They also banned or nationalized many media outlets, censor media in general, and suspended eleven political parties during his term, which eventually became permanent bans.

Al Jazeera, Mar. 2022: Why did Ukraine suspend 11 ‘pro-Russia’ parties?

Europe is no bastion for frozen peaches, either. AP, Mar. 2024: EU bans 4 more Russian media outlets from broadcasting in the bloc, citing disinformation

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Wild how upset people get when you point out basic facts of the situation.

[–] BurgerPunk@hexbear.net 13 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Cause the people supporting Ukraine are either ignorant of or deny every basic fact of the situation. You're ruining their Marvel movie view of the world

[–] LarkinDePark@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

This has been the singlemost extreme mass hypnosis events of my lifetime. People lose their minds in this topic over the most easily provable basic facts.

[–] Tangentism@lemmy.ml 3 points 7 months ago

To me, it's been amazing to see people who appeared to understand the ethos of Chomskys "manufacturing consent" then immediately turned into war hawks.

The worst are the ones who claimed to understand that working class kids are "fortunate sons" but then wanked themselves into a frenzy watching videos of DJI drones dropping grenades onto Russian kids.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 8 points 7 months ago

In virtually every war in these Burgerlanders’ lifetimes, their country has been on the morally & militarily losing side. They desperately, desperately want a moral & military victory for once, even moreso now that Biden has proven to be Genocider in Chief.