What I’ve found helpful in making these types of people question their bloodthirsty beliefs, or at least backtrack on them IRL, is to ask them what they would do if they were Ukrainians in Ukraine now, or if they had a home or loved ones there. Even the most rabid ones usually stop after hearing this, if anything because they see how deranged their stance is. I doubt it would make random libs online back down, since shame doesn’t play a big role in anonymous spaces, but still

That’s also my impression with all the Baltics. And certainly 9 out of 10 Baltic people I’ve met didn’t do anything to dispel that impression

Thanks for the link, haven’t checked that channel in a while. This reminds me a lot of the attitude people have in my country towards immigrants from the Global South - they view them with benign curiosity more than anything. I do worry it will get worse in time, in no small part due to worsening material conditions and an overall reactionary population. But it’s a very different context compared to China

Thanks, this is informative. I guess this is just another case of westerners cherry-picking data and blowing it out of proportion, because from what you’re saying, this sounds just like what one would expect to find in online communities in any other country.

It’s a bit disappointing to see takes such as 留岛不留人 are common enough to have their own slogans that are known even to people outside the circles who don’t support this (anecdotal, but that Chinese émigré I mentioned in the post also referred to this slogan). For the Japan part, I’m not surprised - I’ve heard casual calls for genocide by people of some countries against other countries for far smaller historical offenses. Not surprised there’s so much animosity towards Japan, given all they’ve done and how they treat the issue to this day. Still a horrible take to call for genocide, obviously, but I’m not surprised that there is a niche of society thinking like this. I bet you can find nazi/genocide enthusiasts in any country

These people are just mad there is mass support for people they hate. I swear, it seems like every NAFOid (man)child supports Isn’treal simply because:

1. They hate Muslims.
2. They hate Arabs.
3. They hate leftists, most of whom support Palestine, therefore they must take the opposite side.

At least they ended the screenshots with a sane comment. Made it more palatable

Truly, the Baltics deserve to be called “the r*ddit belt”

Most sane Baltic chihuahua

Sorry, yeah, I’m referring to bigotry, not anything institutionalized.

I share the same last name with Obama

Indeed. I guess they must be getting him more views but I’m not sure how I feel about the type of audience it attracts, especially since his channel is not explicitly Marxist

I missed their comment, but these people seem to have an extra dose of “I am very smart” energy, compared to the average lib

For real, I’m sick of how many calls for genociding/nuking/deporting Russians I’ve heard since the war started… in real life, not on the internet… where people aren’t even that close to each other, and who would scorn other types of discrimination (at least for show)

Even the threat of MAD does not faze the western leadership, as a significant portion of the western populations and leaderships prefer ruling a kingdom of ashes to being equals in a prosperous world.

From what I’ve seen, neither are libs fazed by MAD. People I’ve spoken to IRL seem to be in agreement that NATO should’ve already invaded/nuked Russia. One of them point blank admitted it’s worth it to have a nuclear war if it means destroying Russia. And these libs haven’t even been scratched yet. Reddit clowns

Libs will read that quote and go “people’s democratic dictatorship?? Literally Orwellian doublethink war is peace omg 1984”.

For real, it’s such a vague retort that I just changed topics afterwards, because I didn’t even know where to start. Whose dictatorship over who? Why are you opposed to this? What does the opposite situation say about countries like the US and why is that good if this is bad?

It’s so ingrained in their mind they’ll always give a knee-jerk response like this so they don’t have to go through the pain of challenging their worldview (instead it seems they’d rather choose the pain of continually worsening exploitation and living standards)

Had to look that up, at first I thought it’s an actual thing rich people do, going to watch sharks in a tank lol. Wouldn’t surprise me one bit, given their fondness for horse races and unnecessary subjugation in general

Mentioned this to a liberal before, they said it’s proof China is a dictatorship 🤷🤷

It’s just an old boys’ club with a few onion layers of academia wrapped around to make it less obvious

Nazis are just DOP fascists