Ben Royce 🇺🇦<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.ie/@EugeneMcParland" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>EugeneMcParland</span></a></span></p><p>a reliable old chestnut:</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Tsar,_bad_Boyars" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Tsa</span><span class="invisible">r,_bad_Boyars</span></a></p><p>if something good happens, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Putin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Putin</span></a> did it</p><p>if something bad happens, it's someone else's fault</p><p>sweet sweet <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deflection" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deflection</span></a></p><p>i've encountered comments here on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mastodon</span></a>:</p><p>1. historical suffering in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syria" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syria</span></a> is due to the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/west" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>west</span></a><br>2. but also, syria is going to start suffering *now*</p><p>!?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/syrian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>syrian</span></a> suffering... begins?! 🤦</p><p>of course, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/assad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>assad</span></a>'s brutality, and his decades as a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>russia</span></a>/ <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>iran</span></a> proxy, just *poof*, utterly evaporates in their minds</p>