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Confidently Incorrect

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When people are way too smug about their wrong answer.

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[–] Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world 140 points 1 year ago (2 children)

More a case of "confidently lying"

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 79 points 1 year ago (7 children)

More likely a case of "confidently being paid to lie"

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

A lot of useful idiots do it for free

[–] IHeartBadCode@kbin.social 28 points 1 year ago

“Notice me Putin Senpai!”

I have to admit, the number of people who simp for Authoritarians is much higher than I thought it would ever be.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Imagine posting this drivel on the Internet and you're not even getting any money for making such a fool of yourself in public

[–] Touching_Grass@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It seems to happen in a lot of areas today. This generation let a lot things erode because of it. I remember people defending the introduction of ads on to the internet.

"Its just a 30 second skippable ad. Stop complaining",

"so what they collect a little data, they want to gear ads to their audience",

"Its 4 consecutive 2 min unskippable ads, who cares. Not the end of the world",

"they built a profile of you that lists everyone you know through social media using the tools and methods they learned from these ad systems. The profile lists all your motivations, wants and needs based off your favorite Mr. Beast shorts that they use to target political ads meant to radicalize you and if not you then your friends, Dada, uncles, moms, sisters. Shut up and drink your athletic greens."

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[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 111 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I used to lurk on r/AskRussia, and in the run up to the invasion most of the Russians there (who may or may not be representative of Russians in general, I dunno) were confidently saying that there was no way Russia was going to invade Ukraine, it was unthinkable they'd do that to their brothers and neighbours, and it was just Western propaganda. When the invasion happened they were in complete shock, you could tell that many of them felt completely ashamed of their government, at the lies, and that they'd believed them.

[–] uint32@discuss.tchncs.de 38 points 1 year ago

As an ethnic russian living in Germany this was exactly the way I felt. But afaik this sadly does not reflect the general russian population. I think people have always less problems to accept more lies than to accept that they have been fooled.

[–] ICE_WALRUS@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We all need to remember online spaces like reddit generally lean younger and more liberal. We never really get a holistic view of any situation. Just as people on reddit would say "we didn't want trump" and the response was "clearly over half of you did" from europeans, this is another example of how we have to realize we are in our own little bubble in these online communities.

[–] spamfajitas@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's somewhat debatable, though, considering Trump won by electoral votes but lost the popular vote by about 2%. The percentage of votes cast by eligible voters was also only something like 57-60%, so it's more like 27.5% of eligible voters directly voted for Trump (if I calculated that correctly).

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[–] threegnomes@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

just wanted to point out trump lost the popular vote

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[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Except at the time it was a shock to most people. The consensus before the invasion was that Russia was just posturing. But then they went for it.

[–] Ryumast3r@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A surprise to everyone except anybody who listened to American intelligence agencies who were broadcasting (very loudly I might add) exactly when and how it would happen.

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[–] AppaYipYip@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry I responded to the wrong person!

This article from Jun. 2022 states Ukraine hoped they could descalte with sanctions: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/11/biden-zelensky-russia-invasion-warnings-putin/

This article from Aug. 2022 states Ukraine knew it was going to happen but they down played it to prevent a financial crisis: https://www.newsweek.com/zelensky-reveals-why-he-didnt-warn-his-citizens-russian-invasion-1734268

I'm not sure if both are versions of the truth, where they were hoping to descalte and prevent a financial crisis. I'm sure either way they were hoping it wouldn't happen.

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[–] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This tweet was cottage cheese when it was posted.

Russians have a slur specifically for Ukrainians. They couldn't even tell half of the countries in Europe. But they'll go out of their way to go after Ukraine.

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)

When will tankies learn that there's no brotherhood amongst facsists... It's like "Thanks for killing the dissenters, now back in the salt mines!"

[–] Krackalot@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At the same time that they always learn, when the leopards are feasting on their faces. Sometimes, not even then, honestly.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They call them "Pickmes", but personally I prefer the term "Ernst Rohms", it puts into historical context how this kind of thing tends to go.....

For those who don't know - Ernst Rohm was a gay Nazi who was considered to be one of Hitler's closest friends. He believed he would be spared even as the Nazis were gathering up homosexuals and burning research centers, because Hitler was his homie ya see.

To make a long story short he was gassed to death in a concentration camp....

[–] hagelslager@feddit.nl 15 points 1 year ago

Minor correction: Rohm was visited by two high ranking nazi's "encouraging" him to commit suicide in his cell, but he refused and was shot by them.

[–] WaxedWookie@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

If the tankies were less stupid, they wouldn't be tankies.

[–] LazyBane@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Americans always seem to think that there is some kind of pan-ethinc bond between people in completely different counties, as if we weren't all killing each other until that whole "world wars" thing.

[–] lolcatnip@reddthat.com 36 points 1 year ago (2 children)

For a lot of us, Russia and Ukraine were literally parts of the same country when we were growing up, and we used the terms Russia and the USSR pretty much interchangeably. I wasn't aware until pretty recently that places like Baikonur, Minsk, and Chernobyl are not in Russia. Actual misdeeds committed by Russia in the Soviet era were described in vague terms and were very hard to separate from exaggerated fear mongering about communism, so I ended up knowing very little about that era. Even big things like the Holomodor were just not part of the public consciousness.

So yeah, we were very ignorant of the situation, and in many of our minds Ukraine may as well have been southwestern Russia. But those of us who aren't idiots do at least know that the possibility of going to war with a neighboring country is inherent in the existence of separate countries, and we know from our own civil war that people of the same or similar ethnicities will absolutely go to war with each other.

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[–] dangblingus@lemmy.world 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Ukrainians will lay down their arms so they don't have to shoot a brother. What is Russia doing?

[–] can@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Gork@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

What is Russia doing?

Just Russia Things

[–] DontMakeItTim@lemmy.world 42 points 1 year ago

And he posted it 7 years after the invasion started.

[–] M0oP0o@mander.xyz 26 points 1 year ago

We need more of this sort of dreading up of the recent past. I remember this was not an uncommon statement at the time, but all of a sudden its like everyone is trying to gaslight us into a different past.

[–] Zoidberg@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They obviously never learned the three things in life you don't fuck with:

  • Mother Nature
  • Mother-in-laws
  • Motherfucking Ukrainians

(The Italian job)

[–] TwistedTurtle@monero.town 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Always bugged the shit out of me that he actually says "mother freaking" in that scene

Completely ruined my suspension of disbelief and I still cringe when remembering it.

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[–] catfish@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago

This reads like one of those simpbears seeking to be relevant on lemmy lately, the whiff of perceived superiority, the condescending dribble, strangely similar..

[–] aggelalex@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] athos77@kbin.social 16 points 1 year ago

Dude, they're just not that into you.

[–] Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Well, from what I can tell there might be a bit of a logic error in here as well. Unless the person is assuming Ukraine considers Russia a brother but Russia doesn't think of Ukraine as a brother?

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[–] HotsauceHurricane@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

This is my favorite thing today.

[–] timi@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Account Suspended 😬

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