pkt on Nostr: Killing people waging an immorral, offensive war is not genocide no matter how many ...
Killing people waging an immorral, offensive war is not genocide no matter how many you kill. Genocide has a specific definition aimed at protected groups. An army and their logistics supply is not a protected group.
It's likely that >15% of Russia's entire true GDP is going directly to the invasion – the state budget has almost half of all Russian tax dollars getting spent on the military.
Like it or not, if you're paying Russian taxes, you're meaningfully contributing to a genocide. And thst includes sales taxes. Your responsibility is to stop that, be it by leaving Russia, or making up for it with useful actions like sabotage. Many Russians are doing that. But far more are not. The fact is the invasion (and Putin ) is quite popular in Russia, and the war is being done mostly by volunteer soldiers. _Not_ conscripts.
Equally, this budget makes the Russian economy as a whole a valid military target. It's a good thing that Ukraine is, as an example, bombing Russian oil and gas facilities, as well as ports, and (when possible) killing the employees who work there. Those exports go directly to funding drones and missiles to kill Ukrainians. Similarly, we should be finding ways to blow up cargo ships, trains, and and planes heading to and from Russia and kill their crews. Those crew members are knowingly and directly contributing to genocide, and stopping those imports and exports meaningfully disrupts the Russian war economy.
When Canada instituted their absurd COVID policies, I refused to play along and I left Canada. Part of why I did that was to avoid paying taxes (eg sales taxes are significant). Now, what Canada did there was _far_ less of an ethical violation than what Russia is doing. But even then, I had a responsibility to do at least something about it. And I did, at a fair bit of cost to myself.
You are making excuses to protect murders and thieves. I suspect because you're afraid of the consequences of doing so, and because you don't have the courage to actually do the right thing and go against the shitty beliefs of the people around you. I'm not surprised. You've never stuck me as someone with very much courage. Most bitcoiners don't have it. They're reckless. But not courageous.
It's likely that >15% of Russia's entire true GDP is going directly to the invasion – the state budget has almost half of all Russian tax dollars getting spent on the military.
Like it or not, if you're paying Russian taxes, you're meaningfully contributing to a genocide. And thst includes sales taxes. Your responsibility is to stop that, be it by leaving Russia, or making up for it with useful actions like sabotage. Many Russians are doing that. But far more are not. The fact is the invasion (and Putin ) is quite popular in Russia, and the war is being done mostly by volunteer soldiers. _Not_ conscripts.
Equally, this budget makes the Russian economy as a whole a valid military target. It's a good thing that Ukraine is, as an example, bombing Russian oil and gas facilities, as well as ports, and (when possible) killing the employees who work there. Those exports go directly to funding drones and missiles to kill Ukrainians. Similarly, we should be finding ways to blow up cargo ships, trains, and and planes heading to and from Russia and kill their crews. Those crew members are knowingly and directly contributing to genocide, and stopping those imports and exports meaningfully disrupts the Russian war economy.
When Canada instituted their absurd COVID policies, I refused to play along and I left Canada. Part of why I did that was to avoid paying taxes (eg sales taxes are significant). Now, what Canada did there was _far_ less of an ethical violation than what Russia is doing. But even then, I had a responsibility to do at least something about it. And I did, at a fair bit of cost to myself.
You are making excuses to protect murders and thieves. I suspect because you're afraid of the consequences of doing so, and because you don't have the courage to actually do the right thing and go against the shitty beliefs of the people around you. I'm not surprised. You've never stuck me as someone with very much courage. Most bitcoiners don't have it. They're reckless. But not courageous.