Think there's a few waiting for one iota of criticism of the russian decision to invade and shell civilian targets then stone faced deny what they've done on the international political circuit.
Probably rubs a few up the wrong way. The cryarsing about respect and meme's is possibly a factor in how much of that flack comes their way thereafter.
Sorry I didn't reply to this. I didn't fully get the first part? What is the poster doing that you don't think they should?
I don't think they are necessarily cryarsing about memes and I don't see them asking for respect, but I do see they end up responding to the memes and potato posts with their own tiresome posts having a go and it goes round in circles. Lately a lot more than usual which again, IMO derails a thread on a pretty serious subject.
My point was I can understand this happening with an obvious troll like the window cleaner guy whoever that was, and I generally wish people didn't feed a troll (altho in the Trump thread lately some great and informative stuff has been written in attempts to debate with people who actually have no interest in engaging) but here at least from reading the thread day to day I don't see the same level of "deserving" target
On your other post about whataboutery, I think whatever conflict happens now, If the west are involved in some way the whataboutery is always going to be part of the conversation as trust of governments in the west and their motives and actions is very low. Or at least I would see it that way. Somebody more knowledgeable on this might have an opinion either way. However if this conflict happend in the 90s I probably would have had an opinion closer to West/Ukraine good - Russia bad without much thought beyond that. Nowadays I completely understand if there are plenty of people who stop and go okay, but what are all the players involved actually doing and why. Early in the thread I remember some poster, could have been
@davids or another, saying they have basically invented a reason to invade much like what happened in Iraq. I can't knock anybody being wound up by the media and anybody in the west taking a line of Putin bad/West good, even if in a thread like this I'd say their point could be made better sometimes. I think it may have been
@davids tbh and that to me at least shows a stance that this invasion was not at all justified and shouldn't have happened. They have also called out Putin imo even if I'm aware people mistrust the balance in their stance as it comes out in their posts
I think somewhere way back in the thread the points stopped being discussed and people have gotten their backs up and it's settled into this repetitive stuff and honestly if they are a troll or a putinbot as some suggest, there is plenty in this forum who are more than capable of pushing back what they don't agree with and that's this forum at it's best
(On a totally selfish point as somebody who reads the threads mainly and does not post much, it can be frustrating when interesting discussions start but then are cut down before they can evolve by people sniping at each other)
