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  • labbbb2@thelemmy.clubtoTechnology@lemmy.world•Russian influence operations expand to BlueSkyEnglish
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    4 hours ago

    I’m getting tired of this ‘whataboutism’.

    It’s the same ‘third world’ logic: “look, there is also shitty countries around us in the world. So it’s ok if our country and we, like the people, are the same: with bad quality of education, without freedom, bad quality of life, living in fascist criminal state, illegally annexing territories, killing civilians, not respecting each other’s boundaries (because we are “collectivists” and not individualists, who care about themselves. It’s always ok to die for our dictator-criminal), we steal each other’s things, etc. And it’s definitely ok to change nothing. And it’s definitely ok to act like barbarians and then not to take personal responsibility for your own actions.”

    It’s YOUR country and we are talking about YOUR country and no one else. Don’t look at others. Do not normalize that.

  • labbbb2@thelemmy.clubtoNot The Onion@lemmy.world•JD Vance says Big Tech has "too much power"English
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    2 days ago

    These authoritarian populist tactics, after those people who voted for them (or will be able to vote) will say like “and you said that this person is bad!”

    They use the same tactic in Russia regularly. When politicians destroyed life of millions of people, after some time one poitician in Duma will say the right thing or propose a law for popular social issue, like “we’re against domestic violence” (domestic violence is common in this shithole), or on “elections” they will offer sausage or money for a vote to population.

    I don’t know what they are trying to achieve by that, but maybe that people will restore trust in them, and will continue to believe that “BS-democracy”. And after that these politicians who support dictatorship will continue to launder resources from the country. But in Russia they do that because they need people to participate in pseudo-elections, that will legitimize their fascist regime.