Remember, these people aren’t being tricked by this reporting, it’s critical to their geopolitical/psychological place in the global hierarchy that the Ukrainians (banderites/azov includes) are noble heroes and the Russians are zombie orcs.
I saw a NAFO ukronazi say that “all of the civilized world is backing Russia against Ukraine”. Obviously the majority of the third world has stayed out of this, or called for peace, but westerners understand this conflict as a Clash of Civilizations, where the outcome indicates whether or not the future belongs to them. Therefore, they slurp up obvious propaganda and ignore alternative facts.
“Westerners aren’t helpless innocents whose minds are injected with atrocity propaganda, science fiction-style, they’re generally smug bourgeois proletarians who intelligently seek out as much racist propaganda as they can get their hands on because it fundamentally makes them feel better about who they are and how they live. The psychic and material costs are rationally worth the benefits.“
a strong case could be made the Chinese are civilised and the Americans aren’t though
Civilization means socialism. Neoliberalism is might-makes-right barbarism.
I was actually talking about taking their shoes off when they enter a house but also that
