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[–] HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

"Russia bad. America good. I'm a free thinker. You're a brainwashed tankie."

[–] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I made no claims about America, but Russia is particularly bad when it comes to lies. Remember when all of this was starting and they were waving away a massive buildup of tanks as a training drill? Russia makes claims of genocide by Ukraine while denying well documented mass murder of Ukrainian civilians. It claims that US contractors are deploying chemical weapons in the Donbass region. Then there were the transparent lies around Flight MH17. The US lies from time to time, it is true. But Russia lies habitually in a firehose of misinformation to confuse between truth and fiction. It is like comparing Trump and his habitual lying with a more normal politicians occasional truth stretching. Not even the same league.