Title, I'm a leftist but after reading some things on lemmygrad and here it seems I might have been lied to all my life. I have talked with some people from Cuba and Venezuela (expats) that support the west narrative about poverty and mismanagement. I "believe" that Russia is attacking Ukraine for selfish reasons and that China censors access to foreign information using the Great Firewall, please prove me wrong. Furthermore, it ultimately depends who do you want to believe or there are hard facts from reputable sources that are simply a hidden by the mass media?

EDIT: Thanks everyone for your very civil responses. I'll answer as many as I can!

  • marderbot [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    That's a really good metaphor, I'll need to research what you just wrote but it seems fair. The thing is that, if you read standard westerns sources they also seem fair, how to distinguish right from wrong?

    • macabrett
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      1 year ago

      Why would you uncritically believe the sources that riled up the public for the War on Terror? Why do they want you to care so much about the war in Ukraine vs any number of coups America has been involved in? Why did they all claim Russia blew up Nordstream with zero followup when it was uncovered that it was likely from the other side?

    • notceps [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Get context, get ideological or tune out. There's not really a need to have position on everything as a leftist. I care about this because I've talked in person to Ukranians that have fled the war and have been devastated by it, I know quite a few ukranians and russians online as well so that's why I care more about it. On the other side I have almost no context on things going on in lets say south east asia so I'll let my ideology guide myself which is to side with pro-leftist stuff and being against american interests. If it's more complicated than that and I don't look at the context I don't think I should hold an opinion on it or speak on it.

      It's very understandable to not be too into the comments of the news mega section but 72T does great updates during the week there which are very informative so you could check that out to get a bit more context overall.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Do those sources ever even mention Euromaidan? Or the eight year Civil War that followed and led directly knto the invasion?

      In my experience, the latter is rare and the former (since the invasion) is unheard of.