Note to Leftists: Mineralman

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MineralMan (89,124 posts)

Note to Leftists:


Vladimir Putin is not a leftist. You may be thinking of the old Soviet Union, a failed communist/socialist nation. Putin was part of its KGB, the equivalent of our CIA, more or less. Vladimir Putin is not a Communist. He is not a Socialist. He is a petty tyrant, more akin to right-wing dictators from history and today than to leftist leaders.

He's not a shining symbol of progressive thinking, in any way. He is a racist. He hates LBGTQI people. He's not fond of Jewish people. In fact, he's mostly fond of himself and power. He likes puppetry, though, which is why he's so helpful to Donald Trump, who appears to be willing to dance as Putin pulls on the strings attached to his extremities.

On DU, I've often noticed that people who say they're on the left often quote Putin and Russian Federation propaganda and try to pass that that off as truth, rather than what it is, which is self-serving false information that benefits Putin and Russia, at the expense of pretty much anything else. A number of "news" outlets are controlled by Putin and his toadies, and some previously reputable journalists have signed up to work for them. A few used to post here, in fact. They are not reliable sources of factual information in any way.

Make no mistake: Putin does not have the goals of the left in his mind. He has not for a very long time, if he ever did. That he supports the puppet President, Donald Trump, should be evidence enough of that. I wish we'd stop using propaganda sources on DU that are tied to the Putin regime and pretending they're valid news.

That's my opinion. Thanks for taking the time to read it.

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Note to mineralman: Go **** yourself.

[BlueStateSaint]

Note to mineralman: Go **** yourself.

And that's our opinion.  Thanks for taking the time to read it--a lot less than your Readers' Digest-level screed.

[BannedFromDU]

     I sure am glad we have a complete nobody from some backwater in Minneapolis schooling us on geopolitics.

[FiddyBeowulf]

Why are the DUmmies so afraid of Russia? Hillary give them an over charge button and Obama scoffed at Russia being a geo-political foe of ours during the 2012 debates. I even remember the DUmmies up to this year quoting Russia Today. Why the change DUmmies?

[Carl]

Not to George.

This is why we call you Rock head.

[Fourwinds]

Well, at least some of them aren't calling themselves liberals anymore.

[USA4ME]

MineralMan

Note to Leftists:

Vladimir Putin is not a leftist. You may be thinking of the old Soviet Union, a failed communist/socialist nation.

Oh, so NOW the USSR is leftist. During the time of the USSR, Democrats/liberals told us the USSR was NOT leftist, but rather "right-wing state sponsored capitalism". But now that it suits their purpose, the USSR was leftist.

For whatever reason, rockhead believes we would forget what libs said in the past. Once again, rockhead is wrong.

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[SVPete]

Vladimir Putin is not a leftist. You may be thinking of the old Soviet Union, a failed communist/socialist nation. Putin was part of its KGB, the equivalent of our CIA, more or less. Vladimir Putin is not a Communist. He is not a Socialist. He is a petty tyrant, more akin to right-wing dictators from history and today than to leftist leaders.

The KGB was the security organ of the USSR. Putin served the USSR, and would not have been a KGB officer were he not an ideologically faithful Communist. "... the equivalent of our CIA, more or less." Ummmmmm, no. The CIA has never run a network of labor-death camps, as has the KGB. Further, the KGB's authority was both external and internal. The CIA was forbidden internal authority from day 1 of its existence.

... He is a racist. He hates LBGTQI people. He's not fond of Jewish people. In fact, he's mostly fond of himself and power. He likes puppetry, though,  (like Kim Il Sung, like the various Easter Bloc puppets he set up).

Gee! Change just one clause and MM is describing Stalin. Unlike Stalin, however, Trump is not racist, not antisemitic, and not sexist (a claim MM forgot in his hate-driven haste). Trump's cabinet choices suffice to refute those Prog narrative-lies.