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1. lnxw48a1 (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Mar-2022 11:52:04 EST lnxw48a1
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   > all they can do now is surviving. people cannot go for rallies if they have troubles with food and basic needs. they're forced to work more, to run to banks trying to get their little money, to seek for some cheap food to feed their kids. and this is what's going on. and people won't do any revolutions, they have no time for this.
   
   In other times and places, this would be exactly the situation that would trigger mass protests and revolution. Think about "let them eat cake!" and the revolution that followed that spectacular show of non-connection with the general populace.
   
   However, in Russia, ever since Stalin ruled the USSR, there are enough secret police spying everywhere that it is understandable that most people won't and can't protest.
   
   This is in addition to the claims that 75% of Russians support the invasion to begin with. (And thus hardships likely strengthen their resolve to re-subjugate Ukrainians under the rule of the Russian state.)
   
   No, I agree. If there is to be an overthrow, it must come from the top military leadership and possibly some high up politicians. I think that even a lone military gunman would not change the course that Putin has led Russia to follow.
   1. GeniusMusing (geniusmusing@nu.federati.net)'s status on Saturday, 12-Mar-2022 12:14:16 EST GeniusMusing

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      Seems like someone read at least one book...
      1984, George Orwell
      
      >“Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed—no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull.”
      
      >"Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.”
      
      >“We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it.”