I’d like to give a sincere apology to every Russian I judged based on the actions of their country. Until the last few years, I truly did not appreciate the muted hell you were all living in, as well as the deep sense of apathy that comes from decades of watching things continue to get shittier and more corrupt while incompetence and propaganda crush every movement that tries to stop it.
I fully understand now how a large swath of the population can just give up and accept whatever horse shit they’re served, not because they necessarily agree with it, but because they are so tired of trying to fight against it and losing every time.
I cannot tell you how many times my mother has said “I wish I could be conservative and a good person at the same time” in the last few years. We grew up in a cult where liberal=Satan
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I’d like to give a sincere apology to every Russian I judged based on the actions of their country. Until the last few years, I truly did not appreciate the muted hell you were all living in, as well as the deep sense of apathy that comes from decades of watching things continue to get shittier and more corrupt while incompetence and propaganda crush every movement that tries to stop it.
I fully understand now how a large swath of the population can just give up and accept whatever horse shit they’re served, not because they necessarily agree with it, but because they are so tired of trying to fight against it and losing every time.
I cannot tell you how many times my mother has said “I wish I could be conservative and a good person at the same time” in the last few years. We grew up in a cult where liberal=Satan