I personally have demonstrated against my own government and got beaten up and injured by the cops for speaking out. Jailed, framed with false charges, the lot. The trauma lives on with me. You know who were my biggest critics? some of my close friends saying "the world dosen't care about your protest, the only way to really help is [this / that]..." This logic of "the more you get involved the more you are helping to divide and actively strengthen the evil you are trying to stop" is just people's way to wash their hands clean and legitimize why they themselves don't want to do anything. Why it's OK to NOT do, to ignore, because "what can I really do to affect it"... and all this classic "whatabousim"... "what about Iraq? What about Georgia, what about Chechnia, what about.............". Would that work in a court of law? "Well, what about that other murderer?... Where was your pure conscious then?....." ... Hah... Give me a break.
and all the sophisticated elaborated ways they are trying to point out your "hypocrisy" to make you feel like you have no values and are a puppet in the game fought between forces that benefit from this division within peoples... So their conclusion is always "do nothing"... or "just ignore it"... Which is precisely what the evil people want, and they basically use the same "whataboutism" in their speeches (Putin). So before you go out criticizing people trying to create a conversation on the subject, consider for a seconds that yes, you have been affected by Propaganda, in a sub conscious way, by the very people you believe yourself to be "free" from, those who want you and me alike to shut up and be a defeatist, and just accept that you have no way to help. "everybody mind their own buisness". this urge to tell those who actively oppose evil that they are just wasting their time - I understand it, it's very realist, but it's in no way objective. I get it, someone who cries out "this is evil! I am good" is automatically antagonistic, but you gotta try to see beyond that.
There is not one way to help. If everyone will do something small, yes, even put up a Ukranian flag on your balcony, send donations, think outside the box, invest in green energy to make gas and oil worthless and destroy Putin's source of economic power... find creative ways to help, create conversation, everybody can do a small thing and it will add up and it will help.
My argument is that doing nothing would have been more helpful to the Ukrainian people. NOT having a President who hands out 20,000 machine guns to the civilian population and effectively makes them a legitimate target. It's a reasonable criticism to say that he's using them and even hiding behind them.
I won't comment more because I don't want to be the cause of your thread being locked. I understand that you're being sincere. All the best to you and to Ukrainian people..
Putin does not care about who is a 'legitimate target' or not. Have you seen videos of Russian soldier opening fire on protesting civilians ? Putin fires missiles and drops bombs on Ukrainian apartments and memorials. If Ukraine want to defend their country, they must take up arms and protect their local towns and areas. UN is already investigating Russia for war crimes (vacuum bombs and cluster bombs). Putin cares nothing about his people, Ukrainian people, he only cares about power and country.
Stop lying mate
I personally have demonstrated against my own government and got beaten up and injured by the cops for speaking out. Jailed, framed with false charges, the lot. The trauma lives on with me. You know who were my biggest critics? some of my close friends saying "the world dosen't care about your protest, the only way to really help is [this / that]..." This logic of "the more you get involved the more you are helping to divide and actively strengthen the evil you are trying to stop" is just people's way to wash their hands clean and legitimize why they themselves don't want to do anything. Why it's OK to NOT do, to ignore, because "what can I really do to affect it"... and all this classic "whatabousim"... "what about Iraq? What about Georgia, what about Chechnia, what about.............". Would that work in a court of law? "Well, what about that other murderer?... Where was your pure conscious then?....." ... Hah... Give me a break.
and all the sophisticated elaborated ways they are trying to point out your "hypocrisy" to make you feel like you have no values and are a puppet in the game fought between forces that benefit from this division within peoples... So their conclusion is always "do nothing"... or "just ignore it"... Which is precisely what the evil people want, and they basically use the same "whataboutism" in their speeches (Putin). So before you go out criticizing people trying to create a conversation on the subject, consider for a seconds that yes, you have been affected by Propaganda, in a sub conscious way, by the very people you believe yourself to be "free" from, those who want you and me alike to shut up and be a defeatist, and just accept that you have no way to help. "everybody mind their own buisness". this urge to tell those who actively oppose evil that they are just wasting their time - I understand it, it's very realist, but it's in no way objective. I get it, someone who cries out "this is evil! I am good" is automatically antagonistic, but you gotta try to see beyond that.
There is not one way to help. If everyone will do something small, yes, even put up a Ukranian flag on your balcony, send donations, think outside the box, invest in green energy to make gas and oil worthless and destroy Putin's source of economic power... find creative ways to help, create conversation, everybody can do a small thing and it will add up and it will help.
My argument is that doing nothing would have been more helpful to the Ukrainian people. NOT having a President who hands out 20,000 machine guns to the civilian population and effectively makes them a legitimate target. It's a reasonable criticism to say that he's using them and even hiding behind them.
I won't comment more because I don't want to be the cause of your thread being locked. I understand that you're being sincere. All the best to you and to Ukrainian people..
Putin does not care about who is a 'legitimate target' or not. Have you seen videos of Russian soldier opening fire on protesting civilians ? Putin fires missiles and drops bombs on Ukrainian apartments and memorials. If Ukraine want to defend their country, they must take up arms and protect their local towns and areas. UN is already investigating Russia for war crimes (vacuum bombs and cluster bombs). Putin cares nothing about his people, Ukrainian people, he only cares about power and country.