I’m not on Twitter, so I get my news elsewhere, but most of the actual pictures I see are from here. So is there some kind of bias where only the fascist imagery gets posted here in the the dunk tank? Or do the libs scrolling through Ukrainian posts on Twitter literally see and ignore fascist imagery on every single post? Like, if they see 1000 Ukrainian soldiers, will they see 1000 fascist symbols?

  • homemade_napalm@discuss.tchncs.de
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    There are a few things going on.

    • media promotes controversial material.
    • there are a few bad apples like everywhere.
    • some of those patches are close but not actually nazi I have seen the iron eagle carrying the trident of Ukraine a lot.

    I have asked a few people I know who are there about some of the questionable patches and the general response can be summed up as “we are killing each other as fast as possible and your worried about a patch?”

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      some of those patches are close but not actually nazi

      Uh-huh. How are you determining that a patch that looks very similar to a Nazi one actually isn’t? Is it just ”well ackshually, eagles were used by Germany before WWII and the swastika is an ancient Buddhist symbol”?

      we are killing each other as fast as possible and your worried about a patch

      If there are Nazis involved, I personally would like to see them die as fast as possible.

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      Bruv they can’t keep fash symbols out of pictures of Zelensky with soldiers.

      Yeah, we’re worried about a patch, because when this conflict ends one way or another Ukraine is going to be full of angry nazis with military experience and vast amounts of weaponry and that’s going to be very bad for everyone.

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        Please produce one of those pictures.

        How do you think it will be bad? They are having a hard time fighting the Russians who are using barely trained conscripts and equipment pulled from museums.

        The most advanced things on that battle field are consumer drones and weapon systems that are parts and consumables reliant from western countries.

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          here ya go

          these are easy as fuck to find. You have to be trying to avoid them if you’re this deep and still incredulous.

          Did you also miss the time that NATO tweeted out a photo of a ukrainian soldier wearing a black sun for international women’s day?

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          the Russians who are using barely trained conscripts and equipment pulled from museums.

          Source?

          The most advanced things on that battle field are consumer drones and weapon systems that are parts and consumables reliant from western countries.

          Please point me to your dealer. I’ll buy their entire stock.

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      media promotes controversial material

      the media has been deepthroating Western and particularly Ukrainian boots ever since the war began. you would need the strongest solvent on the planet to remove the superglue that binds the average journalist’s tongue to the leather of a Ukrainian jackboot. if even they can’t convincingly depict Ukrainian soldiers as not being coated head-to-toe in imagery that celebrates the fucking Holocaust, then there’s a really big problem in Ukraine.

      “we are killing each other as fast as possible and your worried about a patch?”

      yes, actually, I am worried that many, many Ukrainian soldiers knowingly use fascist imagery in a war that began in 2014 partially over the rights of the Donbass people. that is, in fact, a rather pertinent issue here

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      How do all these waffen SS nazis keep getting in my ukrainian nationalist movement?

      70%+ of Ukrainians have a positive image of stepan bandera, literal nazi collaborator