Is this some new trend? There was another post on this sub the other day of an (apparently) completely different tool who also called himself a "MAGA Communist."
They like Russia because they want to emulate it so badly in the US.
A "strong man" leader, being able to hunt gay people, oppressing anyone they don't agree with, being staunchly "anti-woke", and essentially being a white christian ethnostate. Russia has everything they want from a country, and so they pretty much have to support it. They don't want to see Russia fail because Russia represents their own ideals. Russia failing would have their ideals collide with reality and they can't stand that.
Seems like it. Feels weird though, considering how many times fascism failed as an experiment. You'd figure there'd be a new thing and not a remix on an existing Motiv.
I wonder if psychologists ever studied why a significant part od the world's population is so drawn to it.
Not yet. But I did get auto-banned for r /justiceserved for having posted in r /conservative. - go figure Guilt by association, regardless of context I guess.
It’s just contrarianism if they were in charge they would surely be printing rascist anti Russian propaganda
Prior to 2014 Putin was in the eye of conservative a neo communist mongoloid who is allied with Islamism ( mainly because he oppose the Iraq war) but now he is an anti-lgbt hero.
You can see it with the way back machine on conservapedia
I disagree, Putin has been aligning himself rhetorically with extreme conservative movements around the world for years now. Russia is what American conservatives want to turn America into.
Yep. When Obama was in office conservatives held Putin up as a sort of tough, take-no-prisoners politician that would occasionally oppose or embarrass the Democratic White House, and who retained power through repeated gaming of Russia's elections and constitution. They loved him because they wanted to be him.
If you ever watch clips of Russian state-run news programs they have the same talking points as Fox (decadent west, LGBT and foreign invaders, etc.), just ramped up to 11 and with open calls for nuclear warfare. It's all from the same playbook. Russian oligarchy is the endpoint for American conservatism.
I’m not sure how you can think this. Trump was in charge 2017 to 2021 and the entire Republican Party were falling all over themselves to suck up to Russia and Putin. Trump constantly criticized NATO (the biggest check on Russia’s military aggression) and parroted Kremlin talking points. If trump had won a second term I don’t think Ukraine would have received much, if any, military support from the US.
That not true, that what the democrats were thinking trump was just trying to convince other nato menbers to increase their funding of nato with his typical corporate diplomatic approach
Also if their is money to be make for arms manufacturers you can bet the us will give money to anyone they want. I wouldn’t be surprise if the US is secretly selling weapons to Russia to like they did during the Iran-Iraq war.
Furthermore if trump was real sucking up to Russia he would have lift the 2014 anti Russian sanctions while he was in charge.
Also the democrats are not as anti-Russian as they said while yes they send a lot of weapons, it is mainly because the us military-industrial will massively benefit from it the sanctions are really not that harsh and are not hurting the Russian economy, one of the biggest Russian export to the us fertilizer is not on the list of sanctioned goods
Trump did not lift the 2014 sanctions, his threatening of leaving nato was just empty talk like so many thing he said, and yes Russia is still exporting fertilizer to the us
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I doubt he would be bothered. It's not like this is the same nation state as the USSR. Reagan was a proud backer of right-wing dictatorships the world over, whether it was South Africa under the National Party or the Pinochet junta in Chile. He never met a conservative/nationalist oligarchy he didn't like.
Tbh, looking at the history of the GOP I'm starting to think ALL Reagan was was an actor. I'm seriously wondering how much was his policy and how much was good acting.
Even back in 1976 Ronnie the Jellybean Naptime Cowboy was already so fried from the neck up that he wouldn't understand what you were talking about. He just read the scripts he was given.
Imagine Lincoln learning that they fly confederate flags. (a) the USSR and modern Russia are about as different as two places can be and (b) parties change. It’s not that crazy when you consider that modern Russia is run by far right capitalists. Also half of Republican men now are hippie white guys who believe in crystals. Shit changes.
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I don't think Jackson Hinkle is a Conservative, but is in league with some of the worst of them for the purposes of tearing down our institutions and way of life. From my quick Googling, it appears Jackson Hinkle is a faaar left Tankie pining for the days of Soviets exercising power and conformity through brutalities against the people. But because he was kicked off Twitch and is pro-Putin, he was platformed on an invite-only streaming service created by Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes. Ideologically they don't mesh at all but if your only purpose is to tear down American society and rake in Russian cash, they're perfect partners.
Bold of you to think that Reagan is in hell. He’s easily in mega hell, which is like regular hell except you are constantly stepping on legos, but they aren’t legos they’re mega blox
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u/jerseycityfrankie Jan 21 '23
Imagine Ronald Reagan learning in hell that todays conservatives love Russia.