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zionazi libs b like "its good actually" (lemmy.ml)
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SlAvA UkrAnI!

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[–] 1 point 5 months ago (4 children)

"it wasn't close therefore it is fake"

Who was voting? What was the voting about?

"Oh they asked people who had their democratic government couped by a hostile foreign power and had nazis installed that proceeded to ethnically cleanse them and take away their rights whether they wanted to stay part of that country"

And they didn't want to?

"Yeah the only possible interpretation was they were brainwashed"

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago (3 children)

    "it wasn't close therefore it is fake"

    No, it was fake because polling data that was relatively recent to the election was in gross conflict with the results. Imagine you lived somewhere with a large expat American population. Imagine that polling specifically in the region full of American expats showed that the clear majority did NOT want to join the US and that the trend over time is for the sentiment to get STRONGER, not weaker. Now imagine the US invades, a referendum on secession and annexation by the US is held almost immediately, and the vote is exactly what the US wants, the people increasingly did NOT want, and they claimed the vote was 95% in their favor. You'd never buy that load of bullshit, but if Russia does it, and it's perceived to be against The West...

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    Who collected this polling data? Have a link/source? From everything I've seen the east was firmly pro yanukovych and Crimea specifically formally petitioned for Russian intervension after the 2014 coup. And while the Donbass didn't formally petition they literally went to war for the right to split away from Ukraine.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    I'll try to dig it back up later, having a bit of trouble finding it again because modern search is shit and heavily favors tangential at best recent events even with clear requests.

    As for the vote and in Crimea, as I've been saying, there's extremely reasonable doubt of authenticity given the vote was held after Russia seized the area. Russia held an election in which the result was what Russia wanted by margins in gross excess of what recent polling suggested the people actually wanted.

    About Donbass, I don't really remember the specifics at this moment, but I recall getting into it with someone about that topic a few weeks ago. If you wanna look back in my comment history probably 2-4 weeks, I found sources for the poll, various issues with the Crimean referendum, and some stuff on Donbass I don't recall at the moment.

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