Cancel culture in Ukraine
I see the champagne bottle element of russian culture made you take a back step to your petty sarcasm?
Your attitude is what enables Putin specifically and near universal support for genocidal imperialism among russians.
Even before putin, the russians killed 50 thousand Chechen civilians when they put down their independence movement. A comparable figure would be ~7 million russian civilian casualties. And you talk about Zemifra albums. The reality is that you value the lives of russians more than the lives of the people they kill (even that may not be your intent).
And of course you blame solely putin ("putin nipped it in the bud") for the decline of russian civil society. Even though the russians re-elected putin in 2004 (in an election generally considered free and fair) after he shut down all independent mass media. Russians are responsible for the collapse of civil society. Don't infantalize them, they are not children.
Keed in mind, I lived in russia for a decade, coincidentally around the time you were there. And I did actually enjoy the first Zemfira album when it came out. But unlike you I was cognizant that russians were showing a lack of humanity in their attitude towards Chechens and that even liberal minded were show a worrying level of support for an authoritarian KGB goon.
No where did I say russian (or Bengali or Farsi or any language) cannot be used in private. Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine, Ukraine has its own heroes and great people of culture.
Don't get petty with war crimes you little shit.
How am I shitting on Muslims? What are you even on about? You're equating Muslims to the Islamic state?
You can think whatever you want. You don't have to deal with russians, of course you're going to feign concerns about humanitarianism.
It is easy to reject reality, engage in historical revisionism, white-wash russian crimes, when the alternative works out to be you defacto promoting genocidal imperialism. Not many people want to end up on the wrong side of history and be caught saying "supporters and participants of the Nazi regime are not that bad". It is far easier to convince yourself that it's really about humanitarian concerns.
Then there is the cowardice angle. Feigning concern about humanitarianism provides a nice escape valve for de facto meek and complacent behaviour with respect to russian PR campaigns (nuclear sabre rattling). No one wants to look like a coward and a fool at the same time.
So keep at it, bro!
You seem to be a connisour of russian culture. You should look into their use of champagne bottles, it's very creative. I think you would appreciate it.
Check out Dalny, Kazan! Ask the locals and say you want a real world experience! Enjoy!
True that. Yes, it looks like total MAU could be a lot higher, although in ballpark it does seem to be closer to Lemmy's 45K.
I know you're being glib and all, but you're not doing the russians any favours with coddling their imperialist thinking.
They need to figure out what their culture stands for and how they relate to it. They are not even close, even alleged russian "liberals" are raging nationalists outside of public articles in English or western conferences.
Too bad MAUs are a mere 13K, even less than Lemmy with it's rather modest 45K MAUs.
But then again, I personally don't see any better competition to oligarch run social networks.
Thanks for sharing this community. Some interesting reading for later. Joined.
You should consider posting about your community in the weekly threads in the !fedigrow@lemm.ee
Ukrainians (in Odessa or anywhere really) are welcome to use russian (or Gujarati) in private. In the public sphere, the official language is Ukrainian.
I am aware that Odessa is not Donbas. What are you even trying to say?
Your waxing poetical about the russian nature of Odessa just like most russians (not only nationalists, you ever hear this from the alleged opposition).
Fundamentally it is not for you or (or the russians) to decide what the official language is in Ukraine, how we name our streets and how we choose to deal with centuries of russian imperialism.
For you this is purely a theoretical discussion. The reality of the matter is that russian language and culture are a tool of russian genocidal imperialism (just look at the state of say the Komi language, if you even know that such a language exists). To fight russian genocidal imperialism, you need to get rid of russian insignia and russian chauvinist, slave-mentality thinking. And yes, this also means recognizing that Ukrainian is the official language of Ukraine and that we have our our great artists and heroes.
Europe needs to get rid of all russians.
No visiting EU for any russian citizens until russia leaves all occupied territories, hands over all war criminals and provides financial compensation for all the damage they've done.
Russians can playing the victim. You're not doing them any favours by coddling them and treating them like infants.
Where did I say I don't recognize the brutality and the dysfunction of the US police?
So what do I not understand about ACAB?
I am not talking about US internal polemics. I am saying that a concept such as "ACAB" is not fundamentally not viable. You need a police force. One that takes the side of the people when things get tough.
Nah, it's because the article is bullshit.
The "kind of see where both sides are coming from" is de facto support for russian genocidal imperialism.
We don't need Pushkin statues, we have our own artists and our own heroes.
Getting rid of russian language and russian "culture" is a legitimate aim when your country has suffered multiple genocides and centuries of colonialism. Russian culture is trash and has no value. It's like saying Islamic state culture is legitimate. Would you be opposed to getting rid of Nazis imagery too?
This is just the economist's version of teenage edgelord posts. I would like to invite the author and their family to Donbas (this is where me and my family or from), we'll see what he thinks about Pushkin after that.
Why do you assume I or my buddies have any opinion on “all lives matter”. I am not from the US.
I am talking about practical, real world matters. A good police institution, one that is loyal to society and not to oligarchs/crooks is something to strive for. Meaningless, self-indulgent polemics such as "ACAB" (if you can even call this a polemic) is not the way to go.
Because "ACAB" is not a viable approach. Even in a society where all the oligarchs and their lackeys are serving multi-decade prison terms, you still need a police institution.
And framing this as a "competition" inherently whitewashes the crimes of the russian police.
Have you ever dealt with russian police? And if yes, in what context? What is your russian like, what level is it?
Keep in mind I explicitly said that US police are brutal.
I have had interactions with police in both russia and US (I am not white). It is not even close.
Police in the US clearly do a lot of very bad, brutal things, but they still have a measure of self-control.
Russian police are literally more like open criminals without any sort of accountability (outside of targetting say the son of a well connected government thug or oligarch by mistake). Russian police are completely unhinged.
Oligarchs is IMO a better term for our times. Robbers Barons has an archaic sound to it.
I've also noticed defenders of corruption/oligarchs really dislike this term.
Horrible death to die in the hands of some vile thugs.
"Ultra nationalist" ideas have always been mainstream among a strong majority of russians. The framing might have been a bit more subtle, but end the result (and desires) has always been the same.
Until russians are forced to confront their deep rooted genocidal imperialism, they will not change.
The "russians are all innocent and afraid" rhetoric is not doing them any favours.
I was really hoping that Georgians would be able to put down Ivanishvili/GD. But then again it's only been a few months.
Even a from a purely Ukro-nationalist framing (and I don't consider myself a nationalist, I am not even white), I would of course support the Ukrainian Crimea Tartar community.