Its like Hillary walking into a working class kitchen for the first time.

They’ve been shielded from even critical support of China and other AES for so long they literally, not figuratively, literally cannot process that people exist that have beliefs that aren’t Reddit Approved. They immediately assume it’s bots or wumao. Human beings can’t possibly hold these beliefs, so they must be Oriental hordes or actual robots.

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    Believing that modern Russia is socialist or communist and not a plutocracy run by a handful of oligarchs is cringe.

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      You’re more than a decade late about the oligarchs in Russia, they no longer wield the power they used to. American oligarchs have much more influence on our government than Russian wealthy do now.

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        I guess it depends on whether or not you think Putin is an oligarch as he’s seized power from many of them and placed it under himself, the same power under fewer oligarchs isn’t better.

        The wealthy definitely have too much control over the US government, and many of them should probably be executed for treason.

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            If Bill Gates were elected president would he cease to be an oligarch? If Joe Biden used his powers as president to take personal control over large portions of the country’s industry to enrich himself would that not make him an oligarch?

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              I guess you think kings were oligarchs too? Oligarchs are not in the government but exert undue influence on it. If they’re in the state then they’re just state actors in some form or another.

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      Weird how every time a lib comes back with “well this thing you believe is stupid!” it’s always some deranged thing they made up and at least half the time projection

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      plutocracy run by a handful of oligarchs

      That’s literally what Capitalism is though, why are you singling out Russia as if the states on the other side of the conflict were any different?

      Who even put those Russian oligarchs in power anyway? Something something undemocratic dissolution of the USSR