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!

  • UnicodeHamSic [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    No, it actually isn't. It is for us in the west because we are given things free of context and education. We are specifically feed disinformation propaganda all the time so we can't develop informed opinions on matters.

    So yeah, I dunno. Maybe Iraq had nukes. They didn't, anyone with the context would know they couldn't, and the drumbeat of it only served to help Americans support the war and make the world worse. In every possible way simply preventing that from being as widespread would have been an improvement