Indeed, and heresy was an accusation used by the controlling religious order, so if anti-semitism is used against us now, that means the new controlling religious order is....
Try protesting against the war in Ukraine. It's just that the Russian and western regimes have different priorities. But don't confuse that with benevolence.
I think it's very naive to think of states as 'benevolent'. I certainly don't think of Russia, or any state, that way.As for protesting against the war in Ukraine, there was a woman who did that by disrupting a live TV news report to protest against it. She got... a fine.
Meanwhile, in Germany they're threatening to arrest people who use the letter 'Z'.
The fact that a country that's actually at work and in an existential conflict goes easier on dissent than do Western European countries show just how bad things are here.
It's hardly possible to do worse than Europe. Well, Western Europe. Russia seems to arrest fewer people than Britain.
Tale as old as time. Heresy had the same.
Indeed, and heresy was an accusation used by the controlling religious order, so if anti-semitism is used against us now, that means the new controlling religious order is....
Try protesting against the war in Ukraine. It's just that the Russian and western regimes have different priorities. But don't confuse that with benevolence.
I think it's very naive to think of states as 'benevolent'. I certainly don't think of Russia, or any state, that way.As for protesting against the war in Ukraine, there was a woman who did that by disrupting a live TV news report to protest against it. She got... a fine.
Meanwhile, in Germany they're threatening to arrest people who use the letter 'Z'.
The fact that a country that's actually at work and in an existential conflict goes easier on dissent than do Western European countries show just how bad things are here.