This is crazy. Are you hating on every Russian now ? Nobody is chocked by how anger against the the russian state shifted to hate against russian people ?
It's been eye opening to see how easily we
can normalize this type of stuff. Social
media is also full of deranged calls for full
on war against Russia (!!), war crime
apologia, and just a pervasive hysterical discourse. The slope is getting so slippery that
honestly it's got to stop. Let statesmen impose the sanctions that they deem necessary, they know better than random people.
What ukraine needs is advanced weaponry,
financial and political support. Not this
batshit insane vigilantism that will not end
well and do absolutely nothing to hurt the
Russian state. I cant even imagine if this
happened to a more visible minority, say if
China invaded taiwan? It's just scary.
I'm not saying this is on the same level at
all, but I'm starting to understand how it
got to the point where the internement of
Japanese Americans was supported by a
majority of Americans back in ww2. As a minority it just gives me this weird unsettling feeling that is a bit hard to explain, even if I'm not russian.
On top of that, petty, personal attacks like that have the absolute opposite effect if the supposed intention is to motivate russians to protest. It just makes people angry and suspicious of the west, nothing else.
Why is anyone surprised that this is happening. All you had to do is look at how people treat Asian people to realize what was going to happen to Russian people.
I have seen enough war crime photage that I am willing to accept any amount of civilian damage against Russia that is going to have an effect on the war, short of nukes.
When your government uses hospital locations as a target list and drop bombs on shelters, I don’t care if your files gets deleted.
You have participated in too many instances of two minutes hate and were gaslighted by propaganda.
I laugh hysterically (in a very sad way), as I scroll through /r/Ukraine and see yet another video headlined as "Another Russian war-crime in Ukraine", that I had already seen few years ago headlined as "Ukrainian war-crime in Donetsk".
There is no truth anymore, literally every man for himself.
To me this is a call to get off the corporate controlled internet. People have been warning about this since like 2010, and I always agreed that there could be a danger, but I never realized just how bad it already is.
This is a kind of phenomena that I can only describe as internet psychosis. Considering how toxic all these platforms are, it's quite plain to see now that the people captured by them are not invested in reality and seem to be coalescing into a kind of psychotic frame of mind. Even people who aren't captured are affected by it, and I have no doubt that I've been subjected to multiple psyop and propaganda campaigns just by perusing sites like Twitter, Reddit and Youtube.
The modern internet is a warzone that weaponizes emotions. IMO, for the good of society and the future of the internet people need to get out as soon as possible and build new services that don't play into this.
What ukraine needs is advanced weaponry, financial and political support. Not this batshit insane vigilantism that will not end well and do absolutely nothing to hurt the Russian state. I cant even imagine if this happened to a more visible minority, say if China invaded taiwan? It's just scary.
I'm not saying this is on the same level at all, but I'm starting to understand how it got to the point where the internement of Japanese Americans was supported by a majority of Americans back in ww2. As a minority it just gives me this weird unsettling feeling that is a bit hard to explain, even if I'm not russian.