Zkuq said:
If you're still reading, have you ever stopped to consider the following? - How come a country of 140-150 million people has only one person even potentially fit to lead, and everyone seriously opposing him ends up either in prison or dead? How likely is it that you just happened to elect the most capable person in your country in over 20 years after a relatively short troubled period?
- How many medias presenting significant opposing views to the current regime can you find in your country? Here in Finland, even the state-owned media is critical of our regime. Can you say the same of yours, or any of the major medias?
- What do you think would happen if you openly opposed your regime? I don't mean violent opposition, I mean simply voicing your opposition calmly and using truthful arguments.
- How do you feel about using a country's power against less powerful countries? If you think it is justified, how do you feel about the US and its power?
- What makes you think it's your trustworthy sources that are trustworthy instead of mine? Is it your trustworthy sources telling you they're trustworthy, or have you ever doubted them? It makes sense for people to stop and think their sources, and having done that a bit, I can consider my sources fairly trustworthy or at least identify the less trustworthy ones. On the other hand, much of the content created by Russian media that I sometimes run into simply doesn't match my own experiences etc., but I can't really say that for our own media.
Anyway, just wanted to provide some food for thought in case you're still lurking around. You don't seem like a troll (unless you're very bad at trolling), just poorly informed and misguided due to the circumstances you live under. |
As an expansion on your third point
There were reports that anyone who voted no or declined to vote in those sham referendums was later arrested.
Equally Russia claims those regions in their entirety despite not controlling much of them, meaning said sham referendum didn’t cover all of those regions - so even if they weren’t shams they how could they be applied to the bits that didn’t take part?
Then factor in the huge numbers of the populations from their have been displaced due to the fighting so weren’t there to vote despite it being their home. Equally Russia appears to have settled large numbers of Russian citizens in those regions. Why do the displaced Ukrainian not get a say whilst the illegally settled Russians do?
In other words, shame referendums that aren’t valid.
Essay Pro