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Cake day: July 8th, 2023

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  • If you’d read the article, you’d have seen that those complaints didn’t come from Westerners, but rather from Russians who complained about e.g. his anti immigrant stance, equating immigrants to „cockroaches“ or dressing as a dentist and making a metaphor that immigrants were a pain that needs to be removed. He hasn’t distanced himself from these statements. Therefore Amnesty International’s Moscow office reluctantly rescinded his “prisoner of conscience“ status.

    You pretend like nationalist authoritarianism is a phenomenon exclusive to Russia, or like this would be some kind of special case. No it is not. I come from a place with equally rotten politics and we have people being marked as terrorists nowadays who were pushed as freedom fighters by the Westerns back in the day because they were against their enemy. The Americans conveniently ignored all their fascistic tendencies or said something like you do about having to understand the specific culture, etc. to justify supporting those people. And now they’re backing someone else to get rid of the people they once supported, again ignoring anything that doesn’t fit into their narrative. If you now think you know where I’m from, believe me you don’t, this is such a common trope it has happened in too many places. Your situation is not unique and if you support a fascist you get fascism.



  • It’s good that he opposes Putin but because of that people seem to completely overlook the fact that this guy is a right wing populist himself.

    Edit: because people apparently cba to read the article, let me add some additional info: Amnesty International’s Moscow office reluctantly rescinded his “prisoner of conscience“ status. Russians who complained about e.g. his anti immigrant stance, equating immigrants to „cockroaches“ or dressing as a dentist and making a metaphor that immigrants were a pain that needs to be removed. He hasn’t distanced himself from these statements. Therefore, even though Amnesty International initially dismissed those complaints they had to comply because there were just too many complaints.




  • Literally no one I know supports Israel. There are constant protests pro-Palestine in pretty much all Western countries. Pro-Israel rallies do exist & the media tries hard to bring them into focus, but they’re nowhere near as big nor frequent. The public opinion is rightfully on the side of the Palestinians. Our political leaders are out of touch and just follow their next paycheck.

    If Aljazeera is a Hamas Propaganda outlet then Haaretz and every other Israeli newspaper are Zionist propaganda outlets.




  • Say it with me, the ethnonationalist settler colony Israel is conducting a genocide on the Palestinian people. This is happening in front of our eyes. We can see it unfolding in real time. It’s not too late for you to stop supporting a genocidal state and be on the right side of history instead. And let me say it very explicitly. The right side of history is the side of the Palestinian people.




  • Es ist allerdings auch wirklich frustrierend. In der letzten NRW-Wahl z.B. haben sie mMn einen sehr sozialdemokratischen Wahlkampf geführt, es ging größtenteils um steigende Mieten und Inflation, bzw. Generell Armut bekämpfen.

    Vielleicht wurden sie von vielen nicht gewählt weil „Russlandversteher“, aber im mitgliederstärksten Bundesland mit so vielen potentiellen Wählern im Rhein-Ruhr Gebiet nur auf 2.1% zu kommen, das zeigt irgendwo auch dass die Leute anscheinend nicht links wählen wollen. Oder vielleicht geht es ihnen irgendwie doch noch zu gut?

    Irgendwo hat sich jedenfalls die Partei sehr stark von der eigentlich wichtigsten Zielgruppe entfernt, Arbeiter und Geringverdiener. Finde ich sehr traurig und ich wüsste kaum, wie man es dort z.B. anders hätte machen sollen. Populismus von links? Keine Ahnung.





  • Let me guess you’re from Iran? Sounds like every Iranian I’ve ever met. Your problem isn’t Islam or any other religion, your problem is being oppressed by a facist dictatorship that uses a religion to legitimize themselves. If they had labeled themselves as Zoroastrians then you’d live under pretty much the same fucked up regime, but you’d blame it all on Zoroastrians instead of a bunch of dicks who fucked over your country for their own benefit.