Thread: Политические дискуссии на разные темы (оф-топик от темы "The crisis in Syria")

Originally Posted by Deborski

Most Americans seem more aware of RT than of Pravda. Pravda has too much connection to Soviet Times, in the minds of Americans, for them to take it credibly. I share stories from RT, RIA Novosti, Russia Beyond the Headlines and a variety of other Russian media which have English editions. Only the RT articles get much of a response. As for myself, I read Russian-language news as well to get a handle on what is really going on.

Frankly, I am tired of ALL the dick measuring. I have not seen Russian/American animosity this high since the Cold War. I am hearing some of the most ignorant, russophobic nonsense I have heard since the 80's when people flocked to movies like Red Dawn. It's disgusting and believe me, I have given a lot of people a piece of my mind. I am also hearing a lot of hatred of America and nasty stereotypes about my own people and I'm fed up with that too. In my opinion screw ALL the haters.

Everyone needs to calm the hell down, start reasoning objectively, stop pointing fingers, and start trying to work out some peaceful and diplomatic solutions which do not involve igniting a global conflict and destroying life on this planet as we know it.

Deb, don't you think that back then in the 1970s-1980s movies like Red Dawn would be justified? Maybe because of being depicted that way the Russian people found courage to overthrow their zombifiers and stop being zombies? I heard lots of people truly believed they were living in the best country in the world while getting paid like $50 a month and being unable to get certain food, clothing, etc. even for that money. Luckily, they eventually saw WHAT they had been worshiping; you can see what they would look like if they hadn't if you just look at North Korea. I don't think it's ok to have such zombie nations these days, do you? Summing it up, the Cold War as it was before the "perestroika" was kind of good in the sense that it helped the evil empire face its end sooner so people could get free.

Originally Posted by Eric C.

Deb, don't you think that back then in the 1970s-1980s movies like Red Dawn would be justified? Maybe because of being depicted that way the Russian people found courage to overthrow their zombifiers and stop being zombies? I heard lots of people truly believed they were living in the best country in the world while getting paid like $50 a month and being unable to get certain food, clothing, etc. even for that money. Luckily, they eventually saw WHAT they had been worshiping; you can see what they would look like if they hadn't if you just look at North Korea. I don't think it's ok to have such zombie nations these days, do you? Summing it up, the Cold War as it was before the "perestroika" was kind of good in the sense that it helped the evil empire face its end sooner so people could get free.

No Eric, I do not think that portraying Russians as baby-killers and thugs was ever justified.

But, if you think that stereotypes are a great way to "unzombify" people, then maybe there should be some Russian movies showing the little children dying from our drone attacks, in order to help us zombie Americans who think we live in the greatest country on earth while we can barely scrape together enough for our mortgages (if we were not already foreclosed on), cut coupons to save a few dollars at the grocery store, and go bankrupt paying doctors' bills.

The Soviet Union was not paradise, but the US has FAR too many problems of its own to be pointing fingers now.

Our police state is beyond even Stalin's wildest dreams, our country is overflowing with guns, our homicide rate is skyrocketing, we shovel the homeless out of cities because we are embarrassed at the sight of them, and our prisons, run for profit, now have more people incarcerated than during the peak of the Stalin era.

Maybe we should see more movies about that. Because America has become EXCEPTIONAL at creating a police state.