> namecheap actually went full retard and indiscriminately booted all Russian customers in the first days of the invasion

I actually rep namecheap more now

oh, there were so many of those during the first months of the war! most websites had simply put up a "I support the current thing" banner, but some really went out of the way. it was actually amusing to click a link to some fuckass blog that probably gets 5 visitors a day and get greeted with "NO RUSSIANS ALLOWED". I think it's safe to say by now that those measures weren't enough to incite a revolution or trigger an economic collapse, but hey, if it made those people feel like they were helping, who am I to judge?

sometimes I wonder if they did the same thing during Israel's carpet bombing of Palestinian civilians, or when America killed more children in a single humanitarian airstrike than Russia does in a year of its genocidal all-out war. probably not, it's different after all.

You accuse them of being hypocrites for staying silent about some other wars, while you are here downplaying the importance of a large scale war ("I support current thing" /pol/ lingo implies there is no valid reason to be against Russia's invasion of Ukraine, you have to be a brainwashed sheep to do that)? Sounds hypocritical to me.

PS: The blog blanners and all that were so powerless, yet they still trigger you 4 years later?

I think the accusation is more that they are propagandized sheep doing what the sheep are expected to do instead of actually thinking about what they are doing from a wider perspective.

You should probably try replacing the name of the country in the phrase “<nation> is not allowed” with your own nationality to understand what the problem is here.

> You accuse them of being hypocrites

They are.

> while you are here downplaying the importance of a large scale war

They aren't.

>"I support current thing" /pol/ lingo implies there is no valid reason to be against Russia's invasion of Ukraine

"I support current thing" /pol/ lingo implies their Ukraine banners were a reskin of BLM banners from a year before.

>PS: The blog blanners and all that were so powerless, yet they still trigger you 4 years later?

like I said, I found them amusing, especially those custom geofences on obscure blogs. a fucking John Johnson (they/them) from Oregon oblast goes out of his way to scold Ivan Ivanov (он/им) from Orenburg oblast for something John's own country did so many times in Ivan's lifetime he'd lost count.

also, all tech-adjacent Russians had VPNs by that point because of Taliban-tier morality policing, so bypassing those blocks took an eyeroll and two clicks.