While not bitter in particular, it is disheartening to see yet another VC-funded social network gain traction, especially under the guise of freedom and decentralization it doesn't fulfill in the slightest.
Sadly, marketing works, and people just flock to where the ads lead them. And the wheel of Internet history takes a turn over and over again, as people are doomed to repeat their mistakes.
Well, despising people and thinking of them as a monogamous group based on nationality is neither rational nor positive. Plenty of Russians are against this war, and whatever is currently done only serves to empower those who benefit from it.
I have relatives in Ukraine, Dnipro to be exact, and they were under rocket strikes. I feel afraid for them, and I would love to stop everyone who enters the battlefield - and have no mercy for those going there by their own will.
But I also understand that blatant hatred is going to do nothing but empower "us against the world" mentality. What is your preference - to be able to spew hateful messages or to try and make a change? Without understanding the drivers behind what happens, you only play into the deck of those who escalate the conflict, while also supporting suffering for those who never deserved it - crucially, on both sides of the frontline.
If you ask me, countries should not exist to begin with - but you're not arguing with me here. For plenty of Russians, losing their country is a big fear, and if you add up immense uncertainty that comes with it, I kinda begin to see what they're afraid of.
If you consider the geography of contracted soldiers, they primarily come from poor regions and have exactly one motivation to fight - money. For those regions, the money people get for serving 1 year is lifechanging, worth over a decade of work. And with desperate conditions many find themselves in, some take an offer. From that perspective, sanctioning the country in the way it is conducted now may actually exacerbate the issue even further.
Russians don't commonly love Putin, but consider themselves powerless to make a change now that protest leaders are all assassinated and even the mildest form of dissent is immediately met with police brutality. Many also don't see the alternative and are scared that end of Putin's reign will induce separatism and end of Russia - which is a talking point commonly brought up.
Although placing countless sanctions and international intervention tanking the Russian economy doesn't help Russians to love the West, either, as it is regular people, including anti-war and anti-Putin folks, that struggle, not the ruling elite.
Source: spending a lot of time in Russia
Thanks for an inspiration! :)
Lol. True!
sometimes it works the other way around
Yeah, I've been through that before, but there is plenty of openness in our relationships, so...fingers crossed :)
Agreed!
Trust is priceless
The only right choice! Thanks!
Nice, thanks! So weird these tools are not commonly used - managing systemd remains one of the common terminal PITAs for everyone who doesn't appreciate the Great Holy Terminal
Not when this happens to a serious project affecting millions of people.
So, there's a girl I had a crush on for a while, and recently she (I didn't tell her of my feelings) came ahead and actually told me she is into me for a while.
And...yeah? Boom, apparently I'm in a relationship with my crush who also crushed on me, and I couldn't be happier!
Can't wait to see where this leads us...hopefully somewhere good!
Anti-Semitism is hatred or discrimination of Jews based on their nationality.
No sane person holds anything against Jews, or supports violence against them. Some actual antisemites do, but they are in the tiny minority.
What people mostly stand against is the violence perpetrated by the Israeli army on the land of Palestine.
Israel has all the capacity to defend its citizens; yet Israeli army went way beyond defence or retaliation, into the territory of indiscriminate razing of everyone and everything, women, children, and sick, homes and hospitals. The state of Israel is accountable for enormous amounts of recorded human rights and law of war violations, and that's the key reason nearly all of the international community took the side of defending Palestine. Should Palestine have the capacity and will to do the same to Israelis at the same scale, the international opinion would reverse.
However, as Israel has to gain public support, which is hard to do when you're commiting genocide, the government and its allies (mainly US and UK, both of whom have strategic interests in Israeli expansion) decided to adopt the rhetoric of antisemitism as something that would virtually put you along the lines of Nazis should you try and challenge their notion. No, Nazis were actual antisemites and pursued to eliminate Jews; the international community wants to put an end to the genocide of Palestinian Arabs, while rejecting any hostility directed against Jews.
Wishing to eliminate one nationality to make safer room for the other, as well as "bringing in the correct values" by means of violence is a bloodthirsty and dangerous fantasy historically proven again and again to lead to terrible outcomes while multiplying suffering; yet by some it is understood for the very imagined and unrealistic scenario of falling Israel, but ignored while Palestine is actively razed by a hostile force of a much greater scale, ignoring all international treaties.