oh yes they are..... they have been since the start
what do you think the mobilization was? a bunch of people getting letters telling them to go sign up (and if you don't do it by X date/time, the police come and arrest you, literally),.,,, you can call that voluntary if you want. but it's not. like, hundreds of thousands of people dude
economic factors are like the least important reason for me, I just gave it a lot of lip service
it goes Way, Way beyond that
what's pretentions is when there's a common colloquial English use already but they decide to say it how the locals do, and it's ALWAYS cringe
"HEY GUYS, JUST GOT BACK FROM MEH HEE COE =) =)"
I think I do that with some Japanese words now when I speak English and yeah I aint proud of it.
you get a pass, you literally live there
im talking about people who spent a week somewhere, one time and come home going 'DID YOU KNOW IT'S ACTUALLY POR-SHUH AND NOT PORSCHE?
WOW, LOOK AT THAT COOL POR-SHUH
Most people do not give a fuck about politics that is in Canada, in the US, in Russia or wherever else. As long as food is on the table roof is over the head then it doesnât matter whoâs leading the country. You act like some dude living in some rural village in Russia cares about being able to freely criticize putin. Even if you gave him that ârightâ he would probably just say âok he sucksâ and go back to working in a field or whatever the fuck else
I actually know someone who got mobilized and they just dug trenches in Russia not even in Ukraine lol
They might considering how many rural villages were being kept afloat by the USSR and collapsed after
i'm not trying to say I can read people's minds and tell you how happy you are. but I can compare the material conditions of each country, their systems of govt. etc...
if it was a place with brown people I don't think you'd be giving me this speech and probably just hand wave it as a "shithole" like somewhere in India or whatever, you could say all the same things you just said. (if I was trying to convince you the place was a shithole)
but we're talking about countries here, so systems of govt., financial reality of the people living there, crime rates, housing, how well taken care are the roads and other infastructures, things like that. these are the things we can compare and examine
people are 'mostly happy' everywhere, I think. from overcrowded Bangladeshi cities, to rural parts of Siberia, to remote South American tribes living in the rain forrest. at least everywhere that isn't an active war zone. that's just how we humans are, we're extremely good at adapting to like any situation, and just vibing and making the best of it.
Russians are the most heavily propagandized people on earth and are controlled by things like state controlled vodka companies selling entire bottles for 10 cents. I don't think what they think about the matter is hugely relevant here. That sounds far more arrogant than it is... when you're examining the conditions of a country it's generally better to ignore what people who live there (and are therefore heavily biased tell) you.
eg. an American might tell me they live in "hell" and the worst place on Earth... when really I'd find it lovely and be shocked at how cheap the food and housing is.
A Japanese person might tell me they live in the best country on earth, but if I went there the overpopulation and work culture would make me miserable.
People in African villages are mostly happy too, and I might very well be too if I was born there, but knowing what I know I"d choose Canada.
they got lucky. i hope your friend outlives this horrible war
well whether this hypothetical man cares or not, I think we can both agree freedom to criticize the govt. is a very important freedom, one of the most important ones actually imo
I didn't even mention crime rate, chance of being robbed, stabbed, etc. It's far worse in Russia, obviously, Like drastically so.
Yep. There are villages here in Egypt only a couple hours away from me, but they feel like they're a couple of centuries away. Those people are some of the happiest in the country - and they actually make a pretty big percentage of the population.
Their lives are unquestionably terrible, but they don't have any conception of why or how because the government has made sure they're like this.
When I'm speaking Arabic to someone I intentionally mispronounce English words the way everyone else here does.
It's incredibly pointless and out of touch to try to say it "the right way", it can only cause harm - Americans would never understand this.
like god intended
Even the simplest things like actually pronouncing the letters P and V (mostly P) when they don't exist in Arabic makes you sound like an absolute retard. I can only imagine how silly it must be in other languages.
English speakers ridicule each other for pronouncing things the English way all the time. And they don't realize how ridiculous that is.
exactly :D
We need to compile a list of white men here to run a poll for the right white man
