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An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.
The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying “Russia”.
The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with “Russia”.
The third panel is Phoebe saying “has invaded”.
The fourth panel is Joey repeating back “has invaded”.
The fifth panel is Phoebe saying “Ukraine”.
The sixth panel is Joey repeating back “Ukraine”.
The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase “Russia has invaded Ukraine”.
The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming “NATO just started a proxy war”.
Hmmm. I’m amazed that Lemmygrad and Hexbear users haven’t descended en masse to “dunk” on this.
Yeah, the US has done awful shit. I get it. It’s not the greatest country. We’ve invaded other countries and killed innocent people - Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam (which was really just an extension of the French-Indochina war), and many others. We’re still fighting–and possibly losing–battles against racism, religious extremism, and homophobia in our own borders. We have blood on our hands for sure. But our guilt in other matters does not make Russia innocent in this matter. Nor, for that matter, does the existence of neo-Nazis in Ukraine–including the Ukrainian parliament–mean that the country deserved to be invaded, and innocent civilians killed.
I thought Lemmy World preemptively defederated Hexbear…
That just stops those users from casually seeing it. Any subbed here or who are on a different instance despite frequently using others, such as selfhosted peeps, are able to interact with this post just fine
Are you implying there really are Neo-Nazis in Ukraine’s government? Forgive my ignorance but I thought that was something Putin made up as a rallying point.
There are probably neo-Nazis in the American government. Doesn’t mean our government is neo-Nazi.
There was that FBI report stating that many institutions are already infiltrated by white supremacist groups. And that’s made prevalent by how law enforcement and rulings respond to straight white individuals and everyone else.
I think that one of the extreme far-right parties has one seat, or something like that. Kinda like we have MTG, Lauren Boebert, The Pedo Matt Gaetz, Yurtle McConnell, etc. It’s absolutely not a majority. And the fact that Zelensky is Jewish kinda proves that the idea that Nazis run the gov’t is a lie.
One explanation I’ve heard is that “Nazi” is synonymous with “against Russia”. I don’t know if that’s correct, but it ‘feels’ correct.
They’re a minority that has as many supporters as they do because they were some of the first to respond to Russia’s invasion in 2014.