Happy new year!
On a scale of 1 to KimJongUn, how free do you feel to speak your mind on Lemmy?
You have a good VPN?
Happy new year!
On a scale of 1 to KimJongUn, how free do you feel to speak your mind on Lemmy?
You have a good VPN?
My VPN is okay. It breaks sometimes, but the team behind it are all tops, I'm now not even detected as a VPN user on reddit like I was previously. I want to go for my own private server solution in the coming year for the sake of learning the server side of things.
I'd initially put like 4/10 Kims there because I'm so uninteresting and unimportant person no one would care to jail me, but I'd put two additional Kims for my zoomer friends sometimes make me afraid about talking my mind with them in private, since they, like, kinda agree it's offensive to play anti-government song on the street, the thing I thought we put to earth long ago. They supported sentencing some teen for that, and I'm feeling it's 6 Kims outside my tight little circle of comrades since I'm afraid to be snitched on.
The idea that playing a song is worth jail time… talk about cuck behavior.
What do you and most people in your town think of the "special military operation"?
Being a special unicorn myself, as I do answer you on the fediverse of all places and in English, I want to say I am not representative of our bunch. But from what I can gather, there is no outright remorse to the war I could've welcomed, but an overall tiredness, and even distancing. As Prigo guy and others cried, not many people really care about the war around me, unless they are directly affected. I see ads for service everywhere, I hear drunk persons coming from the trenches, but the 'unilateral' support is artificial and comes from public institutions like schools, colleges, controlled social media, while average people just try to make their living in slowly hardening material conditions. Unlike frequently bombed regions, mine is adapting to whatever comes, and unlike visible support for the cause of war, everyone's just working their hours, walking kids and animals and don't care at all unless asked.
From what I can gather, this tends to be the sitch when a war is sort of remote - not worth getting in trouble opposing, not worth supporting.
For most, that is how it goes.
My uncle is driving me mad atm crying it's not universally supported to go big bang-bong-poof and proclaim a real nuclear war against the western world.
I feel myself a coward for not being in prison just yet, but I'm thankful to some deity that it lets me keep caring for my bed-chained elderly relatives who would otherwise just die uncared for.
Can you please blow up a gas pipeline or a refinery? For the fireworks
I'm not a pissy boy to steal frags from ukrainians.
They won’t mind. Go blow up a refinery! It’s new years for Pete’s sake!
Is there large cultural differences between the east and the west? I feel like non-Russians only see and know about the European part, in and around Moscow. But I can't imagine those around Mongolia are somehow the same, let alone those over near Alaska. At that point we're looking at thousands of kilometres of separation and there's a huge amount of cultural difference when comparing the countries that are found along Russia's border, e.g. compare the Finnish to Koreans, for example.
This real 10 meter tall statue near me says hey to your unicorn.

That statue killed its creator and has veiny balls, it’s got it all
To me this has obvious queer vibes. Is this interpreted the same way in Russia and if so do you get any pushback for wearing this? I've read Russia is a very queer phobic country.
Yup, very much so, but this time I wore them in a company of friends. Other times, yeah, people went nitpicking about my clothes to call me an f-word over nothing and some fights ensued. Regular locals are so thin-skinned lol
Wearing these alone is itself a small revolutionary act in an environment that is so hostile to “gay propaganda”. Credit to you, stranger
Did you buy those pants or make them? Where would one buy pants with fire-breathing unicorns on them?
I bought them in a second-hand store, so idk where you can find another pair, sorry.
What an incredible second-hand find! And they fit (I assume, given you’re wearing them!)
That’s just blucifer. You can’t fool me.
What’s your favorite piece of media you consumed (for lack of a better term) in 2025?
What is your peak bloc car model?
I’d choose the Dacia 1304
Do you agree with the conclusion that Silent East made about propaganda?
https://youtu.be/BY9uuxC_YAQ
I don't find his thought a sculptured and ready-to-discuss point, but the end of his vid did sound familiar.
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