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[–] hakunawazo@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

How sweet. He's already practicing for russian folk dance.

[–] ramble81@lemm.ee 28 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

This is a similar argument I make when asking people if they truly believe in god and the religion they do or if it was just indoctrination due to who they were born to. A lot don’t like the cognitive dissonance of thinking about what would have happened if they were born in India

[–] WorldsDumbestMan 2 points 3 hours ago

I like to remind them about the devout girl that was kept in a basement and sexually abused by her father. Whatever she did to "deserve it", they certainly did worse, so they should go through the same. But I personally refuse to worship such a god.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 24 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 24 points 11 hours ago

Nationalities are just arbitrary labels that you had no power over deciding

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 53 points 15 hours ago

inside it is another, smaller baby

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

The Russians I know are proud of being Russian. They have an interesting history with many (non war related) achievements. The war with Ukraine doesn’t define the Russian people. Also, (working class) Russian people are very welcoming to guests and selfless from my experience.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 12 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, true.

I also know another side to Russia culture, though. The Russians I know call working people the plebs, homeless people garbage, and feel the need to express that anyone in the LGBT scale should be murdered.

These are not just a few random people, mind you, these are Russians from different walks of life I had the misfortune of meeting. I've met many Russians, and all of them have this deep seated hatred against anyone and anything that isn't pure Russian.

Yes, I know that not all Russians are like this, but my point is that way too many Russians are, and are quite happily supporting all the shit that Putin is doing right now.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml -4 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Racism and nationalism thrive in capitalism. I don’t know if those are more prevalent in Russia than France or Canada. Almost all Western people I know think Western culture is superior and that all countries in the world should Westernise. That’s a very racist and imperialist view. It assumes that developing countries cannot develop and become progressive without Western influence. While the opposite is true, Western governments and corporations destabilise developing countries to exploit their resources and labour, which makes social progress really difficult. Also many of the conservative beliefs in developing countries where forced upon them by Western colonisers. Western people still tend to think people in developing countries are way less progressive than they actually are.

The Russians I have met were sometimes nationalistic, but none believed that they should conquer the world to rid it of ‘barbarism’ brought on by their own actions.

[–] Louisoix@lemm.ee 2 points 7 hours ago

This is so funny to read while being Russian, so much bullshit.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

The fuck you talking about? Older Chinese people are the MOST racist people I know. This has nothing to do with Capitalism. It is the lack of culture. If you have a homogeneous culture, this breeds racism and nationalism/tribalism. It has nothing to do with Capitalism.

[–] Heyting@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Capitalism is exploitation. To prevent workers from fighting the ruling class for better conditions, the ruling class has to divert workers frustration towards other working class people from other countries or other ethnicities.

[–] jaschen@lemm.ee 1 points 3 hours ago

Yo, no doubt that capitalism is exploitative. But it's a STRETCH to say that it breeds racism.

[–] ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 26 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Why is the Canadian baby so unhappy? Shouldn't they be happy? Or at least saying "sorry!"?

[–] Mossheart@lemmy.ca 4 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

US bullshit aside, Canada has been struggling for a while. Cost of living is out of control, many folks are struggling. Housing prices are completely unmoored from reality, especially in major cities.

[–] MadMadBunny@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 hours ago

It’s bad comparing to pre-covid, but not that bad…

[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 29 points 14 hours ago (3 children)

Because they know the top of their head is about to become detached at the mouth

[–] Probius@sopuli.xyz 5 points 11 hours ago (1 children)
[–] turkalino@lemmy.yachts 5 points 11 hours ago
[–] generic_computers@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 hours ago

I'm not your buddy, guy.

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 hours ago

It's a badge of honour, much like Americans getting their first gun. The head detaching process is, surprisingly, painless, but leads to decades of bragging about free healthcare and complaining about Newfies (you know we love you 🧡)

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 4 points 10 hours ago

I too would not want to be neighbouring US at the moment

[–] painfulasterisk1@lemmy.ml 6 points 11 hours ago

Look, baby Trump. They should've stamp him harder

[–] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 14 hours ago

Shouldn't the French Baby have a little white flag?

I kid! I kid!