• Dessa [she/her]@hexbear.net
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      5 days ago

      Before I knew the first thing about the nature of this conflict, it felt familiar in a way that reminded me of Iraq. The simplistic and one-sided narrative that focused on the personalities of leadership instead of the stated positions and geopolitical analyses, the extreme and pervasive harassment of not just dissenters, but even people who asked unapproved questions, the absolute lockstep of liberal media.

      And on the modern internet, it’s hard to get any sort of genuine perspective outside of the one that the US favors, so even researching this was extraordinarily difficult.

      I’m honestly not surprised they fell for it. You have to be outright contrary in personality just to think to question it to begin with (aside from actually being informed of this ahead of time by meager leftist infostreams)