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  • 843 points [deleted]

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    97 points [deleted]

    Harry Turtledove is listening, somewhere, very pleased.

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    0 points FumaricAcid

    Find the thoughest looking Ukrainean soldier, preferably the one with weird runic symbols on his shoulders, and ask his opinion on Jews and trans people.

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    3 points beansbeansbeansbeann

    See there's a difference though. CSA was built on racism. There are racists in Ukraine but Ukraine was not built on racism and the belittling of others. CSA was built ENTIRELY on the backs of other humans and is an inherently racist institution. Meaning that ANYONE. Who supports CSA is racist and there can be no exception to that rule aside from people who don't understand the topic. Ukraine is just a country built on the fact that it's been there a while

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    2 points Umikaloo

    "If you seek out the most racist Ukrainian, they will be racist."

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  • 400 points [deleted]

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    104 points Jindo5

    Well see, they're inventing incorrect reasons for people calling the confederates racist in order to try to hide the very real reasons why people are calling the confederates racists.

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    3 points MegaAllMateria

    Honestly, I think that's for the best. If you can't understand a bigot's thought process, that means that you don't understand their brand of bigotry - and that's a good thing.

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  • 497 points CoalEater_Elli

    Whenever someone tries to defend Confederacy, ask them "States rights to do what?". And also remind them that Annoying Orange lived longer than their "proud country"

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    255 points Charming-Crescendo

    “The states rights to make their own decisions!”

    Okay, to make decisions about what?

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    228 points c-k-q99903

    "There was more to it than slavery for why we..."

    "I never mentioned slavery, but since you did, the guy who founded the confederacy said it was because they wanted to keep slavery, all the state constitutions and the main one said it was to keep slavery, and they seceded the moment a president got elected who SUGGESTED that he MIGHT put limits on slavery."

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    64 points Librarian_Contrarian

    Get Douglass'd

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    46 points FeineReund

    "So if it wasn't about slavery, it was slavery ADJACENT, at least."

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    2 points QT_IS_THE_BEST

    Theyd probably respond. "And Lincoln said if he could end the civil war without freeing a single slave, he would."

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    38 points surprisesnek

    IIRC the CSA actually banned their states from abolition, so that's an even funnier claim.

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    10 points Coffin_Builder

    “The CSA exists because states have the right to be sovereign and not bow to the federal government!”

    CSA proceeds to invade neutral states

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    54 points c-k-q99903

    That Goobus video ruined all of their arguments in the most hilarious way possible.

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    30 points ObsessedKilljoy

    I’ve seen annoying orange used as a nickname for Trump so often I didn’t realize you were talking about the real annoying orange at first.

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    21 points inquisitorautry

    Golden Girls lasts longer than the Confederacy. They are a bigger part of our heritage than the CSA.

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    10 points neverabetterday

    The Snyderverse lasted just over twice as long as the Confederacy.

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    10 points Stupidthrowbot

    My depression lasted almost three times as long as the Confederacy.

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    1 points [deleted]

    Canned tuna can last longer too. 

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    1 points shadedmagus

    Also, ask them to read the Declarations of Cause out loud. Self-determination is only mentioned to uphold the institution of slavery.

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  • 192 points ValentinesStar

    Wtf is this comparison? Holy shit.

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    -112 points vineenjoyer

    https://preview.redd.it/d4u5w9yx3mlf1.jpeg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=49138b2688d24eefa0bde81a1f4d2aeb5cee15ff

    Just gonna leave this here..

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    159 points Durtaidk6791

    Ah yes, by this logic, Russia should invade the states as well /s

    https://preview.redd.it/bqpg0wh91nlf1.jpeg?width=1600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9b5936fe9ce1b47b0881e1f5e67ece1beb621fa2

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    103 points garaile64

    Oh yes, because of one squad, a whole country of over 30 million people is full of Nazis. /s

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    -33 points DendyV

    One?

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    37 points [deleted]

    Yes only one. This has been confirmed for years now. lol. Try looking at the facts before opening that drop filled mouth next time

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    80 points Ghostmaster145

    Russia also has a massive Nazi problem. They have a literal Nazi mercenary group deployed in Ukraine and Africa

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    13 points Miserable-Willow6105

    PMC Wagner isn't exactly nazi (though they are far-right alright), but ДШРГ "Русич" is pretty damn close to being nazi

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    8 points DrunkOnRamen

    He spoke about Russia in general there are plenty of other groups besides Rusich and Wagner that are neo Nazis.

    Only reason Azov came about was because Russia invaded and proceeded to cry about Azov. Ukrainians joined Azov cause they were the biggest antagonist to Russia.

