you would betray them if you punish “russians” collecting a group of people and calling them “russians”, state members, regardless of self identification is nationalistic, you are the nationalist if that is what you do.
“russians betrayed machno”, no it was the bolsheviks, the living bolsheviks alive then, not now
No I do not expect you to show more than they do, but they are not one person, whilst a description of the world might contain a structure of social relations, the notion of nations is a prescription.
You are betraying all of the people who are against the war or are avoiding making themselves into nationalist cogs, your efforts should not be support of sanctions but maintenance of communication with anarchists and growth of horizontal governance both where you are and elsewhere.
Please instead of this, work to maintain worker councils and establish communication between them, in all regions of the world, especially a place like the russian region
Oh but we can go and pretend that all people are like the soldiers too. There are some beautiful people that have the misfortune of being born into the russian polity
Pro eu dogmatism is foolishness, construction of 2 sides is foolish.
Critique of the dear brussels leader is not support of the kremlin.
People should be better than siloing the responsibility for their mind away to some temporary heartless representative.
Ignore the disconnect between people affected by these ham fisted measures and the people that should be punished, strongly including those in the kremlin, and you are abandoning your responsibility to mankind.
So glad the “russian” people will be forced by these sanctions to… elect… a … differ… … oh…
I know reality can suck folk, but please, lets fix our basis first, thank you
Its not just caring though, in order to make waves with any of this stuff, you need to put effort in and that can scale to consume a lot of time for the people involved
And before someone says about their artistic content, I agree, the word toys does exclude that, however, just like toys, art MUST take second place to more industrial and violent matters
And yet they do consume resources, and even a small amount of resources ( which is not what is being spent on these toys) would be better spent on more serious matters
To be honest, I wish people would stop making toys so centric in their headspace, please put all of that effort into fighting surveillance instead or something of similar consequence
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the problem is the state
thats so funny, they cant include a steering wheel and the driver has to performatively rotate their legs :DD
We can boycot banks that mandate android/ ios apps, we can put phones in faraday cages, we can form new cell operator companies, we can form unions and increase their political power and whilst the republican seats of power atrophy we can guide them by active participation into compassionate forms so they dont become a source of backlash. We can support companies like pinephone and librem for small handhelds if we want, we cant support risc-v, we can use gnu guix and bolster its usability to verify the validity of the software stack.
You do not seem capable of modelling the world in sufficient detail for compassion and you should be nowhere near a violence monopoly.
You use the abstraction of russia to include people who are not self identified russians, this boar headedness is dangerous