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It may shock you to know that in some countries[1][2], dissidents have been willing to take personal risk of jail time to make their voice heard. Or being kille
by orphea 3y ago
It may shock you to know that in some countries[1][2], dissidents have been willing to take personal risk of jail time to make their voice heard. Or being killed. [3]
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Yashin https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Yashin
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Nemtsov
- justrealist 3y ago[dead]
- orbital-decay 3y agoI don't think the poster above paints anyone in any light, but of course everybody hears what they want to hear. >- Are they, as a majority people, engaging in inexcusable wars of conquest, with close to 0 professed empathy for what they are doing? Yes. That's nationalistic hogwash. You're forcefully drawing the group identity line by the nationality/citizenship. That's a perceived line which doesn't exist in reality.
- justrealist 3y agoMaybe that's not the line you want to matter, but if you talk to the actual human beings, they are going to self-identify as "Russian" not "Citizens of the Earth".
- fragmede 3y agoThey're because whoever's asking likely comes from a country on Earth. If the being asking actual human beings was clearly not of this Earth, I think a great many people would choose to identify as being of Earth, as opposed to a specific place on it, or somewhere else.
- orbital-decay 3y agoAlright? With the start of the war, I and my twin brother, actual human beings, ended up on the different sides of the border, with different passports. We both been to Bolotnaya, Maidan, and many other places together. Both of us risked our lives, torture, and jail. But somehow one of us is not like the other to you, just because one has a fork and another a two-headed chicken on a piece of plastic.