And don't get me started on the elections.. Which are of course totally unnecessary because Zelensky is not a dictator and everybody supports him anyway....
I have a theoretical question, just to better understand your logic, if you don't mind.
If I get into power - I will make it legal to hunt down and murder liberals (that's basically what liberals support happening under Zelensky's regime to me, so I think it's absolutely fair). Obviously it wouldn't be considered murder under my new law (like you don't consider kidnapping a kidnapping), but there would a term for it, like "making word a better place" (a la "arresting draft dodgers") or something like this.
Now, someone "makes world a better place" to your friends/family/etc. (we assume they are liberals). Will you say that what happened was "world was made a better place", or that those people were murdered?
If your answer is not "the world was made a better place" - why? How is this situation different from the kidnapping not being kidnapping because there is a law that says it's not?
Commitment to.. Continuing treating country as a prison and people as slaves who can be kidnapped off the streets and then be dent to death as a cannon fodder? I hope you will one day have a dictator with similar commitment to you.
Well, I am obviously not expecting to change a mind of someone from the sopuli instance (the top post there right now is "Ukraine’s Top Military Leadership: We Are Starting to Win, Russia Is Starting to Lose" 🙃).
But pointing out propaganda is better than doing nothing.
The context for the first link - the parliament actually FAILED to vote for it the first time (that's why the second attempt was required). https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/02/24/7499829/ imagine banning opposing political parties, and still failing to secure a vote "confirming" your legitimacy. Yep, that's how bad it is.
As for the second link (in case there are people who unironically believe this) - people are literally kidnapped from the streets, packed into vans and sent to the meatgrinder. Remember hearing about oppressive regimes where you are going to jail for criticizing the government? Ukraine is a democratic country, so here you are not going to jail, you are going to be just killed. I don't know who are the 43% in this article brave enough to say they don't support Zelensky.
You are agreeing with one of the biggest pieces of shit on the planet
Well, if Hitler (or whoever you consider the worst human to have ever lived) would say that the water is wet I'd agree with him on that.
I don't think that makes me a bad person whatsoever, but you do you
I'm kinda starting to wonder, with all the "democracy is only when the correct candidate wins" and "elections are undemocratic, everybody supports the totally-not-dictator anyway", what exactly is the difference between western definition of a democracy and dictatorship?..
Well, sure! I am very concerned indeed that in the "aggressor country" that according to the news is about to go bankrupt (for the last 3 years..), people are volunteering to join the army because of monetary incentives, but Zelensky together with the "democratic" west decided that me and other Ukrainians are his personal slaves who can be kidnapped off the streets and sent to the meatgrinder just like this. All of that while receiving hundreds of billions of dollars, with at least a hundred just missing.. Very concenening indeed.
Despite how concerning this is, I don't see how is this relevant here? I hope you were not trying to justify terrorizing people with "well, you see in that other place they are doing bad things as well, so why shouldn't we do that"?
Who is at fault? The attacking nation. Russia. This is the enemy. They are at fault.
Russia is in no way at fault for Zelensky's actions. It was his and his alone choice to trap people in a country with active hostilities (so that he both has more cannon fodder to expense and more casualties to pin on Russia). It was his and his alone choice to kidnap people off the streets and send them to their deaths. The enemy for the people being kidnapped and sent to their deaths is Zelensky's regime and others who support that regime. Russia does a lot of terrible things, but all of what I originally commented is solely on Zelensky and those who support him. Putin is not trying to get me, my friends, my family and everyone I know killed, Zelensky does.
it would be worse if the Russian army advances and murders and tortures civilians in the process like they have done already.
Like they did in Crimea, Melitopol, Donetsk, Lugansk, etc. right (and like Ukrainian force did NOT do in Kursk)? Or are people on those lands still doing [relatively] okay and can move to Ukraine controlled territories at any moment, while those who are on Ukraine controlled territories are kidnapped off the streets and cannot leave? Should [for a Ukrainian] be tortured by Ukrainians be somehow more preferable than being tortured by a Russian? (Ukrainian parliament members said that there are many more cases like this, it's just the only one that managed to gain attention)
Imagine how funny it would be, if the western "pro-democratic" leaders would support an authoritarian sadistic clown who despite banning the opposing political parties still couldn't get the parliament to vote in favour of
The statement also indicates that President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's mandate is not questioned by the Ukrainian people or the Verkhovna Rada.
...in front of those same leaders he invited? That shit would be hilarious as fuck if it were true, but obviously "pravda.com.ua" is a Russian disinformation site, so we're safe ;)
People were always hunted down on the streets and packed into vans by masked people (there is an entire new word for that btw, "busification") with the west cheering the man who does it as a great democratic leader? Huh.
it surely is not the fault of the nation that is under attack.
But it is surely the fault of the people being kidnapped, beaten, tortured and killed, right? I mean, you wouldn't support this happening to innocent people who never wronged you?
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