I’m so fucking cool on the internet guys. I’m totally owning the tankies right now.

Fuck hamas and islamic jihad, you don’t ally with Palestinian fascists to beat the zionist fascists, am I understanding your argument correctly?

The “fascists” is your own government. If you don’t oppose them first and foremost you are full of shit

Are you doing the liberal thing where you pretend a state becomes fascist when you hate it enough?

This whole thread has been most garbage take I’ve ever seen a Hexbear user account of any significant vintage make. It’s like you have almost no understanding of imperialism/colonialism or of “critical support” for bourgeois nationalist movements against them. Almost everyone here disagrees with you, as do many people of the Global South, who also align with and significantly support Russia against the imperial core.

Cuba is not facing an invasion but they are facing a strangling embargo, aligning with Russia is preferable than withering away in isolation.

This is a geopolitical alignment, not an alliance of desperation against a genocidal threat.

Yeah, sanctioning a tiny island and threatening the whole world to follow along in a globalized economy is not akin to genocide.

I’m not going to hide the ball. My point is that fascism is more than just “country has a long-term ruler the U.S. doesn’t like.”

The embrace of fascism by its ruling political party, the fascist political structure, the fact that it’s built in the image of another fascist state

These are circular – “it’s fascist because it’s fascist” – and the last two are the same point. It’s not the formal structure of a government that makes it fascist, either; the actions of the government matter more than the words in the constitution.

its embrace of anti-communism

Getting closer, but this doesn’t fit the facts. Russia’s second-largest party is the Communist Party. While Russia, as a capitalist state, is hostile to communism, it’s less hostile than any Western European state, to say nothing of the U.S., and it’s nowhere close to your classic examples of fascism like Nazi Germany, Pinochet’s Chile, the ROC, the ROK, etc.

anti-minority (whether those be gender and sexual minorities or religious and ethnic minorities)

Painting with far too broad of brush. Every country on the planet has work to do on treating all minority populations fairly, and most have had explicitly anti-minority policies in the recent past. These are reactionary policies and bad, but there’s a far cry between that and fascism. Was Cuba fascist before its new Family Code was passed? Is the U.S. not fascist if a queer woman can become a drone pilot?

all the fucking nazis and fascists involved with or connected to the ruling party

There are Nazi elements present in every capitalist country. Is every non-AES state fascist? Seems reductive.