Do you really think this is not your business? People are dying because a fascist leader of a super power country is invading the small neighbor? And the other fascist leader of the other super power country is helping destroying the small country and Europe, Africa and Asia and the world economy? Are you also a fascist?

@onirakkiss@ioc.exchange Calling Russia a fascist country is wrong. It's not a case of being inaccurate, it's completely wrong.

Yeah, that sounds about right. I guess you also think the Chinese would do a better job of running NZ? Or that we should fight alone if they try and invade?

@Ilovethebomb@lemmy.nz Nah I don't think China is interested in absorbing New Zealand into its global empire. Would they want to pay everyone's pension or unemployment benefits? It'd be a disaster. China doesn't have the skill or knowledge on how NZ society works.

How many people in Christchurch even know what a Russian flag looks like?

@BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz Quite a lot of people, in fact. How many tricolour flags are there with white-blue-red? Maybe the flag of the Netherlands, which goes red-white-blue? The only other similarity is the Serbian flag, which is the Russian flag but upside-down. Other flags such as the French flag are vertical bars of colour, which is obviously quite different. Don't ask me how so many people young and old know the Russian flag, but they know it from somewhere. Maybe they read books or played Call Of Duty or War Thunder.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

LOL. You severely overestimate the flag knowledge of the average kiwi.

[–] passwordforgetter@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 month ago

It's hard to say, but a guy on a bicycle said "slava ooocrane" and one guy in a car said f*** putin. That was in the course of 1 hour and 10 minutes. It's hard to judge how many people recognise it, but dozens of people do, I'm sure. Some people older than me will know the modern RF flag from the end of the Soviet Union. I was too young to understand it at the time, but as a child I remember looking at a country on the map called USSR and thinking, wow, this country is pretty big lol.