MeanwhileOnGrad

anti-US = understands the core of international geopolitics. got it 🙄

I find it so incredibly funny that the graph is basically "Yeah all opinions different from mine are pure evil, while mine is well-learned and righteous as always."

Not even an attempt at nuance.

Wtf are they talking about "slavic peoples" XDDD. Ukrainians are slavic and the hateful bullshit russian propaganda spreads about them is beyond repulsive. No one dehumanises slavs more than other slavs tbh.

Fuuuuck russian disinfo. This shit has been spreading everywhere now. It's worryingly easy for well-meaning western "leftists" to fall for it because well, yes, amerika bad, maybe even worse than them if you compare some metrics of the destruction and death, but like, wtf is this twisted version of morality, that's just not how things work?!

It's also easy for anglos to deny or make up anything about russia because it's just not their cultural sphere, runet is kind of its own thing, so they can claim "oh that's all just american propaganda", "putinism can't be that bad if things are bad here in the west too", "russia fights imperialism" etc. The news on russia they have access to are filtered by western interest press, so this reaction isn't surprising.

One interesting thing is that russian propaganda comes in the right-wing flavour too, especially in central/eastern europe. And those memes are basically the same lol, just with extra/more overt racism.

If you start cheering for state violence and defending genocides, splash some cold water on your face or something and consider what you really want to fight for and why you're "leftist" in the first place. Liberation for all people!

I was about to downvote this post

Dessalines is a fascist, you say things they don't like and they will just ban you and delete your comments instead of engaging with your comments.

I have made it a point to block any community they moderate.

Let's be honest, when they say you're banned for being impolite, it really means you say things they don't like they cannot argue against.

I was stupid enough to engage with them on a similar topic and after like 20-30 comments where they ignored evidence, lied about things that have never actually happened, blatantly misconstrued evidence from completely unrelated events and moved their goal posts so far that they might as well be in another stadium they simply removed all my comments so nobody would be able to see the evidence showing how wrong they were.

Pretty stupid of me and since lemmy.ml has gone down the drain content wise I love the idea of simply blocking the instance, as stupid as it sounds, did never think about it so far.

Dude is almost directly quoting Russian state media and doesn't even realize he is just parroting a narrative*.

This is why you don't listen to state media, kids. If you hear something on repeat, over and over, you eventually begin to believe those words are true, without realizing it. Confirmation bias quickly kills any remainder of independent thought.

It's a nasty process. If you have ever seen someone have their rational thought destroyed by MAGA, it's the same thing. Rational discussions are pointless: They always degrade into pre-canned political talking points, whataboutisms and blaming others.

* I have often wondered if he parrots misleading narratives with purpose. ml is a perfect recruiting space for trolls and does function well enough to amplify fake or misleading news, after all.

I am fairly new to Lemmy and was slightly bewildered by the relentless Tankie propaganda going on. I am not talking about left criticism of capitalism but full blown glorification of Russian and Chinese imperialism, justification of wars of aggression and denial or justification of war crimes etc.

Then I figured out to block the .ml instance and things have gone mostly back to normal. I am still a bit uneasy about having to block the instance of the main developer but so what ...

A significant portion of the blame for this conflict can be put on the USA, but you'd have to be delusional to make excuses for Russia. Genuinely who in their right mind thinks Putin is a good guy? Or Russian oligarchs? They're just as bad as American presidents and oligarchs, except Russian [wanna-be] Empire is fairly weak, so it's not as big a threat as the US Empire.

I had some interaction with them on an .ml post today, which i can't respond to due to the ban hammer (imagine that).

There's reality, there's perspective, and there's spin.

But then there's blatant lies and propaganda.

That's how they roll at the .ml

https://youtu.be/GAuShNaT7OY

The Grand Tour explains what the Russians are doing to quietly steal land from Georgia. Literally moving the border markers at night.

I just picked up a permanent ban there too for rule 2.

Tankies gonna tank

SaltFreeBae just keeps proving that he's got absolutely no understanding of geopolitics, and that he lives in a fantasy world where half of reality is whatever he makes it up to be on the spot.