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.
They made minimalist infographics about it, made carrds with links to donate money for their army to buy guns through, and generally cloaked it in the same aesthetics that you see in movements against conservatives you see on tiktok. I’ve also seen that shit for Xinjiang (I’ve even see one link to a petition for a military intervention into Cuba lmfao)
TLDR it’s the :gusano-perplexed: effect