I’m just showing these comments I saw earlier, which were interesting. Since it is true, that we’ve been hearing that “Russia is cornered”, since the invasion started. I personally just want this shit to end.

These comments are relating to an article from this week.

I wonder if we will ever know what truly happens on the ground (i.e. when it comes to casualties and many other things)

    • NewLeaf [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      You’re thinking of tankies. Tankies are the people calling for an end to the war, and the anti imperialist peace loving democrats are the real Gandhis

    • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      The number of people who love peace in the abstract is much higher than the number of people who can resist a propaganda campaign to get them to support a war. Never trust someone who claims to love peace until you’ve seen them oppose a war while it was starting

    • Tachanka [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      1. reddit is astroturfed and full of bots pushing US state department propaganda. Eglin air force base was identified as the most “reddit-addicted” city in 2013, but reddit removed the blog post.

      2. every redditor who is bloodthristy right now has simply internalized the narrative that Russia attacked Ukraine unprovoked and that the US has done nothing to cause or prolong this war.

      3. the imperial core has always been genocidal and bloodthirsty, and reddit users are majority in the imperial core.

    • Lerios [hy/hym]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Moralists don’t really have beliefs. Sometimes they stumble on one, like on a child’s toy left on the carpet. The toy must be put away immediately. And the child reprimanded. Centrism isn’t change – not even incremental change. It is control. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it. Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

      liberals don’t have values in a broader sense. in their day to day lives, sure, but about the world at large? it doesn’t impact them, they’ll believe whatever needs to be believed to allow liberalism to keep trucking along and extracting profit. supporting peace looks good so they’ll talk prettily about it in peacetime, but as long as war doesn’t come to the west and everything remains “normal” for them, they don’t actually care.

    • CTHlurker [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      2 years ago

      Reddit libs use the same type of phrases and terminology when describing Russia and other “enemies” of the US State Department, as fascists and far right freaks in Europe do when describing Muslims and Arabs / Middle Easterners (same thing in their mind really). It’s fucking terrifying how quickly they got on board with the whole “enemy of the free world” shit that also got them to support the interventions in Iraq, Afghanistan and Libya.