• kamen
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    155 hours ago

    I feel that many Russians are against Putler’s regime, but are (rightfully so) too afraid to speak up.

      • @roofuskit@lemmy.world
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        152 minutes ago

        In favor of what? They aren’t being told the truth about anything. They’re in favor of an imaginary war for imaginary reasons.

          • @Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            350 minutes ago

            25% of 150 million is a pretty large number of people. “Many” is vague enough that you shouldn’t be calling anyone dumb over it.

            • @BaroqueInMind
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              75% of 150 million is still a significantly larger number, regardless. In this context, does not fall under “many”.

              And calling a pro-Russian troll dumb is fine, because only feelings are hurt, meanwhile actual lives are being lost thanks to Russians invading Ukraine, and is competitively worse.

              • @Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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                343 minutes ago

                There can be multiple groups of many people in a population. It doesn’t have to be a majority to be significant.

          • lazynooblet
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            129 minutes ago

            I think you’re confusing “many” with “most”. The definition of “many” does not mean the largest, just simply large.

            • @BaroqueInMind
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              150 minutes ago

              Only to Russian shills that attempt to minimize the Ukrainian suffering, such as yourself.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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          63 hours ago

          There’s an old joke about agents from the CIA and KGB sharing a drink at a pub in Berlin.

          “I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.

          “Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”

          The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”

        • @NABDad@lemmy.world
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          44 hours ago

          The Trumpublicans in the U.S. have access to independent reporting, yet they choose instead to limit themselves to lies that make them feel like they’re better than everyone else.

        • @BaroqueInMind
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          44 hours ago

          I don’t have access to it, but allegedly on VK which is the Russian knockoff of Facebook, they also have similar numbers of a majority in favor of destroying Ukraine.

      • @OwlPaste@lemmy.world
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        53 hours ago

        I mean given that you get arrested for a showing a blank piece of paper and sent to prison/gulag… Do you really think that de-annonymised people would put their opinions forward?

        But also in the west where we don’t have quite such a police state, we still do have many people who vote against their interests until their own interests are being affected…

        Moral of the story… Humans suck

      • @humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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        44 hours ago

        As they should be. US/NATO expansion is an existential threat to Russia. CIA even more brazenly embraced would divide and conquer Russia through splitting it into warring provinces. US has no intention of improving humanity/world if it reduces subjugation to the empire.

        • @AEsheron@lemmy.world
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          22 hours ago

          The last thing the US wants is a civil war and mass instability in a nuclear nation. That has the capability to shatter MAD. At best, the US wants a regime change.

          • @humanspiral@lemmy.ca
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            12 hours ago

            They have no qualms about taunting a nuclear powered Russia. The return of a CIA puppet like Yeltsin is not likely, but just as Ukraine, there is not the slightest US concern for the welfare/benefit of people. Just destruction, hike price of oil, sell a lot of weapons, and buy the ruins for cheap.

        • @InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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          33 hours ago

          Russia is the existential threat to Russia, that’s literally all of Russian history in a nutshell followed by ‘and then it got worse’.

          Russia will collapse into multiple fragments, because Russians are just idiots who have never agreed on anything without a gun pointed at their families.

          It’s hilarious how lucky China is to have the largest natural resource motherlode right next door, Russia was asking to be dismantled!