The people in government running these accounts know exactly what that patch is.

I presume you’ve conducted an investigation and you have a report to show?

exists on the very basis of fascism

Have you been checking the political arena for the last 20 years in Russia? It’s been closer and closer to totalitarian fascism each year. Except for they (the regime) is trying to make a façade of being multi-party and democratic. I still have comrades in jail for their political views and activities.

Do you really think it is a foolish thing to compare two states? Both of which have been persecuting my comradeship? Except for, in Ukraine, it wasn’t that harsh, comparing to Russia. Ukrainian government seems to used neo-Nazi to attack our folks. Just like FSB curated neo-Nazi in 2005-2010s. Yeah, I can compare those two.

Also, instead of nazification (and Bandera being a hero), we have a weird Russian Empire + USSR + Orthodoxy mix for quasi-ideology. Yeah, I know the first two are incompatible, that’s why it’s so laughable and sad it’s a real thing. Ah, and you haven’t seen the latest news from Russia, right? The phrases like “one president, one country, one victory” are appearing more and more.

I think I can compare, pal.

including its military (such as Azov)

ДШРГ “Русич”, Wagner Group, РНЕ. Something else?

I just presume you aren’t going to defend China’s exploitation of other countries for the sake of resources (just like the US) or repressive manners of its state capitalism? Or will you?

I’ve listed the topics in the brackets. The only answer I’ve got from those people could be summarized to “my government surely does know what is it doing, I don’t know politics that much”. Yeah, I consider it brainwashed when people are blindly believe whatever is told. In the past, it was called religious faith. Which has nothing to do with critical thinking.

If you’d be a good-willed sentient, you’d point out my mistakes, of course. I guess you aren’t.

Sorry, I’m not going to take any of your precious time writing even more posts w/o really considering others’ opinions. Neither I’m going to waste mine.

This is just racism. You literally just called an entire population brainwashed when they are anything but.

Ehm, I didn’t?.. I said I spoke with a few Chinese folks — they were defending their government’s actions (repressive politics against disbelievers with all kinds of cyber-fascism, camps for Uyghurs, the whole Tibet, Taiwan, etc.) no matter what. When I started asking questions with if and that, they showed they don’t understand the topic whatsoever.

You can’t say something so blatantly racist without expanding and justifying it.

Probably that’s because it wasn’t racist.

I could play this game, too. My reply is “what kind of asinine argument is that”.

They know that the war hurts them and they actively take part in suppressing negative news and information to the contrary while promoting western nato-aligned content in support of it.

Debatable. But I’m too exhausted to discuss it ATM. If you want, you can hit me up later (in PM?).

The real bubbles lie on social media. My information bubble on twitter will be vastly different to yours, my search results probably won’t.

Popular social media do create bubbles, indeed. However, the problem here is that some people just don’t use anything else: I’ve seen reports on how new generations use TikTok and Instagram as their SEs. We can conduct a little experiment on the latter just to be sure. I mean, if our SERPs would be similar or different.

None of this however changes the fact that you’ll find nazis throughout the Ukrainian military at all levels… (too big to copy)

I don’t say there are no neo-Nazis in Ukraine and its army. I’ve just stated there are neo-Nazi on both sides of this war conflict. If you want to appeal to such polls, I think you won’t be surprised there are weirder (and more grotesque) stuff going because of how some people are violent (un-empathetic) and other people are just being ignorant. I spoke with some Chinese about their government — imagine my surprise (oh, I was naïve) they were completely brainwashed while being completely ignorant about politics. I can imagine folks in Russia don’t even know what atrocities have happened during the 1920s and 1945+, 1960s… Ah, and the Lynch postcards in the US — I don’t think people even remember that.

Which most likely means they didn’t know what this insignia was about. As most of the people on the Internet.

Do you want me to provide similar articles about the whole Europe being covered in brown? Then the USA? And Asian countries? And Russia, too? Will it prove those countries are neo-Nazi havens? Nope. There are far-right all over the world. The crisis only makes it worse. What you want to focus, however, is that Ukraine is a Nazi state with people there supporting Nazism. How many friends and relative do you have in Ukraine, BTW? Have they been marching under Nazi insignia since 2013-2014? I don’t think so. Do you want to know what I think? Ukraine has been going towards becoming a national state like Israel for years. You don’t need to be the smartest person in the world to get that. Ukraine has [far-]right paramilitary groups and actual army regiments, they are strong. But what’s more important, they are the vanguard, frontline and in the hearts. Imagine what, in the people’s eyes, those combatants were right about being an enemy to Russia. And looks like the government of Ukraine chose the lesser evil (from their perspective). Again, it’s not some Nazi state. But those warriors were right, and they are defending their country. Well, that’s the narrative for the Ukrainians at least. Again, you don’t see even a 10% of all the combatants. They’ve learned their lesson and stopped sending anti-OpSec information. And, it seems, neither you know plenty of them.

