Thread by @neil_abrams

My point, Aaron, is that you *don’t actually care* about the people affected by these conflicts.

You do care about exploiting their suffering to make a name for yourself. But you don’t care about them.

I can prove it, too.

A thread:

https://twitter.com/aaronjmate/status/1677475473046003713

For starters, you’ve spent the entire war ignoring or denying one Russian atrocity after another—the massacres, deportations, indiscriminate aerial bombings, etc., etc. But now you suddenly pretend to care about…cluster munitions?

Gimme a break.

https://twitter.com/SpaghettiKozak/status/1677421366021160960?s=20

But let’s leave that aside. The civilian casualties cluster munitions will cause are miniscule compared to other things—you know, like RUSSIA’S INVASION.

Which gets me to your use of the term “U.S. proxy war,” a device aimed at eliding the culpability of the actual aggressor.

Whenever I criticize you for this, you respond with examples of U.S. officials acknowledging that America stands to benefit from a weakened Russia.

Well, if some in the U.S. call it a proxy war, Russia calls it a war of colonial conquest. So which is it?

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1570882316100333568?s=20

Which label best captures the reality? You’d never try to answer that, because if you were to even acknowledge the obvious counterargument—that it’s a war of colonial conquest—it would lay bare the self-evident absurdity of calling it a “U.S. proxy war,” as you prefer to do.

But the fact is, you don’t bother to interrogate *any* of your ridiculous claims—including but not limited to your “U.S. proxy war” line. And that’s because *you do not care* about the stakes of the war in the first place.

You’d think that someone who’s genuinely concerned about the lives destroyed by Russia’s invasion would be willing to put some actual energy into understanding it.

But that ain’t you, is it, @aaronjmate?

Remember this shitshow?

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1589727146649751552?s=20

@aaronjmate The reason you don’t bother trying to understand the conflicts you talk about is that it’s all a game to you. The actual humans affected are just a bunch of props that serve to support this silly grift you’re using to make a name for yourself.

@aaronjmate If you cared one iota about the lives impacted by the war, you wouldn’t keep calling for “peace” without addressing the blindingly obvious objection: That such a deal would doom any Ukrainians trapped under Russian control to further atrocities.

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1622694391096741902?s=20

@aaronjmate That’s what exposes you for what you are, @aaronjmate: Not a peace advocate but a peace-troller—someone who disingenuously champions “peace” in order to deflect from an honest discussion of the conflict.

@aaronjmate Still, the most revealing sign of your rank nihilism isn’t the peace-trolling; it’s the atrocity-denial. In short, you’ve never met a Russian atrocity you’re not willing to blame on Ukraine, no matter how much idiotic gaslighting it takes to get you there.

@aaronjmate Remember when you retweeted an obviously false timeline about Bucha in an attempt to imply that Ukraine and not Russia was responsible?

Seriously, guys, it’s impossible to overstate how dumb this conspiracy theory was. For more, see my thread:

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1642920357664260096?s=20

@aaronjmate When the ensuing months brought forth a mountain of evidence proving Bucha was the work of Russian and not Ukrainian forces, did you bother to correct your previous statement?

Nope—the reason being, you DON’T GIVE A SHIT.

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1642917615600558080?s=20

@aaronjmate But you did deny having ever insinuated Ukrainian culpability in the first place. Not only that; you did so in the very same breath in which you suggested Ukraine’s guilt for *another* Russian atrocity, the bombing of the Mariupol theater.

@aaronjmate Never mind that weeks *before* you denied Russia’s responsibility for the Mariupol theater attack, the AP published a definitive investigation refuting the claim that Ukraine did it.

Go ahead; check out the dates on the two screenshots below:

@aaronjmate That’s not even to mention all the other investigations—by Amnesty International, the OSCE, etc.—demonstrating Russia and not Ukraine destroyed the theater.

Any acknowledgement of these on your timeline? Nope—because, again, you don’t actually care about any of this.

@aaronjmate And let’s not forget your braindead denial of Russia’s child-deportations. Despite all the independent investigations and the CONFESSIONS OF RUSSIAN OFFICIALS, you still insisted “the only source I can see is a State Department-funded group.”

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1641106820172500992?s=20

@aaronjmate Seriously, kids, find someone who loves you the way Aaron Maté loves not doing research.

https://twitter.com/neil_abrams/status/1641106522888626176?s=20

@aaronjmate Well at least you did the honorable thing by coming out and correcting your previous…Oh god I’m sorry, I couldn’t get through that without falling off my chair.

No, you never did correct your previous statements denying the existence of Russia’s child-deportation program.

@aaronjmate Oh, and there’s also your recent efforts to cast doubt on Russia’s culpability for the Nova Kakhovka dam catastrophe.

Any plans to correct the record in light of recent evidence, Aaron? Of course not, as that would imply you actually give a rat’s ass about the victims.

@aaronjmate But yeah, @aaronjmate, I’m sure the families of the victims in all these atrocities *really* appreciate the work you’re doing—what with your efforts to sow doubt about the perpetrator’s guilt and all. You obviously care deeply about them and empathize with their plight.

@aaronjmate It’s not just that you betray your own moral indifference; you seek to instill it in your audience too. Like, your entire shtick is to convince people that Ukraine is at least as culpable as Russia, thereby injecting moral ambiguity into a situation that demands moral clarity.

@aaronjmate By the way, @aaronjmate, you have yet to mount anything resembling a respectable retort to my recent examination of your Russiagate nonsense.

As with all your propaganda, the closer one looks, the dumber it’s revealed to be.

(Link in bio)

@aaronjmate I can’t know for sure what motivates you, @aaronjmate, but I’ll take a stab at it anyway. You want to become famous and respected like your father. Only you lack his intellect, his originality, his work-ethic, his expertise, and, most of all, his empathy. So you never will.

@aaronjmate When it comes down to it, you’re a mediocrity, one utterly lacking an appropriate moral compass. So if your father has already left a positive mark on humanity, all you can claim is a putrid trail of apologias in the service of autocrats, war criminals, and imperialists.

@aaronjmate You’re living a lie, @aaronjmate. You pose as a progressive but can’t empathize with the oppressed. You feign expertise but don’t know shit about shit. That smug cynicism you project is but a transparent veneer for a naïve and moronic understanding of the world.

@aaronjmate Basically, @aaronjmate, you’re an empty vessel, devoid of any recognizable values or morals and filled only with a vacuous craving to advance your grift. You can continue lying to your audience, but let’s hope you’re not dumb enough to believe your own bullshit.

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