And UK just recently arrested a journalist covering the Gaza genocide and then they raided and arrested a peace activist. And the EU banned Russian media. And now the US has just gotten Meta to ban a bunch of anti-imperialist channels. And in numerous European countries you can get arrested for supporting Donbass or the Palestinian resistance. And they have frozen bank accounts and threatened to jail journalists for covering what was happening in Donbass. And in Germany Merkel was chancellor for 16 years straight. Also in Germany any non-systemic parties are labeled “threats to the constitution” and put on lists to be watched by state agencies, and anti-war politicians are ruthlessly smeared by the mainstream media in the most grotesque ways. And in the US they blatantly rig primaries and use lawfare to exclude third parties from even being on the ballot. And, and, and…
The amount of examples one could give of reality not aligning with the idealized picture that liberals have of the West vs the supposed “totalitarian” Russia is endless, but frankly there is no point because factual arguments don’t work against vibes based belief systems. Some people just have to do some growing up first and become a little less naive before they can digest reality.
And UK just recently arrested a journalist covering the Gaza genocide and then they raided and arrested a peace activist. And the EU banned Russian media. And now the US has just gotten Meta to ban a bunch of anti-imperialist channels. And in numerous European countries you can get arrested for supporting Donbass or the Palestinian resistance. And they have frozen bank accounts and threatened to jail journalists for covering what was happening in Donbass. And in Germany Merkel was chancellor for 16 years straight. Also in Germany any non-systemic parties are labeled “threats to the constitution” and put on lists to be watched by state agencies, and anti-war politicians are ruthlessly smeared by the mainstream media in the most grotesque ways. And in the US they blatantly rig primaries and use lawfare to exclude third parties from even being on the ballot. And, and, and…
The amount of examples one could give of reality not aligning with the idealized picture that liberals have of the West vs the supposed “totalitarian” Russia is endless, but frankly there is no point because factual arguments don’t work against vibes based belief systems. Some people just have to do some growing up first and become a little less naive before they can digest reality.
Well said, comrade.