I dont know… with all the war in russia ukraine, then taiwan crisis… all this make me misses 2019 to early 2022 Genzedong Era OG subreddit… god those were the glory days. I still remember that ‘uyghur bullshit masterpost’, then the flares. And back then was some good shitposting bout china and based commies state (which we still do, but it doesnt feel the same to me as on the OG sub)… then the flares ‘ximp’ ‘shitpost maybe’ etc… the automod respons…and also lib cringe weekend… but those days are over… and boy do i misses those days… 😔
Oh god, same. I remember when the sub was still alive and growing at what I thought was a pretty good pace, until the fucking neoliberal Ukraine circlejerk began and they couldn’t have anyone question the narrative around zaddy Zelensky and the “relatively civilized, relatively European” post-Maidan regime.
its honestly baffling how much western media coverage around euromaidan changed after february. acknowledging the foreign/obama administration intervention aspects and far-right ultranationalism insurgence within the ukraine used to be a totally fine discussion to have and was even occasionally covered by some of the mainstream neoliberal media broadcasters; now if i even suggest euromaidan having coup d’etat characteristics i might as well be walking around with a fucking tin foil hat on and wearing a black shirt with a giant, white Z on it.