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    3 points Miserable-Willow6105

    Oh yes, Azov wasn't even a thing until the Donbas war began

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    3 points DrunkOnRamen

    Yup, ironically they're also the Russian speaking people Russia said it was going to "liberate"

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    2 points Duke-NukemOfficial

    I remember their main Commander (who died, rip bozo) having two ss drawings on his chest

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    31 points Diabolical_potplant

    https://preview.redd.it/gjip8v6y4olf1.jpeg?width=290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d0c250411ef3639cb8041ed82e6974de486f1c0a

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    20 points Misha_x86

    You must have had a lot of fun in Bucha

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    19 points intisun

    Ohh, found a vatnik in the wild! I didn't know you guys still do the "Ukraine = Nazis" bullshit but I guess the nature of propaganda is to be relentless.

    Anyway, do you know if these Russians have been sent to the meat grinder denazify Ukraine?

    https://preview.redd.it/jr0esos4jrlf1.jpeg?width=528&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=60208816d901dd554e983713a28ddfc1aecd452c

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    54 points literallymagolor

    iirc this image is actually fake

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    14 points DrunkOnRamen

    Just gonna leave this here...

    https://preview.redd.it/2eiuqi5ezrlf1.jpeg?width=630&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=96974fd108495e2b870f40a44d4ae741f72d00b4

    So time to invade Russia?

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    1 points EngChann

    god, what's with biowaste taking emblems that go hard as all hell (bottom)

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    11 points OneLastLego

    Probably all of these guys are dead by now. This unit basically fought to the end and Russia keeps killing the POWs

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    8 points Diabolical_potplant

    You can find pictures of soldier with nazi iconography in just about any army. They are massive orientations with tens of thousands of members. You will get a couple nazis

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    3 points Jackspladt

    “Just gonna leave this here..” you really thought you were a big shot with that one. Also how does 2 dozen people mean that country is full of Nazis lmao

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  • 74 points Jactuscack6

    Here comes r/memesopdidntlike to think were all crazy

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    15 points lefeuet_UA

    Always one step behind

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    12 points DefectiveCoyote

    The entire point of that sub is repost stuff from here and be really racist about it

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  • 130 points AnxiousTuxedoBird

    Were the other languages/races allowed to exist peacefully or were they treated like shit sojack? what was it again the states were fighting for the right to do?

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    76 points DEVILISHHAHA

    States rights to ... to ... to ... farming equipment!

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    49 points TheLordOfTheDawn

    "Agricultural Internships"

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  • 56 points Bird_Chick

    The difference is Ukraine isn't fighting for the right to own slaves

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  • 31 points Encerty

    CSA so pathetic the wait for WLR and IAM was longer than it's entire existence 

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    9 points Hot_squid

    I have no idea what those funny words mean

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  • 29 points Disastrous-Peanut

    Lmao the loser larpers really care about their insurrectionist state that existed for less time than some of the underwear I own.

    The South should have burned.

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  • 28 points xX_FireClaw_Xx

    People who defend the confederacy will always baffle me.

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    8 points reklesssabrandon

    Culture war goes brrrrrr

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  • 21 points _oranjuice

    UKRAINE never hurt anyone

    The confederacy on the other hand....

    Didn't everyone agree that slavery was bad? If your culture was defending slavery then no wonder you were annihilated

    https://preview.redd.it/hpy9r2bzmmlf1.jpeg?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=714f328e0045c621f2e1c192544c7556df13f9e1

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    2 points No-Mind-8765

    UKRAINE never hurt anyone

    I can't forget this. I saw people killed with axes and knives. They had their hands and legs chopped off, their heads split open, their ears cut off, their tongues torn out, their eyes gouged out, their bellies ripped open, and their intestines spilled out. Women had their breasts cut off. They didn't even spare the babies. I saw a little child with its head smashed against the wall. I remember an old woman standing over her daughter's massacred body, telling her to get up and put on the coat she had brought, because it was cold and time to go home.

    ~Danuta Konieczna

    If Ukraine has history, this is part of Ukraine history. Ukiranian hurt enormous number of Poles in this way. This was real evil nationalism. Ukraine need support and respect, because its only way to free people from criminal ideologies and sentiment regarding the history of genocide. But thinking that Ukraine never hurt anyone is completly lack of history knowledge. Stepan Bandera is nowadays Ukrainian national hero.

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  • 19 points rainbowcarpincho

    How was the south particularly multi-lingual? Every state was awash in immigration.

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  • 16 points StrawberryWide3983

    "Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth."

