Can’t see anything wrong with calling your child after your favorite character

I’m reading my comment and it is still funny to me. I’m just a bad person I guess.

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The last hope billionaires have

Oh boy they will. But it won’t be like ‘Oi, climate change is real, let’s do something’, it will be more like they always knew and didn’t want the public to panic, didn’t want to change the economy so the people would enjoy soy sauce for a few more years

If only cities were walkable and had good public transport, then deliveries would be worst.

Take a look at Northern Chertanovo in Moscow. We had a chance, but we missed it

by capitalist profit motives.

I wouldn’t say it is about profits anymore, I think it’s more about their own security. Looks like we’re in the start of WWIII, so cutting down carbon dioxide sources by the US/EU would mean that China/Russia will have great advantage because they won’t cut their sources and because people in the US/EU will not be happy with that decision en masse.

If you look away, you will have to watch another one

A few more years till they measure engagement via your camera

They sink yachts

I am you

Fuck orcas, but also fuck cars

While out of context I’d agree with the statement.

But in the context you are calling for executions

This is the genocide call as well. Crimea was under Russian control for over 10 years. People both in Russia and Ukraine receive passports on their 14th birthday. So you are calling to kill all crimeans between 14 and 24.

And no, if you think that they should’ve received their Ukrainian passport, you’re still wrong. Ukraine set a massive bureaucratic wall that is easy on paper, but is hard in reality

No, it’s a simple war propaganda

Fucking skinned alive. Add everything you have to the bonfire of war and hate.

And don’t worry, you’re on the right side of history

I lost all hope in humanity reading the Reddit comment section on this topic.

1. He sold his ass to Putin

2. NYT is a Russian propaganda

3. Russian soldier did not follow Geneva Convention so it was ok to execute him

4. Russians are violent pigs beyond saving. They should be exterminated.

Let me first address the accusations of me accusing you being emotional and whatever. We’re having a respectful conversation I hadn’t hoped to have it in the first place. I don’t like your views, I may only sympathize with you. Thanks for that.

The hate you are talking about is not inherently inside Russia’s population. This hate is channeled by propaganda. As with Georgians and Turks: there were periods where everyone hated them, now they are friends. Fingers crossed the same will happen with ukranians soon, but I lost any hope that it will be reciprocal. Still, it is and will remain for decades a problem for the world.

how and when will russia change from its current state?

The current state is perpetual but silent war that exists, but somewhere far from themselves. The government finds this state to be the most favorable to them, but it draws a line between the government and the economic elites. I’d give it five to twenty years to resolve. No more than Putin’s lifespan, but also it should be resolved by the upcoming Third World War.

But the question itself contains a subtle implication. You think that Russia is a threat to the world or neighbors because how easy it starts the war with its neighbors and how violent its rhetoric. While I agree, I would also add to this the efficiency of Russian government, if by efficiency we define the government’s capability to save and multiply the resources of the very rich. My biggest fear is that other countries will implement the similar approaches.

That’s the case of corporate VPN I believe

I’ve been recently banned for putting links that lead to russian sites, so I’ll reference the sources by name in italic.

On the quantitative side this is confirmed by various polling initiatives that use different methodologies (including in-direct polling with attempts to estimate preference falsification).

AFAIK it is neither confirmed nor refuted. I don’t know how one would interpret results where 91-93% just refuse to talk to a sociologist and 4-5% more abort the interview when asked about something related to the war. That’s the results by Russian Field, one of a few agencies that publish these numbers. They do interpretation of these results, but they differ from month to month: you can numbers from Feb 2024 to prove your point, I can put numbers from May 2024 to prove mine.

On the qualitative side, you can look at genocides committed in the last ~100 years by the russians (and there are several, includes less well known ones) and review the attitudes towards these crimes among various socio-political groups

That’s a bold point implying that history defines the attitudes for a whole nation for decades. There were a lot of atrocities made in the name of Russia in the Baltic states, Belarus, Ukraine, towards Circassians, Germans, Tatar and Georgians (probably forgot something). But for some reasons, russians want to exterminate only Ukrainian identity, conquer Baltics and befriend Georgia and Germany. That’s a political/propaganda surface, not a historical one.

Talking about qualitative research, there’s a publicsociologylab group that conducts interesting narrative research. Their last project is concerned with the view on the war from a non-central city. They conclude that people do ignore the atrocities and view them as something that is alien to them. The only question they ask is whether it is worth it to go to war for $10k + $3k/mo.

I hope that I was able to draw a picture where Russia is not a country of pests that should be exterminated. It’s a complex evil system that could be built anywhere in the world, even in Ukraine or the US.