I don’t watch tennis but I’m visiting, I’m drawing, I looked up and God this is so annoying…guess what country Potapova is from 🙄 I wish I snapped a photo when they had 3 different games up, 3 of the 6 players didn’t have their flag next to their name.
Even if USA really was The Good Guys and [CENSORED] was Nazis 2.0 like they claim, this shit is just virtue signaling snobbery. As if sports players choose foreign policy. I’d love to see Americans treated like we’re responsible for our country’s actions…people would lose their minds.
Anyways, this is old news ever since they started banning [CENSORED] plays and musicals and movies and accents but was annoyed and wanted to share
Yeah I think stuff like this is what ultimately drives people to support American foreign policy/believe US narratives. It isn’t a matter of providing compelling evidence, but creating a feeling.
Westerners live in an environment where state targets are so routinely vilified, othered, and censored that they’re primed to believe anything negative & dismiss everything positive about them regardless of veracity.
I’ve run into this problem a lot when trying to debunk disinformation. You can knock down every individual claim that holds up a narrative, but people will still believe it. Because it feels true. And how do you disprove a feeling? Especially one that’s shared by that person’s friends, family, coworkers, neighbors, etc.
It’s more than a little disheartening. /:
Hit the nail on the head.
Yep, it’s sad because if I remember correctly before I started getting ML-curious and when I was neck deep in Western “leftism” about 3 years back, even I just had a very vague general sense that Russia and China and much of the rest of the world was a little frightening. And the funny thing is if I ever admitted to this (I didn’t, not even to myself), if given pushback I don’t think I could have articulated why I felt that way beyond really vague imagery.
And now I see it when I make myself into an obnoxious party pooper always trying to shoehorn talking positively about Russia or China (etc. etc.) into conversations with people I’m close to. I can maybe eek out a win over a single point if I beat a conversation to death and I’m on my A-game, but it doesn’t do a dent in the greater FEELING that is propping up this narrative. It sucks, I’ve said it before but I honestly feel like seeing the ML side of things–aka reality–at this point for many USians it requires almost conspiratorial thinking, or at least being willing to entertain the general idea “something is deeply wrong and it’s possibly a little whacky”
Western society is like a massive cult. It’s all about believing no matter if it’s an objective fact or just someone’s fever dream. If you want to be part of this “society” you have to start parroting the same Approved™ Nonsense® even if you yourself don’t buy it.
Notice also the choice of photo to use…these people can’t be parodied…
least insecure westoids be like
