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by baoyu
1575 days ago
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Too many people are missing the point of actions like this. You want to make lives of everyone in Russia more unpleasant to send the signal that a war can’t be an easy PR win. If you start a war, it should suck for your citizens, even if they are watching the news from a safe distance. If your leader starts a war, your life will become worse and you will be poorer personally. Sure, this is less effective for authoritarian countries, but is still useful. Of course most Github users from Russia aren’t guilty, and many of them are already against the war. Good for them! But that’s not the point. |
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White collar workers just flee the country: See Venezuela, Iran, etc. Even Russian Revolution itself is an example of this trend.
When white collar workers become "inconvenient" they get purged as enemies of the people. See Pol Pot's reign of terror in Cambodia. He had brutally purged roughly 25% of his own population, far more in relative numbers than Stalin, Hitler or Mao did, yet he still had been in power for decades, even after Vietnam invaded after massive refugee crisis.
Iran had violent protests in the past few years, but the protesters just got killed and that was it.