Prior to the conflict, I wasn't a fan of liberals. But at least they were better than conservatives because they didn't want to glass the Middle East, protested against the Iraq war, made fun of right wing bullshit on Fox News, and didn't want to gun down Muslims or Hispanics. Or so I thought.

Liberals have gone full :frothingfash: and are literally regurgitating 1930s Nazi talking points about the Slavs. As I Russian speaker, I stopped going on most subreddits now due to the obscene racism. I've seen shit ranging from "Aktually, Ruzzians are not white or European" to "Lets break Russia up and commit mass ethnic cleansing". It's not even just Russians, I've seen a massive surge in racist posts about Chinese and Indian people since the war started.

Liberals are literally swallowing the most inane nonsense from Ukraine like "Russian orcs shocked at seeing toilets for the first time". And lets not forget the "Russian brainpan too smol to launch nukes so lets nuke them ourselves" posts all over :reddit-logo:

Anyone who even remotely suggests that we shouldn't arm and send 16 year old Ukrainians to be blown up in human wave attacks is called a Kremlin agent.

Amazingly, many right-wingers like Peterson or Candace Owens have better takes on the situation than liberals do. Does anyone have an explanation for this?

  • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    5)You can fool a lib into believing Ukraine is/was a “democracy”

    no fooling necessary, maidan coup ukraine was a democracy by lib standards. they look at iraq and say "blah blah horrible but at least we brought them democracy", the neocons won that ideological battle. Criticizing the puppet government is implicitly supporting saddam to these people, same with anything you have to say about a westernizing nazi-infested ukraine.

    libs barely care about pinochet and if you tell them about 70 years of america spreading fascism and being on the wrong side every time in south america and they'll still line up and lick the boot on foreign policy.

    • cogito_ergo_cum [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      I convinced a lib relative that the maidan coup wasn't democratic since Victoria Nuland got to dictate who could be on the new govt. But they just moved on to "well it wasn't democratic under the Russian puppet Yanukovich either, and it became democratic with the election that came after maidan"

      • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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        2 years ago

        It's wild that Yanukovich was the duly elected president, and as legitimate as you could get in Ukraine, and Libs just... don't care, and consider the violent coup and the illegal subsequent government legitimate and "Democratic".