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“careful whose voices you amplify” 🤡

So many Armys during the past days posting tweet after tweet about how you should stay out of it,educate yourself first,should not spread carrds or information,don’t have to donate unless you “understand” the situation...

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Is putin paying you or what...?

I have not seen any other war where it was so ok not only to say you don’t care,but to actively urge others to not care.

Why? You could just have posted a flag,a “thoughts and prayers” and moved on. I wouldn’t have judged you for it. Or you could have said nothing at all. YOU DIDN’T HAVE TO SAY ANYTHING. 

But everyone chose exactly THIS war to talk about “performative activism” and about how you don’t have to make carrds for clout,or you don’t have to care if you’re a minor. Urging people to “just go check official sources”,but rarely actually linking any. And making sure to “educate” others to not donate,because! you might be donating to neo-nazis!

I thought you said to not spread misinfo. I’m pretty sure the links that show up even on official government twitter are legit. Also maybe if it’s the same link and you saw like 10 official journalists posting it too,you can trust it?

Also,you don’t have to donate,but there is some weird motivation in discrediting legitimate requests for help. War is happening. You don’t have to “support it” if you find the idea too barbaric. I mean,I understand the repulsion. Ukrainians would also rather be at home instead of shooting down aircrafts. But war is happening and they have no choice except to fight for their right to remain an independent state. They are not equally matched with Russia’s much bigger military. They received no international help so they are asking for donations in order to be able to defend themselves. They have done so,bravely,for three days already. Kyiv is still standing because they have put up a hell of a fight until now.

If no one seems believable in the sea of comments made by people with foreign unpronounceable names,it’s good to know Ukrainian and Russian don’t even look the same. In the first place,Ukrainian has the “i” letter which Russian doesn’t use. For obvious reasons you won’t even see much russian on the ukrainian side of social media right now.

You keep saying “don’t spread misinformation” and then your next tweet is by some rando who blatantly lies about history,or tries to make it all about America. But he doesn’t have a russian-sounding name,so it’s ok,his version must be the objective unbiased one. Is this how you think it works? How you protect yourself from propaganda? Congrats,you just fell for it,and spread it to the 2000 others who follow your big account.

Or does simply seeing tweets in the scary Russian alphabet make you uncomfy? 80% of those lists of “verified” people to get “unbiased” info from,are just English-speaking blue checkmark journalists or diplomats who cover Moscow. Moscow is not Kyiv.

Why does it always have to be “US says_” for a fact related to a foreign country to be credible?

Kyiv Independent’s twitter has constant updates in English,that’s a good place to start. You can figure it out from there. You won’t die if you follow Ukrainian journalists who also tweet in Ukrainian once in a while. It won’t be sterilized bias-free information,because everyone is human,and emotions are high now,but it won’t be the onslaught of propaganda you’re afraid of. Not anymore that at any other war or protest. But I get the feeling those journalists are too patriotic and too proud of their army for you. They make Ukraine look too good,too strong and too inspiring,and you can’t have that. It’s not “unbiased” enough. It’s not how you were taught Eastern Europe is like.

Does Russia,seen though official Ukraine news,look too much like a cartoon villain? So you feel the need to look for what “the other side” is saying? Maybe Putin is exactly that evil. Maybe you have to accept this is actual reality for any ex-USSR country. There is no “both sides are wrong,we need to be more cautious when talking about this crisis”. Russia is a colonizer. We don’t fucking want to go under them ever again. Hope this helps. Are you looking for your familiar “unbiased”,dictated by those blue checkmarks who don’t even live here, or for Ukraine’s actual history?

Would you say “stay out of it,it’s too complicated” about any other mad dictator trying to kill people because they are a certain ethnicity or nationality? Your problem is that Ukrainians are white,so it surely has to be some other reason. Like that they are neo-nazis (putin lie),that the “separatists” must want independence from the rest of Ukraine (putin lie) or that Russia is just afraid of the US and NATO (true,but not the entire story). You create the misinformation now because the actual reality doesn’t match your neat established worldview. Who gives you the right?

Also about the part where “you can’t do anything”. Maybe your protests could have done something. #WhatUkraineNeeds is a good hashtag to start with to get an idea.

Fuck you,really.

I just wanted to laugh at some BTS thirst tweets.

source: https://twitter.com/IMatviyishyn/status/1493943738925826056?cxt=HHwWkIC-kcr6xrspAAAA

some of the westerners out there acting like acknowledging Putin and Russia as a threat is uwu US propaganda and it's actually Enlightened and Woke to decide Ukraine is in no threat and even if it was, the West shouldn't intervene because they certainly just want to return to Motherland... you have no idea what you're talking about. I hate the US but at this point you're contrarian just to be contrarian to your country while also throwing us under the bus classic style. you're no better than American imperialists in that you care about us Slavs the exact amount of 0 unless when you can use us as a prop for your narrative. living in Poland, I'll be clear: Russia invaded us many and many times on. we were only liberated from Russian imperialism, which is far bigger threat for us than American imperialism due to our geopolitical position in 1989, and for Ukrainians it was only 2014. believe it or not, but we want living standards like in the West! we want human rights! Russia literally has laws that forbid being visibly gay (anti "homo propaganda" laws)! Russia is fascism. majority of Slavs actually do want the West to protect us. we're not fools, we know the West isn't doing it out of altruism, we know it's their own imperialism but hey, at least the US is far away and NATO is a good protective measure. the EU is currently the only institution effectively preventing my country's fall into fascism, and yes Polish fascists' hearts are with Putin. you're not helping us whatsoever by supporting or excusing him and Russian imperial ambitions or by acting like we're paranoid and dramatic by considering them a threat and wanting you to acknowledge it when it's a threat for us, not for you. just like MAGA types who are safe in Land of the Free and No Healthcare and don't care what happens in the Middle East, you "leftist" types are safe in America (it's obvious no war will be fought on your land) and you don't care what happens to us. you're literally no different. American is the same