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You really got me up to
a clear case of good-vs-evil
and you of course believe you're on the goodies side lol
I also believed I was on the side of good when I called the police when I saw a black dude who had previously tried to steal my wallet follow a woman down a dark alleyway. Or the time I called the police because I saw a man try to take a drunk woman home, clearly against her will. Or the time I spotted a Russian FPV drone and told the soldiers standing next to me about it so they could shoot it down before it killed us, or one of the civilians still living in the area.
This isn't complex. There is in fact evil in this world and it's pretty damn common to be on the side of good simply because you're a civilized westerner rather than some barbarian.
are weee the baddies??
Very few realise how insidious Russian propaganda actually is
They can't accept that there isn't any nuance to be had: Russia is simply evil and Ukraine isn't.
This is just overshooting in the opposite direction..
. But also not what I'm interested in.
Bots and people being paid to be anti make some sort of sense. Do you reckon there are any real people behind these comments? Basically: what's your steelman case for why so many online peeps are so triggered by your Ukraine content?
What trips me up is that you're doing something for what you believe in, putting money where your mouth is and practically/physically doing it...and that makes people upset?
This is just overshooting in the opposite direction.
As is said, people have a hard time accepting that there is good and evil in the world. Russia is just evil. There's no sugarcoating it. Ukraine is just an ordinary decent western county that is getting robbed and raped by a group of people, Russians, who are no better than common street thugs.
Left-wing ideology is full of this nonsense. Quite literally trying to rehabilitate the image of common street thugs. Making excuses for Russia is the same sickness.
What trips me up is that you're doing something for what you believe in, putting money where your mouth is and practically/physically doing it...and that makes people upset?
Possibly! A lot of people – even HRF's Alex Gladstein – have angrily told me variations along the theme of “WELL WHY DON'T YOU GO TO THE FRONT THEN‽”
...and yes, many of these people are real people. Alex Gladstein being one example.
When you say "Russia is just evil" do you mean the Russian people in power, the soldiers, all adult male russians or all the russian people?
I'm talking about averages. The average Russian, still living in Russia, is evil. The majority of them support the invasion, and Putin, and about 50% of their tax dollars goes to paying for it. If Putin held a free and honest election tomorrow if the invasion was going better he'd get re-elected.
There are of course exceptions. But Russians who disagree, and aren't poor, have mostly left Russia.
Skin in the game being a real thing, that's sort of a reasonable thing to expect... waging war with others bearing the consequences is ridic; always easier to move someone else's pieces, we say in chess.
But following that logic, why would anybody be upset that you do (go to the front, raise funds and supply with vehicles etc)?
Or petty enough to spam an irrelevant online forum (see below)
As the pinned tweet on my Twitter says, “The hardest part about being a contrarian is knowing when not to be.”
Lots of people just aren't that smart and go down ridiculous anti-mainstream, contrarian, rabbit holes when confronted with a clear case of good-vs-evil. They can't accept that there isn't any nuance to be had: Russia is simply evil and Ukraine isn't.
The other factor is Russian propaganda efforts. Some of this stuff is literally people being paid by Russia to make Ukraine look bad, as well as to weaken western civilization in general. China does this too.