I was searching for some nonsense on .ml to post, and I stumbled sort of unintentionally onto a hilarious history of Yogthos's summary of the Ukraine situation.

First, in early 2022, he was insisting that they will not invade and it's all just Western lies. Then, he said it wasn't really an invasion, they just wanted to protect some Russian speakers in the east and maybe a little regime change. Then he said that this invasion was going great, going to achieve all its goals soon, and it was all the totally predictable result of the West's actions as all serious scholars knew. He really emphasized that all of us were going to see what a horrible thing we had had done to Russia (?) when because Russia refused to deal with us anymore, everything became triple the cost here and civil unrest in the streets, since we wouldn't be able to buy from Russia anymore.

Then, after a while, he dropped both of those ideas and just kept repeating that it was all the West's fault that it came to this horrible thing, and he just cares so much about Ukraine that he wants the West to give Russia everything it wants so it can end. After all, he has family in Ukraine.

0% making any of this up. I thought about putting together a little post for MOG showing the progression, but my motivation for these things is waning... I feel like people have got the message at this point as to what he's about lol.

Yog might be one of the worst of them, too. He's been posting on the Canada community a lot ever since we've started butting heads with China, only to share anti-government propaganda.

There's an irony in how much I dislike the current Federal government only being trumped by how much I dislike shills for authoritarian nations trying to manipulate public discourse. Often he'll post an article with a conclusion I fundamentally agree with, but either get there through extremely cherry-picked arguments, or use the conclusions of the articles to start into his personal argument into batshit-crazy takes.

I've taken to down voting him and moving on. It feels bad, but I am too busy to spend time and energy refuting his absurdity with the necessary nuance of "yes, the government is bad, half of what you said is true, the other half isn't and here's why." I just do not have the amount of time to be the level of terminally online that would be necessary to deal with someone like him properly.

I wish .ca would just defederate with .ml and be done with it.

ML are such losers.

I can kind of understand how tankies from the U.S. or U.K, who don't seem to really comprehend what they're supporting, make it their entire personality to be contrarian and so far left, they wind up swinging back around to the right defending Xi's Uyghur camps or Putin's invasion of Ukraine repeating propaganda like "who knows who really started the war?"

However, I'm confused why a Russian who genuinely views themself as a radical leftist, would support a police state loving nationalist oligarch like Putin?