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You were trying to undermine trust in democracy. It's not powertripping you were banned.
this post was submitted on 27 Jan 2025
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You were trying to undermine trust in democracy
Banning someone pointing out that USA also spend billions in propaganda and disinformation is trying to undermine trust in democracy.
You’re cherry-picking your own example glosssing over “all European politicians and parties are corrupt”.
Name a single one that isn't corrupted, go ahead and do it name a single party or politician in charge in europe that isn't corrupted.
It's reasonable to have a zero tolerance policy for tankie scum (including tankies who are trying to hide their views by JAQing).
In just this thread you openly supported russian genocidal imperialism:
As far as i’m aware there aren’t any russian military bases in europe on the other hand there are hundreds americans.
And your whole "both sides are the same" is clearly a ruse.
You almost certainly don't speak russian or Chinese. You've never lived in russia or China and you have zero understanding of their worldview (with respect to russia specifically, I can say a strong majority of russians are genocidal imperialists) or their propaganda.
In just this thread you openly supported russian genocidal imperialism:
You sound really confused, where exactly did i supported russia?
Don't play dumb with me!
As far as i’m aware there aren’t any russian military bases in europe on the other hand there are hundreds americans.
You are denying that russians are occupying multiple regions of several European countries. Including banning local language/religion/culture, setting up mass torture interment camps, forced russification and settler colonialism.
This is not comparable to hosting a US base in your country (and you know it). You also ignore the fact that US bases are there to not let the russians do what I described above (which you also know).
You are also malicious about framing "russian propaganda". Can you name me three famous russian propagandist with doing a web search?
Let's hope one day you will be on the receiving end of your support for russian genocidal imperialism.
Don’t play dumb with me!
You are denying that russians are occupying multiple regions of several European countries.
Don't play dumb on anyone please you are twisting other people words you even quoted what i said. You can search on wikipedia and see how many military bases each has in europe.
We both know your statement about "number of military bases" is nonsensical and malicious. And you continue to ignore (and whitewash) russia's genocidal imperialism in Europe.
Your replies (and attempts to pretend no one can see through them) prove my original statement that it is reasonable to have a zero tolerance policy towards tankie scum.
You should take a break and re read the conversation. You are claiming and projecting stuff nobody ever said.
Once again playing dumb. Lemmy is rife with this sort of tankie rhetoric, it is rather transparent.
As I said earlier, let's hope one day you and your family will be on the recieving end of russian genocidal imperialism.
Let's hope your reading understanding gets better and you stop wishing bad things to other people.
You deserved it for a sweeping generalization of Europe.
what generalization?
For anyone wondering how western propaganda and disinformation work here's a clear example of someone brainwashed by it silencing the slightest unaligned critical words
In don't agree with you but you shouldnt be banned for expressing a dissenting opinion. However social media is generally an echo chamber so I'm not surprised we see the same thing happening on Lemmy as happens elsewhere.
Yeah it's hilarious how this place is full of posts about russian/chinese disinfo... And also unironically full of posts from VOA, NYTimes, WaPo, Radio Free Europe, etc.
You can't compare VOA, RFE to Russian propaganda sources. Especially their non-english coverage, it easily beats private American sources.
Saying both of them are the same is some internet edgelord BS.
PTB, but also saying something like "You're either for USA and against Russia or vice-versa" is campist shit.
“You’re either for USA and against Russia or vice-verse” is campist shit.
I'm describing the current worldwide scenario where you are either a friend of USA or a enemy. As far as i'm aware there aren't any russian military bases in europe on the other hand there are hundreds americans. Germany has 40. Name a single popular party in europe who has actual plans to kick the US army from their territory in favor of russia.
Why would anyone have to be in favor of Russia if they're against USA? Russia is not even as prosperous as Singapore! People can and are aligning with China, but obviously this doesn't require them to be against USA as well.
Likewise, for online armchair pundits, one does not have to be supporting either one.
Why would anyone have to be in favor of Russia if they’re against USA?
Ask your government not me.
Russia is occupying Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova and Belarus though.
What sort of bullshit is this.
But that’s how USA treats the world. It’s not wrong. Acknowledging this isn’t agreeing with it.
PTB.
I don't think having a simplistic or misinformed personal opinion is the same as misinformation. Context made it very clear this was your personal opinion. But not surprising from feddit.org at all.