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.

  • 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.