r/worldnews • u/DownWithAssad • 5d ago

Russia sentences 15-year-old schoolboy to 5 years for criticizing Putin regime and war against Ukraine Russia/Ukraine

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u/Livid_Camel_7415 5d ago

handling it this way is spectacularly dumb because now far more people are going to hear the kid's message than if they had just left him alone.

This is a very Western take. You keep hoping for a trigger, this is not how Russia works. If anything, this signals for the rest of the people that it's time to be extra quiet, because they are putting children in prison now.

You approach this as someone who takes responsibility for society, because you live in a democracy and you feel that you have a dog in the race.

Russians have no such experience, for them, government is like the weather. You just adapt. Whatever happens, happens anyway.

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u/Fogmoose 5d ago

What a sad way to live life. And what many in the US on the right would probably like to see their country become.

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u/Luke90210 5d ago

If that reality took place in the US, most of these rubes would be slaughtered. Once the right seizes control, why would they let others remained armed? In most of these types of revolutions, often the true believers have to be the first to go.

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u/hanzo1504 5d ago

Isn't that also what US politics is like though? Obviously less authoritarian and there's two parties, but what's the difference between those two really? They're both center-right to right and they both sell out to different interest groups.

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u/MrsACT 5d ago

It’s so hard to upvote this because it’s so horrific, but you’re right, sadly. And this is exactly what will become of the USA if we can’t get the decent people to vote against mini Putin

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u/Fogmoose 5d ago

What a sad way to live life. And what many in the US on the right would probably like to see their country become.

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u/breadiest 5d ago

They did do it once before. Though it was much less of a sole trigger and more of a gradual level of utter suffering for everyone which eventually caused spontaneous revolution in 1917.

They barely had a dog in the race then, in fact its probably very similar to the level of power they have now.

Eventually something will happen, lest all their issues are overblown and they improve their quality of life somehow.

Generally, comparatively low quality of life over long periods of time always leads to shakeups of leadership in any society.

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u/Cdru123 4d ago

If that happened in a western country, anyway, people would also end up having to adapt

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u/RiffsThatKill 5d ago

Yeah but every now and then some of them go apeshit and a revolution happens. Which just goes to show you, even if they realize they can change it...do you really want them to? You never know who comes in after to pick up the pieces and entrench themselves in state power.

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u/Livid_Camel_7415 5d ago

You never know who's going to be the next guy in charge, but you can rest assured that he is going to be your enemy. You worry about capability, the intent is always the same.

No different than another flavor of Kim taking charge in North Korea.

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u/Fogmoose 5d ago

Every now and then? Like once in the last couple of centuries?

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u/Dark_Rit 5d ago

Yeah and that was because the masses were starving. I'm sure some starve in Russia now, but it isn't a big enough number to incite a revolution. It would be miraculous if Russia became a western style of government, but it's not happening.

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u/Fogmoose 5d ago

Every now and then? Like once in the last couple of centuries?

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u/RiffsThatKill 4d ago

Precisely.

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u/Fogmoose 4d ago

I wouldn't classify that as 'now and then'. I would classify that as "rarely to never".

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u/RiffsThatKill 4d ago

And I wouldn't waste my time quibbling over very non-specific language. So classify it however you want, I don't give a shit because that wasn't the lynchpin of the comment lol

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u/Fogmoose 4d ago

Easy, big boy. I'm just pointing it out.