No, I meant an accessory as in:
An accessory is a person who assists, but does not actually participate, in the commission of a crime.
Of course we cannot. I agree with you that nobody is born evil or a criminal (even psychopaths are not guaranteed to become serial killers).
By all means, if not for propaganda, we would live in a very different world.
But the unfortunate fact is that they did consume enough of that propaganda to do nothing, or worse, follow the orders.
Yes, they are not criminals by nature, but what they do is crime or at least they are an accessory. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessory_(legal_term)
the answer is - it doesn’t matter. the biggest learning from the nazi germany was that you don’t need the entire population of a country to be homicidal psychopaths. all you need is a small group of those psychopaths, control or media, propaganda and you get a perfectly functioning system where normal everyday folks go to their normal everyday jobs.
just those jobs are in gestapo. or in maintenance of gas chambers. or making food for the equally confused soldiers.
of course, we should avoid civilian casualties as much as we can (but apparently russian army is not required) but the system needs to be stopped.
russia has cancer. chemoterapy is not a pleasant procedure that affects both ill and healthy cells. the alternative is, unfortunately, to allow that cancer to spread to the entire planet.
I believe the trick to avoid getting encircled is withdrawing before one gets encircled
Ukraine doesn’t need that land. russia cannot afford not defending that land. The moment it gets too “expensive” for Ukraine, they withdraw. But that will only happen after russia invests heavily into actually recovering their territory.
It’s like in chess when a knight is attacking two pieces at the same time. The one on defense can only choose a smaller loss.
Which is a win for Ukraine.
I have both and I think it’s better to know, independent of the outcome.
That’s pretty much the point of banality of evil - you don’t need an extraordinary assembly of psychopaths to run a fascist regime. All it takes is a group of loud populists, generally discontent crowd and, boom, you have “make Germany great again”.
After ww2 finished, both Germanies discovered that they don’t really have enough people without Nazi past that could run the country. So most folks just went back to work to slightly renamed workplaces.
Does that mean they were not complicit? They were and the winners made sure Germans would learn about what they caused.
I guess the only excuse back the was that they didn’t know better. But we do.
Here’s some read for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil
Yes, an average russian or Israeli person is not likely to have directly participated in the recent events.
The catch, though, it’s that by not opposing the actions of their governments, they DO contribute to the events indirectly. They pay taxes. They work at factories producing weapons. They make the food that the soldiers eat.
On top of that it’s not russian government who’s currently pulling the triggers and dropping bombs. Just regular folks who just follow orders.
Yes, protesting in russia is not easy, but the war keeps going on because the government sees that people aren’t worried too much about it.
And yes, in both countries there are people who actively oppose, but the majority doesn’t.
And that majority is complicit.
Lol. That was my reaction too. “Oh, shit, it’s a video - close”.
My issue with videos is that they are too slow for relaying information. I’ll be ok with it if there would be a two-sentence summary, after reading which I could decide if I want to watch it.
I suspect so that video says it’s that phone calls don’t relay the body language and that makes it more difficult to understand.
Yup. Music is my main regulation mechanism. For emotions, for concentration, you name it.
And sometimes it’s sludge metal, sometimes it’s electro swing, sometimes it’s jazz Bach.
Not exactly the same, but I’m really glad monolord released an instrumental-only version along the “normal” one. https://piped.video/watch?v=7HCUR7y8ziM&t=12
That’s cheating! Why would I want anything easier :)
I don’t know. I was making rice today and the moment I left kitchen (for a nano second, of course) it burned.
Here’s my today’s rice recipe:
Yey, we’re society’s outmost sensory system. I mean we do get to see the world for what it is. And then have the honour to tell folks on the inside how is it out there.
The worst was when it was stolen, while I was travelling, 3 hours before it was time to leave for the airport. Obviously my IDs, tickets, money, were all there.
Lol. Read the title and started giggling. Family asks why I giggle, I tell them and they start laughing.
So yes. After losing everything, including the backpack I always have it with me. It’s a hard rule - the moment I’m far from it, I need something from it.
The contents are pretty much everything I might need during an average day. Keys, vallet, medicines, a notebook and a pen, bandages, headphones, deodorant.
There are other ways of passive or active resistance that is not a direct confrontation.
In the end, it’s still a choice, I’m afraid.
Yes.
On 18 June 2020, the Russian government lifted its ban on Telegram after it agreed to “help with extremism investigations”.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/telegram-russia-ban-lift-messaging-app-encryption-download-a9573181.html
Which means KGB has full access to all messages.