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[–] teft@startrek.website 39 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

It's weird how you only post stuff critical of ukraine. One might think you have an agenda.

[–] AlteredStateBlob@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

The dude has the flag of the DDR as his profile picture. German tankies are a particularly special breed of stupid, with all that the opening of the STASI archives revealed about the horrible shit going on under Sowjet rule.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There's so much Kremlin and CCP disinformation on Lemmy I've stopped recommending it to anyone. Really a shame.

[–] FaceDeer@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The only way to deal with it is to smother it with people who are aware of the disinformation, though.

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But the people understanding desinformation are spending significant amounts of free time on it, while the propagandists are getting paid and the morons just soak up the headlines and go on... so both ignore any actual argument or link to facts someone spend time one anyway.

So, no. There is easy way to deal with this that doesn't involve heavy moderation...

[–] gullible@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’ve been suggesting universal defederation from the tanky instances for a few months. They’re all terrible in unique but related ways.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

I think that's absolutely the right direction.

They're not genuine, they don't argue in good faith, they brigade... the Fediverse won't ever become truly meaningful in its current state.

[–] sunbeam60@lemmy.one 5 points 1 year ago

Exactly! Speak up! I’ve been in a couple of bouts with a hexbear mob already!

[–] TokenBoomer@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago

News can be disinformation? Does that mean the US does it too?

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I jusy went over their posts and maybe 20 percent cover Ukraine, most are jusr critical of US and most are widely accepeted western news sites ( ft, economist, independent ).

[–] teft@startrek.website 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I counted his posts and he has 24 non duplicate posts. Of those 10 are critical of ukraine. The rest seem to be anti-vax or anti-us. 10/24= 41% So almost half of his posts are critical of ukraine. Also widely accepted sources doesn't change the fact that this OP has an obvious agenda. Weird that you would try to defend him with disinformation though. Isn't that a common authoritarian trick?

[–] DrNeurohax@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago

Ugh, you just had to say "anti-vax" for most people to know he's a certified stooge or a turbo-dumbfuck.

[–] Silverseren@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Ooo, anti-vax too. So OP is an all around trash person.

[–] monobot@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I just assume that everyone has some kind of agenda, so I don't see real problem with it.

Can you find many accounts that equally represent pro and against war stances and reportings? I most certanly haven't seen them, nor did I see comentes negating their stance.

I don't have a goal to chamge yoir opinion I am commenting for other people seeing your comment so that they get differet view point and check for themselves.

I think the biggest issue is that a lot of people from US never before ventured on non-US part of the net and have problem accepting that some people have negatinve opinions on US foreign policies (which would be whole non white part of the world). And now that you are exposed to differences of opinion you react the same as for your internal politics - by seeing it as an enemy and not another human beings with different life experiences.

[–] zephyreks@programming.dev -2 points 1 year ago

Financial Times is Russian propaganda!

[–] CIWS-30@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

I doubt the title of this article very much. Ukraine is getting F-16's and probably JAS-39 Gripens very soon. Offensives and counteroffensives have to be slow and methodical by nature against entrenched forces, otherwise you'll take massive losses for very little gains.

Ukraine is on its way to gaining air superiority, and more vehicles and air defense is coming into their forces every month, and the longer this conflict lasts, the more likely it is that they'll gain more advantages over Russia as the sanctions keep draining them.

The lack of air superiority is hampering what Ukraine can do, and once that issue's settled, I think we'll start seeing more steady progress. Plus in the wide world, Japans and South Korea are settling their differences over WW2 and will probably keep cooperating, and part of that will be to send more stuff to Ukraine in order to help win there so they don't have to fight WW3 with China over Taiwan.

It's not just the West that supports Ukraine, it's also the Democratic parts of Asia.

[–] BenderOver@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why is this a Imgur link lol?

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Because FT are paywalled cunts.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Are you upset that they want to get paid for the content they create?

[–] Ooops@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

No, just insulting a shitty publication for being a shitty publication. But their paying bubble probably loves them for being relentlessly pushing the same same bullshit they love to hear...

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I’m not upset, I’m just explaining OP posted a screen capture.

[–] Pseu@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you're not upset, why'd you call them cunts?

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s the financial times. I feel their cuntitude doesn’t need much elaboration.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago

That's probably where my confusion comes in, I'm not familiar with them.

[–] Spitzspot@artemis.camp 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

*the Afghanistan war enters the chat

[–] vzq@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 1 year ago

Which one? The graveyard of empires does not play favorites.