Why do you always bring up America when we're talking about injustices in other countries?
As a Russian, it pisses me off. It's like saying "black people shouldn't moan, because white people suffer too".
As a Russian, it pisses me off. It's like saying "black people shouldn't moan, because white people suffer too".
In my opinion there's a point: if the dominant ethnicity is being enslaved, imagine what could happen to powerless minorities.
In other words, if countries that call themselves free are becoming less free day after day, it becomes obvious to imagine that not-as-free countries will follow the same route, maybe even faster.
they simply started from a different position in the global-freedom scale.
EDIT: apparently from the downvotes someone believes that Russia is a special place were all the bad things happen, while in the west when the US government spies their allies it's progress. If an American company, Apple for example, obey to the free government of the US of A when they ask for more control over the content on their platform, what make you think that they will fight against other more repressive governments? (they have in fact put this specific app down on their store, as per Putin's request) information warfare and content control are the weapons of the future, it is quite naive to think that there will be good governments that won't use it and bad governments that will abuse it. Everyone will use it to their own advantage. what's happening today is just the tip of the iceberg, wait for the day when the internet won't be globalized anymore as it is today and we'll have hundreds of local internets hardly connected to each other, allowing only some highly monitored link to "friendly" nets.
To be frank, America has lost a strategic asset in the form of being an attractive place to come for the best and brightest to try to realize something unfettered; and we're not doing a damn thing to export anything that creates any semblance of assurance that the American experiment's results are any better than anywhere else's.
The bar has been lowered so far it isn't even funny.