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Where were you born and raised?

Told you, Spaniard. Believe it or not, not everyone who disagrees with European supremacy is a Russian actor.

You said I'm making up Russians pretending to be Americans

I said you're making up the scale of it, which you are.

If you're pretending like "European propaganda" exists

Lmao, that's unbelievable, you're literally the joke of the CIA agent telling the KGB agent that there's no propaganda in the US

https://en.wikipedia.org/

Are you capable of conceiving that a collaborative project edited foremost by tech-literate Anglos using Anglo sources will portray the bias of Anglo propaganda? Would you trust a Russian or Chinese collaborative encyclopedia on articles about western disinformation using Russian and Chinese sources?

You're literally entirely oblivious of the extent of western propaganda. Clue: you're witnessing the genocide of Palestinians in Gaza LIVE and the invasion of Iran, and you're still portraying immensely more anti-Russian bias than anti-American.

Small test on European propaganda: ask yourself how much you know about Stalin and the gulags, and how much you know about France's colonial violence in Algeria in 1960s.

Look at profiles like Davel@lemmy.ml

Cool, you have one example. I've had Polish and American users engage in multi-account downvote against me during discussions, and I don't go around making claims of "this website is full of American and Polish bots". You're literally high into the EU propaganda of Russian propaganda prevalence, when in reality EU+US have a lot more power and are extremely more prevalent. We've literally seen the entire media apparatus in Europe align with Isntreal's genocide and you still believe that the propaganda problem in Europe is coming from Russia?

Ask yourself why European countries are so quick to ban Russian media and even enjail pro-Russian politicians (looking at your southern neighbors on the other side of the Gulf) but are seemingly incapable to do anything remotely similar against autoctonous European far-right leaders. Your own freaking country is destroying itself with turbo neoliberalism and recently overtook my homeland in unemployment rates!! The problem is INSIDE!

If you were a Russian online in today's atmosphere, would you admit to it

Yes, I don't see why I would need to hide my identity. I'm a Spaniard and I don't hide it. If Americans are comfortable online during times of US-sponsored genocide in Gaza and full-scale illegal bombing of Iran, I don't see why Russians wouldn't be comfortable beyond Russophobic users such as yourself.

Unlike Russians, we Finns don't feel the need to lie for our despotic leader. Mainly because we don't have one. Haven't had one since 1809 pretty much. Well, arguably a bit from 1809 to 1917

Please remind me, what historical event happened in 1917 that led to Finland's independence? Surely you must admire Lenin for promoting the FIRST CONSTITUTION IN THE WORLD that allowed the unilateral right of secession and self-determination that your homeland used? Also, what was Finland doing between 1941 and 1945?

GDP in USD is a bad metric, try GDP PPP.

they have tried to coerce policy changes with trade threats a bit. If you live here, you know we've gotten a few rounds of it.

Responding to US sanctions tit for tat is not equivalent to China starving other nations to enact regime change, are you arguing in bad faith or do you truly believe those two are comparable?

only Han Chinese are people

What on holy Earth are you talking about? You live in the worldwide capital of Atlantic trade slavery and you believe China is more racist than you somehow? 1 in 4 black men in the US are put in jail at some point in their lives, you're literally accusing China of things that are only true in the US lmao, nice projection

"the Eastern bloc did much more coercive trade policy than the West". Since they didn't trade freely with the greater world at all

And didn't enact international blockades such as the one the US is enacting on Cuba or like US+UK enacted in 1950s Iran to destroy the economy and remove the democratically elected president Mosaddeq.

Your argument is so incredibly flawed that you're having to conflate "China responded to US sanctions tit for tat" and "the Eastern Block was mostly self-sufficient" with "the US forces international embargos on other countries with the explicit purpose of starving the population to push for regime change". You are literally seeing in real time how Gazans are fucking starved by the US-supported siege of their population which blocks aid and food from entering (let alone trade) and you feel compelled to defend the genocidal USA anyway

You're making that up

"It's not democracy without the constant threat of the far right stripping my rights and destroying my economy"

I mean, a large portion of Lemmy is Russians

A larger portion are Americans, unfortunately.

You didn't respond: would you enact starvation on Yanks to push for regime change?

The people enacting these sanctions, i.e. US government, are as of today explicitly talking about eliminating a civilization, the literal definition of genocide.

Why are you defending genocide?

saddly nobody has found a better option

I guess all Yanks should be starved for choosing the wrong president? Or is that something you reserve to nonwhites?

Please explain to me how weak and isolated China is, the producer of half the industrial products of the world. Please explain to me how isolated and weak the Eastern Block was in the previous century as the second world power.

I wish you and your family never have to go through the "deserved sanctions" of the USA and EU, which together murder half a million people yearly since 1975 per latest medical research

"Under a regime" lmao you should read a bit

It will worsen conditions, but that's a pretty typical tactic to put pressure

It's only "typical" by western nations. The US explicitly started the blockade over half a century ago with the following justification:

"to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government". Literally, google that sentence.