this post was submitted on 22 Oct 2023
666 points (98.7% liked)
Comic Strips
12507 readers
1552 users here now
Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.
The rules are simple:
- The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
- The comic must be a complete story.
- If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
- You may post comics from others or your own.
- If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
- The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
- Politeness.
- Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.
Web of links
founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
If you see no differences between the Ukrainian government, flawed as it has been, and the Russian government under Putin... you may need to look a little deeper.
No differences worth fighting for.
Ukrainians disagree. And they are the ones that matter. If you want to live in slavery or without political rights, it is your choice, of course.
Well yeah, it's up to them, but I don't think they're monolithic. They'll eventually negotiate once they run out of men or weapons. I don't think they'd be slaves if Russia captured Kyiv either. Perhaps without political rights, but that wasn't much different than before.
I think that's exactly the point - they know how it was before, and they know how it can be by looking in neighboring EU.
Not worth dying for imo
“Give me liberty or give me death”
— Patric Henry
“There are very few things worth dying for, liberty for yourself and for your loved ones is one of them”
— MxM111
Liberty is practically a myth
That depends where you live, what your cultural upbringing is. If you are from Russia, sure. There, it is a myth, and democracy is something to scare people by.
Says you, an anonymous nobody on the internet.
Just like everyone else here. What a pointless thing to say.
I'm going to over to your place, take over the nicest room, lock a few people in the basement if they complain, and you'll be going to work everyday to pay for this. Sound good?
Weak sauce.
lol that's like using household finances to describe how government debt works. Not an accurate analogy at all.
I guess I can head on over.
Edit: the reason you should not use household finances as an analogy in this is because households do not control monetary policy and most people don't really understand national and international financial policy (or their own finances half the time).
In this case, a neighbor making an unprovoked takeover of your house in order to take advantage of the people living there is exactly what happened. The invasion hinges on "might makes right" so it stands to reason that should be fine in the locale of your home if it's ok for a Ukrainian's home near the border.
So by that logic, Ukraine and in fact every country that Putin sets his eyes on should just roll over and surrender?
The mere threat of violence should allow a dictator to take over, as long as the country is moderately corrupt?
I hate to break it to you, that's nearly every country in the world, so Putin (or any other dictator) could become the world's emperor if they just made a credible threat?
This is why total pacifism is insanity folks.