• ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻OP
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    4 months ago

    I find the pro-russia youtube comments to be quite concerning. I did not think people in Australia actually supported Vladmir Putin. In saying that I cannot wait to see how Carlson will manage to frame a large country with powerful military and a corrupt leader as being the good guys invading a smaller poorer country over the result of a democratic election.

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      4 months ago

      I did not think people in Australia actually supported Vladmir Putin.

      They don’t, generally, however Russian astroturfing is a staple of the internet these days.

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      4 months ago

      I did not think people in Australia actually supported Vladmir Putin

      I can’t imagine there are many.

      Leftists obviously won’t support Putin because he’s a right-wing authoritarian. The right wing’s favourite Prime Minister in recent memory literally threatened to “shirtfront” Putin, so I doubt they support him.

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      4 months ago

      I think the pro-Russian propaganda line has been that Ukraine attacked Russia first, at least that’s what Jackson Hinkle said the last time I checked (shudders)

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        4 months ago

        But why do these people love Russia so much. Are they massive Tetris fans? Or are they just trying to get out of giving money to Ukraine?

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            4 months ago

            Most internet media folks are literally just grifters. Jackson Hinkle has flipped positions on the Russia-Ukraine conflict a dozen times.

            For Tucker I suspect that he agrees with Putin on most cultural issues, but probably disagrees slightly on his authoritarian practices. I don’t watch him much tho so I don’t know for sure.