britain, a country where being able to remember things that happened is considered cheating in a political discussion

— milo edwards (@Milo_Edwards) September 30, 2022

This is considered cheating everywhere.

Watch what happens if you mention that Russia already invaded Ukraine in 2014, or that Ukraine voluntarily gave up its nuclear weapons in 1994 in exchange for security guarantees from Russia and the US. If you bring up either of these facts, it’s considered to be in bad taste and somehow is either a “conspiracy theory” or that you’ve drawn upon esoteric knowledge that no one could possibly know and that is now too antiquated anyway to be at all relevant.

It is very fucking odd.

Every Putin speech is him rambling on about shit like “the effete West is trying to ‘cancel’ Russian culture for believing there are only two genders” and then people on here will nod sagely and say “yes, we must grapple with his well-articulated concerns about NATO expansion”

— Quantian (@quantian1) September 30, 2022

Ha. Yes. Our “left” has left all sense behind.

I am genuinely sad that Ian Welsh can only spout Russian propaganda these days. It’s like watching someone previously interesting and intelligent get Alzheimer’s. I think Covid (not having it, witnessing it) broke his brain and it was all downhill from there.

It’s disturbing that things like that can just…happen to people. One day you’re normal and the next, you’re dancing to Putin’s tune. I shudder to think that something like that could happen to me.