I would not argue against that necessarily. I do not think that I agree entirely, but there's a significant amount of overlap with what I think there.
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goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I don't think religion has the kind of influence you claim.
Monarque@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I often work with East Europeans, and they are a lot easier to work with than West Europeans, East Asians, or North Americans and South Americans in general.
Mainly because they are what you might call extremely "based". There's much more directness and practicalness, and much less effeminate, cliquey, two-faced, office politics type stuff. None of the chippy, offence-taking, backstabby behaviour that seems more pervasive in the west. They are simply, men and women, extremely fucking normal. Russians, Ukrainians, Poles, Croatians, Baltics, etc...
I have much more difficulty navigating my own people, which is why i'm glad i don't have to live amongst them. The trouble is nowadays,amongst some people, if you say anything postive about Russians or Russia, you get all sorts of Russophobic crap.
I just don't have a problem with Putin. I'd rather leave NATO and be allies with Russia than America right now. I strongly approve of Russia's cultural conservatism, and Russia's unflinching attitude towards pirates, terrorists, and threats to sovereignty. Sure Russia's not a free country, but it never has been in its entire history, it has always been a country about war and very Darwinian struggles for survival. Putin is clearly pretty competent, and that's probably why he's called evil by many in the west - the same people who gloss over similar or worse abuses amongst their allies in shady regimes like Saudi for example.
It might even just come down to the fact that Putin keeps sexual deviancy illegal, and given the western elite's bizarre preoccupation with genitalia, this might be the single biggest reason they hate him... Vecause they're all family-hating faggots in the west.
DecijiSapun@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
Well, state and religion are very intertwined in the East going back to Byzantine days. You can't have one without the other. That's why Ukraine needed to have its own church. And why Montenegrin government was so set on doing the same which sparked massive protests two years ago: https://youtu.be/mXpOvSv37Kk
goldenballs@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
The claim is that religious belief has preserved social stability. Religious structures is about politics and independence, as you say.
DecijiSapun@wolfballs.com 2 years ago
I can't say we've had much stability in this part of the world :D But it has kept us united, focused and hopeful through all the instability.