I used to root for this guy until he became pro-Putin.
Maybe he hopes for Russia to give me asylum? The KGB rule is much worse than he can even imagine though.
Yep, definitely not the first time. Just look at Scott Adams.
The Joy of Work should be required reading for every new college graduate.
Every hero ultimately becomes a villain in the current society, because current society cannot withstand people having different opinions from us.
If we cannot accept different opinions, what's even the point of having heroes ?
"He was arrested in 1994 for trafficking in stolen phone calling card numbers" (wikipedia)
just a fun loving, movie pirating criminal for a while.
At this point I feel like the people protesting the Vietnam war would be regarded by the current online zeitgeist as “pro-Mao”.
"During the Russo-Ukrainian War, Dotcom has repeatedly spread anti-Ukrainian falsehoods, and Russian government propaganda. Critics accuse him of spreading Russian Federation propaganda such as: claims of Nazism in Ukraine, Ukrainian attacks on Russian-speaking minority, claims of American "biolaboratories" in Ukraine, and accusing the US of causing the Russian Federation's invasion of Ukraine."
As with all Wikipedia refs, review their sources yourself.
Dotcom's words are untrue, yes.
At least the claim regarding nazism is very valid. Heck, Ukraine has a whole bataillon using that emblem[1], featuring a rune-like SS symbol and the freaking black sun! People having been accused of nazism in the US or Europe for way less than that.
The implication of US in the Maiden Revolution, which is one root of the problem, is also documented in serious newspapers[2].
[1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%A9giment_Azov#/media/Fich...
[2] https://www.lepoint.fr/monde/ukraine-la-cia-en-sous-main-05-...
— Alexey Milchakov, field commander of the Rusich neo-Nazi paramilitary group in russia.
The war was never about Nazism. The russians use the word “Nazi” to describe anyone who opposes russia. The official russian position on WWII is that it started in 1941 (when Operation Barbarossa started, and not the invasion of Poland), and russia’s official position is that the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact never existed.
Russia is full of Nazis, and the russians were allied with Nazi Germany in WWII.
The war in Ukraine today is not about Naziism.
Nazis invaded Russia and calling their neighbors Nazis is meant to invoke fear and imminent danger to the Russian people. It’s a completely different vibe than calling right wingers Nazis in the US
Because how do we know it's not really a country? Because it's overrun with zombies (Nazis), of course.
They now call their opponents nazis when they behave more like the German nazi party than any other country on earth. I can't help but think it's a propaganda thing to call the enemies nazis to distract from behaving that way themselves.
I mean who rolled tanks into Ukraine to grab the territory for themselves and drive their 'lesser people' into submission? Putin's invasion is pretty much a copy of Hitlers.
Molotov-Ribbentrop was not exactly shouted from rooftops, it wasn't even officially acknowledged until decades later.
If that doesn't count as a signal of "enthusiasm", I don't know what does.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German%E2%80%93Soviet_military...
It was pretty funny when shortly after the war broke out Facebook had to modify their policy prohibiting praise of Azov.
Except it's not. It's just a random collection of (by now very old) partial factoids mostly taken out of context and blown wildly out of proportion.
Why? To push your buttons, and get you riled up.
"In 1940, a group of Yale University students founded the America First Committee to oppose US intervention in the European war." [1]
"In its various expressions, the pro-Nazi stance during those years was mostly focused not on creating an active military alliance with Germany or bringing the U.S. under Nazi control (something Hitler himself thought wouldn’t be possible) but rather on keeping the U.S. out of war in Europe." [2]
[1] https://exhibitions.ushmm.org/americans-and-the-holocaust/ma...
According to a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee Report and the prosecutor on the case[0], it originated with a document from the SVR.
> So what?
People (like Dotcom, who chose to pretend he had evidence), organizations (like Fox, etc who pushed this daily for months with zero evidence) and governments (like Russia’s who try to divide the U.S. by using freedom of speech as a weapon) who seek to muddy the waters of our collective information pool are scourges and should be treated as such.
[0] https://thehill.com/homenews/media/452157-russias-foreign-in...
* Except for the war that was happening at that time
Many of them were extremely strong supporters of Ho Chi Minh (they used to call him the Vietnamese George Washington), the Viet Cong and — yes — even Mao. Mao’s ‘little red book’ was a popular accessory for anti-war protesters of the time.
Any suggestion to end the war involving Ukraine's capitulation (giving territories, being blocked from joining NATO or other defensive alliances, etc.) is being pro-Putin.
It's quite exhausting to read people like you parroting the "end the war in Ukraine" euphemism to mean "give in to Putin's demands". Chamberlain would be proud...
"I'm not friends with Jacob because he likes celebrity A and I like celebrity B".
That is not what is happening here with Dotcom though.
Kim Dotcom spreads misinformation and in doing so provides justification for russia’s invasion and genocide in Ukraine. It’s no different from someone saying about WWII that the Jews had it coming.
https://www.voanews.com/a/fact-check-pro-russian-falsehoods-...