• postcapitalism@lemmy.today
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    22 hours ago

    People can know things without having experienced them personally you twat… waiting for the “show me your sources” post next

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      14 hours ago

      Not if you’re simply parroting western propaganda, which you are! Russia isn’t some backward country. Like most western countries, they have various types of prisons or gulags. Gulag is just Russian for prison! Some are horrible, just like supermax is in the US.

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        34 minutes ago

        Russia isn’t some backward country.

        How would you determine whether they are a backward country or not?

        My counterarguments to your claim:

        • they are expansionist; they started a classic land war against a (perhaps significantly weaker) neighbor

        • their politics are regressive instead of progressive

        • the people seem to overwhelmingly support the government despite these serious shortcomings