> Economy and how you are doing are what matters in the day to day life of people. Very much so. Look at how people in Krasnodar started protesting after they

> Economy and how you are doing are what matters in the day to day life of people. Very much so. Look at how people in Krasnodar started protesting after they lost power for 10 hours. After 2.5 years of Putin's war. > The average Joe does not care about politics Sadly, true. My parents blame everything on 'queer Westerners', while turning literally a blind eye to the torture of those who were against Putin. Might have a point though - my grandmother's family wouldn't have stayed alive if they weren't silent in the 1930s... she remembers how her building was 'purged' of mostly intelligentsiya. My friends are oppressed and many can't return home. _I_ can't return home because my country will happily jail me for who I am, literally (I'm queer) My country lost any chances of becoming a nice place to live for the next 100 years. AND IS THIS THE FUTURE MY FAMILY WANTED FOR ME?!!!. I... I don't know what to feel anymore. I left the day after the war started. My friends turned refugees. Countless civilians dead. Bombed by my own country. Sometimes I wish Russia was nuked out of existence, and I wish I was at the ground zero. Sometimes I wish Sun went nova and wiped any and all life because life is overrated and unnededed in this universe that was meant to be cold and lifeless forever.