eel [he/him]

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Cake day: July 29th, 2020

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  • eel [he/him]tonewsRussia-Ukraine Megathread 30
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    3 years ago

    https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/technology/ukraine-war-misinfo.html The Ghost of Kiev was always just a legend, I thought. However I hadn't heard about Snake Island until now. But it seems both were examples of propaganda by Ukraine.

    I haven't heard anything debunking the Mariupol theatre attack, though. All I could find was that Russia accused the Azov Battalion, obviously an evil organization, of orchestrating it, with no evidence. Reminds me of MH17.



  • eel [he/him]tonewsRussia-Ukraine Megathread 30
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    3 years ago

    The twitter thread was interesting. I'm not entirely sure what it's supposed to prove- what stood out to me was the video posted- despite that it's unclear what was said or if someone actually was shot, somebody did ask if they could shoot somebody, and maybe already had, if they thought that was okay to ask. I also have no doubt that some people were killed by Ukrainian shelling. But with the sheer amount of people killed and eyewitness accounts it does fail to convince me that there was not a massacre by Russian forces. He also accuses the NYT of moving a body, and by extension deliberately spreading fake news. The body looks to be in the same place to me, and the NYT deliberately spreading fake news would be as far as I know unprecedented. I wouldn't really trust what I hear from Russian- or Ukrainian, for that matter- news on Telegram, though. That seems to be mainly a platform to spread propaganda to try to get people who read it on your side.




  • eel [he/him]tonewsRussia-Ukraine Megathread 30
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    3 years ago

    If the best you can come up with was an error nearly 20 years ago that they have admitted to and acknowledged... I'm just saying, I'm wondering where your news if coming from. Since I haven't seen any evidence that the war crimes were fabricated, but I'm open to hearing your perspective.











  • eel [he/him]tonewsRussia-Ukraine Megathread 30
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    3 years ago

    Do you think a proxy war is only official if bidens yells, “I DECLARE PROXY WAR!!” Wikipedia: "A proxy war is an armed conflict between two states or non-state actors which act on the instigation or on behalf of other parties that are not directly involved in the hostilities." The war is between Russia and Ukraine. From 2014-2022, Russia was arming terrorist rebels in the Donbas, who were fighting against Ukraine. But now Russia has directly invaded. Besides, Biden and the US are far from the only ones helping Ukraine. Your backhanded quip about this community being vehemently pro-russia is full of shit. Have you read through this thread?