• Nacktmull@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    It is much more than that. It is very obviously an attempt to use cute animals to raise sympathy for the Ukrainian Army. Everybody likes pictures of cute animals so that is being exploited. For months hundreds of pictures like this have been posted on reddit systematically. If you don´t see the pattern and think that is not an organized propaganda campaign you are simply being naive.

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      1 year ago

      As long as it damages any Russian efforts to justify their unilateral genocide… Bring on the cat pics.

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        1 year ago

        “I support fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.”

        “It’s such a relief that I can finally channel my racism in a socially-acceptable way now that we are in a proxy war with Russia. Orc orc orc.”

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        1 year ago

        I honestly believe no reasonable person thinks that reacting to expansionism by trade agreements and diplomacy with counter expansionism by war is justified. If someone is misguided enough to believes it is, cat pictures will probably not help.

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      “Organized propaganda campaign”

      My guy hanging with animals, pets or former strays, is what bored soldiers do, all the way back to antiquity. Or at least is one of the more family-friendly things bored soldiers do.

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        1 year ago

        Nothing wrong with that, I have respect for everyone who is taking care of animals in horrible situations as war. Using photos of it for means of propaganda is a whole different topic though.

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            1 year ago

            You are hallucinating. I never wrote anything like that. Please quote where I did (hint: you can´t because there is no such statement from me)