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[–] duderium@hexbear.net 23 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The capitol riot was a threat to our precious democracy! / prigozhin’s coup attempt shows how weak putler is!

Tbf both were a sign of a troubled state but the Wagner mutiny was waaaaaaaaayyy more serious than Jan 6.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What? I am lost. Are you making some sort of US connection here?

[–] Fuckass@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The implication is that both events were ineffective at achieving anything meaningful, other than tasing one’s balls to death and getting shot by an anti aircraft missile

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry, how are ether events ineffective or not meaningful? You are still talking about one and we are all here talking about the other.

[–] cpjoa@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

One side uses its legal system to deal with an institutional threat, while the other performatively offers an olive branch and then stabs them on the back. Not quite the same. One side smells a lot like a mafia

[–] duderium@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The USA has always been a fascist country (just ask Native Americans and descendants of slaves). If you think slapping a few leaders on the wrist is going to stop fascism here, I would invite you to have a look at the history of Weimar Germany.

[–] cpjoa@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 year ago

This is true, but I was answering to a comment implying an equivalence between the indictment of the traitors in the US and a the extrajudicial plane crash in Russia. If instead of getting a slap on the wrist they were being thrown out of windows at someone's whim, I would not feel more reassured about the state of the US.