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    Good on you for being open to non-western propaganda sources. Curiosity seems to be mostly dead in the lemmy liberal scene.

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        Why? You’re constantly inundated by your own side’s propaganda, might as well see both sides for context.

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          To be honest I’ve been trying to avoid that as well. Impossible to completely stay free of the bombardment of the Official Opinion, but I mostly read local newspapers and skip any opinion pieces on international matters in those too. So I have enough stress knowing there is a war, I don’t need to hear bullshit justifications from any side, and maybe aside from going to demonstrations I can’t do anything to stop it anyway, so I’d rather not blast my brain with power politics I cannot change.

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            “I don’t get information from either side, but I sure do have strong opinions about which side is the aggressor that I got from… Somewhere”

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              And I have accepted my lack of power. I can’t even keep my own emotions under control most days, let alone convince anyone else I’m somehow more knowledgeable or wise.

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                Look after yourself first and foremost, then if you have extra energy, you can start to help others.