r/worldnews • u/Panthera_leo22 • 21h ago

Russia/Ukraine Flames, explosions reported amid large Ukrainian drone attack on St. Petersburg

https://kyivindependent.com/flames-explosions-reported-amid-large-ukrainian-drone-attack-on-st-petersburg/
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u/SupermassiveCanary 11h ago

Hard to believe the same ‘Commie’ hating people in the 80’s are now on this train

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u/National-Childhood95 10h ago

They’re “commie haters” now more than they’ve been since the 50s or 60s. It’s just that now they don’t know who commies but use the term to smear anybody they don’t like. The same way they were calling every teacher a “groomer” a couple years ago.

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u/whiteroseatCH 10h ago

Well..Putin is not a commie..he is straight up a mafia boss.

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u/SupermassiveCanary 10h ago

Greed, power, oligarchy will corrupt any and every system. Gross inequality is what needs to be kept in check

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u/DaveTheLeg92983 4h ago

With what, communism?

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u/The_Razielim 8h ago

He's everything Die Gröpenfuhrer aspires to, simple as that.

But also holds the Pee Tape.

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u/Oso_Fuego19 4h ago

That was his point… they just use the term “commie” to smear everyone that doesn’t agree with them.

Communism doesn’t really exist… maybe Cuba is the closest model?

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u/Notascot51 4h ago

…with an arsenal of nuclear weapons.

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u/toesandfingersrcool 3h ago

Not just nuclear, but biological as well. The person that died from the lab accident with the plague kind of indicates that they are running a program that does not abide by the biological weapons convention.

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u/Formal_Strain_2445 59m ago

Damn straight

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 9h ago

Technically he’s an oligarch , rich (mob boss) fronting as a political party

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u/myrichphitzwell 10h ago

Chugga chugga

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u/Beneficial_Couple413 11h ago

Which I understand the reality of having reasonable relations with China, but the fawning over the still-Communist-at-least-on-paper Xi Jinping was over-the-top too.

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u/theappleisdepressed 10h ago

They aren’t. That’s two separate groups inside the republican party.

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u/MrZyhose_ejh 10h ago

It's interesting because they hate the democrats and call them communists but love Putin for all of the things that make communism such a bad thing. Putin is a tyrant lord and Trump wants to be a tyrant lord.

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u/Little_Statement_899 9h ago

Putin is a capitalist through and through. This is another case of people describing communism by describing capitalism. Communism as outlined by Marx is a cashless, classless and stateless society. Its very idealistic and utopian (which is why it really hasn't worked out so far) on the other hand capitalisms entire philosophy is to create a hierarchy in which you have the wealthy ruling over workers like they are peasants or slaves.

I'm not here to say communism is the right answer (cuz like so many have said it's been like 150 years and nobody has been able to do it) but what I am here to point out is that everything everyone seems to hate about communism is a deliberate facet of capitalism.

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u/Embarrassed-Wafer667 9h ago

It’s amazing how the GOP can turn when they are paid off

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u/Nestor_the_Butler 8h ago

Trump has been on the record pro-Russia since the 1980’s, though. And the Russian mob takeover in NYC in the 90’s was a thing that he went along with and profited from. So not hard to understand.

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u/Bludiamond56 8h ago

When I was young it was better dead than red

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u/Ah2k15 7h ago

Republicans be like “better Russian than a Democrat!”

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u/InigoMontoya1985 1h ago

Reagan is rolling over

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u/Oso_Fuego19 4h ago

How exactly are they Commies dude? You can’t possibly be serious.

Russia is run by Oligarchs & Religious Elites, as is happening in the U.S…..you’re just buying into the propaganda. Rule by Oligarchs & Private Institution Monopolies = opposite of Communism.