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So from having had a few exchanges with pro Russian accounts on Lemmy (which seems to be infested with a few very active ones) this is a summary of their arguments:
It was an invasion. Invasions are wrong. That should be the beginning and end of the debate.
I take it you had to deal with the Hexbears? Idiots.
they're on other instances as well
edit: having to go through posts like these and blocking all the invader apologists isn't fun, but it beats accidentally reading their drivel again
Such a worthless use of brain cells. Imagine being the product of billions of years of evolution and becoming that.
I'm sure some are on a payroll. You don't get a weird narrative like that started without planting a seed.
It's not a coincidence they look like a better version of 2015 the_donald.
They even mocked me when I said I expected to get banned for saying that... and then banned me. Weird how that works.
oh god the russia bot reddit npc dialogue script has leaked onto lemmy nooo
6%, damn, that sounds serious. Let's check how many seats the nationalist party in Russia got. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Russia
72.22%. Okay then.