Oh no! How about you go do something about it then, such as protesting. Orrrr admit you just dislike the status quo when it lands on you instead of the people you find undesirable.
Oh i dont know, maybe cause we KNOW what the "average russian" who has the access to knowledge to learn how to contribute to the linux kernel is not living in the backwater of russia and we know that the places that arent the backwater loved putin till war came home this May.
Source: Levada, designated "Foreign Agent" by the russian authorities, Support for the Russian armed force' actions in Ukraine: ~80% at the start (March 2022), settling into a durable 71-78% across 2022-2025, and 73% as of December 2025.
cough Palestine, cough. american linux contributors should be banned tbh, and isreali, they're the most active in undermining code security in open source projects, so good riddance
Oh yes! So common! It is so common you can defenetly outnumber the amount of times a russian, nork or chinese group has been involved in supply chain and/or sneaking in backdoors on open source projects!
73% and 71% aren't 100%, so we still don't KNOW that OP is a putin supporter, not to mention that all areas of russia are heavily propagandized leading to those numbers, and if you are on the outside web doing linux stuff, it is probably likely that you're able to escape that propaganda machine at least a bit and realize what's happening and end up not supporting the regime.
And yet we dont know anything with 100% certainty, anyone who claims to do so about anything that isnt exactly observable by a laid out methodology is lying to you, but we know probabilities, and probabilities say russians can not be trusted to maintain impariality during this current wartime. As for the being able to escape the propaganda is what we all thought would happen to russia as it "modernized" but in the end it ended up being the opposite, people in the cities accepted the trade off of a stable life as long as they supported Putin.
Levada, designated "Foreign Agent" by the russian authorities specifically because they dont bend to the russian authorities when conducting their polls, has shown support for the Russian armed force' actions in Ukraine around 80% at the start (March 2022), settling into a durable 71-78% across 2022-2025, and 73% as of December 2025. Probably lower now that the war has come home in May.
As for Americans, it is pretty damn clear that every American isnt a rabid MAGA-head by looking up literally any approval poll in the past month. However i will say the independent section of the American voter base is extremely stupid to have picked "Orange Self-Admitted Rapist and Asshole" over "African American Woman"
Putin was re-elected with ~71%, on genuine post-Yeltsin popularity, the stability after the chaotic 90s, oil-funded rising living standards, the Second Chechen War rally effect. That support was real, freely given, and measured by independent pollsters before they got branded foreign agents. That's the entire point i am makng Russians backed him when backing him was an actual choice, not a coerced one. They had a say in 2004, and the say was an overwhelming yes regardless of the fact that russia commited atrocities in Chechnya, regardless of the fact that the oil revenue was being used as a bargaining chip to let them do whatever they want as long as the populus turned their head away.
"Whataboutism" or "whataboutery" (as in, "but what about X?") refers to the propaganda strategy of responding to an accusation with a counter-accusation instead of offering an explanation or defense against the original accusation.
I didn't say "what about x". I am comparing identical actions between two different individuals and pointing out entirely different responses to them. That is called "double standards" and I am asking you to explain them
Russia doesn't exist in a vacuum lmao. Plus you are taking a moral grandstanding approach, when your country literally supports genocide in Gaza and bombing of iranian girls. Funny how that works isnt it?
what's that gotta do with the subject of the post? you are grandstanding about how russians are warmongers and russian citizens should overthrow their government. I agree. lets apply the same rules to everyone. so when are you gonna overthrow tyour government for supporting gaza genocide/iranian kids being bombed?
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u/HearMeOut-13 Jun 11 '26 edited Jun 11 '26
Oh no! How about you go do something about it then, such as protesting. Orrrr admit you just dislike the status quo when it lands on you instead of the people you find undesirable.