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The fuck... Ukraine was attacked...and you're suggesting that their needs to be hard proof that the entire country isn't Nazis? WTF
That and doesn't the burden of proof fall on those making the claim? What business is it of anyone's to prove Ukraine isn't Nazi. When no one had proven it is.
Precisely. "Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof" and all that
the proof and its burden is not in question, the source of truth and its debunking is.
ie: share links debunking the claims. they must exist? turns out they do! someone else replied with what i was looking for. :)
To the people that accept russian propaganda, truth is irrelevant. If you waste time giving them proof of the basic truths the willfully reject. You have only wasted your own time and done exactly what they wanted. In this way they can keep thousands of foolish well-meaning people from simply dismissing their accusations as deserved.
i understand the sentiment. however personally I keep links to this stuff because it is important to me. thanks for your reply.
Feels a lot to me like "Well imagine if you were gay in Gaza". Whether or not there's a lot of shitty elements to their culture, imperialist aggression is evil and civilians don't deserve to be killed and have their homes and children stolen, and the side you support should be perfectly clear from that alone (I say all this knowing I'm probably more likely to be hate crimed for being gay in Ukraine than Gaza, because again, a country having a lot of nazis doesn't excuse invasion and ethnic cleaning)
and did you not comprehend the concept of proving a negative? i mentioned it in my reply even. sheesh. read my other reply too.
fuck no. i am saying i would love a list of links to share with the assholes that show them the prop they pushed was wrong.
why does that mean to you i “need hard proof” to believe something? i just want links. triggering yourself because someone asked for some info says a lot about how you may need to disconnect a hot minute.
my neighbors are refugees from ukraine. i adore them. i can’t just ask them “why do assholes in the US claim you are nazis?” they have lost it all already.
so … yeah. have you seen anything that is shareable with the russia agitprop assholes? not that they are convincible but yeah.. helps to share.
https://euvsdisinfo.eu/report/only-the-ruling-elite-in-ukraine-are-nazis-not-ordinary-ukrainians/
https://www.bbc.com/news/64718139
https://www.factcheck.org/2022/03/the-facts-on-de-nazifying-ukraine/
https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/blogs/ukrainealert/nato-nazis-satanists-putin-is-running-out-of-excuses-for-his-imperial-war/
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thanks for the links!!
Ah, well you're first comment did not communicate that well at all. You sounded like you wanted proof that Ukrainians weren't nazis. It read like some tankie ML shit.
the reply to me was, indeed, seemingly written in a triggered haste because at black and white glance it does indeed ask for links.