Daria Kozyreva used 19th-century poetry and graffiti to protest Russia’s war on Ukraine.
  • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    831·
    4 days ago

    Look far and wide. This is the future of the Earth every where if Authoritarianism takes over. When every where is an autocracy this will be normalized. As a species we must fight back for freedom.

      • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
        41·
        4 days ago

        Just hit anything in the oil supply chain relentlessly until the People’s demands are met tbh.

          • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            3 days ago

            Yes, join a protest movement, the ones that survive will transform into resistance fighters in the near future.

            • AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works
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              3 days ago

              Oh I meant how to disrupt the oil industry effectively. I don’t actually know how the supply chain works fully, nor where it might be weakest.

              • Sanctus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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                3 days ago

                If I did I wouldn’t be talking about it in something thats indexable by search engines. If you’re curious about becoming a liberal democracy instead of a fascists oligarchy/dictatorship, you should join a movement.

  • disguy_ovahea@lemmy.world
    712·
    4 days ago

    This is the US that MAGA wants. They should do the world a favor and just move to Russia. I hear they need more men to feed to the frontline anyway.

    • lath@lemmy.world
      171·
      4 days ago

      Your comment reminded me about an article some time ago about a maga family emigrating to Russia. I think it was during Biden’s time.

      Not sure what happened to them since, but they were in some kind of trouble back then. It’s possible a conscription order may have been that trouble…

        • lath@lemmy.world
          6·
          4 days ago

          Yeah, this the one. Obviously I remembered the details wrong, but I am curious how well they’re living nowadays.

            • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
              9·
              4 days ago

              Is this the same family that had their bank account seized by Russia and then the father disappeared for a while, only for mom to make a weird YouTube video that looked like a hostage video, claiming everything was fine?

                • Doctor_Satan@lemm.ee
                  5·
                  4 days ago

                  After looking it up, it seems I remembered some of the details wrong, but it’s the same family I was thinking of. I may also be remembering those wrong details from another story I read long ago, but my brain is basically a bowl of wet oatmeal at this point, so who knows.

                  Upon arrival, their bank accounts were immediately seized for suspicious activity (too many transactions). The wife made a tearful YouTube video criticizing Russia and saying she was ready to leave. The Kremlin took offense and the video was removed. The husband later made an apology video, saying their frustrations weren’t aimed at Russia as a whole, but that they were just frustrated at getting used to how the laws there work.

                  Good on them if they are doing okay. Russia isn’t a bad place, even if the government is shit. I wouldn’t recommend moving there during war time, but outside of that, you could do a lot worse. I visited Russia and Ukraine in the early 2000s, and loved both places. I actually wanted to move there for some time, but life happened, then war happened, and I found somewhere else that fit me a lot better. I really hope to visit again someday.

    • PhilipTheBucketOPMA
      81·
      4 days ago

      The people that do this horseshit never want to move to places where it’s already in place, because they are always dangerous gangland nightmares and those people tend to be soft and sort of stupid. If they went there they wouldn’t survive. They need to be in our safe ordered society, and fuck it up into the nightmare, in safety.

      • OpenStars@piefed.socialEnglish
        52·
        4 days ago

        Counterpoint: how much of this is our fault? If people are allowed to vote who don’t even know how many branches of government there are, then how can they make effective decisions about the very thing that they know nothing about?

        We’ve seen this before, with Brexit. Democracy requires effort to maintain.

        • PhilipTheBucketOPMA
          2·
          4 days ago

          Yeah. Every securely built society gets rotten as time goes on, because no one feels anymore the urgency to maintain it. People used to have a fire of how important it was to make things okay, build and maintain all that structure, and that’s what built the mid-20th-century good place that was America (for some people, not that it was “finished” in any sense, but it was pretty freakin’ good all things considered and comparatively.)

          But yeah then everyone got lazy and let things fall apart. And now, look what happened. Weak people make hard times.

  • mrsjmccrimmon@feddit.ukEnglish
    19·
    4 days ago

    Kozyreva is currently one of an estimated 234 people imprisoned in Russia for their antiwar position, according to a tally by Memorial, a Nobel Prize-winning Russian human rights group

    Only 234? Is there an incredibly effective underground that means the police aren’t catching them? How sad the Russian people have been so completely cowed on this way that they leave it to a 17 (now 19) year old to resist.

    • PhilipTheBucketOPMA
      18·
      4 days ago

      As often happens, the young people haven’t yet gone through the world’s natural selection which leaves alive only the ones who have accepted and internalized the bullshit. They’re still, often, alive on the inside a little bit.