Truth? Propaganda? Fake?

@MrPushwood said in #40:
> "3. The worst enemy of any propaganda is intellectualism."
>
> What the hell's that even mean?

I dunno because its completely wrong. When Putin Sympathizers are quoting Mearsheimer and other similar academics, clearly intellectualism is responsible for as much propaganda as anything else.

@Mopman #41 First they fight, and then they line up for humanitarian aid from Russia.

@ujcn said in #43:
>First they fight, and then they line up for humanitarian aid from Russia.

Of course , it's important to keep your prisoners fed.

#44 We are not animals, we sympathize with people in trouble: we will feed and warm.

@ujcn said in #45:
> #44 We are not animals, we sympathize with people in trouble: we will feed and warm.

As you invade and attempt to occupy their countries , how noble of you.

#12,
> We have different truths.

We may have different opinions, but there is only one truth. By definition.

> Unfortunately, there is no way to find a universal truth.

That's a self contradiction. You're essentially saying, "It's true that there is no truth"; and claiming to possess ultimate knowledge about something which, in the same breath, you claim cannot be known. That isn't even disinformation, it's just gibberish.

> I do not even trust myself.

I believe you. I can see why. . . . But perhaps, if you availed of a little tool called logic, you could begin to. :)

"What is truth?" --- Pontius Pilate

He asked that question right before sentencing Jesus Christ to death in place of an already convicted criminal, bowing to popular demand, although he had found no fault in Jesus. (Cf. John 18:38.)

Of all the excuses anyone has ever made for a blatantly wrong action, "What is truth?" is both the shoddiest and the most shameless.

@STIPPI said in #1:
> 1. A lie repeated a thousand times becomes the truth.
Never.
In fact the actual thing is,
'The more lies are said, the more it gets to expose the truth'
And for the war, let me summarise the thing for you:
Putin's aim is to annex/capture all those countries which were part of then USSR because he believes that they belong to Mother Russia/land of Russia.

@clousems said in #7:
> Your map claims Ukraine is siding with Russia in terms of the whole "propaganda" thing. You realize that, right?

This is f*ing hilarious. I didn't catch it at a glance. Thanks for pointing it out!

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My first thought ran to other "international" communities ... for example:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-11/1#/media/File:United_Nations_General_Assembly_resolution_ES-11_L.1_vote.svg

Which is from ...

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly_Resolution_ES-11/1

@ujcn said in #43:
> @Mopman #41 First they fight, and then they line up for humanitarian aid from Russia.

You break it, you bought it.

Or, rules of war: After you destroy another country, you pay to rebuild it. If you win, you pay because you're going to need to fix all the stuff you broke. If you lose, the winners are going to make you pay.

If Russia involves Western countries, we're going to crush you and do to Russian culture what it is trying to do to ethnic Ukrainians right now. If Ukraine can give the Russian military so many problems, it's going to be easy as dirt for 141 other countries to take apart Russia; and probably in half the time. After that's done, winner writes history, we're going to break-up Russia, subjugate it, strip your resources. Russia's people will be free from dictatorship. They will profit it from it. But they will also be subjugated, like what the Allies did to Germany and Japan after WWII. In effect: the world will literally spay and neuter Russia so that it can never again pose a threat to a peaceful world.

@ujcn said in #45:
> #44 We are not animals, we sympathize with people in trouble: we will feed and warm.

... and shell nuclear power plants trying to cause another Chernobyl.

Maybe you're not animals, but your military is stupid. And given your military is run by your government, by extension, any government which first causes a disaster like Chernobyl, and doesn't learn from it, directs its military to take nuclear installations by force ... stupid.