One weird thing that I have noticed is that the Americans are supporting Russia instead of Ukraine, but are nazis themselves. Usually they always slurp up whatever pro-US propaganda manufactured by the CIA Fox or /pol/ tell them, but this time they are cheering on a non-NATO force?

Can someone ELI5 why rightoids would be anti-Ukraine?

  • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Contrarianism. Some of them have literally no principles or beliefs of their own and exist entirely as mirror images of liberals, reflexively opposing anything they say and do. Because liberals support Ukraine, chuds oppose it (despite the history of American neo-nazis serving as auxiliaries in the Ukrainian civil war). If it were/when it is their team in power tossing billions in weapons into far-right networks in Europe under the pretense that maybe some of it will reach Ukraine, then they'd support it.

    • EnsignRedshirt [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah, these are people who took horse dewormer instead of getting vaccinated for COVID because vaccination became a partisan issue. It's not hard to understand why a lot of them would start cheering Russia when all the libs they hate have Ukraine flag emojis in their usernames. I remember an old episode of chapo where Matt said something along the lines of "they want to own the libs, this is a lib-ownership economy" and he was right. For a substantial number of people, politics is literally just making your opponent mad.