• @SpaceDogs@lemmygrad.ml
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    05 days ago

    our president is hailed as a chad, while his is mocked and ridiculed. Great success!

    Okay, but this is just objectively untrue. In the west? Sure, Zelensky is more well liked and Putin gets mocked a lot (even verging into homophobic territory). But domestically? Seems like people like Putin well enough, save for typical political criticisms that you’ll see in any country regarding the leader.

    Also how juvenile to refer to Zelensky as a “chad” and calling that a success. Dude got steamrolled in the White House, that’s not very “chad-like” to me. I guess geopolitics is just memes for redditors…

    • @cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
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      05 days ago

      In the global south too Putin is way more popular. But as you said, this is a pretty infantile way of approaching geopolitics, as if it’s some kind of popularity contest.

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    5 days ago

    I live peacefully

    Curious way to say “I spend eight years waging war on part of my own country, bombing homes, shelling civilians, and killing 80,000 people while integrating Nazis into my security apparatus and letting them murder and torture with impunity.”

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      80.000? Do you have sources, those could be very usefull in the future.

      I only knew the old number of 15.000 and a million having fled to Russia.

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        Whoops. Sorry, you’re right. Up until 2022 it was 14,000. Got my numbers mixed up with post SMO numbers. I will correct it. Thank you for catching that!