the handshake meme, on one side liberals talking about Ukraine. on the other, conservatives talking about a mass shooter. the handshake “that swastika tattoo doesn’t necessarily mean he was a Nazi”

  • astropenguin5@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    What is the liberals talking about Ukraine part in reference to? Tbh I haven’t really seen much of either libs defending any potential Nazis in Ukraine, or much discission of Ukraine having a back problem since relatively early in war with the azov battalion and Russia claiming they were fighting Nazis

    • ozymandias@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      10 days ago

      since Ukraine was under authoritarian occupation by the USSR, many saw the nazi invasion as liberation. After the USSR took it back over, nazi symbology was outlawed, and taken up as anti-USSR symbols without the ideology.
      Some of that stuck around and to many of the people there with some nazi tattoo, it means, “fuck Russia”.
      i don’t know how many of them are actually nazis, but i’ve heard pretty much none of them… and it’s all hardcore anti-russia. (they were occupied by the USSR for another 50 years… grudges).

      • dogbert@lemmy.zip
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        3 days ago

        i don’t know how many of them are actually nazis, but i’ve heard pretty much none of them

        You are literally the meme that was posted…