The most stupid and the most redditesque statement I've ever seen. Imagine choosing life and peace instead of death or prison for you and your relatives - not that hard huh?
The Russian people spent decades encouraging Putin and his thugs to consolidate power, and we're meant to feel bad for them because they're now too helpless to do anything about it? No, no, I'm sorry it doesn't work that way. They're obligated to fix the bullshit they unleashed on the world, and they especially owe it to their Ukrainian neighbors.
Young or old, they can all do something about it now. This notion that Russians are weak, helpless, pawns without agency is so tired. The victimization fetishism disgusts me. If the Ukrainians could do it, they can do it too.
My mother-in-law in Kyiv sleeps in the bathroom every night because of non-stop air raids, and my father-in-law in Nikopol dodges "human safari" drones on his way to the market. You think I give one single fuck if some troglodyte in Moscow is depressed because his country is a real bummer? No, I have zero sympathy. I think they should wake up real late at night, strap some fuckin boots on, slink out into the shadows, and commit acts of sabotage against the state, and grind down their piece of shit government until it collapses in on itself.
There are such people in Russia, but what happens to them? they put them in prison for 20 years and forget about them, and for what? For the sake of people who will continue to hate them, have you ever thought about saying thank you to those people who gave their lives in order to help you in some way? Most of them are teenagers who had their whole lives ahead of them.
Propaganda works both ways - it's like one of those chinese finger traps designed to people apart from each other. They don't necessarily know any better, but that's probably not their fault either.
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u/proboscislounge 5d ago
Imagine fleeing from Russia to Serbia, instead of becoming a heroic partisan to liberate your country from tyranny.