• Inui [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    Serious question, how are liberals coping with this? There’s been more articles coming out about it recently. I’m wondering if they’re bloodthirsty enough to call these people cowards.

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      1 day ago

      They just ignore it or say “it’s worse in Russia therefore it resets” (and proceed to ignore it), or say that Russia is so evil that everything is justified to stop them (and proceed to ignore it).

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      Serious question, how are liberals coping with this?

      They ignore it and pretend it isn’t happening. They call it Russian propaganda. They say the videos were actually taken in Russia. They say the videos are AI. They say it’s only one or two isolated incidents. Or they just straight up justify it saying Ukrainians have a duty to defend their “freedom and democracy”. Take your pick.

      I’m wondering if they’re bloodthirsty enough to call these people cowards.

      Ukrainian politicians and the nationalists in the Ukrainian media definitely do. They go on Ukrainian TV and just openly say that everyone who doesn’t serve should have no rights as a citizen. In Europe they are trying very hard to get all male Ukrainian refugees to go back to Ukraine so they can be conscripted. Right now they are just scaling back on the money they give to refugees, but soon enough it may be deportations.

      Ironically these deportations won’t be done by the right wing (who only want to deport non-white people) but by liberals who are fanatically obsessed with fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.