Lemmy.world seems to have been designated the Reddit replacement. Makes sense lol
Really strange how it became #1 lemmy instance in a matter of days, it basically became the lemmy instance for people that said “muuuh lemmy.ml admin are genocide deniers uhygurs 100 millions hodomor Stalin CCP famine” 🙄
I saw a guy literally posting pretty much all of those unironically today. I almost started to respond and then thought better of it. I don’t mind engaging with some liberals in good faith if I think they are just misguided, but that was absolutely a lost cause.
You went to lemmygrad and you are surprised that they are tankies?
Btw, to all the people who say “x % of that ethnic group lives in that region, therefore that region should belong to y country”, you do realize you are advocating for ethnic cleansing and genocide, right? Because if we follow your logic, then every country has a huge incentive in ethnically cleansing their land.
Also every country will have a huge incentive into moving their own population into occupied areas. This is obviously a war crime and against the Geneva Convention but in a few centuries, people can use your argument to claim the land. Note how they say “Russia owned Crimea since the 18th century”. I wonder what happened to the people who owned Crimea before that.
If you want to be fair, Crimea belongs to Greece, since we have documented greek colonies there from 500 BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_colonisation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Crimea
Thats how “Greater X” ideas are born, that always lead to war and ethnic cleansing. At some point, everyone owned everything. Just chill, be cool, respect humans. Countries are artificial constructs. If you like one country’s “values”(ie Russia), you can often move there(especially ethnic russians have an easy pathway to russian citizenship).
If Russia didnt have imperial ambitions and ethnic russians were being oppressed in Ukraine, had their language and culture deleted, Russia could have been the good guy. Be normal. Every time you use “hard power”(ie military), you weaken your soft power.
You know this…is a lemmygrad community right? I am fairly sure our own politics aren’t going to surprise us.
