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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by cpsns on Saturday March 05, 2022 @04:43PM (#30572198)
> I am empathetic to your situation, but if you lived in Russia and paid taxes in Russia, you did support Putin. You also supported him just by living there, which was a statement that Russia is a place worth living in. Also if you didn't protest, you did support him passively.

If you're an American you don't get to criticize Russian citizens for this. It would be the very definition of glass houses and throwing stones.

How many of your government's injustices and war crimes have you protested? And don't try to brush off my comment as "whataboutism", you're talking tough so back it up.

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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by Etherlord87 on Saturday March 05, 2022 @04:56PM (#30572325)
I'm not an American, but I don't see how an argument is valid or invalid based on who makes it.
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Re:Russians are trying to flee – data from Google Trends by ghtys on Saturday March 05, 2022 @08:33PM (#30574076)
An argument can be biased, an American who never had to live under Putin's regime or in the social/economic context of Russia might not be able to understand that people don't choose to be born in such countries, or not see the wrongdoing of their own country.
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