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?

  • pooh [she/her, love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    During the Iraq war, there was widespread opposition here, and that absolutely included the press. There’s nothing like that anymore, even critical journalists have been successfully muzzled and need to hide their criticism of UA behind a thick layer of jingoism.

    Call me paranoid, but I wouldn’t be the least bit surprised if the CIA hadn’t gained a significant amount of ground in infiltrating European media since the Iraq War. They also have plants in positions of editorial control at social media sites including Reddit. Basically an extension of what they started with Operation Mockingbird and Operation Earnest Voice is used to manufacture opinion on forums and social media sites through the use of sock puppet accounts.

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

      We know FiveEyes is all spying on each other's citizens and sharing information and that the NSA had even compromised Merkel's most secure communication equipment.