@jonn the vast majority of human beings aren't intelligent or civilized in any way
@jonn oh, i'm not defending ignorance. i think ignorant people should be left to die of their own ignorance. i am just explaining it: it's not sociopathy, just dumb motherfuckers.
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@jonn the claim that suddenly dozens of millions of people develop sociopathy doesn't hold water. it's propaganda, not some innate defect in the person. they got duped by people who are literal professionals at deceiving members of the public into supporting wars.
@jonn i think that there was definitely a split between, say, waffen-ss invaders going into foreign countries in '41, and reservists trying to fend off the red army in berlin in '45.
also, civilians are almost never directly responsible for what their national military does, it's almost always literally impossible to exert any amount of control over them. most civilians are always against war of any kind unless they are sucked in with lies.
one of the characteristics of good propagandists: make sure that your broad-stroke claims have at least a tiny kernel of truth, so that people who are sucked in by charisma and want to believe have a small hook to hang the rest of your bogus ideology on:
@dheadshot @Gargron putin is not dumb; it is possible they are simply pro-kremlin people and not just accounts. there must be several millions at least who bought putin's lies. many in the usa bought bush's lies and there were more contrarian voices available to them. the situation in russia is worse.
@aaronkurz america has a different kind of way of shaping narratives. both were wars of aggression.
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