I'm sorry, my friend, I don't want to sound condescending, but the sentiment like "if only all the people did ..." is inherently flawed. There should be a material force dragging us, the people, into this mindset.
There were some opportunities in the recent times like the rise of twitter and COVID times where people had been engaging into the real politics, but apparently it was not enough yet
I'm sorry, friend, but I don't agree with you. This is how it is supposed to work and therefore it should be dismantled
There's the trick: what do you call democracy? Usually, the word "democracy" is reduced to the word "elections" and here the field where the autocrats like to play.
"Slave mentality" too
In my experience, this one is usually used as a token of some superiority over another nation or over your very neighbors who elect candidates you don't like.
I just love to see that 3rd world events that were previously explained by "slave mentality" or by "lack of democracy institutions development" are happening in the 1st world countries.
Also, be brave in these uneasy times.
And killing civilians while cheering for it on social media
The lord of the rings? You were afraid of the LOTR?
Unironically yes. They add potassium to soap today, just enough to keep the brick form
Fuck these fuckers. Also thanks for their contribution to our culture. But again: fuck them
No democracy movement has ever failed when it was able to mobilize at least 3.5 percent of the population to protest over a sustained period.
Belarus had more than a million people on the streets for months. It's a lot more than 10% of the whole population. Also your source seems to be BBC
How? We can see time after time how direct peaceful protest fails and violent protest either is policed down or fails successfully like in Syria, Libia, Egypt.
Approaching the politics from the moral ground perspective and making martyrs is childish
What's the difference between a soldier who did speak up and not? A difference between a German who critisized Hitler and not?
The answer is not very much. They all are dead. Stance does not make a difference. The US politics looks way beyond a point where having moral ground is meaningful.
Saw this happened in Russia: like 70-80% of various celebraties were speaking up against Putin's regime, meduza.io was the most popular news source, even in siloviki's (essentially ICE/FBI/police) spaces. Regime co-opted some, others ran away to be smug about their "political position".
Because I read the title and it did sound like what Israel has been saying for days
Sigh. 300,000 dead Russian soldiers have been named by independent media. A million dead is realistic. The number of casualties is in the millions. What number of 100,000s people dead passes the threshold for you?
Independent media like Zona named 112k, while, well, CSIS estimated 250k, which is well lesser than one million.
You too please have a good day and don't forget to drink enough water
Yup, looks like it fits the definition without a stretch
11200 as-of now. Based on your estimate of real casualties= 3x identified casualties it's more likely to be 300-400 thousand which is already a devastating number way beyond the threshold you have mentioned.
It's just weird to remind that if a side, any side claims that it has 50 thousand casualties and the enemy is beyond one million, you are being fed with horseshit and you need to just stop eating it.