For me, it did.
I signed up on lemmy.ml 2 months before the Russo-Ukraine war and learnt about lemmygrad.ml. When the Russo-Ukraine war started, the Lemmygrad posts about Ukraine motivated me to dig more into the conflict. I was already pretty open to ideas, so I didn’t see any risk in it.
The result is that I learned about the scum reality of the United States. I saw a video that showed some atrocities of the Azov Battalion, and another video of Russian troops caring for the Ukrainian civilians. I didn’t get much of an emotional reaction; but I now had a general ideas of the (war) crimes Nazis commit. I also saw a disparity in views on Lemmygrad from Reddit; reddit has (heavily biased) support for U.S forces, while Lemmygrad has general support of Russian forces.
Is it cheating if I’m Russian? Well in 2019 I joined an American multinational in hopes of perhaps getting work trips abroad, if not outright migration somewhere in the vague future.
Today I sit blocked from all workplace resources and stand to get fired within the month, because said multinational is pulling out. There’s also a good chance I won’t be able to find an equally paying job in my field, because while there’s plenty of IT companies in the city, a decent chunk of them work for foreign clients - clients that are now unwilling to continue.
Additionally, I had to learn a number of unpleasant things about people I called friends online. Seeing live just how uncritically they digest every source-less story about “Russian atrocities” and how much glee they have for my countrymen dying to weapons their countries sell. Eye opening and disturbing to the core. The very same people I used to mock Nazis with.
Oh yes, it’s been quite “fun” these past months. I am not really looking forward to the future either.
Good luck, man. Not all of us Americans suck. Just a whole lot of us. I really feel that the truth about this conflict will drop on us sometime soon. Then every Ukraine supporter will have an existential crisis or pretend they never supported Ukraine.
Not all of us Americans suck
I try not to make sweeping accusations like this. You don’t have a choice where you are born. But thanks.
You’re mostly right though. I’m in a small town and some of the shit I hear in peripheral conversations is reactionary as fuck.
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Well, for me the amount of propaganda in my local media has become impossible to ignore since the conflict started. Even some translations of interviews to Ukrainians were entirely made up. Now I’m even more critical regarding the news I hear.
Not much where I live. (Thailand) The American et.al. act the way some of us has been expecting. The biggest impact would be, since my country have good relationships with literally everyone involved in this conflict and want to maintain it that way, navigating the political clusterfuck has been nothing but headache.
Side “benefit” of the conflict is that it help me reevaluate the way I view a bunch of my libs “friend”. I used to think they’re just ignorant libs, but, gosh, they practically worship the west.
I stopped watching TV entirely (stuffed full of ads anyways) and actively avoid any mainstream media now. Right when the news hit that DuckDuckGo (my back then go-to web search engine) is now censoring Russian search results as they see fit I had enough and set up my very own YaCy instance. First thing I did was to crawl dozens of russian websites.
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I run it on a machine in my room and since I don’t have too much bandwidth I don’t want to risk either a hug-of-death or some reactionaries DoSing it.
I live in Poland. Ukropropaganda is EVERYWHERE here, i am sometimes afraid to open a fucking fishcan because it would not be very surprising to see that fish scales and oil are purposefully set up into the blue-yellow flag inside.
Also the inflation is galloping and out president answered to that basically “fuck you and your livelihood, we must be antirussian at all costs”.
Not to mention it might as well end up in open war, since Poland is desperate to be the next US proxy - hell, our prime minister Morawiecki and his owner Kaczyński said in Kiev yesterday that it is “our fight”…
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Exact same here
Not major.
Worst thing for me has been being subjected to brain melting takes on inter-national politics from my family members. Apart from that the price of fuel has not affected me much since I don’t drive much but I am not sure how it affects me indirectly. I’m fortunate to not have been hit hard by it.
Every lib around me instantly became horny for Zelensky and weirdly rabid about how well Ukraine was doing, but nothing really materially changed for me. I wound up learning more about NATO.
Food’s more expensive now.
