Saryn

Only thing I would add is that the dynamics you describe serve certain psychological functions for the individual - everything from feeling less insecure to developing an identity.

It can be even nore basic than that. They just want to feel good about themselves and this is a sure-fire way. In the short-term. Terrible for long-term happiness.

For anyone wondering how bad brain rot can get, even here on Lemmy.

This. This is how bad it can get

The passive aggresive small d**k energy this person is showcasing is part and parcel of the normalization of authoritarianism and idiocracy in modern times. This is the type of acute mental darkness that awaits all of us if we don't resist and organize against fascism and the rise of Big Stupid.

Tell me you have no expertise in political science without telling me you have no expertise in political science

Your intellectual disability helped me with my case study on information integrity! Thank you for not deleting these.

Exactly! You can't just assume that the situation in Ukraine is equivalent to the genocide in former Yugoslavia. As with any claim originating from an authroitarian regime, it must be evaluated critically.

Have a nice day.

Care to explain where I did that? How is the pro-NATO narrative not by an authoritarian regime?

Yep, let me refreshen your memory. You equated NATO's justification (stopping a genocide) to Russia's justification for a full scale invasion of Ukraine and are acting (or pretending) like we don't have an abundance of information showing otherwise. This is called a false equivalency.

Next you're gonna ask me how we know they're not equivalent. And at some point down the line, you're gonna ask how we know that 2 + 2 = 4. Ask me how I know.

You can call yourself a potato for all I care. It matters not what you call yourself. I judge you based on your claims and actions, not your self-reported internal monologue or the way you want others to see you.

With that out of the way, why don't follow your own suggestion and scram.

Have a nice day tho

Indeed, giving up intellectual responsibility and promoting the propaganda of authroritarian regimes (I couldn't care less which ones you fancy in particular) should be named and shamed and ridiculed within the confines of the law.

Feel free to engage or disengage in whichver which way you want friend, couldn't care less, my messages are not directed at you

You don't need to buy anything, you just need information literacy and critical thinking. Which is not to say you shouldn't be critical of US foreign policy - god knows there's lots to criticize. But comparing the genocide in Yugoslavia to the War in Ukraine is a clear sign of acute mental darkness or you intentionally amplifying authoritarian propaganda.

You're a loser either way because of your utter failure to take intellectual responsibility. You might be just one in a sea of millions of ignoramuses but that's not excuse

I think you are just repeating the same old talking points and conspiracy theories that we're all well-familiar with without actually adding anything of substance or factology to the conversation.

Russia does not do the same. In fact, it does the exact opposite. It would be fantastic if Russia actually supported human rights and the rule of law instead of bombing children's hospitals like Israel does.