• Samsuma@lemmy.ml
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    there’s a really bizarre wave of USSR apologism and revisionism on tiktok right now,

    Probably a Russian psyop or something like that […]

    Seems pretty on brand Putin would be spearheading something like this with his troll/bot farms. I mean, the man is set on conquest and admires Stalin, probably wants the USSR back as well. He does miss it

    Yup, Russia is now being sold as pro-christian-family-values-anti-woke culture.

    Scary as fuck, we’re basically occupied by Russia and the Trumpers are going to start cheering as we become Russia’s theoretical “51st state.”

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      Scary as fuck, we’re basically occupied by Russia and the Trumpers are going to start cheering as we become Russia’s theoretical “51st state.”

      Yea totally, Russia is the “51st state”. isntrael

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      Feels like we’re in some tiny medieval European country and people are accusing the king of being controlled by evil eastern sorcery from the rival kingdom, and that’s why the crops have withered

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      Scary as fuck, we’re basically occupied by Russia and the Trumpers are going to start cheering as we become Russia’s theoretical “51st state.”

      I would like to think this person is aware that other countries don’t have 50 states in them, but also based on what they’ve said, I’m honestly not sure. They might actually think that every country functions exactly like America in every way, except that they are either “good” or “bad”.

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        Charitably, they put “51st state” in quotes because they realize Russia at least doesn’t have 50 equivalent analogues to states and are just using it as a shorthand for Russia taking control of the US and adding it to the Russian Federation as an oblast or something.

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          Yeah, they probably didn’t actually think that Russia had 50 states. Still, it is notable that their example of “Russian conquest” is to use a common refrain people in the US have about conquering other countries. There’s no country more bloodthirsty than the US, and they think that every country other than them is more bloodthirsty.