It turns out one of my friends is a pro-Ukraine leftist type
It turns out one of my friends is a pro-Ukraine leftist type
Shouldn't have said anything, now I'm getting paragraphs upon paragraphs about Putler and how the West has a moral obligation to prolong the war in Ukraine for as long as possible 
Also while apparently it can't be denied that the far right has grown somewhat stronger in Ukraine, the Ukrainian military had to rely on militias such as Azov so they wouldn't lose, we should not worry because they haven't seen that much electoral success
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It's a common baby leftist failing. Think about how many supported the libyan colour revolt uncritically, or the white hats and us aligned militias in Syria. Manufactured consent is powerful.
Of course in both cases there there were active independent socialist militias, and it's hard not to have had an idealist desire to see the DCNS win. But we should have had better material analysis.
In Ukraine it's chuds vs open fascists with an increasingly strained liberal comedian facade and the poor bastards of the Donbass republics in the middle.
I sympathise with your friend, I dearly want to see Putin get the wall but this is clearly a US destabilisation and more critically the concept of a Banderan Fascist state on the border of the EU should terrify Liberals as well far more than any Russian hegemony over its historic sphere.
It's a common baby leftist failing
Uhhh huhhhhh sure
Think about how many supported the libyan colour revolt uncritically
Oh that kind of leftist, ic wym
Yeah I can go back and easily dig up Zizek shitting on anti-war protestors during Iraq and yet people here paraded him around along with the rest of the worst philosophers of the 20th century to feel smart until he said something obviously transphobic.
Well you know as much as I hate to say it, I think Norm Finkelstein published an unhinged transphobic essay on his blog or whatever the hell too. Not defending Zizek but just pointing out how this can happen from time to time.