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[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml -5 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Here some non-western source free from the empire

Looks inside

pro-Russia propaganda

Related post from YPTB: https://lemmy.ml/post/44625171

Also your posts from TASS and RT downvoted on ML as well.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 30 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Russian propaganda is when maybe the Uktaine war didn't just start one day by itself for no reason

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml -3 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)

For example, it's when they talk about how they're "liberating" Ukrainian people. Here are some of the recent posts from the OP:

Do they oppose the US? Sure. But are they freeing Ukrainian people? Hell no - they've been suffering for 4 years.

It's like saying "America is just helping Iranian people to overthrow their government". They don't care about Iranian people at all.

[–] folaht@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

They are freeing Russian-Ukrainians in Ukraine.
Those have been suffering for 12 years.

Ukraine had a coup and the new leader decided to oppress the Russian-Ukrainians.
Zelensky presented himself as a peace candidate opposing the warmongering corrupt government,
but did the opposite once in power.

Large parts of Russia have been given to Ukraine in the past during the Soviet times,
ironically to prevent invasion of both Russia and Ukraine from Western powers.
Russia wants those areas back and those areas want Russia back.
The Russian-Ukrainians in Donetsk and Lugansk Oblasts
tried doing an independence referendum before the war,
but were shot and killed at the polling station.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml -3 points 4 hours ago

In my comment below, I explained what happens to Ukrainians in those territories. To put it short, they lose their homes and have to evacuate somewhere else within Ukraine (they can't leave the country or cross the front line). Did Russia provide any help to those poor souls? No. Is this what is called "freeing"?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 15 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago) (1 children)

If we're talking about people in eastern Ukraine, they are absolutely being liberated from the US-backed fascist puppet government that had spent a decade killing 14,000 of them in a campaign of ethnic cleansing and outlawing their culture.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml -5 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

Well, this is what those "liberated" cities look like:

Chasiv Yar

And dwellers of those cities can't just cross the frontline and start living in Russia. They only can evacuate deeper into Ukraine because otherwise they won't survive. And Ukrainian government doesn't build new houses for them. They give them a bit of money (but you won't be able to afford rent), and sometimes they offer quickly built barracks (trust me, you wouldn't want to live there). So I doubt you would find any of those "liberated" people happy.

If that's not enough, Russia also bombs electricity infrastructure in winter (it's a high demand season). Because of this, people across the country suffer from electricity outages. Imagine having only 3 hours of electricity per day (that's how it was in Odessa about a month ago). It's also quite cold in here. I'm not sure what Russia's strategy is, maybe they're trying to destroy the country's economy or hurt manufacturing abilities, but it's simply inhumane. Regular people suffer a lot because of it.

What I'm trying to say is that it's not about liberating people. Many Ukrainians hate their government, especially after TCR gone wild (it's like ICE, but much worse), and recent corruption scandals tied to Zelensky's inner circle. But it's replacing one shitty government with another. Russia is also corrupt, half of the internet is banned, you can't even access YouTube or popular Matrix servers, and LGBTQ is illegal (also, every time it's mentioned it's labeled with "the LGBT movement is recognized as extremist and banned in Russia" - here you can see this in a TASS article for example).

[–] m532@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

You can't even access youtube.

You can't even access the website of the biggest spying complex in history, that works for your biggest enemy, the one that wanted to genocide you for decades.

I wonder why.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 hour ago

I don't think they're doing this because they are concerned about citizens' safety or privacy. I think the main goal is to replace these platforms with their own proprietary alternatives. This way, the ruling class can earn more money and gain full control over the content people consume. If safety were truly a concern, why not fund PeerTube development? Or open-source what they've developed?

Anyway, I prefer to decide which websites to access on my own. I think allowing an oligarchy to make that decision for us can't be a good thing.

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 9 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Here's the city of Caen, France, after being "liberated" by the allies. Still think fighting nazis is cool??

Yeah dude, fighting makes places fucked up, what a stunning insight. I have no choice but to slap on an Azov patch and seig heil in the face of such moral wisdom.

[–] Shatur@lemmy.ml -2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

France was occupied by Germany. When you start a war with another country because their government gone wild, it's not liberation. Is the US liberating the Iranian people?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 1 points 20 minutes ago

Wanna try that one again?

[–] AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml 9 points 13 hours ago

I jumped on the grenade and read this all so you don't have to folks

Nowhere in those three paragraphs is a good faith response to what ShimmeringKoi said. They went completely off topic and only tied it back insofar as to say 'and that's why it's not liberating'