Dude is almost directly quoting Russian state media and doesn't even realize he is just parroting a narrative*.

This is why you don't listen to state media, kids. If you hear something on repeat, over and over, you eventually begin to believe those words are true, without realizing it. Confirmation bias quickly kills any remainder of independent thought.

It's a nasty process. If you have ever seen someone have their rational thought destroyed by MAGA, it's the same thing. Rational discussions are pointless: They always degrade into pre-canned political talking points, whataboutisms and blaming others.

* I have often wondered if he parrots misleading narratives with purpose. ml is a perfect recruiting space for trolls and does function well enough to amplify fake or misleading news, after all.

Yeah thanks for this post, I was stupid enough to engage with them on a similar topic and after like 20-30 comments where they ignored evidence, lied about things that have never actually happened, blatantly misconstrued evidence from completely unrelated events and moved their goal posts so far that they might as well be in another stadium they simply removed all my comments so nobody would be able to see the evidence showing how wrong they were.

Pretty stupid of me and since lemmy.ml has gone down the drain content wise I love the idea of simply blocking the instance, as stupid as it sounds, did never think about it so far.

Dessalines is a fascist, you say things they don't like and they will just ban you and delete your comments instead of engaging with your comments.

I have made it a point to block any community they moderate.

I find it so incredibly funny that the graph is basically "Yeah all opinions different from mine are pure evil, while mine is well-learned and righteous as always."

Not even an attempt at nuance.

Let's be honest, when they say you're banned for being impolite, it really means you say things they don't like they cannot argue against.

I just picked up a permanent ban there too for rule 2.

Tankies gonna tank

https://youtu.be/GAuShNaT7OY

The Grand Tour explains what the Russians are doing to quietly steal land from Georgia. Literally moving the border markers at night.

I am fairly new to Lemmy and was slightly bewildered by the relentless Tankie propaganda going on. I am not talking about left criticism of capitalism but full blown glorification of Russian and Chinese imperialism, justification of wars of aggression and denial or justification of war crimes etc.

Then I figured out to block the .ml instance and things have gone mostly back to normal. I am still a bit uneasy about having to block the instance of the main developer but so what ...

I had some interaction with them on an .ml post today, which i can't respond to due to the ban hammer (imagine that).

There's reality, there's perspective, and there's spin.

But then there's blatant lies and propaganda.

That's how they roll at the .ml

anti-US = understands the core of international geopolitics. got it 🙄

SaltFreeBae just keeps proving that he's got absolutely no understanding of geopolitics, and that he lives in a fantasy world where half of reality is whatever he makes it up to be on the spot.

A significant portion of the blame for this conflict can be put on the USA, but you'd have to be delusional to make excuses for Russia. Genuinely who in their right mind thinks Putin is a good guy? Or Russian oligarchs? They're just as bad as American presidents and oligarchs, except Russian [wanna-be] Empire is fairly weak, so it's not as big a threat as the US Empire.

I was about to downvote this post