Well according to my "conservative" family I have gone off the deep end and am now a full-blown pro Putin nAzI loving warmonger.......o the irony.....
This biolab, neo-nazi, corruption evidence coming out of Ukraine CANNOT come fast enough...
Anyone else in this same boat?
My Dad is hugely anti Putin right now. The amount of propaganda being pushed hits the boomers as usual. Not all of them of course, we have many boomers on this board that are awake. But as a group them seem super easy to manipulate. Why they trust the media that has lied to them their entire lives I will never understand.
My focus in discussions with normies on Ukraine/Russia is simply, I don't trust the media or our own government. They have proven themselves liars. When they push a narrative this hard it is a lie. I think sometimes we try to bring the normies too much data, and they can't handle it, if you start small with simple distrust. I told my Dad I don't trust our government any more than Putin.
At this point I trust Putin more than our govt by far
Oh, me too, I just temper my opinions with normies. The goal of the conversation is to get the normies questioning things. If I unload all the info I have, they are overwhelmed and cannot take it in and they shut down.
Try asking one to source 1 thing that makes putin an enemy to US and the steam starts pouring out of their ears and eventually explodes from REEEEEEEEEEEE
For sure
at lunch the other day, my Dad immediately starts going off on Putin, I said, "I am not sure Putin is wrong in this." He did get visibly upset. Hence the toning down to lack of trust in media and government. He understand that he distrusts them too, yet he falls for this shit. He is also 75, so I try not to get to deep into this stuff, it really isn't his fight anymore, it is our fight.