How’s that purple cake with blue frosting tasting?

Here is the Lemmy.ml link to that post:

https://lemmy.ml/post/41281333

https://2001-2009.state.gov/r/pa/ho/pubs/fs/85962.htm

https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2013/09/26/bill-clinton-offers-rare-us-praise-for-putin-a28033

The US was closely involved with Russian leadership after the end of the USSR that they facilitated. Eventually Putin realized he would not be allowed “at the table” with US/NATO/EU.

Russia as it exists today is a creation of the US/NATO. Your western chauvinism runs so deep. The empire has been fighting any alternative to capitalism/fascism for decades, but you say these things.

There is one hegemonic power that has been doing imperialism for decades. They have by far the largest military presence across the globe, and they maintain currency hegemony over this long period as well. It is one empire, not empires in your “both sides” or “many sides” rhetoric. The EU and Japan et all are willing servants of this hegemonic order for most of this period. Millions have been killed by wars, interventions and economic mechanisms that serve to maintain this empire.

The capitalist empire has always been like this. You are comparing trade alliances to war mongering genocidal profiteering across the globe over decades. These are not even close to equivalent.

Using “clash of civilizations” rhetoric is classic racist trope. There is one hegemonic reality currently, and referring to “Eastern empires” is dog whistling in the same way.

Neo-nazis marching in Lviv on 1/1/2026

https://xcancel.com/HavryshkoMarta/status/2007043714032734606

Also in 2013 same flags held by protesters seeking to oust President Viktor F. Yanukovich .

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/world/europe/ukraine-protests.html

Normalize saying “it’s either socialism or barbarism” in casual conversation.

There is a historical materialist thread from Project Aerodynamic and Banderite Mykola Lebed to Victoria Nuland determining the leadership after the 2014 coup.

it’s fascist capitalist v “liberal” capitalist

This is correct but probably opposite of how you think it is.

doing material analysis and direct action to change the world is just like praying to a higher power, I am very smart

You are fantastically obtuse in your perception of a word that means doing direct action to create material change.

We must hide the fact our arguments are driven by ideology and focus on the material conditions and how they can be immediately improved

That’s just a specific kind of praxis though. Praxis is about doing things to change the current state of things. It doesn’t proscribe only teaching theory. You can be doing praxis without saying anything academic.

what do you think praxis means here?

Praxis is the process by which a theory, lesson, or skill is enacted, embodied, realized, applied, or put into practice. “Praxis” may also refer to the act of engaging, applying, exercising, realizing, or practising ideas. This has been a recurrent topic in the field of philosophy, discussed in the writings of Plato, Aristotle, St. Augustine, Francis Bacon, Immanuel Kant, Søren Kierkegaard, Ludwig von Mises, Karl Marx, Antonio Gramsci, Martin Heidegger, Hannah Arendt, Jean-Paul Sartre, Paulo Freire, Murray Rothbard, and many others. It has meaning in the political, educational, spiritual and medical realms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praxis_(process)

Kill the Meme Cop in your head.

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I’m not saying they are the same. I’m laughing about someone trying to make the argument that there is a special significance of difference in the context of this meme.

That’s why the hastag is funny.

The meme says fascist, which Nazis are a subset. That’s why it is silly to try to make a distinction about the article I quoted. The Venn diagram is quite simple.

No, it is a quote of the previous poster. It’s funny because they think that distinguishing nazis from fascism has some bearing on the validity of the meme which is just silly af.

#notallfascists

The meme mentions ‘fascist’, and all nazis are fascists. Is this so hard?