Then there’s the part where they are so deep in paranoia and racism they think you are a foreign spy if you say anything sympathetic about the country. (I actually had this happen to me once online.)
or a bot. you are always a putin or chinese bot if they dont have any actual arguments.
they sound in denial.
I got called a vatnik irl for pointing out there are neonazis in Ukraine and that Western media reported on them before 2022
When they do this to me online they get the wall (of text):
- BBC, 2014: Ukraine underplays role of far right in conflict
- Human Rights Watch, 2014: Ukraine: Unguided Rockets Killing Civilians
- Truthout, 2015: The Ukraine Mess That Nuland Made
- The Hill, 2017: The reality of neo-Nazis in Ukraine is far from Kremlin propaganda
- The Guardian, 2017: ‘I want to bring up a warrior’: Ukraine’s far-right children’s camp – video
- WaPo, 2018: The war in Ukraine is more devastating than you know
- Reuters, 2018: Ukraine’s neo-Nazi problem
- The Nation, 2019: Neo-Nazis and the Far Right Are On the March in Ukraine
- The Conversation, 2022: Ukraine war follows decades of warnings that NATO expansion into Eastern Europe could provoke Russia
Or they will start using reactionary “humor” like eg. the social credit thing
- poo bear
- tiananmen square
- hong kong
- famine
- genocide
- secret police stations
- spy balloons
- tiktok
- havana syndrome
- social media bots
- taiwan
- nine dash line
- tibet
- secret imprisonments & assassinations
- great firewall
i could probably go on but
poo bear
Supreme Leader Xi is informed of your transgression. CCP agents will arrive at your home in ~233 minutes. Please leave door unlocked, do not leave your home in this time.
Reply STOP to quit.
I hear that shit like 8 times a week. I’m most frequently getting called Russian tho; which I mean. If any of y’all know Black Russians who are comfortable and love their country; put me in contact, the spite has been rising for years and I’d very much like to leave Amerika.
Only once? I have been accused of being a Russian agent, a DPRK agent, a Chinese agent, and once a CIA agent for some reason.
Interestingly I hear the DPRK one the most. Maybe because I live in Asia, not sure. You can sometimes get away with saying something positive about China, but absolutely no positivity is ever allowed about the DPRK. I think I said I had a pretty good pizza there (I did) and people lost their shit.
I must be pulling quite the paycheque for all the world governments I work for.
Nothing too special, I went to an Italian restaurant when I was living there.
Good, traditional Italian style margherita. People just lose their shit that not only does food exist, but that there are a variety of cuisines.