

Very much bullshitting. He kept bringing up the $20k bonus for signing up as a contract soldier for Russia, and said they wished that kind of deal in Ukraine. Euromaidan was a Western psyop, with paid thugs coming in rough up anyone who opposed it, Ukraine’s military was corrupt and mismanaging the war, he wished he could live in Russia and travel freely, lots of exciting stuff.
Eventually, what I told him was that as long as he sent me comment replies filled with bullshit, I was planning on making posts that contradicted his narrative, so the sum total of influence each of his comments would have on the narrative would be against his favored position. I posted the Euromaidan article to !wikipedia@lemmy.world and sent him the link. Weirdly enough, he suddenly hasn’t been interested in talking about it any further since then.
Edit: Typo
Hello again!
For context, this dude wandered into a comments section about a group of female Ukrainian partisans who are doing low-level resistance in occupied parts of Ukraine, obviously at significant personal risk to themselves. You can find some of their propaganda posters, which are spectacular, in my history. Here’s a sample:
This dude’s comment on the partisans was:
I thought that was hilarious, in a disgusting sort of way, so I started talking with him. It turns out he lives in Kyiv, everyone in Ukraine hates the war and the government, he wishes he could be in Russia where he could get $22k for signing up with the military, which he keeps bringing up from time to time. We’re going around an apparently never ending cycle of various important things I need to understand about the truth of what’s happening in Ukraine.
Of course it would be ever so beastly for me to suggest he isn’t actually posting truth that’s been denied to me, about Ukraine, from his apartment in Kyiv. And continuing the argument here would be off topic, so I won’t do either of those things. I’ll respond to his reply back somewhere in the ever growing labyrinth of conversation under the original post.
Also, a twofer, since I fell behind at posting Ukraine stuff every time you left me a comment:
https://ponder.cat/post/1521422
https://ponder.cat/post/1521529