    -Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the CSA

    And don't forget about the articles of secession from each Confederate state, all of which label slavery as the main cause for why they attempted to split off.

    It was never about "state's rights." If it was, it's a funny coincidence that the traitors themselves never mentioned the idea until after the war

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  • 29 points milklover222

    Ukrainian here

    Americans fascinate me sometimes, mostly in not-so-good ways.

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    19 points ergaster8213

    American here

    Americans disturb me. I'm too tired to be fascinated.

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  • 14 points Illustrious-Equal832

    Ah yes, the people that fought for state's rights to keep slavery and then founded the kkk.

    Democrats. /s

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  • 13 points Apoordm

    Ukraine is being invaded by a foreign expansionist military with the intention of annexation…

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  • 22 points Anyanasik

    What's CSA?

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    36 points AnxiousTuxedoBird

    Confederate States of America

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    14 points heaviestnaturals

    Cock Sucking Americans.

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    26 points Inevitable_Garage706

    Child Sexual Assault?

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    21 points AnAltoAnAccident

    Yes, but in this case most likely not.

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    -13 points Inevitable_Garage706

    Chad Sam Arnold?

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    17 points milleniumhandyshrimp

    Owners frequently raped their slaves so yes, that too.

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    7 points Inevitable_Garage706

    ...why am I not surprised?

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    8 points cyri-96

    It was about literally owning people after all.

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    4 points garaile64

    Confederate States of America, a short-lived country formed by some states of Southern US. The CSA seceded from the United States over, let's say, disagreements on slavery, resulting in the iconic American Civil War.

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    8 points Dorkfishie

    Confederate States of America.

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  • 8 points Lucicactus

    I'm too European to understand this.

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    8 points neverabetterday

    We had a bunch of rural states go into revolt about 150ish years ago because their aristocracy wanted to continue holding slaves and more industrialized and educated Northern states opposed slavery. This lasted for about 4-5 years before being put down, but rebel agents were unfortunately able to murder the president, resulting in the reconstruction efforts going incomplete. Because of this, there remain to this day many people who base their entire identity on a failed revolt

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    6 points [deleted]

    I could possibly be imagining things, but there seems to be a weird love/hate relationship horseshoe with right-wing southerners and Tankies. By which I mean they say they hate eachother, but they tend to, in actuality, get along pretty dang well.

    For example about a week ago I saw a chain in r/stupidpol where multiple people were pushing an obscure Lost Cause narative, while flipping out about r/politics, crying about how redditors want to apparently genocide white southerners.

    Caught me right the heck off guard.

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  • 7 points Chevanalee

    Wait… the person who made this meme doesn’t know the difference between Ukraine and Confederates? That’s concerning

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  • 7 points Thundersting

    The lifespan of the Wii U lasted longer than the Confederacy.

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  • 7 points lukkgx2a7

    Seceding from a larger political body isn’t the problem, it’s WHY that’s important. Ukraine left the USSR and wants to remain an independent country (also they were already a thing prior to the USSR anyway) , that’s a perfectly legitimate reason. The confederacy wanted to secede specifically so they would still be allowed to own slaves, that’s not a good reason.

    Places have civil wars and split into different nations all the time and places homogenize and merge into larger countries, then split back up again. Those things in and of themselves can exist for both good and bad reasons. The WHY is the most import part, and Ukraine has a hell of a lot better reason than the confederacy ever had.

    To claim they’re remotely the same thing is rather tone deaf and ignores the historical context behind both situations.

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  • 5 points Environmental_Eye266

    I wonder what they did with all that ✨diversity ✨

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  • 5 points UnknownSolder

    Why is the Nazi trying to defend child sexual assault?

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  • 8 points RepealMCAandDTA

    CSA is nothing because it hasn't existed in over 150 years

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  • 5 points Stupidthrowbot

    Yeah, if Ukraine started suddenly proselytizing about it’s right to enslave its own people I would be very concerned.

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  • 6 points Oktavia-the-witch

    So did Ukraine had slaves too?

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    2 points lefeuet_UA

    The ancient ukrainian superstate used anatolian slaves to dig out reservoirs in 5000 BC. They would later be named Black and Caspian seas

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  • 2 points StrangeRaven12

    These people really don't understand how assimilationist the confederacy was do they?

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  • 2 points [deleted]

    One wants slavery.

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  • 2 points Mindless-Rice7153

    If they want to secede so bad let them, we'll just kick their asses like we did last time.

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  • 2 points [deleted]

    It is true, many natives fought for the confederation at that time and today a new confederation would be very diverse and could perfectly be a multicultural nation.

