• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    I do wonder if a lot of the “slava Ukrani!” types are just too far gone, and will be insisting that Ukraine “could still win” even after the western media is calling Zelenskyy an evil asiatic dictator. The propaganda might be too strong to undo this time, though I probably am underestimating the liberal ability to be as wishy-washy as possible.

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      We’re almost at my least favorite part of foreign conflicts.

      The part where liberals insist they never supported it and pretend they didn’t call us a bunch of foreign shills for correctly predicting the outcome by starting from the assumption the US state department was full of shit.

      Now we get to move on to them immeidatly telling us we have no idea how anything works and we’re all just tankies for whatever the next conflict is, not sure if they’re gonna keep arguing the IDF is the most moral army on the planet the shines coming off that one pretty fast.

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        Don’t you remember how liberals were the first to criticize and warn us about arming neo-Nazis in Ukraine but deep state communists wanted to do it anyway because we wanted war and because communists always align with Nazis due to Horseshoe Theory?

        They’re pro-Israel, so they could never support arming neo-Nazis. Their hands are clean.

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          Yes I remember when i got banned from the worldnews subbreddit for the comment “I don’t think it’s good to give nazis military arms because after the wars over they’ll hse those guns to do nazi stuff”

          I was banned for spreading Russian disinformation

          Which I’m noticing seems to consistently be more accurate than American regular information.

    • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml
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      I think this could go either way to be honest. There’s going to be a segment of the population who retreat further into their delusions, but there’s also going to be a lot of backlash when people realize they’ve been made fools of. The main rationalizing I expect we’ll will be that the west didn’t do enough.

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        I guess that latter group is something to look forward to. Every time people realise the western press treats them like mindless idiots there are always some who actually start to question it, and begin educating themselves. I don’t think this will be the most massive wave of it, but it probably will have a few people come away disillusioned with the system.

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          That’s what I’m expecting, and the other factor is the ongoing decline of material conditions in the west. At the end of the day, nothing sobers people up like their own lived experience. Seeing the media constantly bleating about stock markets doing great and the genius of Bidenomics while struggling to make ends meet is a huge radicalizing factor. A lot of people are starting to connect the economy with the constant wars the empire wages, and I expect this trend will only get stronger.

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      a lot of the “slava Ukrani!” types are just too far gone, and will be insisting that Ukraine “could still win” even after the western media is calling Zelenskyy an evil asiatic dictator

      This is one of the chronic flaws of mass media propaganda. You get generational cohorts who are trapped in yesterday’s propaganda and highly suspicious of a changing narrative. Then you get media outfits that attach themselves to these biases and feed on them to turn an easy profit. CNN gives birth to FOX gives birth to OAN.

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      There’s been a general collapse of morale on NAFO Twitter, but as expected there are still people ranting about how great everything is like Himmler giving speaches about the Endseig as the Red Army marches on Berlin.