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by constantcrying 692 days ago
Why are you seething about this from the other side of the world?

You are presumably an intelligent person, but you, and everyone else that could, left your home country for economic opportunities elsewhere. Now, your home country is administrated and governed by the people without the opportunity to leave and you are on the other side of the world.

I think it is extremely weird to see the people with the best opportunity to reshape their country leave and then from overseas complain about the politics in that country.
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AlexeyBelov 692 days ago
What do you mean by seething? Their comment appears emotionally balanced to me.

Honestly, it sounds like you want to gatekeep political discussion. Am I misunderstanding you?

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constantcrying 692 days ago
>Honestly, it sounds like you want to gatekeep political discussion.

Seething about the politics of the country you left behind means you have gate kept yourself already.

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ramon156 692 days ago
Huh? Even if he was seethings, why is caring about your family a bad thing? Is your opinion suddenly not relevant anymore when you've fled the country? Weird mindset
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constantcrying 692 days ago
>Is your opinion suddenly not relevant anymore when you've fled the country?

Again and again the most intelligent people emigrate to the West and then seethe about the politics in their home country. I get why they do it, but it is really obnoxious. One main reason why developing countries have bad politics, is because everyone intelligent is leaving for the west and the same people who, for their own economic interest have left, are then agitating from the other side of the world for political change.

In some real way, leaving your home country also means leaving behind the ability to change anything about it.

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