https://knockout.chat/thread/43486/36#post-1628560

"This thread isn't propagandist enough, I don't want my beautiful fantasy world being disturbed."

For context: Knockout is a relatively niche forum that was created by users of the more well-known Facepunch forums when the latter closed down in 2019.

Since the war in Ukraine started, they have regularly been having struggle sessions about the contradictions of being a progressive, pro-trans forum, yet also being fanatically pro-NATO and pro-Ukraine. Most of the time they uncritically believe any propaganda the West, Kyiv, or even British tabloids put out, and they will react extremely hostile to anything that dares break the narrative, as seen here.

Edit: Crap, I screwed up the thumbnail somehow.

  • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    They simply cannot fathom that the very same capitalist Western governments, which they acknowledge have been trampling on their rights for decades, and which they acknowledge have left them poor and living paycheck to paycheck, are also lying to them about the West’s geopolitical rivals.

    this shit always drives me up the wall. like you understand that the media lies to you! why do you think they would tell the truth about other countries???

    • Ram_The_Manparts [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Yeah this shit is infuriating. You're so fucking close to getting it aaaaaaaaaaaaah

    • BeamBrain [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      They're western chauvinists. No matter how dysfunctional their own society gets, they can't imagine that those people could possibly have a better one by any metric.

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        2 years ago

        It's really pernicious too.

        All sorts of people have the little "Well it may suck here; but it's better than everywhere else, right?" tucked away somewhere.