frightful_hobgoblin @ frightful_hobgoblin @lemmy.ml

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"freedom" is such a vague concept though, mostly used for bullshit rhetoric

USA sponsored the YPG

Pretty common around the world IME

Israel kills far more Palestinian gays than Palestine does

Jaysus

ourworldindata is corporate/neoliberal propaganda sponsored by Bill Gates and Elon Musk

https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/our-world-in-data/

I like the parallel to the “wake up, sheeple, do your own research” crowd.

Or "take the red pill"

Any time someone says something like that, they invariably mean "start believing what I believe"

The man stopped and asked, “My friend, what are you? Are you a celestial being or a god?”

“No,” said the Buddha.

“Well, then are you some kind of magician or wizard?”

Again the Buddha answered, “No.”

“Are you a man?”

“No.”

“Well, my friend, then what are you?”

The Buddha replied, “I am woke.”

Was the wedding fun? Anything funny happen?

If that counts, why don't Menelik II's conquests or Genghis Khan?

We should be able to have privacy without labouring at it.

We shouldn't be excluded from normal society by being private. e.g. I should be able to.hire a plumber without using Meta software.

Because you don't live in Western bubble

I don't really understand either of your questions. Is there something you are trying to ask?

On the leftist side of Lemmy there is a pervasive theme of calling Europeans (and by extension white people in general) evil and how the only thing they’ve done is make the rest of the world suffer. And while the latter is plainly observable basically everywhere in the world

It was only Britain, France, the Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Belgium.

Calling it "the Europeans" is a fair shorthand I suppose, but remember the Greeks and Swedes didn't sail around the world killing natives for the craic.

The Haya in Tanzania were making steel 2000-2300 years ago

I have one for this!

I once asked someone "In school, who were you taught invented vaccination?"

I thought she'd say Edward Jenner. In fact it was well-known in West Africa and the Ottoman Empire a century before Jenner (PDF)

She said George Washington!

Someone once tole me only Western hippies believe in alternative medicine

They agree on 90% of things

You cannot really run a country down worse than Putin has done

Nah. They were much worse off under Yeltsin than Putin.

destroying the own country’s economy

Russia's real wages climb 7.8% in 2023 as unemployment hits record low according to an anti-Putin source.

Russia went from the 9th-largest economy by GDP (PPP) in 2000 to 4th now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_past_and_projected_GDP_(PPP). It grew from 1.5 to 6.9 trillion from 2000 to 2024, an annualised growth rate of 6.6%

Life expectancy went from 65.48 in 2000 to 72.26 in 2025

destroying the image of the Russia as a country and Russians as a people in the eyes of other peoples not a problem?

Putin is fairly well admired in the world.

Anecdotally, I've been to India, Thailand, Tanzania, and Kenya since 2022 and the people I drank with were quick to praise him.

International popularity polls: 1, 2, 3

He's restored rule-of-law and stable institutions since Yeltsin.

Basically the answer to your question "How can they support him when he's crashed the economy and ruined their reputation?" is "He didn't and he hasn't." Sounds like you've been reading NATO/antirussian sources.

what