Seems like the 'majority of Americans' are freaking Putler supporting tankies!(tm) :maybe-later-honey: :maybe-later-kiddo:
lmao you can propagandize people for a while but eventually it always stops working and the population returns to the mean (in this case, apathy).
Then again, I haven't seen as much propaganda recently, so maybe once they got their billions of dollars of weapons purchased they eased off the pedal and that's why we're returning to the mean.
I think some of the problem is that 80% of Americans could not find Ukraine on a map.
The other problem is that both sides of the war are white people.
This is a bad combination if you want to enthrall the American public. Any war that fits these criteria are among the least interesting wars to Americans. For example Yugoslavia
It would be like if Pennsylvania and Kentucky went to war.
Ah, the Kaiserreich scenario
You can only do so much to convince people a financial crisis is worth a cause that's thousands of kilometers away
There are enemies right here at home
No need to look 5000+ miles away when your neighbor is a dick head who wants you dead
What a shock, it starts affecting them negatively and it's not just something they can gossip about on social media anymore and suddenly they drop all their "principles." Yes, the end result is a good thing since it's less Nazi support, but I still think these people are the absolute dregs of humanity.
I have an irrational hatred for these people, only irrational in so far as they are painfully common and it makes it difficult to tolerate anyone in the real world. Just regurgitating the things they're told are important by the mainstream media, that they see on Reddit and TikTok. It's one of the top reasons why I hate social media tbh, the sentiment spreads like a plague and suddenly everyone in your workplace is parroting the same talking points. When it's geopolitics, it's even more infuriating, cause fuck you Lee, you didn't know the first thing about Ukraine in January 2022, but February 2022, you're saying Russia should be nuked.
lol one unique thing about Americans that I saw after 9/11 and the War on Terror is that Americans always call for their country to nuke any nation they don't like. There were men slamming their fists on tables and screaming about how the entire Middle East should be carpet bombed.
There were men slamming their fists on tables and screaming about how the entire Middle East should be carpet bomb
Ahh, nostalgia. That was young me's very first Are We The Baddies moment
I root for the demise of the species. Intelligent life is an abomination.
On the plus side, when everyone is parroting the same points, not only can you refute them more easily but posessing any level of historical context or knowledge about the situation lets you run laps around their blinkered understandings.
Tfw you impulse buy a Ukraine and then completely lose interest in it but you already threw away the reciept so now it's just there cluttering up the place because you don't know where to take it to get rid of it.
I like how there is no ideology at play here. Just people getting bored and starting to look for the next thing to play pretend with.
Someone tell the folks in Chicago, still can't go ten feet without seeing that stupid flag
Growing tired of watching thousands die and critical infrastructure destroyed
Pretty much all the Ukrainian flags in windows around my neighbourhood came down and were replaced by Union Jacks and flags for the Queen.
Part of it is boredom. Some is the appeal to authority (:bootlicker:). But I also think people just want to be a part of something, to feel like everyone agrees and is doing something positive. It's bullshit of course, it's not positive, and will only ever be bootlicking for the powerful because everyone is also terrified of being chastised for being wrong, or radical, or whatever. But I think it's a fucked up manifestation of how alienated society is.
