• IHeartBadCode@kbin.social
          29·
          2年前

          “Notice me Putin Senpai!”

          I have to admit, the number of people who simp for Authoritarians is much higher than I thought it would ever be.

        • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
          15·
          2年前

          Imagine posting this drivel on the Internet and you’re not even getting any money for making such a fool of yourself in public

          • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
            15·
            2年前

            It seems to happen in a lot of areas today. This generation let a lot things erode because of it. I remember people defending the introduction of ads on to the internet.

            “Its just a 30 second skippable ad. Stop complaining”,

            “so what they collect a little data, they want to gear ads to their audience”,

            “Its 4 consecutive 2 min unskippable ads, who cares. Not the end of the world”,

            “they built a profile of you that lists everyone you know through social media using the tools and methods they learned from these ad systems. The profile lists all your motivations, wants and needs based off your favorite Mr. Beast shorts that they use to target political ads meant to radicalize you and if not you then your friends, Dada, uncles, moms, sisters. Shut up and drink your athletic greens.”

        • Dojan@lemmy.world
          3·
          2年前

          If anything doesn’t that indicate that it’s not as likely, what with pedophiles, nazis, and what have you being let onto Twitter again in the name of “free speech?”

          • HeartyBeast@kbin.social
            1·
            2年前

            I’m going to guess that Xwitter still kicks off accounts that are associated with bot farms and other astroturfing efforts and ythis may have been one of them.

          • NateNate60@lemmy.ml
            1·
            2年前

            The difference between those groups and Russian propagandists is that you-know-who sympathises with the former but not the latter

            • Sorchist@kbin.social
              8·
              2年前

              Doesn’t he though? He’s gotten grumpy about helping the Ukranians with internet from time to time, and he’s declared that Russia should get to keep Crimea. I bet if the invasion of Ukraine happened today he’d have refused to help Ukraine with Starlink at all, he’s so far down the far-right rabbit hole.

  • charlytune@mander.xyz
    113·
    2年前

    I used to lurk on r/AskRussia, and in the run up to the invasion most of the Russians there (who may or may not be representative of Russians in general, I dunno) were confidently saying that there was no way Russia was going to invade Ukraine, it was unthinkable they’d do that to their brothers and neighbours, and it was just Western propaganda. When the invasion happened they were in complete shock, you could tell that many of them felt completely ashamed of their government, at the lies, and that they’d believed them.

  • LazyBane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    2年前

    Americans always seem to think that there is some kind of pan-ethinc bond between people in completely different counties, as if we weren’t all killing each other until that whole “world wars” thing.

    • lolcatnip@reddthat.comEnglish
      37·
      2年前

      For a lot of us, Russia and Ukraine were literally parts of the same country when we were growing up, and we used the terms Russia and the USSR pretty much interchangeably. I wasn’t aware until pretty recently that places like Baikonur, Minsk, and Chernobyl are not in Russia. Actual misdeeds committed by Russia in the Soviet era were described in vague terms and were very hard to separate from exaggerated fear mongering about communism, so I ended up knowing very little about that era. Even big things like the Holomodor were just not part of the public consciousness.

      So yeah, we were very ignorant of the situation, and in many of our minds Ukraine may as well have been southwestern Russia. But those of us who aren’t idiots do at least know that the possibility of going to war with a neighboring country is inherent in the existence of separate countries, and we know from our own civil war that people of the same or similar ethnicities will absolutely go to war with each other.

      • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
        19·
        2年前

        For people in America who aren’t racialized it’s hard to maintain a separate cultural identity after a few generations. You wind up with a few trinkets of the culture your family came from if you don’t wind up so thoroughly blended it’s impossible to care. Like my grandpa was an immigrant and while that culture is important to me I make no mistake that if I went back to his home country I’d just be some stupid American who barely even speaks the language. What did I get from his culture? Some comfort foods, a handful of holiday traditions, and the branch of Christianity I was raised in.

        And the cultures that try to have their cake and eat it too like Irish-American and Italian-American are looked at as weirdos by the countries they came from.

        • archiotterpup@lemmy.world
          1·
          2年前

          That’s because of how hard your family assimilated, like many from Western Europe. All those cultures, being predominantly Catholic and Protestant easily blended. There isn’t this kind of problem in the Greek American community.

  • RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world
    54·
    2年前

    This tweet was cottage cheese when it was posted.

    Russians have a slur specifically for Ukrainians. They couldn’t even tell half of the countries in Europe. But they’ll go out of their way to go after Ukraine.

    • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
      4·
      2年前

      I’m Ukrainian myself and know Russian and I don’t know of any slur. TIL, I guess

      Edit: *didn’t. I have since been informed

        • Druid@lemmy.zipEnglish
          5·
          2年前

          Actually the first time I heard that. Then again, I live in Germany and haven’t been exposed to cursing too much. Damn.

          • meowgenau@programming.dev
            8·
            2年前

            I’m German of Russian descent and I’ve been hearing this slur since I was a child, but I only understood the meaning once the Russians invaded. It’s very commonly used among Russians, unfortunately. Fuck em.

  • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
    54·
    2年前

    When will tankies learn that there’s no brotherhood amongst facsists… It’s like “Thanks for killing the dissenters, now back in the salt mines!”

      • Queen HawlSera@lemm.eeEnglish
        20·
        2年前

        They call them “Pickmes”, but personally I prefer the term “Ernst Rohms”, it puts into historical context how this kind of thing tends to go…

        For those who don’t know - Ernst Rohm was a gay Nazi who was considered to be one of Hitler’s closest friends. He believed he would be spared even as the Nazis were gathering up homosexuals and burning research centers, because Hitler was his homie ya see.

        To make a long story short he was gassed to death in a concentration camp…

        • hagelslager@feddit.nl
          15·
          2年前

          Minor correction: Rohm was visited by two high ranking nazi’s “encouraging” him to commit suicide in his cell, but he refused and was shot by them.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
    26·
    2年前

    We need more of this sort of dreading up of the recent past. I remember this was not an uncommon statement at the time, but all of a sudden its like everyone is trying to gaslight us into a different past.

  • Zoidberg@lemm.ee
    25·
    2年前

    They obviously never learned the three things in life you don’t fuck with:

    • Mother Nature
    • Mother-in-laws
    • Motherfucking Ukrainians

    (The Italian job)

    • TwistedTurtle@monero.town
      9·
      2年前

      Always bugged the shit out of me that he actually says “mother freaking” in that scene

      Completely ruined my suspension of disbelief and I still cringe when remembering it.

      • Raiderkev@lemmy.world
        1·
        2年前

        I feel like it was overdubbed to get to PG-13 rating. His lips don’t line up with it, and it sounds off.

  • catfish@programming.dev
    23·
    2年前

    This reads like one of those simpbears seeking to be relevant on lemmy lately, the whiff of perceived superiority, the condescending dribble, strangely similar…

  • Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works
    11·
    2年前

    Well, from what I can tell there might be a bit of a logic error in here as well. Unless the person is assuming Ukraine considers Russia a brother but Russia doesn’t think of Ukraine as a brother?