The dictators in North Korea are worshipped like gods.
Hitler was wildly popular.
Mussolini was wildly popular.
Putin is wildly popular.
Xi Jinping is very popular in the Chinese sense of the word.
Propaganda works.
It's "astonishing" that you're too stupid to understand this particularly when your own opinions are entirely shaped by it.
You’re comparing Putin to Kim Jong-un, Hitler, and Mussolini and you still don’t think it’s worth a few billion dollars to stop his imperialist ambitions?
We've already stopped his ambitions. He knows without a doubt at this point that any real military would humiliate him even more than the fat Ukrainian farmers have done.
I'm in a room full of people who call anyone that doesn't cheerlead for Ukraine a Russian puppet.
You can take your whining about insults and stuff it up your ignorant @ss.
Your assumption that the people living in repressive authoritarian societies think exactly like you do is completely ignorant and ahistorical.
I'll leave you unhinged response alone. I think says a lot all by itself.
I suggest you see some of the world rather than simply lying online about seeing some of the world because your parents took you to Florida when you were little.
Dictators start out popular. That's how they get power.
Serial killers tend to be charming. The evil comes later.
Pretending truisms aren't true doesn't make you a good person it just makes you look ignorant.
It's hilarious that you're doubling down on your ignorant opinion despite having no clue wtf you're talking about.
I travel widely for my work and also for educational/recreational purposes. I know quite well many people in or from China, North and South Korea, Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. Indeed, I am currently engaged in getting families out of Belarus - families who do not wish to throw away their future on your "very popular" Putin.
You, on the other hand, are a keyboard warrior.
You know nothing. You are an ignoramus of epic proportions. And, despite what you tell yourself in your little cocoon, everyone on LRC sees you as such quite clearly.
You are dismissed.
I wish I had a dollar for every time one of you morons lied about your lives... lol
It’s impossible to gauge peoples’ opinions on their authoritarian regimes because they can’t vote in fair elections or voice their opinions in the media.
An orchestrated rally of cheering people does not represent the opinion of the people. Don’t make that mistake.
We don’t really learn the true feelings of people living under authoritarian rule until they are freed from the regime and learn of their plight. Guess how they feel about their former leaders?
When Putin falls, the Russian people will celebrate as much as the Ukrainian people. Even Putin followers in Russia will eventually learn the truth, and despise him.
History will remember Putin as an evil warmonger. It’s already established, and it will remain historical fact that Putin led an illegal invasion of a neighboring country and illegally tried to annex parts of Ukraine.
The United Nations determined his invasion as illegal by international law by a vote of 143 to 5.
I'll leave you unhinged response alone. I think says a lot all by itself.
I suggest you see some of the world rather than simply lying online about seeing some of the world because your parents took you to Florida when you were little.
Dictators start out popular. That's how they get power.
Serial killers tend to be charming. The evil comes later.
Pretending truisms aren't true doesn't make you a good person it just makes you look ignorant.
Dude. I've been to over 20 countries and every continent except Africa and Antarctica. I've seen the coast of Africa but didn't set foot on land there.
What is the point of throwing out personal attacks about things you've made up in your mind about me? Again, just your frustration from your failed argument. Get help.
I suggest you see some of the world rather than simply lying online about seeing some of the world because your parents took you to Florida when you were little.
Dictators start out popular. That's how they get power.
Serial killers tend to be charming. The evil comes later.
Pretending truisms aren't true doesn't make you a good person it just makes you look ignorant.
Dude. I've been to over 20 countries and every continent except Africa and Antarctica. I've seen the coast of Africa but didn't set foot on land there.
What is the point of throwing out personal attacks about things you've made up in your mind about me? Again, just your frustration from your failed argument. Get help.
My apologies I confused you with RealObvi since your opinions are identical...
Dude. I've been to over 20 countries and every continent except Africa and Antarctica. I've seen the coast of Africa but didn't set foot on land there.
What is the point of throwing out personal attacks about things you've made up in your mind about me? Again, just your frustration from your failed argument. Get help.
My apologies I confused you with RealObvi since your opinions are identical...
Much like most North Korean opinions.
Lol! Ok. I appreciate acknowledgement of the error and the apology.
U.S. and the rest of the free world: Pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian politicians and experts appear on TV and publish their opinions in newspapers and online. Some are smart and some are dumb. We can choose what we say and who we watch.
Russian media: Pro-Russian pro-war bloggers are now risking criminal charges for discrediting the Russian armed forces (also known as "telling something like the truth"). Even real nasty cases like Rybar, GreyZone, Strelkov/Igor Girkin, and WarGonzo face arrest.
U.S. and the rest of the free world: Pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian politicians and experts appear on TV and publish their opinions in newspapers and online. Some are smart and some are dumb. We can choose what we say and who we watch.
Russian media: Pro-Russian pro-war bloggers are now risking criminal charges for discrediting the Russian armed forces (also known as "telling something like the truth"). Even real nasty cases like Rybar, GreyZone, Strelkov/Igor Girkin, and WarGonzo face arrest.
We are not the same.
99% of the media in the US is leftist.
It's naive to pretend that people are only manipulated other places.
Outlets like CNN and MSNBC and the Russian media have WAY more in common than you realize.
U.S. and the rest of the free world: Pro-Ukraine and pro-Russian politicians and experts appear on TV and publish their opinions in newspapers and online. Some are smart and some are dumb. We can choose what we say and who we watch.
Russian media: Pro-Russian pro-war bloggers are now risking criminal charges for discrediting the Russian armed forces (also known as "telling something like the truth"). Even real nasty cases like Rybar, GreyZone, Strelkov/Igor Girkin, and WarGonzo face arrest.
We are not the same.
99% of the media in the US is leftist.
It's naive to pretend that people are only manipulated other places.
Outlets like CNN and MSNBC and the Russian media have WAY more in common than you realize.
This statement was wrong yesterday, it’s still wrong today.
when will ww3 officially starts or some nukes get launched? im bored as hell and all this thread has turned into people arguing over dumb sh*t.
no more need to argue, here is what we know
- russia invaded ukraine - russia used lots of old outdated stuff, and naturally had heavy losse - NATO aka the US, has sent billions of dollars worth of our best and newest military toys - pooty has made threats if russia is attacked then he could possibly use nukes - NATO has stated if pooty uses nukes russia will be annihilated
before we had proxi wars with russia, and it was called the cold war. now its more like a luke warm war, as its proxi on the US side against russia.
the military industrial complex is making a killing (no pun lol), and is only sending ukraine enough to keep this thing going to milk as much profit as possible. and its annoying cause im bored as hell. like wtf?
this reminds me of middle school "fights", the two kids talk about of sh*t, throw up their arms and bump chests until the bell rings and its over, then in the next class people gossip about "who would have won if punches would have gotten thrown"...like enough of this lame kid sh*t and get ww3 or nukes going already.
and for the people thinking the world will end, sorry it wont. people continue to live in Hiroshima and Nagasaki to this day. people still live in nevada and new mexico after how many hundreds of nuke tests? and PEOPLE still work at the Chernobyl plant! people will die and cancers will happen but life will go on. all the libs complaining of over population will be happy.
if i cant get some nukes/ww3, can a 9.9 earthquake hit the west coast and cause the juan de fuca plate to slide and have the cascade volcanoes go boom, that would be great too.
its been a big let down the last couple yrs, the media freaking out that covid was going to be worse than the black plague and i was excited, like woohooo 2/3 of the worlds population gone! maybe i can finally buy a house. but nope it was a bust. so could you guys please stop arguing about lame stuff and maybe talk about carnage?
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