ComradePenguin comments on You may not like it, but this is what peak democracy looks like

[–] ComradePenguin@lemmy.ml 9 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Thanks, exactly what I was looking for! 😄 As a Norwegian pretty much everyone sides with Ukraine, and I have not really challenged that view for myself. I have just accepted the narrative "Russia = imperialistic & bad. Ukraine = democracy & good". So it's probably a good idea to try to understand it

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[–] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz -3 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

Feels morally wrong to intentionally seek out the aggressors propaganda.

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[–] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 1 point 5 months ago (1 child)

To be honest I've been trying to avoid that as well. Impossible to completely stay free of the bombardment of the Official Opinion, but I mostly read local newspapers and skip any opinion pieces on international matters in those too. So I have enough stress knowing there is a war, I don't need to hear bullshit justifications from any side, and maybe aside from going to demonstrations I can't do anything to stop it anyway, so I'd rather not blast my brain with power politics I cannot change.

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[–] rautapekoni@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

And I have accepted my lack of power. I can't even keep my own emotions under control most days, let alone convince anyone else I'm somehow more knowledgeable or wise.

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[–] Cowbee@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago

Understandable! It's one of the more difficult topics for westerners like us to grasp, and it took me some time to come around to the ML consensus on the Russian Federation (ie, it isn't imperialist if we accept Lenin's analysis, and actually is anti imperialist even if run by bourgeois oligarchs).