[ghiculescu]

The comments are pretty hard to read here given that any comment not cheering this on is immediately downvoted to death. Many are legitimate comments - I see why some might disagree with them but it’s not even possible to learn from them if they are silenced.

[tokai]

>Many are legitimate comments

No they are not. Almost all[0] are the classic Russo-apologist talking points.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_all

[ghiculescu]

I disagree. Here’s some examples.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35439104

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35439349

[timeon]

The first one is especially offensive towards East-European countries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westsplaining

[ghiculescu]

I’m from an Eastern European country and I’m not offended by questions.

[watwut]

The first one does not even mean anything.

As for second one, I would much rather be in western block then in the BRICS block. Better living standards, less violence, better everything.

[tokai]

... they are both not downvoted. I have comments under both of them, and there is a lively discussion.

[andrewflnr]

You can't see downvotes on a direct link. But on the main comments page I can see the first one heavily downvoted.

[Izkata]

And now they're both [flagged] [dead]

[lolinder]

I'd normally agree with you, but we're in a situation right now where Russia is waging a brutal war of aggression that has already killed more people than the US did in Afghanistan over 20 years (which, to be clear, is a war we never should have started). That same Russia has a well-developed propaganda arm that has been very active since long before the war in trying to draw favorable comparisons between their behavior and the US's. In this context, I'll take the potentially-unearned downvotes over letting Russian propaganda have its say.