Members janea4old Posted March 4, 2022 Members Share Posted March 4, 2022 Putin has suspended freedoms in Russia, outlawed all the free press, ordered arrests of all protesters, etc etc. This has been going on all week. This is to prevent the Russian public from learning that Russia is attacking and bombing Ukraine. Meanwhile the BBC has set up shortwave radio, available to the Russian public (but that helps only if they know about it) 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 4, 2022 Members Share Posted March 4, 2022 Facebook and Twitter have now been banned as well. It's a total lockdown for propaganda and disinformation. I guess this is something Putin wishes he'd d one from the start, so now he can have more brainwashing. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted March 4, 2022 Members Share Posted March 4, 2022 The plant has now been taken over by Russian forces. I'm already seeing the bots/grifters/dead end leftist types proclaiming this invasion a success because the South is what matters in the Ukraine and the tanks outside Kyiv were clearly just a distraction, etc. So many need Putin to be their hero, their god, or are paid for him to be. That and all the money he's still getting for gas and oil make me feel like his just grinding down Ukraine and knowing the West will move on after some performative outrage is all too likely to work. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members Khan Posted March 5, 2022 Members Share Posted March 5, 2022 Agree! Agree here as well! Again, agree! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted March 5, 2022 Members Share Posted March 5, 2022 They did the same fake ceasefires in Syria. Yet so many tankies continue to worship him and so many on the left continue to whatabout to try to numb the public into seeing it as no big deal. I sometimes wonder how many of us are left who do care, or even pretend to care. Another slaughter on their hands: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60578293 Meanwhile, Russia has been holding a WNBA player prisoner for 3 weeks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Juliajms Posted March 5, 2022 Members Share Posted March 5, 2022 I do think people care, but just like in Syria, we can't do much on the individual level. On top of that our country hasn't been refugee friendly since Trump took over. I think we are track to take something like 20,000 this year. I hope that can change, but it may be up to other nations again to take the burden. Meanwhile, even in my red state individuals come out to help when refugees actually make it here. The government is the roadblock, not the people, imo. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Members DRW50 Posted March 5, 2022 Members Share Posted March 5, 2022 Some care, and could do more if we had any proper leadership out there more of that caring could be focused, but it's demoralizing at how much time and effort is spent framing any attempt at caring as "virtue signaling," and how this seems to end up becoming the default position of many in the public, over and over. A lot of this comes from bots and far right agitators then trickles down. I saw George Takei's tweet saying that we should accept higher gas prices and food prices to go against Putin. On the one hand, I get why people would feel a rich celebrity doesn't have as much to lose, but he has a point. Instead of just nodding along with the vague "drill baby drill" esque pronouncements that aren't going to do anything, we need to make harder decisions on a future that is coming whether we like it or not. There's a poll going around basically used to talk about how stupid the public is, because a majority of Americans in the poll do not want our troops in conflict, yet do want no-fly zones, which will speed up a nuclear holocaust. You would be less likely to get these types of results if you had clearer-communicating politicians and a media that is not full of attention whores and warmongers and bought and paid for assets. I'm not surprised at the result. I just hope something changes in the long-term because in a week, when people change their Ukraine flag avatars back, the problems this invasion is highlighting will still be there, and the next time will be even worse. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Vee Posted March 5, 2022 Members Share Posted March 5, 2022 The vast majority of the public is still 100% with Ukraine here. Tankie and lowercase far left Twitter isn't really representative at all, and it's a hole that looks bigger than it is, and most of their positions don't end up as the default public position at all (if that were true, Bernie would be in office and Greenwald wouldn't be stuck on Fox News). That's also why you get polls asking for no-fly zones, because of that vast support for Ukraine; the problem is the media isn't always educating the public as to why no-fly zones are an extremely dangerous option. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DRW50 Posted March 5, 2022 Members Share Posted March 5, 2022 I feel like these sources tend to start out as a minority then steadily creep their way up, as happened with a lot of COVID debate. But I know you are right. Here's another example of propaganda going around, disproven by someone working for loathsome Tom Cotton. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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