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In every country there are people who are nationalistic and think withint that framework and in every country there are people who want to be part of the global
by mrtksn 4y ago
In every country there are people who are nationalistic and think withint that framework and in every country there are people who want to be part of the global community of engineers/artists/scientists/professionals etc. and it is as if the nationalistic ones and their political fractions see the others as human resources that they want and have right to use in their ideological goals.
In Iran, in Turkey, in the USA, in Hungary, in France, in South Africa, in Russia, in the UK there are people who all they want is a decent life for the work they do and there are people who want to make America Great again, show Greeks that Turks are the boss or show Turks that Greeks are the superior culture that one day will rise and take back Istanbul, show EU that they are the man, revive the French greatness, preserve British ways against EU, screw the liberals, make the Vegans cry, keep the women in line, stop Netflix making the youth gay, preserve the Islam in a specific way, preserve christian values etc.
It's almost as if there are class wars everywhere but those in power fight their local class wars through external fights. That's why it almost feels like Brexiteers, MAGA, le Pen, Putin, the guy in Brazil or Philippines are all coordinated.
It's bizarre and I don't see anything special about Russia TBH. It's just that they seem to be ahead of the west in the direction the world is headed.
You know people who disapprove Putin and try to run away from Russia but unfortunately Putin continues to enjoy very high approval ratings[0].
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- tromp 4y ago> It's bezire. Is that just a bezire spelling of bizarre?
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- dvfjsdhgfv 4y ago> It's bizarre and I don't see anything special about Russia TBH. It's just that they seem to be ahead of the west in the direction the world is headed. On the contrary, they seem to be a century behind. Even China told them they should try to find a diplomatic solution. India told them this is not the time for war. The world has other problems than an old man's ambitions.
- mrtksn 4y agoApparently not, lives have been shattered because old mens ambitions since ever. Europeans and British can no longer live and work in their respective countries because of old mens ambitions. Because of old mens ambitions large number of Americans no longer believe in democratic elections. Because of old mens ambitions countless people have died in the middle east and other places. What Russia is ahead of is that they are first in the game of attacking neighboring countries with regular armies for old mens ambitions.
- mistermann 4y ago
- mrtksn 4y agoOh I don’t claim that the old men are the problem, it’s just that some ambitious old men can indeed cause huge destruction.
- mistermann 4y agoThis seems not quite correct: >>> On the contrary, they seem to be a century behind. Even China told them they should try to find a diplomatic solution. India told them this is not the time for war. The world has other problems than an old man's ambitions. >> Apparently not.... This seems to me like disagreement with the parent assertion that "The world has other problems than an old man's ambitions", and then add to that that you continue on at length about the many problems "caused" by old men (which I do not disagree with at least in an absolute sense by the way). > ...it’s just that some ambitious old men can indeed cause huge destruction Things like this can be perfectly true, while simultaneously being misinformative, in that it can cause the mind that ingests the idea to assign inaccurate causal weight to the individual phenomenon/variable, form confident non-comprehensive conceptualizations of the system, etc.