• Addfwyn@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    How much longer until we hit the “They are all nazis and we knew it from the beginning, that is why we didn’t send troops” phase of cope?

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          7 months ago

          Volkdeutsches were those deemed German by blood and culture. Something tells me that Ukrainian speaking Slavs don’t fit that category.

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            Funnily enough they could, volksliste had 4 cathegories and actual German origins was not even necessarily needed. For example a enthusiastic nazi which lied a little could be easily signed to 1st or 2nd, someone married to a ethnic German to 3rd, and anyone really could be fit for a 4th as “racially valuable”. Also don’t forget that nazi racial policies were as inconsequential and malleable as needed.

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    “godsend for Russian propagandists” this is such a wierd thing to focus that I don’t know how to criticise it properly. Just don’t write puff pieces on neo-Nazis if you are concerned about that.

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    7 months ago

    Well fuck instead of denying it, now they’re just embracing it.

    Hopefully history will remember this.

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    “Will you try to remain unbiased?” he asks. “It is a very funny position for you and your colleagues because you all have been trying hard to put us in a bad light for years. Neo-Nazis, racist, white supremacists, terrible guys, blah, blah, blah. And then the darkest hour in Ukraine’s modern day history arrives. And all of a sudden the eternal bad guys turn out to be brave, courageous, determined, stubborn and heroes. And they’re like, ‘damn, how should I write about them?’”

    Kapustin thoroughly savors his notoriety. “Throughout my life, I always wanted to be the Hollywood-style bad guy. Darth Vader is my ultimate inspiration. At the age of seven, I watched Star Wars, and was like, ‘wow this guy’s so cool,’” he says.

    Literal anime villain monologue.

    “We are now definitely a sizable force, possessing our own arms and vehicles, possessing our own mortars, heavy machine guns and artillery. RVC is not anymore a gang. It is a regiment. We have bases. We have our recruitment system,” Kapustin says.

    Make sure to vote for Joe Biden guys! I mean sure, he and his ilk have spent their entire careers helping build up Facist/Nazi death machines around the world, but surely, he will stop fascism in America. Right?