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Yeah, ultimately they are just hypocritically anti west. It's never any deeper than that. Even when they try to deflect claiming you haven't read enough theory. It's like brother, have you ever thought critically? I've read most of C.S. Lewis's books of fiction. But I'm not constantly expecting any lions or witches in my wardrobe.
Yeah. Even if they were just anti-West, it would be fine. I talked with someone around the first time Trump got elected who was super in favor of him, and he explained to me "The US keeps fucking up my country, and so if they put a moron in charge and he fucks up your country instead then (a) good (b) you deserve it (c) maybe then you'll leave us alone." I had absolutely no room to disagree with him. It made perfect sense.
But on Lemmy, it's never that. It's always "There is no genocide in Xinjiang you're just deluded by Western propaganda anyway it's all NATO's fault that half of Ukraine is a big rubble field and graveyard and Russia never lies, here watch Tucker Carlson and Dmitri Peskov, there's a couple of guys who've got their heads on straight." I guess it is cognitive dissonance, nobody wants to just say "Yes I am on team murderer because I don't like your government, and regardless of what I say or do my guys are going to keep killing Ukrainian kids, so what's the point of my trying to say they shouldn't."
Yep, I legit have no beef with anyone that's against the wests manipulation/exploitation of other countries/groups. Just those that would use it as an excuse or reason for others to do the same. Two wrongs don't make a right.