IMO Putin is, like, an antihero from grey zone or so, there are much valid points to criticise and accuse him, but oppositional media is 10x worse or so. They say that govt propaganda is big and govt cracks on media freedoms, but in fact state media just takes pro-state position without much narrative or denial and yet you can still see videos like "putin's hounds blablabla again" trending on youtube and dozens of criticism and accusation pieces. And people are supposed to always look up to the sAcReD wEsTeRn DeMoCrAcIeS which are somehow infallible by definition. And they portray Russia as a hellhole where nothing is good and people die on streets like flies or sort of. And so on. Young people got literally brainwashed with memes LMAO. Sometimes I really want the you-know-which three-headed hydra of opp media to not exist.

I don't like people there idolizing Putin too much, but the fact that he stops the poisonous leftist agenda from getting to Russia is the biggest pro of his rule. Imagine if Trump institutes golden standard and Putin follows, that would be nice as fuck

Writing this at Moscow at 9:44 with phone while sleep-deprived LMAO