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[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 24 points 2 days ago (1 children)

These silly "russians are the actual good guys" memes are so sad and silly. They want land and power they dont care who the ukranians are.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nothing Russia could possibly do would ever justify supporting nazis

[–] Wrufieotnak@feddit.org -1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Have you looked at the Russian side? Strangely you only condemn the Ukrainian side, but not the Nazis in the Russian Russian one

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 hours ago

"Whatabout the other guy" my tax dollars aren't supporting the other guy, quit making excuses and quit supporting fucking nazis dumbass

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org -3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You can say someone is an instigator without supporting either but civilians are being killed that arent nazis or soldiers, which is not justifiable.

War isnt sports.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Idk what part of "nothing justifies supporting goddamned nazis" is confusing for you

[–] belated_frog_pants@beehaw.org 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Your inability to read.

The US murdered people en masse in japan during WW2, are they off the hook because nazi's were part of the axis powers and the US wasnt,

Dont be obtuse.More than one group can be bad at once. Ukraine having nazi's doesn't make Russia anyone to be supported. You can hate them both and you dont have to pick a side.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

If one side is supporting nazis and the other isn't then the side chooses itself, provided you're not a fucking nazi of course

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 26 points 2 days ago (2 children)

i've seen lemmy users with that fascist logo for their profile pic lol

[–] TankieTanuki@hexbear.net 22 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

You mean the NATO insignia? berdly-smug

Gottem

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago

ha, probably their unofficial one!

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

the flag of the zionist project?

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

i mean the ukranian nazi symbolism

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the meme has like 4 nazi symbols

[–] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 2 points 12 hours ago

7 to be precise

[–] Sandouq_Dyatha@lemmy.ml 27 points 2 days ago (2 children)

they would pog if he was a regular nazi too

[–] FunkyStuff@hexbear.net 23 points 2 days ago

lenin-shining

– General Hans Speidel, who participated in the invasions of Poland, France, and the Soviet Union, played a key role in German rearmament and integration into NATO, and in 1957 became Commander-in-Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe.

– Sturmführer Dr. Eberhard Taubert worked with Goebbels in the Nazi Ministry of Propaganda where he was responsible for designing the yellow badge for Jews. After the war, he eventually became an adviser to ex-Nazi Franz Josef Strauss, German Minister of Defence from 1956-62, and was assigned by Strauss to NATO’s “Psychological Warfare Department” which spewed anti-communist propaganda just as Goebbels’ ministry had during the war.

– Nazi Admiral and U-Boat commander Friedrich Guggenberger, whose U-boat sank 17 allied ships, later served as Deputy Chief of Staff in the NATO command Armed Forces North (AFNORTH) 1968-72.

– Johannes Steinhoff, a Luftwaffe fighter pilot, was made Chairman of the NATO Military Committee 1971-74, holding other NATO positions prior to that.

– Johann von Kielmansegg, General Staff officer to the High Command of the Wehrmacht, 1942-44, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1967-68.

– Ernst Ferber, a major in the Wehrmacht, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1973-75.

– Karl Schnell, First General Staff officer of the LXXVI Panzer Corps, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1975-77.

– Franz Joseph Schulze, Chief of the Third Battery of the Flak Storm Regiment 241, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1977-79.

– Ferdinand von Senger und Etterline, Lieutenant of the 24th Panzer Division of the German Sixth Army, was NATO’s Commander in Chief of Allied Forces Central Europe, 1979-83.

source: https://cpcml.ca/itn220328-tmld-art4/ (thank you communist party of canada...) (plagiarized this comment from @abc@hexbear.net)

[–] Omegamint@hexbear.net 15 points 2 days ago

Still laughing about that article talking about the warhammer 40k novels no longer getting a Ukrainian localization where they were interviewing someone in the military with the callsign “Shekel”. Like holy shit.

hitler-detector

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Many downvotes, no rebuttals. They just cling to "But Russian invaded!" Okay then, do you condemn the Allied forces illegal invasion of Italy on June 6, 1944? Italy wasn't doing anything to America, the UK and Canada!

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml -5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

This is a meme comm, not necessarily a political debate comm. The meme isn't really that high of quality.

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

So what? Most memes are low quality. You're also kinda proving the point of the meme.

[–] 14specks@lemmy.ml -1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Lol I'm plenty aware Ukraine is Nazi infested, but the downvote stays.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 day ago

Unsurprising

[–] artiman@piefed.social 15 points 2 days ago (3 children)

What the fuck is this post can someone explain

Russian propaganda justifying the invasion of Ukraine

[–] vinceman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 12 points 2 days ago (20 children)

This community has a real problem with defending Russia on the invasion of Ukraine. Think this is the last post I've seen from here.

[–] artiman@piefed.social 11 points 2 days ago

Oh I didn't realize I'm subscribed to a memes community on .ml I just followed the memes topic on Piefed topics are just basically a group of communities in piefed

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[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world -1 points 2 days ago

Clicked without looking, knew without checking.

[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

I think Memes@lemmy.ml doesn't understand why so many of their posts get mass downvoted, like pointing out this revelation to other instances...

We. Freaking. KNOW!

Western fediverse instances know there was a freakin Nazi battalion in Ukraine, and rampant corruption, and other problems. We know 'the west' has been, and is, imperialist, hypocritical, genocidal and transactionally shit to other countries. This isn't /r/conservative with bots preaching on about the virtues of western patriotism in 2025, this is a refuge for deep internet dwellers either watching their countries burn down around them (like me in the US), or, according to polls, barrel headfirst into the same techno-fascist utopias (largely Europe right now).

Memes like this are pretentious. It's insulting, and most of all, insensitive.

How ridiculous would it look if Americans repeatedly pointed out how awful a trading partner China is in the geopolitical space compared to the US? Or if we constantly filled Lemmy with memes about how inclusive and virtuous and definitely-not-racist the American megacorps are compared to, say, North Korea? What if we set Ukraine aside for a sec and started memeing on the crises in Russia's backyard, while utterly refusing to even acknowledge the dumpster fires in our own?


...So, yeah.

Even setting a ton of stuff aside, you're preaching to the choir, in a really unfun way.

This meme is also wrong, at least on the top half, because apparently the majority of my country thinks rebadged, redneck/cyberpunk flavored neo-nazism is the way forward :(

I guess it'd be nice if I had a victim complex big enough to obsess over other countries instead of my own, but I'm sorry, I can barely think over Fox News raging about how white Christians and Donald Trump are victims in the background.

[–] Amnesigenic@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So you know there are nazis in Ukraine and that the US materially supports them and you're mad that it's being discussed? Stupid or nazi, if not both

There's fascists in the US government right now, does that justify an invasion of the US? Stupid question, to you of course it does

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