How would that number change if all those people had access to independent reporting?
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BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 months agoYou are wrong. more than half are in favor of the war in Ukraine.
They all can go fuck themselves.
essell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 10 months ago
There’s an old joke about agents from the CIA and KGB sharing a drink at a pub in Berlin.
“I have to admit, I’m always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up,” the CIA agent says.
“Thank you,” the KGB says. “We do our best but truly, it’s nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them.”
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. “Thank you friend, but you must be confused… There’s no propaganda in America.”
diablexical@lemm.ee 10 months ago
Joke is going over my head can you explain?
thallamabond@lemmy.world 10 months ago
CIA agent ‘drinks the kool-aid’
Cold-war era joke, pre-suppose all us media is ‘State’ media
essell@lemmy.world 10 months ago
That is a truly excellent joke. I will remember that
NABDad@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The Trumpublicans in the U.S. have access to independent reporting, yet they choose instead to limit themselves to lies that make them feel like they’re better than everyone else.
thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Maybe it would change but Russian culture is still Russian culture.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Seriously, you can’t unshit a pool.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 months ago
I don’t have access to it, but allegedly on VK which is the Russian knockoff of Facebook, they also have similar numbers of a majority in favor of destroying Ukraine.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 10 months ago
Ahh yes, polling in a country where saying the wrong thing gets you locked up. Very useful /s
OwlPaste@lemmy.world 10 months ago
I mean given that you get arrested for a showing a blank piece of paper and sent to prison/gulag… Do you really think that de-annonymised people would put their opinions forward?
But also in the west where we don’t have quite such a police state, we still do have many people who vote against their interests until their own interests are being affected…
Moral of the story… Humans suck
Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Humans suck
Conservatives suck. The normal people are actually pretty cool.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
As they should be. US/NATO expansion is an existential threat to Russia. CIA even more brazenly embraced would divide and conquer Russia through splitting it into warring provinces. US has no intention of improving humanity/world if it reduces subjugation to the empire.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Russia is the existential threat to Russia, that’s literally all of Russian history in a nutshell followed by ‘and then it got worse’.
Russia will collapse into multiple fragments, because Russians are just idiots who have never agreed on anything without a gun pointed at their families.
It’s hilarious how lucky China is to have the largest natural resource motherlode right next door, Russia was asking to be dismantled!
AEsheron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
The last thing the US wants is a civil war and mass instability in a nuclear nation. That has the capability to shatter MAD. At best, the US wants a regime change.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
They have no qualms about taunting a nuclear powered Russia. The return of a CIA puppet like Yeltsin is not likely, but just as Ukraine, there is not the slightest US concern for the welfare/benefit of people. Just destruction, hike price of oil, sell a lot of weapons, and buy the ruins for cheap.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
In favor of what? They aren’t being told the truth about anything. They’re in favor of an imaginary war for imaginary reasons.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 months ago
That may be true. But I tend to believe factual journalism over a random internet person’s conjecture.
roofuskit@lemmy.world 10 months ago
www.cnn.com/2023/02/27/europe/…/index.html
From your same source.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Yikes. Sucks to live there. Maybe they should do something about it?
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 10 months ago
How is what he said wrong? 25% is “many Russians”.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 months ago
“Many” is defined as a significant order of magnitude. Stop being dumb.
Imacat@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 months ago
25% of 150 million is a pretty large number of people. “Many” is vague enough that you shouldn’t be calling anyone dumb over it.
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 months ago
75% of 150 million is still a significantly larger number, regardless.
And calling a pro-Russian troll dumb is fine, because only feelings are hurt, meanwhile actual lives are being lost thanks to Russians invading Ukraine, and is competitively worse.
lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 10 months ago
I think you’re confusing “many” with “most”. The definition of “many” does not mean the largest, just simply large.
DaPorkchop_@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
25% of millions of people is still many people, they didn’t say “a majority of people”.
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Hmm little aggressive ya?
BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one 10 months ago
Only to Russian shills that attempt to minimize the Ukrainian suffering, such as yourself.