sometimes it's hard to differentiate between opposing a fascist government and supporting the other bad government doing bad things to them. Especially when you're young and likely to be contrarian and are constantly swamped in such violently racist ideology towards one side which doe snot deserve it. I'd argue a lot of younger online leftists are still kinda childish or not fully de-libified and their brain is operating the same sequence that leads to rooting for the empire in star wars. There's also a certain amount of being told a russia suporter that makes you want to go "okay, maybe I am."
Sometimes I struggle with this thought process. Someone will mention something bad happening to Russian troops and my lizard brain reacts negatively, but I have to remind myself that they're nationalist shitheads too.
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sometimes it's hard to differentiate between opposing a fascist government and supporting the other bad government doing bad things to them. Especially when you're young and likely to be contrarian and are constantly swamped in such violently racist ideology towards one side which doe snot deserve it. I'd argue a lot of younger online leftists are still kinda childish or not fully de-libified and their brain is operating the same sequence that leads to rooting for the empire in star wars. There's also a certain amount of being told a russia suporter that makes you want to go "okay, maybe I am."
Sometimes I struggle with this thought process. Someone will mention something bad happening to Russian troops and my lizard brain reacts negatively, but I have to remind myself that they're nationalist shitheads too.