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7/30/2025, 4:40:06 PM
>>24594218
Exactly!
My most radical take is that Russia is an ordinary European country inhabited by ordinary people who aren't special in any way.
I should've worded it better. I don't believe reacting to things in a stupid way is unique to Russia too, just a bit of observations from here.
Like, the "beat up gopniks with your weeb friends" part was not only real, but a part of an actual media panic for some time. Some hooligans in a mall demanded some weebs to cede them some chairs and criticized their long hair to which they replied "how bout we square up here bitch" and they actually fucking squared up and wanted another match, so the State's top minds were like "oh shit, there's a group of neo-Nazi Hunter X Hunter fans beating up people in malls!" and a bunch of people got arrested for a bit, practically willing the Organized Aggressive Weeb into existence to the point the thing somehow erupted in Ukraine as well. That whole debacle was *impressively* stupid but it's a sign of the times, sorta. The amount of alt girls/boys out there on the streets is like 10x higher in my town.
https://lenta.ru/articles/2024/12/19/chvk-redan-chto-eto/#a26-xroc0lusqcy5
>>24594222
Alright, you got me here. I'm not degenerate enough to actually follow Russia's current internal political discourse outside of IR journals where you can read nice parallels from foreign diplomats and "should we nuke Poland?"-type discussions from Russia's top political studies guys. I'd rather kill myself than hear more "Putin has sold the country to the oligarchs!!" slop again. When I did, however, the argument for there being lines that cannot be crossed and positions that cannot be adjusted was both ubiquitous (communists, nationalists, "system liberals", "more-Putin-than-Putin" state radicals) and had anything of substance. Everyone in Russia agrees that there should be smaller taxes, fewer migrants, higher wages and cleaner forests, and the rich should be more modest. Not everyone would agree that Putin's waiting strategy is effective, and not everyone would agree with Putin deciding to honor Emperor Alexander III (but some would), for example, so for me these are the actual points of division which define how exactly you oppose the State.
Exactly!
My most radical take is that Russia is an ordinary European country inhabited by ordinary people who aren't special in any way.
I should've worded it better. I don't believe reacting to things in a stupid way is unique to Russia too, just a bit of observations from here.
Like, the "beat up gopniks with your weeb friends" part was not only real, but a part of an actual media panic for some time. Some hooligans in a mall demanded some weebs to cede them some chairs and criticized their long hair to which they replied "how bout we square up here bitch" and they actually fucking squared up and wanted another match, so the State's top minds were like "oh shit, there's a group of neo-Nazi Hunter X Hunter fans beating up people in malls!" and a bunch of people got arrested for a bit, practically willing the Organized Aggressive Weeb into existence to the point the thing somehow erupted in Ukraine as well. That whole debacle was *impressively* stupid but it's a sign of the times, sorta. The amount of alt girls/boys out there on the streets is like 10x higher in my town.
https://lenta.ru/articles/2024/12/19/chvk-redan-chto-eto/#a26-xroc0lusqcy5
>>24594222
Alright, you got me here. I'm not degenerate enough to actually follow Russia's current internal political discourse outside of IR journals where you can read nice parallels from foreign diplomats and "should we nuke Poland?"-type discussions from Russia's top political studies guys. I'd rather kill myself than hear more "Putin has sold the country to the oligarchs!!" slop again. When I did, however, the argument for there being lines that cannot be crossed and positions that cannot be adjusted was both ubiquitous (communists, nationalists, "system liberals", "more-Putin-than-Putin" state radicals) and had anything of substance. Everyone in Russia agrees that there should be smaller taxes, fewer migrants, higher wages and cleaner forests, and the rich should be more modest. Not everyone would agree that Putin's waiting strategy is effective, and not everyone would agree with Putin deciding to honor Emperor Alexander III (but some would), for example, so for me these are the actual points of division which define how exactly you oppose the State.
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