Hmmmm, I don’t think it’s quite that simple, but I can understand your desire to believe it is.

This story is exactly what left-wing cancel culture is: holding people accountable for their shitty views.

Sportswashing is not “doing sports while your government does bad shit.” It is “paying for sports to try and distract from your government doing bad shit, and using your funding and other control of athletes to make them your shills.”

There’s the door. Please leave.

What are they paying you in, Putin’s cum, because your currency isn’t worth shit anymore?

Ruble isn’t going as far as it used to?

Fuck off you russian puppet.

“Look, Russia deserves to own the Ukraine. They told me they were the good guys in this.” - Trump, probably

Most Ukrainians speak Russian (as well as Ukrainian). Strangely, most Ukrainians are fighting back against the invasion. Odd thing for people who’ve been on the receiving end of violence from the Ukrainian government to do, no?

“the special operation”

that is a fact

God bless Kotaku for having a variety of commentators from normal people here for video games to Putin Shills. What range.

Honestly, if you seriously believe Ukraine waited for Russia to invade and then started bombing their own cities, you’re probably not smart enough to be allowed on twitter.
I guess chess takes up all of this persons brain cells.

While this guy is almost certainly a true believer, given his active participation in the propaganda, you should keep in mind that totalitarian regimes don’t visit their vengeance on you.

I generally try to refrain from overt judgement on this sort of subject for exactly that reason. If you’re high profile and your family lives under the thrall of a totalitarian leader, they’ve got a lot of pressure they can put on you and it can be easy to buckle. People like pretending they’d be big and tough if…

I am more tolerant than most around here and I even think that dastardly “cancel culture” stuff so many of you like to angrily and repeatedly insist isn’t real is in fact real.

Yeah but also Russia is deliberately targeting civilians. Sometimes, or perhaps at this point often, ONLY civilians.

it is genuine, he’s been well-known as a pro-putin guy for quite a while i believe

i’m not a fan of the idea of painting people as ‘bots’ etc though, it feels pointless to me

Dude’s twitter page is like 99% propaganda, are we sure he wasn’t just a fleshy Russian bot all along?

What’s more likely Sergey... The Ukranians shelling and using cluster munitions on their own people or an invading force trying to capture a city and demoralize a population doing so?