Living in Germany truly has felt surreal this past week. I guess I just never had to know how propaganda felt. Of course, there always were apparent biases or dominant media narratives. But I always thought "at least it's not as bad as fox news". I'm not so sure anymore. Maybe I'm remembering this wrong, but I didn't experience the "falling in line" to be that complete. And that includes all the prominent dissenting voices, totally in line now.

  • DerEwigeAtheist [she/her, comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    I don't know how representative reddit is, but all majority german subs are hardcore pro israel, even nominally left ones.

    While in austrian there are plenty shitheads going " both sides", pro-israel people are generally downvoted. And takes like this upvoted:

    Seid doch nicht so antisemitisch, Israel hat das Recht sich zu verteidigen und seinen Lebensraum zu erweitern.

    The only swiss sub i could find is extremly cursed, there was one post asking about soli-demos and the comments were full of the smuggest swiss ppl going :

    we're neutral, ;-) we don't take any positions

    :agony-shivering:

    And a few people having good takes.

    So the extreme pro-israel position seems to be exclusively german.