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OK that's fine, I don't really care and updated the post. I know they're the same person, I know this person pretended to be my friend in matrix then instead of discussing something they didn't like with me went nuclear with harassment on me, I know they posted about me in a thread designed to draw harassment to us, I know they consistently talk about this instance being "tankie." Today they posted a meme about this community "loving Putin"

Alliegaytor is right, after the cats thing they were appointed a mod of the vegan comm then banned hundreds of people with a bot or something. All that said, who the fuck cares. I should have never let anyone use the c/vegan comm here for any other reason and deleted it which was my intent a long time ago. I don't care about vegan "news" or articles and I think all the lemmy c/vegan communities are boring as fuck. This instance predates them and that and exists mostly for veganhomecooks.

For what its worth the grip of the US propaganda machine has has over the minds of liberals about Putin is intense. He is undoubtedly a bad person who I would never support, all oligarchs and billionaires are evil people who get rich by exploitation. He is a tool of the American establishment that put him power after they overthrew the SU and installed Yeltsin. He leveraged his KGB/FSB networks to take power to the approval of the US, just look to GWB and Obama's statements on him at the time. The KGB/FSB, CIA, MI6, BND are all sides of the same dice. Like the Iran Iraq war that destroyed most of my family the Ukraine war is another US led capitalist war where the global oligarchy funds both sides, one side directly (until recently) and the other side through clandestine means and their international mafia. The US foreign policy is manipulating this conflict to destroy the lives of the working class in Ukraine and Russia while attempting to guarantee themselves access to fossil fuels and loan repayment obligations. This is what the oligarchs do to make billions of dollars. In my own families history when we fell victim to this plot it was direct support of Saddam Hussein and clandestine support of Iran in what became known as the Iran Contra plot where they laundered money through drugs and weapons in south America. It has yet to be revealed how the international mafia has been funneling money this entire time to Russia so that they can close the deal.

The US is part of a globalized capitalist empire that Putin is a part of and is another corrupt billionaire among many. It is the weirdest cope by people living in the imperial core for their own lack of democracy and power in their own communities across the US, Canada and Europe to blame him and Russia for everything where the primary influence ruining their lives are their local billionaires. The blame lies on the fascist consolidation of power over the past 80 years that destroyed all the leftist movements across the Global North and not propaganda since 2016. Putin didn't brainwash everyone to play into his masterful hands by manipulating Lemmy with barely 40k MAU; the US, Canada and Europe (Which includes Russia) are evil places built by exploiting indigenous people, African slaves and the global south to extract all their wealth to build their vast empires then slowly and meticulously dismantled all localized power structures that could pose any threat during the cold war.

We are now witnessing their collapse from the innate cannibalization of oligarchical authority and capitalism. Putin is one of their club mates in oligarchy and US has been headed towards this collapse since the 1970s when Putin was barely 20. It is the people who attack leftists and are whipped up in a frenzy about ghost tankies that are the victims of state propaganda. Russia itself isn't the cause of all the problems in the world, the economic system that is shared in Russia and the US is.

What bothers me about being called a tankie is that I can recognize that the tankies are smeared in this way because they are a threat to state power. They are the cause of the revolution in my country and the Islamic Republic came in at the end and seized power during the vacuum. The fact that revolutionary energy is directed towards being mad at tankies is state control. The anarchists job is to influence the tankies and convince them to try something new so that the next mode of production after capitalism (If we survive the climate crisis) doesn't resemble the Soviet Union and failed authoritarian communist experiments of the past and we can build a non hierarchical mutually beneficial system for the next generations. Shunning them and trying to silence and censor them in favor of Liberal governments is causing Trumpism, not preventing it.