Comment on Nvidia blocks access to video card driver updates for users from Russia and Belarus.

Dasnap@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Be that as it may, this is very much part of the intent of the sanctions. Creating popular dissent and dissatisfaction within Russia due to Putin’s insistence on carrying out a war of aggression is very much by design. This is the Second Cold War. We’re in it.

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  • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sure… Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.

    I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.

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    • Laser@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Sure… Their anger will be directed at Putin, not at who actually imposed those sanctions.

      I am worried that these sanctions will make them band together and support Putin even more.

      And then what? They’ll go to war even harder? And if Putin is such a good leader, why doesn’t he just have Russia produce alternatives to the goods and services under sanctions?

      The old status quo without sanctions got the world into the current situation. Why would keeping it the same fix it?

      One could also make the opposite case for your logic: I am worried that without sanctions, people will see Putin as a strong leader, and as such hand together and support him even more.

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      • Bartsbigbugbag@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Sanctions have not succeeded in lessening support or created regime change. They are a siege warfare tactic, and a way of inflicting suffering upon the masses of people. There’s plenty of books on the topic, I’d recommend Sanctions as War, edited by Stuart Davis and Immanuel Ness.

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      • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Well, I never argued for not sanctioning them. I just think it’s kind of fucked either way…

        And I don’t know if you noticed or not, unfortunately, the sanctions aren’t working that well… Maybe the answer is more sanctions? idk

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    • meneervana@lemm.ee ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Could go both ways, but really the change has to come from within, they will have to change this in the end

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  • levzzz@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Really sucks though that 90% of war supporters are brainwashed/indoctrinated anyway

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• GhiLA@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nvidia is a western lie, comrade. You don’t need it.

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  • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It was a joke why you’re being downvoted lol

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    • whatwhatwhatwhat@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Obligatory Poe’s Law mention, since Lenny seems to have agreed that it’s important.

      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law

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      • Vilian@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        To be fair, with the amount of tankies in this site, you can never play safe lol

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• sorval_the_eeter@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I feel bad for the average Joe in Ukraine, and I dont feel any need to pity Russia or Russians at all.

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