• Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    25 days ago

    Scary as fuck, we’re basically occupied by Russia and the Trumpers are going to start cheering as we become Russia’s theoretical “51st state.”

    I would like to think this person is aware that other countries don’t have 50 states in them, but also based on what they’ve said, I’m honestly not sure. They might actually think that every country functions exactly like America in every way, except that they are either “good” or “bad”.

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      24 days ago

      Charitably, they put “51st state” in quotes because they realize Russia at least doesn’t have 50 equivalent analogues to states and are just using it as a shorthand for Russia taking control of the US and adding it to the Russian Federation as an oblast or something.

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        24 days ago

        Yeah, they probably didn’t actually think that Russia had 50 states. Still, it is notable that their example of “Russian conquest” is to use a common refrain people in the US have about conquering other countries. There’s no country more bloodthirsty than the US, and they think that every country other than them is more bloodthirsty.