Apologies, this one is smaller than usual, as I'm gonna be very busy over the next few days. It's the same amount of headlines, just not as much quoted from them.
Links and Stuff
Examples of racism/euro-centrism during the Russia-Ukraine conflict
Add to the above list if you can, thank you.
Resources For Understanding The War Beyond The Bulletins
Defense Politics Asia's youtube channel and their map, who is an independent youtuber with a mostly neutral viewpoint.
Moon of Alabama, which tends to have good analysis (though also a couple bad takes here and there)
Understanding War and the Saker: neo-conservative sources but their reporting of the war (so far) seems to line up with reality better than most liberal sources.
Alexander Mercouris, who does daily videos on the conflict and, unlike most western analysts, has some degree of understanding on how war works. He is a reactionary, however.
On the ground: Patrick Lancaster, an independent journalist reporting in the Ukrainian warzones.
Unedited videos of Russian/Ukrainian press conferences and speeches.
Yesterday's discussion post.
There's been a creepy trend on national subreddits to have Americans, Europeans, and Aussies go on them and post nothing but anti-China propaganda. Noticed it with my country and saw the same thing happening in Caribbean, African, Middle Eastern, and Oceanic subreddits. I then looked at the profile of the posters and none of them actually lived in the country and didn't seem to have any relation to it either. They just went to spread propaganda.
I feel like the Left is the only faction that seriously believes pogroms are a bad thing that should be actively avoided.
:astronaut-2: :astronaut-1:
Pogroms generally tend to target people who are perceived as "the left" so that part at least makes sense.
I can attest that this has been happening since at least 2019. During the Hong Kong protests of the same year, the Hong Kong subreddit was flooded with a lot of new subscribers and political content that was largely promoting the protests, asking the US/ West to intervene, and painting China/ CPC in as negative a light as possible.
Anyone who tried injecting nuance into the discussion, like how the protests were triggered by a proposed law that was created to extradite a murderer who was trying to escape justice and had nothing to do with eroding civil rights of the autonomous city, or how asking Trump to "liberate Hong Kong" was hypocritical while he gave no shits about police brutality and was busy suppressing the BLM protests at the same time, were downvoted to the 8th circle of hell.
At the time I didn't think much of it because I was still a SocDem, but many of these Redditors barely knew anything about Hong Kong itself (beyond how it was a former colony and hadn't become "just another Chinese city" ruled by the evil CCP yet), and from memory some even admitted they never visited the place.
I think many of them are probably still the same Westerners years later still drunk on anti-China kool-aid fed to them by their governments and media and spread their propaganda across the entire website today. In hindsight, this could've easily been me as well had I not done a big self-reflection the same year and started questioning the Western narrative on world issues.
I'm glad I don't use :reddit-logo: anymore. There's literally no point, no useful or objective or reliable info to be gleaned from that cesspit.
I mostly use it for anime and local news, but finding less and less of a reason for it
At the beginning of the special operation I noticed a huge uptick in down voting of anything slightly left on the Australian sub. The sub was center-left pretty solidly for years but then all the sudden regular users who usually had good takes that were generally upvoted were getting smashed on everything. Where I noticed the big change was a ACAB post about a police officer who killed an aboriginal where the judge supressed previous trials that involved excessive force complaints and text messages where he talked about getting away with stuff because the outback is like the wild west. A few users with little to no post history were saying "cop good" and getting up voted really highly, many people were saying "bad cop" and they were all down voted really badly. The number of comments were regular but the levels of up/downvotes were insane. Reddit is a cess pit now. (it always was but its worse lately)
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