Right there with ya.
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Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 days agoI can’t even watch russian movies or listen to russian music (even artists that have openly opposed the full scale invasion). It just gets me in a bad mood.
Any time I see a russian flag on the internet, it’s like seeing a nazi flag. I start thinking “Why the fuck is this here?”.
Hobbes_Dent@lemmy.world 4 days ago
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
That bad blood would take ages to clean.
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
It’s not going to clear, because the russians won’t change.
Not because there is something inherently malicious about them/their culture. That’s bullshit.
It’s the choices they make. And they will continue to make the choice to support genocidal imperialism because they have zero incentive to change.
Western coddling about “they are just afraid, what can they do?” is a massive disservice to the russians (not to mention the countries on the recieving end of their genocidal imperialism).
andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 4 days ago
Your reply would probably take me for a nosedive costing me another 20 to 30 years in solitary confinement, but I’m just not ready to formulate it yet.
For now, I ask you to elaborate on your last paragraph. About the disservice. What do you mean?
Agent_Karyo@lemmy.world 4 days ago
Engaging with russian victim-hood polemics is not going to help bring about any positive change in russian society.
Pretending that russian society does not a consist of strong majority of genocidal imperialists. Coming up with fantasies about how “everyone is just afraid” so they are just pretending to support imperialism. Turns out you can estimate preference falsification and it is relatively minor at ~10% with the impact being a change in support from ~75% to 65% (still a strong majority) for the full scale invasion of Ukraine.
Not putting Navalniy on the pedestal. He was a committed racist and imperialist. He was also a fool who decided to go back to russia, got himself put in jail and got himself killed. If the russians can’t find a better leader, then that’s on them.
Inviting Navalniy’s wife to high end forums where she comes up with stuff like:
What is your (the russian opposition’s) strategy for russia? Everything you’ve done so far has been a massive failure. Your organization is in exile and you husband foolishly decided to go back to russian prison where he was killed. What are russians going to do next?
You killed 5% of the civilian population in Chechnya, including in brutal targeted attacks and you speak about artificially divided? If 7 million russian civilians (roughly 5% of the population) were killed, would you be taking such a cavalier attitude?
If the russians do want to change their society for the better, they need to first confront the issues above. They will never achieve anything if they keep playing dumb. There is no reason to choose a “putin lite” over the real deal.