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submitted 3 months ago by rambling_lunatic to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 3 months ago

[–] [email protected] 99 points 3 months ago

"Supposedly" because everyone who told it found themselves in a Siberian Gulag

[–] [email protected] 83 points 3 months ago

they laughed their way all the way out the top story window

but it is in fact a very funny joke.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Old people need to stop ruling the world.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago (1 children)

~~Old~~ people need to stop ruling ~~the world~~

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

The whole of 196 nervously sweating

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

They've got nothing to lose, since they're on their way out already.

[+] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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[–] rambling_lunatic 99 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a difference between hating Russians and hating Russia. Please don't hate me. I'm just a guy, like you.

[+] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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[–] Tar_alcaran 43 points 3 months ago (1 children)

There's a big difference between hating what Russia, and by the extension, the Russian people, are doing, and hating every single Russian individually. It's like hating the patriarchy, but not hating every single individual man.

Yes, collectively it's their fault, but you can't hold Yevgeni the farmer from Sertov, whose son got drafted against his will, personally responsible for Russian genocide in Ukraine.

You can definitely blame Baris from Moscow, who drives around with a "3 weeks to Berlin" bumper sticker and who has a bronze bust of Putin in his bedroom.

[+] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (5 children)

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[–] Jumuta 29 points 3 months ago

"I only accept someone's nationality if they fit the stereotype"

ok lmao

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That sounds like a no true Scotsman argument.

[–] sorrybookbroke 15 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Russian is a music, a food, a sense of style, a story. Russian is culture not the current tyrany.

Why let the fascists steal that from the people? I understand your sentiment but I'll be honest it enrages me.

It's like a person saying that any black that doesn't join a gang isn't really black. They can't see a non-violent black as a member of that race. You ignore the problem in favor of factionalism. Black people are not inherently violent, it's an economic and political situation. Apply the same logic to Russians. See the obvious reasons for the current situations. It's not the people, it's their tyrant. A tyrant they cannot choose.

Black does not mean the worst of their people, Russian does not mean the worst of theirs. It's a signifier of culture, and ethnic origin. That is all

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Make it the other way around and see the progressives as Russians and the others as not Russians. The progressives will thank you and the others will be annoyed. Win win

[–] Tar_alcaran 0 points 3 months ago

I kind of agree, and they might agree themselves too, but I don't know.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

i wonder if US americans get the same reaction out of you

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

Some dude saluting a flag when the brainwash song is playing is looking and this and thinks: these damn brainwashed russians are so dumb

[–] rambling_lunatic 10 points 3 months ago

Did you just call me "one of the good ones"?

Get a grip, man. Stop turning an entire nationality into a monolith.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

so all US citizens are terrorist war criminals?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Funny how pretty much no place is ever the one for PoLiTiCs.

Don't worry, being exposed to some eeeevil nasty politics won't kill you.

[–] Jumuta 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

nah i think it's just that this content fits better in ncd or something, if you don't care about sorting then why do communities exist on this platform?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Right, because I'm OK with PoLiTiCaL content on 196 means I don't "care about sorting." Holy shit are some people fragile – do you see a rule here saying "no politics"? Does the sidebar read "Rule: You must post NON-POLITICAL CONTENT before you leave"? Or is this maybe just you being whiny?

[–] Jumuta 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

did you read what I said

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This may come as a surprise but people can read your shit and still disagree

[–] Jumuta 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I don't think you read my shit

(hint: I'm not the oc in this thread)

[–] ReveredOxygen 3 points 3 months ago

196 has been political since its inception

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

Putin wishes he could be like Stalin. But he's not even close to being as competent. And present day Russia is nothing more than a shadow of peak industrial superpower USSR.