fellow fedi user in the middle east, this is too real 😫
Someone wrote this to me in all seriousness
“Enablers are bad, yes, but invading aggressors are worse., Your comment reads like “both sides” Russian propaganda.”
My family are Persian rug dealers that lived in Iraq.
خخخخخخخخخخخ Tell them about libya, installation of the shah or most middle east interventions. You can tell where they live immediately after they say BS like this lmao
For a while there were quite an active number of Arabic speakers on Mastodon though most have moved on BlueSky or defederated.
They always assume you’re American and then you see their brain short circuiting when they find out you’re not. It’s as if other countries only exist as this abstract notion and only America is real. They tend to think of us as this monolithic abstraction as everyone in a Muslim country, for example, shares some inherent trait instead of a place with its own contradictions and its own complexities that cannot be reduced to their dumb generalities.
Accurate
I get called either Russian or Chinese propaganda bot sometimes (because there are that many MONOTHEISTS in any of these countries…) and I’m pretty far ethnically from both, lol.
I used to get that a lot on Mastodon.
Maybe I haven’t run into it too often or I’ve been ignornant of it, but what are some of those opinions that you’re referring to?
It’s always amusing when someone makes a statement like this inside their echo chamber.
Like what do you expect?
Are you going to change people’s minds who already think the way you do?
Enjoy your upvotes.
I mean when the post is shit like “haha your government is as bad as ours therefore you are unserious, and ours is good actually” when most of us have oligarchical or theological dictatorships yeah, shit feels like a bot.
“people I disagree with are actually bots, not real humans”
Can’t cope with the reality that your empire mass murders people everywhere? Just say to yourself “we actually mass murder bots, not real humans”
