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Always curious when I see comments like these whether they're from literal Russian trolls. Or if not, then what exactly brought the person to a place where they will deny basic reality in order to show support for a brutal, expansionist dictatorship for.. some reason.

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It's very easy for us to doubt these things because they suspiciously and conveniently fit the "anti-russia" narrative. From there, a simple belief in the corruptibility and money-influence in media makes us question the story. And no amount of "oh it's hard to get hundreds of people to maintain a conspiracy" will reign it back.

And I'm not a paid shill. The above is just a reality of the media landscape and a lot of people's mistrust in it and of the west in general.

It’s very easy to fall into the trap of doubting and disbelieving absolutely everything, because you think you can see through it to the ‘real’ agenda.

But it’s not a sign of intelligence so much as a sign of someone who has lost their ability to evaluate sources, and cannot navigate the information landscape of the modern world successfully.

If Russia is actually doing bad things, reporting on said bad things is not conveniently fitting the anti-Russia narrative, it’s just reporting on what Russia is doing.

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