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      I’m actually, genuinely surprised that the mods actually bothered to do their job for once and clean up the obvious mess. Figured they’d let it hang

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    Honestly I am very apprehensive about clicking threads in the “main” subreddits that involve China or Russia somehow. Like, it could be about something innocuous but because it takes place in one of those countries it’s 100% guaranteed to have a bunch of libs in the comments saying horrifically xenophobic shit.

    There was even a channel I would sometimes watch on youtube that posted videos of wild animals in his neighborhood, but because he lived in Russia, shortly after the war started people were commenting stuff like “fuck Putin,” “slava ukraini,” calling him an orc, etc. and he had to disable comments. I hate it

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      Have an Asian person next to their pet dog in one of the subs and you’ll see a few comments about you-know-what lol.

      As for the main “China” subreddit, you can tell it’s mainly infested by white westerners and gusanos when one of their mods actually said that not enough were slaughtered in Nanking on the fucking anniversary of the massacre.

      No point in being “one of the good ones” because as we see the supposed lib tolerance disappear, they so happily call for camps and extermination of their “enemies”.

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      I watch this arts and craft lady on YouTube who is very obviously Russian. All the tools and materials in her videos always had Cyrillic writing on them and for some time it even said that she’s from Russia in her profile. After the war started she must have gotten lots of hate, because now she makes sure to not show any of the writing on her materials and her channel page now shows United States…

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    I don’t get it, what’s the problem? What were people commenting that made such a mundane picture controversial? Like I can’t imagine what this has anything to do with sanctions or the war in general.

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      Russia = bad, therefore I have to comment racist stuff’

      That’s how things are going over there right now

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      That sub has some severe opinions on Russians, Turks, Serbs and everyone from the global South. And it’s got little to do with the current war - they’ve been like that for years

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    I live with a Russian family friend on the weekends and we sometimes have her niece who came over from Russia a few years ago stay with us. Genuinely heartbreaking when she tells us stories about school and how people are constantly asking her if she’s ashamed of the war and Putin. She’s an 11 year girl jesus christ

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      You bet, I went through all those 400+ comments. They were beyond disgusting and were simply aimed as a troll psyop to demoralise Russians.

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    This genuinely breaks my heart. The first snow is always so lovely, I’d love to see what it’s like in Moscow.
    Motherfuckers can’t let Russians be people for one damn day.

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      I made a mistake. I saw some really cockroach-y comments and wishing for death, nukes and radioactive rain over there. Safe to say quite a lot of Europeans actually feel this way and are showing it off from behind the veil of pseudonymous internet usernames.

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        People’s brains are getting so fried, when a pretty picture of snow evokes comments about wanting nuclear war.