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[-] AdellcomdoisL@beehaw.org 19 points 1 day ago

This is a ridiculous article. People are not their government. The fact that Russia is a non-democratic government even makes it even worse. The russian people still deserve to earn a wage, to pay for their necessities, even if their taxes - unfortunately - support a warmongering dictator, and they're suffering through a draft. How is this any worse than the US government that not only builds itself on constant foreign interference as well as flat out invasions? And their soldiers willingly enlist. Should we ask that every american citizen starve themselves because their taxes support the military? Should we call that companies stop employing US citizens and drive them into poverty because of the countless atrocities the United States support?

To call out a foreign country on not standing up against their leaders is absurd. They control the policemen and the army, they have the weapons, the finances, and the policies. Why didn't americans - the supposedly defenders of democracy - not easily depose Trump if that's all it takes? Why are they struggling with a bipartisan system in which both candidates openly support the Palestinian genocide? Why not make a call for the rest of the world to abandon them and just let them die out? Its almost like its not that easy to change your entire nation, huh?

[-] theangriestbird@beehaw.org 7 points 1 day ago

technically the article never goes as far as arguing that people should boycott the game, though that is obviously the implied thesis. I don't exactly disagree with you, I just think it's a conversation worth having.

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