Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
It's truly unreal and causes me to experience dissociation. The re-writing of recent history and gaslighting is at insanity inducing levels. I still glance at the "news" every day because I'm curious what my liberal friends and family are being exposed to. But, there is no possible way to counter any of it without being :pepe-silvia:
I opened a front page :reddit-logo: thread last night, sorted by controversial and NATO bootlickers have their list of talking points nailed. I talked to a couple of family members during the first week and explained how NATO and the US was responsible for this conflict, I regret it. They have a seemingly unbreakable trust in the NPR/NYT narratives.
These media sources lead one from point A: this is information that is correct and smart, gathered by smart people who are better than you/ you are a good and successful person for using these sources to point B: op eds explaining how some people (uneducated, poor, probably racist) succumb to the mindless hysterical pitfalls of countering western liberal media and how they are paid and controlled by anti-democracy genocidal authoritarians who wage information wars on you and your children, eat their pets, fantasize about nuking babies etc.
anyway, thanks for all your hard work, I hope you are taking care of yourself and getting some nice weather wherever you are.
Even leftists. Western leftists telling Western leftists they need to "listen to Eastern lefitsts" while cherry picking hard exactly which Eastern leftists they "listen to" (and often even clipping the convenient bits of what they say) is out of this fucking world.
I've pretty much stopped discussing this shit in leftist Discord servers (including "Dirtbag HQ"). The propagandized and ad-hominem-laden dogpiling is intense. Thank goodness this seems to be a mostly online phenomenon.
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