by jimbohn | 2025-11-27 07:41:16+00:00
>It is doxxing, but whatever floats your boat

It's not; it's information you willingly shared and I haven't added to it in any way, I just mentioned that the information available online doesn't fit with what you are telling me. In fact, you have now conveniently shifted to the fact that you do not really have in-depth discussions, but you got some responses from "people".

FYI, Germany isn't really that attractive for high-paying jobs. I have lived in different, more attractive countries, and I wouldn't touch Germany bureaucracy-wise or salary-wise, maybe it's good for public sector jobs, I don't know. I can assure you, I am more traveled than you (visiting a random city for a couple of days conference doesn't really count as traveling, sorry). I happened to be in Berlin right after the war started, and the only russian I met was ECSTATIC, literally "we are back" vibes.

>If you're happy to spread this narrative - which you seem to be - then I think you fit the bill of a geopolitical warrior.

I've yet to see a counter-argument from you. You keep saying I am a "geopolitical warrior" and that I am spreading a "narrative".

>Currently it's Russians for you, tomorrow it'll be the Chinese, Americans, whomever, based on where you live and who now is the adversary

Again, pushing this kind of "hater" narrative. Please just f*** stop, it feels like I am talking to a sophomore doing classroom debate.

> I think the Russian government isn't very different from other imperial powers, which are notoriously not representative of their people

You pass this as a fact, but it is not. Not in the case of russians, sorry.

>If this wasn't the case, Russians wouldn't be on your radar. Simple as that.

Not sure I understand the implication here.

Your argument is just an abstract straw man about the fact that, since hating is wrong (it is), and you classify my opinion as hate (it's not), you conclude that my opinion is wrong. This shows up again when you propose to use variables in place of a country, because countries are somehow interchangeable.

Another irony is that you live in Germany, a country that was dismembered and re-educated from the ground up after their atrocities in WW2, in an effort to correct/roll-back the cultural/societal rot that had taken place due to nazism. This succeeded, and German people are, generally speaking, very nice. Had it been 70 years ago, I guess you would have told me that it's just Hitler or the government. In hindsight, we have evidence it wasn't.

I think the gist of it is that I do not separate the responsibilities of the russian people from their government(s), you do. We have different interpretations of the history of russian society, but you must admit that it's quite a coincidence for there to not be any correlation between the russian people/culture and the outcome of their nation, for centuries? Don't we have ample evidence that deresponsabilization is NOT working?

In my experience, the less one is read about their history and/or the further they are from the blast zone for when they go for the next genocidal war, the more they're willing to look the other way, because doing the opposite is, of course, more tiring.