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It is true but it is so unbelievable and surreal. How can it be? I have friends in Russia and now I read their posts on vk.com and so many of them are pro-war c

by NoPie 5y ago

It is true but it is so unbelievable and surreal. How can it be? I have friends in Russia and now I read their posts on vk.com and so many of them are pro-war completely believe Putin's narrative. It is so sad.

dane-pgp 5y ago
Maintaining a separate view of reality from everyone else around you is cognitively expensive, even if your view is the one that agrees with the facts, and even if you don't have to worry about being shunned by your peers or disappeared by the powerful. Sadly, human brains are very good at coming up with justifications for what they want to believe, and people probably find that loudly embracing the false narratives is an effective way to drown out their cognitive dissonance.
hindsightbias 5y ago
73% of Americans saw Operation Iraqi Freedom as morally justified https://news.gallup.com/poll/1633/iraq.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/1633/iraq.aspx And they had a access to every narrative. Kudos to that Russian 19% with no alternatives.
- vegai_ 5y ago
  >Kudos to that Russian 19% with no alternatives. Probably a good portion of those 19% have ways to browse western media.
downrightmike 5y ago
Hope they're also good with paying Ukraine war reparations for the next few generations too.
- drekk 5y ago
  Do you support the US paying reparations? UK? France? Belgium? Just curious, asking for hundreds of millions of civilian casualties. I support Russia paying reparations to Ukraine if we're going to be consistent about it when the victims are, for example, Yemeni
  - downrightmike 5y ago
    Why would the US? If the US hadn't helped in WW2, they'd all be Germany now.
    - ttybird2 5y ago
      They are talking about US/UK/etc paying reparations to middle eastern countries.
sidibe 5y ago
Yup, one of the nice things about todays internet with stuff like Translate and Google Lens is you can go and see for yourself. I thought Pikabu.ru was a relatively liberal social media site and now they've all rallied around the flag and subscribe to and spout out all of Putin's talking points and even now move Kadyrov

by NoPie 5y ago

dane-pgp 5y ago

Maintaining a separate view of reality from everyone else around you is cognitively expensive, even if your view is the one that agrees with the facts, and even if you don't have to worry about being shunned by your peers or disappeared by the powerful. Sadly, human brains are very good at coming up with justifications for what they want to believe, and people probably find that loudly embracing the false narratives is an effective way to drown out their cognitive dissonance.

hindsightbias 5y ago

73% of Americans saw Operation Iraqi Freedom as morally justified https://news.gallup.com/poll/1633/iraq.aspx https://news.gallup.com/poll/1633/iraq.aspx And they had a access to every narrative. Kudos to that Russian 19% with no alternatives.

vegai_ 5y ago
>Kudos to that Russian 19% with no alternatives. Probably a good portion of those 19% have ways to browse western media.

downrightmike 5y ago

Hope they're also good with paying Ukraine war reparations for the next few generations too.

drekk 5y ago
Do you support the US paying reparations? UK? France? Belgium? Just curious, asking for hundreds of millions of civilian casualties. I support Russia paying reparations to Ukraine if we're going to be consistent about it when the victims are, for example, Yemeni
- downrightmike 5y ago
  Why would the US? If the US hadn't helped in WW2, they'd all be Germany now.
  - ttybird2 5y ago
    They are talking about US/UK/etc paying reparations to middle eastern countries.

sidibe 5y ago

Yup, one of the nice things about todays internet with stuff like Translate and Google Lens is you can go and see for yourself. I thought Pikabu.ru was a relatively liberal social media site and now they've all rallied around the flag and subscribe to and spout out all of Putin's talking points and even now move Kadyrov