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That's not what that is.
If we're not allowed to be realistic about our expectations, then yes it very much is toxic positivity.
Literally not what that phrase even means.
Toxic positivity followed by gaslighting.
I get that everything is perfect for you, what with the genocide and all. That doesn't mean that everyone who isn't as happy as you want them to be about it is a child or a Russian bot.
Also not what gaslighting means lol
Anything else you want to deny the accepted meaning of while we're at it?
Anything to avoid talking about the genocide you're so attached to that you scream "Russian bot" at anyone with any misgivings about it.
Who's screaming here?
Modlog's right there. You snap to calling people Russian every chance you get.
It's an infection on lemmy, a bad one
Of people who disagree with you, so they must be Russian. There is no other possible explanation for being upset about genocide.
Centrists are so enamored with the smell of their own farts that they can't imagine anyone not liking the smell.
Weird way of thinking.
Not liking genocide is weird to you?
"These people disagree with me and therefore are Russian stooges" is weird, rather than "these people are Russian stooges and therefore disagree with me".
It sure is. You should use some other criterion to make that judgement, but you never have and never will.