Comments by "R" (@rdrrr) on "Why are Russians wearing Tinfoil hats now? It's ZOVer" video.

  1. ​​​ @markatamironov4903 Democracy is, in the grand scheme of things, a mere blip, an abberration. And the West is sliding slowly into autocracy too. The whole Francis Fukuyama liberal democracy is the end of history thing is at best naïve.
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  2.  @miroz5824  Right - the problem is most people don't really care that much about abstract ideas like transparency in government or the rule of law. They may feel very real to us, but to most people, they're just concepts. Most people only care about food on the table and their creature comforts. "Bread and circuses". The masses don't agitate against the government unless things are really, really bad.
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  3.  @miroz5824  Even Russia has a chance, there was a window of time when it could've developed into a democratic country (a flawed one no doubt, but no more flawed than, say, India). Then Boris Yeltsin had tanks open fire on the Duma. Yes, his opponents were reactionaries (i.e., pro-USSR). But they were also democratically elected politicians, and Yeltsin started getting pretty authoritarian after that. And then Yeltsin handed things over to Putin... So the guys Yeltsin was attacking weren't exactly saints but it was still bad for Russia. Like how Adnan Menderes was responsible for inciting a pogrom against Greeks but it was still worrying that the Army shot him, because he was Turkey's first democratically elected Prime Minister, and for the Army to remove him by force was not a great sign of things to come. I don't believe anything is ever inevitable, I think Yugoslavia could've been saved (as a loose confederation) if Milosevic didn't fuck things up. But rich, amoral old men have a way of fucking things up, don't they? Sorry, that was a lot... I hope at least some of it was interesting.
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  4.  @miroz5824  Yeah, I agree because the alternative is just accepting that autocracy is the norm. Even if it's hard to have an educated, motivated population, you have to try.
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  5. ​​ @oceanaxim Dude stop using the letter Z so much it looks silly and undermines your point. It's childish.
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  6.  @oceanaxim  I know the reason and it still looks silly. It's playground stuff. I like it when adults talk like adults.
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  7.  @oceanaxim  Again, I'm well aware of your point. The problem is if you use language like that you're preaching to the choir, you're not going to convince anyone who doesn't already believe you. It's that whole "how people talk on Twitter vs real life" meme.
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  8.  @mughug9616  Honestly I think this government will be too much of a clown show to do any "Project 2025" shit. I mean Elon Musk is setting up a department called "DOGE" for God's sake. Not saying it won't be bad, I just don't think Trump has a devious plan. Or any plan. And I don't think the people working for him are sane enough to have coherent plans either.
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  9. Pouring scorn upon the deplorable, garbage fools who vote incorrectly: That electoral strategy is working wonders for the Democrats, isn't it? People love being told they're dumb, it's really convincing!
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  10. ​​ @oceanaxim Using all those z's makes you look like an idiot. It's pretty ironic to criticize groupthink while typing brain-dead stuff because you follow the herd
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