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Before you go thinking “ah! That’s funny, I might chime in and give them some of my money too!” - remember that WinRAR is develop by a Russian person, can’t find their stance on the Ukrainian invasion but just something to think about.
Isn't that like saying all Americans are evil because our president is a piece of trash?
Well, yes, thanks for the reminder!
Ey guys, before you go buying or using some USA software, make sure they don’t support or have ties with the Trump administration!
Fun fact, the US was already a warmongering shit stain long long before trump.
Fun fact, so was every other nation in the world that ever fancied itself important enough to compete with others. America is just the latest bully to come out on top.
Well yeah, since its conception. Idk how much my perception of when Europeans became "Americans" is synonymous with historians, but.. After the Europeans vastly destroyed the American population and took the name for themselves, Americans used violence to secede from English command. Iirc it was started by a plainclothes soldier shooting a soldier, starting a massacre.
I have been boycotting american products since they voted a pedo in office.
You ae not alone.
Regardless of your actual politics, we're still funding MAGA shit because we're too poor to dodge our taxes. So I fully support people boycotting American businesses, same as with any business based in other countries doing evil shit.
I know i'm fully nitpicking in bad faith here, but which are the countries not doing evil shit ? There probably are a few that are mostly good, but even those are quite rare, aren't they ?
shrugs The various Pacific island nations probably don't have any fuckery going on, even if only because they lack the ability. Or if they do, they're too small to be obvious about it, which I'll admit is probably as good as it gets.
The majority of you voted for him, so it's fair to assume a majority of you are like him, yes.
Wrong; not everyone voted, and of those who did, only a bit under half voted for him (given that there were also candidates from other parties), so he did not get a majority.
Furthermore, pretty much the moment he entered office and actually started doing things, his approval ratings plummeted, so it is not correct to assume that the majority of us are "like him"; it would be more fair to say that he tricked a large number of people into thinking that he was someone different than he was. (Mind you, I think that these people were fools who should have known better, but that is a different kind of flaw.)
100% agree. Among other things, the reaction of foreign people to American citizens in the wake of MAGA crimes is one of the goals of "manufactured consent". We didn't consent to this, but the powers that be have made it look like we did, not only to other Americans but to the rest of the world, isolating us and making their crimes harder to stop.
*the majority of old idiots voted for him
No. you made a jump from not knowing a stance of a single person to attributing evil to an entire nation.
Because need to know the stance of a single person implies attributing evil to his whole nation.
It is important to think about and keep in mind, but it's also important not to judge blindly. Do some research before you make a decision on something like this and try to make an informed decision. People aren't responsible for where they're born, and not everyone is in a position for fight or flight. Most Russians are victims of Putin too, some worse than others. Many of them may be ignorant, yes, and even deeply unpleasant and unlikable people with nasty attitudes, but they are also brainwashed by one of the most manipulative and subtly oppressive regimes that has possibly ever existed in the modern world. Organizing a resistance against tyranny isn't easy. Even finding the motivation to resist it isn't easy. If it was easy, we wouldn't have such problems with tyrants all around the world, and orangeman wouldn't have lasted a week.
If you don't want to send money that will end up in Russia, I don't blame you. If you are afraid of the infiltration and malware risks that come with using software made in Russia, I don't blame you for that either. But the guy himself is probably just a normal person, unless there's specific evidence otherwise. "Othering" and demonizing other people is the path to the dark side. You can hate the country and government and the system, and you should, but not the people born and raised within it. They're in a big fucking mess, and you would be too if you lived there. Just because you think you'd make different choices personally, doesn't mean they're making bad ones for the situation they're in.
We are all just people. We are not better or worse than any other people. We are all trying to do the same things in life. Even the Russian people. But we've been made to be different by our environments and nations and governments that benefit from us being divided and hating each other. Don't play their game.
Going to start boycotting American companies too, seeing as the USA and its people has always, are, and will always be the worst group of people on earth.
Eat shit, buddy. I can't help where I was born and I can't afford to move somewhere else.
Don't threaten me with a good time?
USA is awful but France still exists...
To me, the USA is degrees more vile than France. Both nations have decided to ruin the lives of my country men, and cause strife in my region.
And seeing as most of this downward trend of human life was triggered by the USA...