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With all due respect Russian people are the only ones who can stop Putin.
by m_ke 5y ago
With all due respect Russian people are the only ones who can stop Putin.
- daenz 5y agoThat's my point. The ruling class is free to exploit, manipulate, and abuse the working class, up until they're really needed for something important, like bailing out banks, or pressuring another country's government. I guarantee we all share more in common with the working class from different cultures than we do with our own ruling class.
- mcguire 5y agoI would submit that most of the commenters in this forum have more to do with the ruling class than with the working class. (The median personal income in the US is about $36,000/year. (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA672N))
- daenz 5y ago1) Having more money than the median doesn't put in you in the ruling class. 2) How does the proportion of HN users that are ruling vs working class add to the conversation about not abusing the working class?
- dmingod666 5y agoIf the US citizens can't improve their own govt and get them to stop neverending wars, I think it's a tall order to expect citizens in a dictatorship to do it. Point isn't US bad -- point is, no easy way to affect change other than revolution which too ends up with bigger tyrants..
- charcircuit 5y agoUkraine complying with Russia would also stop Putin from attacking Ukraine.
- myko 5y agoComplying means losing their sovereignty to a foreign autocrat who literally has a list of people he intends to kill.