He always appealed to the masses. It’s not like he’s a Death Vader who pushes his will on others. He mostly does what’s popular and appeals to their masses. The Russian masses enjoy all that, that’s the Russia they built. Not mysterious one man who controls over a hundred million of people. Don’t strip them of their responsibilities.
They did had a chance indeed, but instead of giving them help, the west could have helped exactly the oppressed nations. Instead, we’ve got chicken Kiev speech.
Oh, that’s a discussion I was actually looking for. And wasn’t aware of it before I saw this post! I deeply hate and despise LinkedIn. Long ago, I was like ‘who the fuck uses this shit?’ But it feels like it became the de-facto expected standard. Now I’m worried I’m not going to even be considered a real person if I’m having no Facebook (I have it no more), Instagram (won’t recall if I removed it, but I’m not active), LinkedIn (still have, but would be happy to ditch). While Facebook and Instagram kinda not required for any professional communication, it feels like LinkedIn is.
So, what others think of it? I’m okay with losing some potential job opportunities, but not most of them. Perhaps I’m just wrong here, and the skills might overshadow the lack of social fucking network. Which weirdly became mandatory. More than that, I see others claiming ‘oh, you should post a lot there!’ Have you guys seen these miserable pathetic half-sloped posts? I was thinking of looking for a new job this year, and I’m a bit terrified of the prospects if I’m to stick to my principles.
What I meant is that they occupy everything, but these two cities and probably the ground in the middle, in between Moscow and what they once called Leningrad. Or Petrograd.
Moscow is their only city, plus St Petersburg is a front-end for stupid westerners buying the ‘great Russian culture’ narrative. I lived there for some months, and it’s so fucking pathetic, the city. But it serves its mission.
The rest is them occupying places that would be independent countries otherwise. Kuban is Ukraine. Ichkeria and Dagestan are independent states. Russia waged two genocidal wars on Ichkeria merely 30 years ago. Dzhokhar Dudayev (the leader of independence movement of Ichkeria, the one who Russia claimed as terrorist number one) said that Russia would break its teeth trying to chew up Ukraine. Kazan (Tatarstan) tried to become an independent state in the 90s, but wasn’t allowed to. The far east is just people forcefully deported from western territories, like Ukraine, Belarus, and whatnot. The far north is just some tribes they enslaved. There was never any Russia in the first place.
Hey, and the name is stolen from [Kyivan] Rus’ (Ruthenia), merely to claim rights on Ukraine, and puzzle everyone who won’t read a single book on the history of the region. Also, did you know they removed the very word Kyivan from the name in their history books? I’m not 100% sure that happened after the 2022 or prior to it. But it’s some recent ‘improvement,’ so to say. Before that, they coined the wrong name Kievan and Kiev as well. Kyiv was named after Kyi, not some Kie.
Ah, and the cherry on top, Belarus. Became Belorussia during the Russian occupation. White Russia. They call the country this way till today.
Even ~~fucking~~ Germans changed the name from literally White ~~fucking~~ Russia to Belarus. Just after the 2020 protests, when the elected Belarusian president asked them. Thank you very much. Yeah, must be nice calling a country White Russia. Fucking High Austrians, aren’t they? (No real disrespect for Germans, they’re the good guys this century. I’m just fucking around here right now.)
Well, Russia was the Soviet Union. They occupied the other states, that’s it. Russia is still literally the fucking Muscovy occupying other countries. It’s sad to see them wasting their potential only if you believe Russia was a positive force once in its history. It never was. It’s sad to see Ukraine becoming non-nuclear state, giving up arms to fucking russia, only to be attacked with these very arms. Also, the US giving the security guarantees to Ukraine, for the disarmament, for nothing. The US is the open ally to Russia, the very enemy of NATO, and they’re happily bonking kids meanwhile. That’s sad to see.
I hope everyone would learn the lesson. Ukraine would go nuclear, with other smaller states following. That’s nothing funny to be fucked with, when you give up missiles, and the USians being ‘haha, losers, lol.’
Perhaps China really deserves to become dominant, instead of the US. If the USians are that fucking dumb to bring these idiot to power, especially the fucking second time.
Where you people get this attitude towards Russia as if that’s an innocent kid, but the others, attacked by them, they never even given a benefit of the doubt. Russia is a fucking monster. And always was. They deserve to be completely destroyed. Only the tiny Moscow and the big number of independent states on its place is a security guarantee. For everyone, including Ukraine.
And Russians absolutely deserve all that. Who brought Stalin to power? Russians. Same people brought Pooteen to power too. They would happily bring another monster to power, as they’re monsters themselves.
In other words, a slave wants to have their own slaves, instead of being free.
You’re welcome to read Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder.
I bet you’re looking for zathura.
They said they use Debian, I assume it’s KDE2 or something.
Isn’t that why we’re on Lemmy? Plus federation.
I owned only MacBooks and not pre-built PCs, so it’s the same for me. Never bought a single Windows license, even the OEM one.
First moments I was like: wait, it’s Jeffrey. But then!.. yeah, he looks so much Joffrey, lol!
First, I thought that’s Tim Apple, not the pedo. Don’t know which is funnier though.