Let me elaborate my distrusts towards search engines…

• Imagine a number of companies providing SEO and ads-related services.
• Let’s say their clients are top-9000 websites in the world.
• If you have a single cookie assigned to you[r fingerprint] on all those websites, do you really think it’s that hard to generate SERPs according to some third-party agenda?
• Now, let’s take the fact that the biggest market share on browsers is Chrome (and Chromium-based browsers).
• Also, people don’t really check for 20ish SERPage.
• Googling is a common noun. People use Google as their primary SE. If you don’t do it, people around you do. Is it that difficult to work with groups of people (based on geo-data) instead of individuals? (Remark: a number of tech channels is basically how you can find a person or a group, e.g., a terrorist attack planner(s).)
  • I mean, even Bing copied Google’s results for some time.
• Google (SE) utilizing complex DL neural networks (I’m not sure if I even know the names of their DRMMs). But it’s certainly goes way beyond robots crawling, indexing and ranking.
• Fingerprints + a proprietary browser (and all the rocket science behind it and its company’s infrastructure) being massively used by people around the globe means you are most likely is just a part of a group, and you are being targeted/fed with the same results as your weaker (in terms of PSA) humans around you.

Now, let’s presume you use a self-hosted SE. Maybe, you are an ex-Google employee who worked on their SE for years and who wrote a new SE. Call me a paranoiac, but in the world somewhat dominated by big tech and industry companies, I presume it’s possible to keep ‘unwanted’ content further away from certain groups or individuals. I mean, your SE still tries to find the results in the existing global infrastructure — is it possible SEs are given not the full picture with intent?..

P.S. Writing this, I understood I don’t really know what’s going on under the hood along the way. However, it doesn’t really change my initial point (before tech ‘details’) that the person I wasn’t agree with only wants to see what he wants to see (not the first time, BTW), completely ignoring others’ points of view.

If nazis aren’t so prevalent how can Zelensky’s official social media not avoid posting WAFFEN INSIGNIAS

Easy. Politicians are sometimes dumb and uneducated. If you are not into SS insignia, you’d never think it is. The first thing that comes to my mind is some outdated French royal/noble family symbol. And I don’t recall Zelensky has a Master degree in European history or something.

You do know how search engines work nowadays, right?.. If you use a stock-market smartphone that you haven’t tinkered with (in terms of PSA), your fingerprint and most of the data is fed to the ‘system’ (ML optimizations mostly, to put it simply). You may use *UNIX/*BSD/Linux-like system, send all your traffic through a bunch of I2P/TOR/whatever nodes, sitting behind 7 proxies on some Pakistani server. You are still getting somewhat ‘optimized’ results for any query you put to whatever search engine (DDG, Brave, searX — doesn’t matter). Until you are completely, technically and socially cut off from the popular information ‘channels’, you are going to be influenced by the agenda you are targeted with by other parties (either manually or by some complex algo). And here you are, saying, quote: “…every time there’s a picture of Ukrainian soldier in the media they’re inevitably covered in nazi symbols…” Well, do you want me to show you the Ukrainian soldiers’ images w/o Nazi-like insignia? Or do you think it’s impossible? Change my mind.

P.S. Maybe, you should be way less “they are all Nazi!”, and be more objective on the matter. Just a friendly advice, pal.

I don’t really watch/read BBC or CNN. Same for all the other mainstream mass media in <country name>. I’m more into soc-lib agenda and OSINT investigations.

Back to the topic. Russia has neo-Nazi combatants. If you refuse that, well, it’s up to you. I presume all the people who are following this conflict since 2014 have heard about Wagner group and Rusich (ДШРГ «Русич») battalion. What about NRU (Русское Народное Единство)?

I see them in western media articles about the war all the time

As I said, fine-tuned.

Looks like your search engine has been fine-tuned to show you only such soldiers. I’ve seen plenty of both neo-Nazi and non-Nazi combatants in Ukraine and Russia.

Both sides have neo-Nazi combatants. If that comes to you as a surprise, you are far from being aware what’s going on.

Do you mean pro-Kremlin media or all the Russian mass media?..

Doesn’t make the war with Ukraine any better.

From what I understand, voting can be a good practice of bringing out [of] political apathy. Even though it might not change anything in the short- and mid-term.