this post was submitted on 30 Sep 2023
815 points (90.4% liked)

Political Memes

5426 readers
2065 users here now

Welcome to politcal memes!

These are our rules:

Be civilJokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.

No misinformationDon’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.

Posts should be memesRandom pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.

No bots, spam or self-promotionFollow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] KingThrillgore@lemmy.ml 83 points 1 year ago (57 children)

If you're still trying to pull "both sides" to defend a country murdering and abducting children, you have no footing to stand on.

[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't care. It's meant to muddy the waters, confuse people who only pay attention to world affairs on the surface level. Repeat it, and people remember it. Doesn't matter who responds to you. Doesn't matter what they say to refute it. All that matters is getting the material out there, making it pop, making it catchy. Then all you have to do is rely on spotty human memory to do the rest.

It's even better when you get third parties passing along your propaganda too, and all the implications it drags with it.

[–] uis@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

"This is not war of Russia and Ukraine. I am against such definition. This is Putin's war."

- Boris Nemtsov, before he was shot on bridge near Kremlin wall

load more comments (55 replies)
[–] whaleross@lemmy.world 76 points 1 year ago (45 children)

There is a "peace organization" here in Sweden, Svenska Freds, that are hard core pacifists. No matter what - pacifists. Their reasoning is like children. War is bad, everybody should be friends, the end. Reality should conform to this simple principle.

In the early days of the invasion, their loud public stance was that Sweden should not support Ukraine with military equipment. Ukraine was just as bad as Russia for defending themselves with weapons when they should use reason and diplomacy.

Then they got all weepy in the media when people called them useful idiots for Russia.

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Absolutely hate those sorts of people. I'm a pacifist too, but not at the cost of my own life.

load more comments (44 replies)
[–] blazeknave@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago

*raped, tortured, and shot

[–] NegativeLookBehind@kbin.social 43 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The children were ravenous demons! Foaming at the mouth!

[–] PilferJynx@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Our hands were forced. We had to kidnap them from their families we killed and send them to residential schools.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] PugJesus@kbin.social 23 points 1 year ago

Nazi Satanist drug-addicts, no doubt. It was self-defense.

load more comments
view more: next ›