Ah yes, Russia, the most well known country for people not rising up and overthrowing their government.

I had a Ukrainian say the slightly more acceptable version to me "They have the slave mentality, we have the free mentality, we call them orks".

This is a guy who fled in 2014 btw, both a nazi and a coward lusting to sacrifice all his fellow countrymen so the survivors in a place he hasn't been to in a decade can be the subjects of one group of billionaires instead of another group of billionaires.

There was a somewhat infamous clip on I think a German talk show just a bit before the war where some lady was talking about how the life expectancy in Russia is shorter than in Europe, so death is more normal in their culture and they don't value life in the same way (and thereby aren't really European). Naturally no mention is made of the fact that even at the time Ukrainian life expectancy was even lower, because it's just a backward justification for the same century-old racist tropes.

It's so ridiculous how libs can look at the silly way Russia is depicted and just go on doing a sick man of europe evil man of Eurasia thing, because this nation that has long been an opponent of their country just seems to always be dominated by especially evil people, even when those people had radically different ideologies and in several cases killed each other. Except that one time Russia was a wholesome republic when we were doing shock therapy to it and killing millions of people, but we've forgotten about that plot line now.

It feels like, as much as this is obviously a geopolitical tool, part of the reason libs love this story so much is it let's them designate the Other as being docile and subservient to deflect from the fact that most Americans never back up their complaints about their own government with meaningful action. Trump is Mussolini and the world will be incomparably better when he's gone? Okay, but then I can't help but notice that he's upside down and you don't have any plans for setting him right side up.

(Obviously I think adventurism is bad, but for someone in the "Hitler cast a spell on Germany" school of political bedtime stories, adventurism is suddenly much more justified because they say the problem is a Great Man)

Belief in Gene-absolutism seems to be a thing.

I remember my coworker once showed me a TED Talk style video of a guy claiming the reason people are poor is because people have a "poverty gene" and therefore, they have to keep serving their capitalist masters, who have their special and magical "being-rich-and-better-than-you gene."

Can't afford your car payments? You have an Expensive Car Gene.

Stubbed your toe? You have a Stubbed Your Toe Gene.

Gotten fired from your job? You have a Easily Fired Gene.

It's utterly ridiculous how many nonsense ideologies there are out there who try to obfuscate and perpetuate class rule through pseudoscientific bullshit.

wdym man the russians famously did a giant ass clusterfuck civil war

Libs literally recycling one of the arguments 19th century Southern aristocrats used to justify slavery

In America the government spends tax dollars on a very unpopular foreign government and builds data centers despite people opposing them, and the greatest resistance we can muster is people in frog costumes

Here the nationalists have a boner for Ukraine, hate the locals and think Russians are orks

Sent by the same people that think that participating in police-approved protests will topple Trump

Alternative theory: They've just been sold on a fucking war. It has nothing to do with genes. Two sets of oligarchs convinced a bunch of poor people die for money.

buddy, all slavs are slaves, do embrace your viking larp fully

So which gene is it? What’s the specific bit of DNA that’s endemic to ethnic Russians that’s not present in “non-slave minded” people? Fuckers say “it must be genetic” but then act as if the genome itself is a black box we can’t observe.

didn't expect to see pseudo-science/eugenics making a comeback until now, but if fascism itself is unmasking everywhere, i guess this makes sense too. :p

Haven't watched this video from Vexler... Is he actually arguing for the idea of a "slavery gene" in Russians? I'd be surprised, since his analyses are usually from a psycho-political or historical perspective.

You see, Russians have three bumps on the inside of their skull that press against the part of the brain responsible for obedience,