• @MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
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    01 year ago

    I wish. I know some IRL and they take a sick pleasure in playing armchair general while “analyzing” conflicts. They’re almost always tech bros and it’s seriously damaged how I feel about our friendships.

    Maybe bots have propagated it, but there are people who just eat this stuff up uncritically and feel superior because of it.

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      01 year ago

      Encourage them to enlist for the Ukrainian army so that they’re in time to parade triumphantly in Red Square during the Endseig.

    • ProfessorAdonisCnut [he/him]
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      01 year ago

      The style of fixation they have with war news actually reminds me of the ending of 1984, one of the more accurate things in that book really