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Agreed - I can't believe how quickly the "mainstream" had adopted a hatred basically of a whole people based on the actions of an autocratic leader that does no
by version_five 5y ago
Agreed - I can't believe how quickly the "mainstream" had adopted a hatred basically of a whole people based on the actions of an autocratic leader that does not represent them, and where speaking out would almost certainly have very bad consequences. We should be doing everything we can to stop Putin from waging war, but casual hatred of a group is not helpful or appropriate, even if it's the obvious extension of all the online mob behavior we've seen in recent years.
- altcognito 5y ago“Do everything we can, but not this, this is too harsh.”
- pbourke 5y agoCan you not see how this statement must be true at some point?
- ProAm 5y agoI do not believe this can be classified as hatred.
- mynameishere 5y agoThat is true. Hatred by itself is inactive.
- pbourke 5y agoI don’t know why you’re being downvoted. What you say is correct and ethical, in my view. Putin and the Russian government are to blame, not random Russian citizens.
- Miner49er 5y agoI believe the goal of sanctions like this is to make the people mad at their leaders. So you sanction Russian citizens in the hope it'll help motivate them to create change. Not sure it could work with Russia, but maybe?
- veganhouseDJ 5y agoI don't understand how anyone thinks this can work when the one opposition leader has been poisoned and put in jail.
- jjgreen 5y ago> an autocratic leader that does not represent them They did elect him (with 76.69% of the vote).
- roveo 5y agoThis is incorrect. Electoral rating of Putin (as of 2021) is around 30%. The central election committee will just declare the results that Putin wants. People in the West who live in (relatively) democratic countries just go around saying "Russians elected him" without actually understanding what living under an autocratic rule is like. Putin never won a free and fair election. He persecuted his opponents, denied them access to media (and as of today, there's no independent media left) installed dummy ones that play into his hand and falsified the elections. It's like seeing hunger in a 3rd world country and saying "why don't they just learn how to program and get an actual job?"
- jjgreen 5y agoThe electoral rating of someone outside an election is hardly relevant, it only matters on election day. On that day (in 2018) the result was (according to [1]), 77% (56M) in favour of Putin. The second candidate got 11.9% (8.6M). No doubt this guy is a narcissistic deranged dwarf, but are you suggesting he faked 48M votes? [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Russian_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Russian_presidential_elec...
- pastor_bob 5y agoThis grandmaster's twitter is much more representative as to what the typical Russian citizen thinks about the conflict: https://twitter.com/SergeyKaryakin https://twitter.com/SergeyKaryakin
- tsol 5y agoAs a Muslim.. I can lmao