https://twitter.com/brechtcastel/status/1509547180402647051

Reposting this because I think it really illustrates how blatantly outright propagandistic and thought terminating the "debunking" thing is. 90% of this thread is about conclusively proving that not only are Ukranians lynching Roma, but they are lynching Roma in the westernmost part of Ukraine, and they are lynching them right now, and this in fact has been going on for 4 whole years before the invasion.

But, just by bolting on a bullshit entirely unsourced claim that "Russian propaganda" says these are ethnic Russians held as human shields(RT's article on the matter literally says the exact same conclusion as this whole thread), this is now turned from a thread documenting the fascist tendencies in Ukranian society into a thread about THE TRUTH and DEBUNKING RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION.

And if you'll look in the QRTs theres a flood of people who either have not even read the thread, or turn off their brains the second they see its about "debunking Russia" praising this thread for "conclusively debunking" a claim that the thread doesnt even prove exists in reality. All you have to do is say you have debunked a "russian claim" and libs will instantly accept it because it means they dont have to consider any problematic facts, or they will in fact chant about how its good that Roma are being lynched because actually, they could have just shot them in the streets for "looting"(Again, I have never seen this idea backed up with facts that its ok to shoot people in the streets on random suspicion of stealing food, and I suspect thats because its not real and is fucking criminal).

There is absolutely no critical thinking involved when libs read and share these debunking threads, no information has been absorbed outside of "use this as a weapon and browbeat people into submission with it".