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  • 2 points TheBackyardigirl

    Did the confederacy ever get invaded and bombed by a dictatorship trying to erase their culture? Jesus christ..

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  • 2 points PepyHare15

    It’s funny how they didn’t even try to equate the arguments over defending Ukraine to the arguments in favor of the Confederacy. Also “CSA is ethnically diverse” is a hysterical argument in favor of a country fighting for the ability to enslave black people

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  • 2 points He_Never_Helps_01

    Ask them why they fly the confederate battle flag and not the confederate flag

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  • 2 points imthrowingmyaway

    country gets invaded, defends itself GRRR WHY CANT YOU JUST GIVE UP AND LET YOUR NATION DIE

    the slavery country They just wanted their freedom, who are we to take that away?

    Obligatory states rights to do WHAT?

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  • 2 points smores_or_pizzasnack

    For some reason I thought CSA was “child sexual assault” and was even more horrified

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  • 2 points OttoVonPlittersdorf

    I think they meant to write that the CSA was."

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  • 1 points Fantafans69

    Do anybody knows how is called that wintrr mask of the ukrain militar?

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    2 points TassadarForXelNaga

    Balaclava

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  • 1 points Espurreso

    The way it shares its acronym with something equally heinous must not be overlooked.

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  • 1 points sum_r4nd0m_gurl

    yikes

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  • 1 points Tiny_Program_8623

    'ETHNICALLY DIVERSE'

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  • 1 points TieConnect3072

    The state’s are not sovereign.

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  • 1 points Salty-Succotash3338

    Ethnic Ukrainian (althought not living there, but ok) here. The name Ukraine had been mentioned in maps and chronicles since atleast 1187 (quote from the Kyiv Manuscript regarding the death and funeral of knyaz Volodymyr Glibovych: "...and Ukraine was much sorrowful for him"/"о нем же Оукраина много постона") in some variation (Oukraine, Ruthenia, the Kyivan Rus, Roksolania, etc.). This is a really good article by historian Danylo Stazenko about the topic: https://www.istpravda.com.ua/articles/2021/04/6/159278/ As far as the language and the cultural differences between Ukraine and Russia go, those were recorded by scholars during the 18th century boom in ethnology, linguists and literary romanticism. Sure a lot of those findings were censored by the Russian authorities (with a lot of scholars frequently ending in imperial gulags), but, one only needs to look at scholars from western Ukraine, which was a part of Austria Hungary and had no issues regarding such censorship. Taking all of this into consideration, the concept of Ukraine and Russia being one and the same is truly baffling to me.

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  • 1 points Megalon96310

    Well…

    Ukraine doesn’t use slaves

    (The point is quite possibly one of the worst I have EVER seen)

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  • 1 points Arcticwolf1505

    OH thank fuck I didn't see the sub name and I thought this was genuine

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  • 1 points TheCoolerSaikou

    again with neonazis using the wrong confederate flag lol

    https://preview.redd.it/ozxbbtafqgmf1.jpeg?width=350&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8b1842dcfd70654ea7625ff3d9a971fe81bb6666

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  • 1 points DefectiveCoyote

    Fuck the confederate bourgeoisie.

    -sincerely, Unionist Appalachia

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  • 1 points Pure_Chaos_05

    Yep, it definitely doesn't have anything to do with all the slaves the confederates owned.

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  • 1 points HeManLover0305

    LMAO this just in a secessionist movement that seceded because of issues directly relating to wanting to keep slaves is the same as a problematic nation defending itself from a nation problematic in all the same ways and then some more

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  • 1 points [deleted]

    And to think Ukrainians are even more racist than the confederates lol.

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  • 1 points Tricky-Turnover3922

    Are you a white nationalist?!

    Yes. Yes, they were. They were exactly that.

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  • 1 points RattusNorvegicus9

    Uh...forgot the slavery 

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  • 1 points Mediocre-Boss7883

    Wow! I had no idea the confederacy was multilingual! Lemme guess, their official languages were 'Murican, Obesese, Riflese, French Friese, and Incestish?

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  • 1 points blazethesurvivorfan

    You're too late, LIBERAL. For I, have drawn myself as the CHAD and YOU as the soyjack! Mwahhhahahah 

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  • 1 points plumb-phone-official

    Even if the latter was true, which it most certainly isn't, i have a feeling that wouldn't be the reason someone would call the CSA racist...

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  • -7 points Budget-Drink961

    Ukraine is russia, nothing more to it, Ukrainian is just a different name, but both people are the EXACT SAME PERSON

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