Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by periphrasis on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @09:58AM
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The question would be a lot easier to resolve if the major MAGA thought leaders would stop making excuses for genocide. Anecdotally, my dad is MAGA-leaning right, and while he opposes the invasion and is happy to see the Russian army destroyed, his immediate response when I brought up the mass graves was “how much of that is propaganda though?”. Skepticism about what we are told about a war is always warranted, but right wing Americans are being actively persuaded right now to deny or doubt Russian war crimes despite overwhelming evidence.
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Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by briandear on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:22AM
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What overwhelming evidence? At this point it’s allegations. The crimes haven’t actually been investigated.
They should be. But “overwhelming evidence” should be rephrased as “lots of allegations.”
Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by periphrasis on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @10:32AM
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Photographs corroborated by satellite and drone imagery, which is consistent with the public arguments being made by [Russian state media](https://medium.com/@kravchenko_mm/what-should-russia-do-with...) (yes I’m aware the translator has a horse in this race and no I do not read Russian myself but obviously she is not the only one who has reported on the content of what Russian state media is saying needs to be done) calling for ethnic cleansing/genocide. But I’m sure my inability to think critically has caused me to irrationally preclude the possibility that these civilians simply killed themselves.
Re:America's internet is splitting along party lines
by periphrasis on Thursday April 07, 2022 @10:01AM
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Now also corroborated by radio intercepts: https://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/possible-eviden...