Thread by @geogvma

One thing that really bothers me is how, for a lot of people, from carnival barkers like MTG to preening dilettantes like JD Vance, right on down to dollar store “revolutionary socialists” and random anime pfp misanthrope, Ukraine has become nothing but a trope. /1

It’s something that these people, who don’t care about it in the least, much less know about or understand, trot it out at literally every opportunity to use as a foil to complain about something else. /2

It’s worse when they cosplay as being the only ones who really care about Ukrainian lives. “Stop the killing.”

But mostly (increasingly?) they don’t even bother with that. Ukrainians are treated as non-people, bare life that can be killed, mutilated, and raped without guilt. /3

“Tax dollars. Corruption. NATO. American empire. Bandera. Domming the bomb ass. Capitalism. Axist of resistance. Video of people at a bar. Water sprayers on the street during summer (remember that one?).

Whatever. Doesn’t matter. End the war. Commence occupation.”

/4

“It’s for the greater good.

And anyways can you imagine if Russia did [this thing that Russia has documentably done dozens of times]?

Anyways, I don’t want to die in a nuclear war. So a little genocide is a small price to pay, innit? Also 🇺🇦 flag in bio opinion ignored” /5

Not one of these people cares one bit about human life. Not one cares about morals or principles.

So they invent reasons to abandon 44 million to a necropolitical hell while patting themselves on the back for being the only ones brave enough to stand against the war machine. /6

They’re dirt.

Bury them.

Purge them from your organizations.

Kick them out of your weekend get together, preferably with [redacted].

Make them feel unwelcome.

Because they’re ghouls and sociopaths. /end