse is a great target for propaganda, which is invaluable for some authoritarian countries.

Lemmy is an echochamber with relatively limited, uncoordinated moderation. 1,000,000+ monthly active users, and lemmy.ml is a flagship instance.

It's a bummer. I love the idea of the Fediverse but it's having some propaganda growing pains.