Comments by "" (@Hand-in-Shot_Productions) on "stop idolizing russia" video.

I don't know what Csgo is, but as an American, I think the memes are a large part of it! The "Russia" that they praise (which is more accurately called "Yaussia", due to their odd reversal of the R) is the Russia of the internet memes: i.e., the Russia of Stalin, unlimited (sarcastic?) praise of authoritarianism, swear words, Red Army caps, the Soviet anthem, and vodka, the place where you reverse all of the Rs to get "Russian" and the fall of the Soviet Union never happened. However, Russia is currently capitalist, and while I am not downplaying Putin's supporters, there are some Russians that are not as pro-Kremlin (in fact, you just watched a video made by a Russian critic of Putinism!) as their "Slav" meme counterparts are (or, as I suspect of many of them, pretend to be?). In fact, I think those internet "Slavs" have more to do with the villains of Hollywood films than any actual Russian!
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@ButterDog42069 That's even better for Putin's critics! In fact, I would even say that despite Putin not being removed from office (yet!), the stereotype that Russians are inherently pro-dictatorship (whether it be communism or Putinism) is already completely ruined by Russia's pro-democracy movement! You just proved my point: these meme-makers need to think of something else to idolize!
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Exactly! In fact, as an American, I even look out for terms like "Slav" to help tell apart the real Russians from the westerners who like imitating the memes about Russia! In my book, if a "Russian" online uses the term "Slav" (an ethnic group in eastern Europe, which, contrary to popular American belief, aren't just Russians) where they should have used the term "Russian" (of or relating to Russia), then chances are, they are neither Slavic nor Russian! Most of the time, they are Americans, or from another western country! There are Slavs living outside of Russia (in fact, Poland has the second-largest Slavic population!), and non-Slavic peoples inside of Russia (like those people in the Russian Far East who look more Chinese than Slavic!). My thinking is that a Russian would know this, but an American memer wouldn't! The rule above also applies to those who put words like "Soviet" or "Comrade" in their titles (or Soviet imagery on their channel icon and background), since many of those internet memes about Russia seem to be descended from Cold War films, which don't tend to be documentaries about Russian culture at all!
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@canavero4288 I was actually talking about the misuse of the term "Slav" by Slavaboos, as well as Soviet-related memes being western constructs. Still, your advice on finding Slavaboos is just as good! If Cyrillic is your alphabet, you wouldn't butcher it like the Slavaboos do with Яaussiaи ("Yaussiai")! If you want to confuse a Slavaboo, just give him a letter in Russian and leave him to confusedly read "Русский" as "Pitch-knn" or something!
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@canavero4288 That's one of the first videos I have watched on this channel! I still don't know "Who tf is Doidld Tyatsmr", though...
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As an American, good point! In fact, whenever I see an internet account claiming to be a "Slav", I usually think they are just westerners (especially Americans) imitating the memes about those Russian Hollywood villains, since actual Russians would be more likely to know that saying "all Russians are Slavs" because most Russians are Slavic is like saying "all Americans are Germans" because many Americans are of German descent!
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As an American, I myself have found those types of comments down in the comment sections of news videos about the 2021 pro-democracy protests in Russia! I have found some comments here and there which boil down to how Navalny is not a "real dissident" because the US is killing people for "protesting" against Biden on January 6, 2021, and how Russia's protestors are not really in danger... which is that comment on NFKRZ's Belarus video about police brutality all over again! I have even found a few comments praising Putin's Russia for being super white and hating foreigners... sounds like right-wing extremists to me. I would have thought these "conservatives" would have liked these protests, since Russia has been a dictatorship for such a long time, and democracy is good and patriotic. Let's just hope the wider Republican Party doesn't betray the value of promoting democracy, a core value of American patriotism (which they literally claim to embody!), just to use committed support of Putin as a cheap political weapon for our pathetic culture war!
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heavy gaming You just answered the rhetorical question! This meme is one of those times where something can be totally butchered and still sound like something!
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heavy gaming In short, the joke is on whoever "fixed" the star!
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I suspect the same is true for all of those talking about the old Soviet and current Russian government, vodka, Red Army hats, the Soviet anthem, and all of the other "Russian" stuff in a supposedly favorably way!
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