Comment by risyachka

5 years ago

I will respond to this one.

It's good that you tried to fight the regime. Clearly it wasn't enough.

You live in society, not in the woods. The majority decides how all live - like in any other country. In your country majority decided not to overthrow dictatorship. As result, minority suffers. So here is your answer.

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risyachka

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Russian  5 years ago

Most of people here has no any experience of fighting against even a soft authoritarian regime. You just don't have a clue how it looks like where the police officers beat you in the chamber in the night and you are screaming and nobody help you, they torture you putting a bottle in your anus and smashing your teeth. It's completely immoral to blame people they are fighting not enough, you don't know NOTHING about it.

  • jacquesm  5 years ago

    My sympathies, these are hard times and there are very few absolutes. I really hope that at least someone in a position to make a difference will do so and soon because the clock is running out for lots of people if that doesn't happen.

    Note that you are closer to the point of origin so people will automatically assume that you have more agency than they do. Some people in Russia are already taking action, depending on how many will stand with them they may succeed, there is ultimately safety in numbers, you can't jail a whole country.

  • dccoolgai  5 years ago

    Those missiles that are killing 6 year old girls aren't building themselves and paying for themselves. I respect that it's tough, but you have to respect this company's right to do the things you can't or aren't willing to do.

  • fastball  5 years ago

    Right, which is exactly why companies / other nations / etc are having to step in to stop the Russian regime, because clearly the Russian people can't / won't.

  • Aeolun  5 years ago

    I mean, nobody does, right? We’re all quite comfortable enough even with a regime in charge. Not much to be gained by the individual if they keep putting their head on the block.

  • risyachka  5 years ago

    I live in Ukraine, I was on Maidan in 2014. So I know how it is.

    Russians on the other hand don't. The are constantly afraid while in Ukraine we are ready to risk lives for freedom and democracy.

  • zapataband1  5 years ago

    Good @Russian, I wish nothing but peace for Russians and Ukrainians. We must stand together against our autocratic profit and war-driven regimes. Especially here in the US.

alinaish  5 years ago

So from your perspective it is ok to generalize and discriminate the minority? Sorry, but how are you better than Putin then?

  • mikeyouse  5 years ago

    How is he better than Putin? I think it’s safe to assume he never invaded a sovereign nation? (Or murdered any journalists, or shot down a passenger jet, or murdered political rivals, or bombed apartment blocks, or attacked foreign elections, or sponsored mercenary groups to overthrow African governments)

    • alinaish  5 years ago

      but the narrative is the same. if minority disagrees it’s ok to fuck them over.

      If you genuinely believe that russian people chose to live under the dictatorship, then following the same logic you could say that african-americans chose to live in slavery. Does it also sound reasonable to you?

      The statement “oh well, you are a minority, so you deserve to be discriminated” is quite an ignorant thing to say. Don’t you think so?

  • Retric  5 years ago

    Bystanders living in Russia are defacto supporting the regime by paying taxes, working, buying goods, etc.

    Leaving isn’t free, but it’s much safer than protesting inside Russia.