Wondering about this. Like "putin schill" gets thrown around so lightly, and what's being said is "you're not even wrong, you're just a brainwashed puppet making puppet noises at the behest of your sinister masters".
Like the libs don't even see it as an argument, it's just evil magic orc speech or something. Whatever we're saying is wrong because putin is making us say it, somehow
Thinking about how it ties in to ignorance or denial of various atrocities. Like " hey, Joe did this horrible thing" and getting back "no he didn't, and that didn't happen, and if it did you only think it's bad because putin mind controlled you" kind of thing.
Yeah, that tracks. I get huge amounts of pushback and denial when i try to tell people that fascists do fascist stuff because they have fundamentally different goals and desires compared to libs. But tell libs that the fash aren't stupid or ignorant but rather have a different world view and desires and goals, and i get a lot of hate from the libs.