• MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    When enough are in a position where expressing fealty doesn’t make them any safer than fighting back, they’ll take his head off.

  • sunzu2@thebrainbin.org
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    26 days ago

    If you are american, people are asking you the same…

    Normies are having hard grasping how political power works. They keep thinking that will of the people shapes policy, which has not been true since propaganda been perfected (if it ever was true). Practically a regime falls when food and energy stops flowing OR regime is weak enough for external force to tip it. Russia is neither currently… it is energy and food self sufficient, thats a small club that includes US, BR and CA. maybe some other smaller countries.

  • CTDummy@aussie.zoneEnglish
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    26 days ago

    Easier said than done. Putin killed off Navalny; an opposition leader and head of an anti-corruption body. A leader of a private military company marched on Moscow due to being pissed at his troops being fed to the meat grinder with fuck all support. His plane was blown up with innocents on board. What chance does the average citizen have? Plus if they don’t already have laws for protestors/dissent they’re on the way. Have complaints about the regime? Enjoy the labour camp.

    A strong state media apparatus helps. Constantly instilling fear that the enemy is at the door (NATO encirclement bs for example); that isn’t helped by the US feeding that narrative constantly.

  • Tuukka R@sopuli.xyz
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    26 days ago

    I was just talking with a Russian woman I know who always seemed like a decent person.

    And then she uttered “there’s no leader around who would be better for the Russia than Putin is”. I was left gobsmacked. I’ve still to go back to her and ask how the hell that’s supposed to be possible in her opinion. Like, what should some other leader do in order to be even worse than Putin, really? How is killing hundreds of thousands of people, spending all the money saved for the future, torturing people en masse, destroying the own country’s economy, and destroying the image of the Russia as a country and Russians as a people in the eyes of other peoples not a problem?

    It seems crazy. You cannot really run a country down worse than Putin has done. Or maybe you can, by being a Pol Pot. But is there really a chance that a Pol Pot would somehow manage to seize power in the Russia? Almost anybody is better than Putin. But Russians disagree. They like their Putin the best possible president they have. They say it’s sad that they’ve got nothing better than that asshole, but they still do think he’s the best available. They think that if Putin dies, somebody “worse” will replace him. That is utterly moronic.

  • dan1101@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    26 days ago

    I didn’t understand it before but now with Trump’s second term, I see there are just a ton of self-centered double standard shitty people in the world. A lot of Russians, maybe a majority, like Putin.

    • SkyNTP@lemmy.ml
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      26 days ago

      Also, don’t discount oppression and misinformation used to squeeze people in giving up their collective power.

  • BurgerBaron@piefed.socialEnglish
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    25 days ago

    A critical mass majority needs to support the same cause as you against the enemy or you’ll just end up like Luigi in the USA or worse. Yeah some slacktivists might celebrate you or mark you as a Saint but nothing changes for the better. The leaders mirror the public. Taking out a singular symptom of the disease does nothing. The public, the citizens, are rotten. They’ll just allow another piece of shit to take over in the power vacuum.

    I realised this thinking about Alberta’s future. The numbers are simply not on my side. I also weigh this reality when I see Canadians performatively beating their chests about guerilla warfare if the USA invaded. Hopefully we never have to find out if their tough words are really true or not. I really doubt that many are competently trained to do anything useful. Liberals are still attacking long guns as we speak, so how many are skilled with them here, huh? Outdoor survival experience? Hah! I did some through Scouts. As a child. I’m working on getting some refresher training currently. This isn’t fucking Finland. We lack such discipline it’s embarrassing.

    I’ve also been reading David Mitchell’s Unruly book and I didn’t think it possible but my opinion on the human species in general has lowered even further.

    Putin is still popular in Russia. Idk why that’s surprising to anyone who knows their god awful history.

  • Kizzie@thelemmy.club
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    23 days ago

    Maybe they like him & will die for him? Idk I am not from Russia, but your standard of good & bad is not universal