• jumperalex@lemmy.worldEnglish
      63·
      1 year ago

      Came here to ask the same-ish thing. I’m guessing field medic? Only reason to need scissors at the ready I can think of.

      Either that, or the Russians are using some shitty razor wire.

    • Gxost@lemmy.world
      447·
      1 year ago

      Usually dogs and cats are just there. Hungry and lonely, abandoned by their owners or having no alive owners. Between feeding and not feeding such pets soldiers choose the first one. And the pets start living with the soldiers. Then the soldiers make photos of their new pets. So, it’s not propaganda.

      And there’s an important correction: animals are victims of what Russians are doing.

        • Bibliotectress@lemmy.world
          205·
          1 year ago

          A different perspective of fighting back when a country invades you and murders, rapes, and pillages your people?

          Please illuminate us on this super meta perspective.

            • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
              51·
              1 year ago

              It can be viewed as propoganda, just as your idiotic blithering defending the ruzzian orcs is definitely propaganda. The difference is that the kitty picture is “good” propaganda, that will help end the war and stop harming anumals. Your shilling is causing harm to other animals.

              Why don’t you get on the animal’s side and stop helping the ruzzian orcs harm them?

        • PugJesus@kbin.socialOP
          11·
          1 year ago

          You would think if I was trying to make a propaganda campaign out of something I wouldn’t have freely admitted to finding them in my ‘Ukrainian War’ folder, and would have more than three to share. But have it your way - useful idiots always do.

      • hark@lemmy.world
        1330·
        1 year ago

        iT’s jUsT a CaT pIc, GuY.

        edit: If it was a picture of a cat with a Russian soldier, something tells me your attitude would be very different. I support kicking out the invaders, but propaganda playing with emotions doesn’t sit well with me.

        • MJKee9@lemmy.world
          187·
          1 year ago

          As long as it damages any Russian efforts to justify their unilateral genocide… Bring on the cat pics.

          • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
            611·
            1 year ago

            “I support fighting Russia to the last Ukrainian.”

            “It’s such a relief that I can finally channel my racism in a socially-acceptable way now that we are in a proxy war with Russia. Orc orc orc.”

            • Bibliotectress@lemmy.world
              103·
              1 year ago

              Russia literally invaded a democratic neighboring country. There was a lot of empathy for drafted Russian soldiers until their calls home were leaked and people started finding mass graves full of Ukrainian citizens. I’m not really sure what you’re expecting here?

              • MeowZedong@lemmygrad.ml
                67·
                1 year ago

                I expect the responses I’m receiving. I don’t respond expecting any change, I respond with the hope that once in awhile, someone may come along and read a comment that makes them question the narratives that they’ve been taught to blindly accept.

                I hope that people can look beyond the propaganda they are hit with and realize that continuing to support this conflict will do nothing to help the Ukrainian citizens. What it will do is create a situation where Ukraine is perpetually indebted to NATO countries and the companies within that wish to exploit Ukraine, further enrich the morally bankrupt military industry, and produce dangerous conditions that the Ukrainian and Russian people will be paying for with their health for decades to come similar to what we see in Laos, Iraq, and Afghanistan.

                Allowing comments with underlying messages and assumptions that dehumanize a people to go uncontested has already led to widespread acceptance of racism towards “the other,” which is something that is always unacceptable.

                I hope people will quit swallowing the tepid justifications for war that the rich and their puppets push. Splitting those of us who have to pay the costs of their destruction along ideological lines that don’t even get to the root of the problem wastes our energy on meaningless discourse and further stabilizes the dictatorship the rich have nearly the entire world under.

              • hark@lemmy.world
                48·
                1 year ago

                The USA literally goes around the entire world invading countries. No one seems to care since I guess those countries are not considered “democratic” (i.e. western, white, blond-haired and blue-eyed) enough.

            • MJKee9@lemmy.world
              52·
              1 year ago

              Most people feel before they think. The fact you didn’t consider that leads me to conclude your definition of “reasonable” is flawed.

                • MJKee9@lemmy.world
                  41·
                  1 year ago

                  You are naive and inflexible. That is unreasonable.

                  Also that’s not the definition of reasonable. So you are inexact as well. Bad combination.

                • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
                  11·
                  1 year ago

                  Well that excludes you. You are incapable of understanding that these pictures help the animals and harm the ruzzian orcs. Instead you have filled this thread with your implicit approval of the orcs.

                  Stop being a hypocrite. Be a better human.

        • PugJesus@kbin.socialOP
          102·
          1 year ago

          “Organized propaganda campaign”

          My guy hanging with animals, pets or former strays, is what bored soldiers do, all the way back to antiquity. Or at least is one of the more family-friendly things bored soldiers do.