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It’s surprising seeing so much Ukraine hate in one comments section. Did something major happen that changed public opinion?
I am a communist and the prevailing attitude in most circles I am in is not an explicitly pro-Russian one, it's just not explicitly pro-Ukraine either. There is a also an underlying understanding of the reasons why the war started. Just because you don't support one side does not mean you have to 100% uncritically support the opposing side. The sooner we stop thinking of everything in black/white terms of Team A vs Team B, we will be a lot better off.
Now there are those who have nostalgia for the USSR, which is not the modern Russian Federation, but it's fairly niche. Usually people understand that modern Russia is not the soviet union. There are the patsocs too, but we don't really claim them.
I am not the Official Spokesman of Communism, but those are generally the attitudes I have seen in most of my circles.
Communists are very against fascist Russia. It's just a small totalitarian-minded group masking as communists here who support Russia or some honeypot/psyop
They're not people, they're CCP and Kremlin LLM bots.
Why not? No doubt it's way easier to set up a bunch of bots accounts here than somewhere like Twitter or Reddit. They don't even have to worry about looking legit because most of the users here are new accounts.
Yeah I agree with the other guy. Easier to trial run bots on Lemmy then when things are looking "better"*** move them to more mainstream sites.
***Just less shit
This is lemmy.ml, which is full of clueless tankies who confuse modern fascist Russia with the Soviet Union and love to consume Russian and Chinese propaganda. Anything "Western" is automatically bad and evil (those damn Anglos or something) and since Ukraine is backed by NATO, it has to be the bad guy. Take a wild guess at what the ".ml" means.
It's actually Mali, but they say it stands for Marxist-Leninist
I guess what changed is that you are not on reddit anymore where nations advertise their propaganda. Ukraine government declared martial law, they are basically a dictatorship.
Public opinion only gets more positive for Ukraine with each of these high level corruption arrests.
Tankies and dumbasses, think it proves their point that Ukraine will continue to be corrupt.