• Cowbee [he/him]@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    This might be a hard pill to swallow, but Putin is largely popular among Russians for assisting with throwing out the Western Capitalists that bought the various slices of the former USSR after “Shock Doctrine” killed 7 million people with the re-introduction of Capitalism, and the CPC has an over 90% approval rate. Political opposition is largely limited because both governments have more support among their citizenry than Western governments do.

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      8 days ago

      I’m actually really happy that you mentioned Shock Doctrine because last time I was arguing with a tankie they called Naomi Klein a US state sanctioned liberal :D

      I already replied on another comment about the support

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        Klein herself is fairly liberal, but the impact on the post-Soviet citizenry is apt. 7 million people died so that the West could profit.

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        Shock Doctrine is good theory regardless of whatever western brainworms reside in her. If people couldn’t separate theory we’d have to throw the whole thing out with Marx’s European brainworms.

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          Even in the very beginning you see the Western brainworms dangled in your face, but there are good aspects to the book.

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          yep <3

          Unfortunately I’ve hat the displeasure of “conversing” with a few people who are unable to handle even that level of nuance