Like, you're trying to frame it as some kind of hypocrisy, but it's not a stretch to imagine that the people who rage against russia on reddit and the crowds who go to Bush fundraisers don't overlap much.
I hadn't been on reddit for a really long time (way before all this started) and I logged in yesterday and was pretty surprised by how much war glorification was dominating the popular page and the simplistic narrative being pushed.
Remember that half of the messages you are reading on Reddit are from literal 10 to 15 year olds. A lot of popular media these days, but especially popular media targeted at the younger demographic, mentions reddit in it and the quality of the discourse clearly shows it. Full anonymity on the internet was a mistake. The exact same words carry very different weight depending on what lips they pass out of and every ounce of that nuance has been lost in internet discussion.
Everything that pushes the required narrative gets massively upvoted and accepted as truth without verification, even if falsified later (like the “Ghost of Kyiv” which turned out to be screenshots from a video game)
You can try it yourself. Take a random picture from Google and put a made-up caption on it and note the results.
It's almost as if the context differs between upvoting on a forum and threatening a leader to their face in their own country, in a room full of their supporters. I'm certain that if a Russian did the same in front of Putin, the results would be similar if not worse.
but when a veteran soldier confronts a former US president for pulling pretty much the same shit, he gets dragged and thrown out:
https://old.reddit.com/r/nextfuckinglevel/comments/td5wgj/ir...