Category: Politics, Power, and Governance

(reverse-trolling ant-russian rant)

That’s why I have time to hang out with you Munchkins for the practical purpose of teaching other people how to counter Russian propaganda constructed on lies and false moral equivalency. 😉 I mean, if you’re talking Russia, it’s pretty hard to find target with a greater record of incompetence. So I feel a little like John Stewart making fun of Bush. It’s too easy. Too much material: The white people who failed (again, and again, and again).

You wanna keep attacking me (ad hominem fallacy), and it’s ok. I understand that you’re unable to defend Russia rationally, and have to attack me personally. Only people who would engage in false moral equivalency would resort to personal attacks as a means of avoiding the reality of the country that they’re defending.

But you’re unable to see what’s sitting in front of you. I’m doing exactly what I said I was doing, for exactly the reasons I said. Which is why it doesn’t make sense to you. You can’t imagine someone would spend his time on such a thing. And no one would, unless it was for illustrative purposes.

Russia is a sick country with a sick populace, and none of us cares as long as that sick country doesn’t try to usual tactic of creating nationalism to cover for its sickness by attacking neighbors. This is the technique used by idiots who lack the competence to run their countries competitively. And that is what Russia does: distract from the local troubles by creating an external demon that does not exist.

The west’s strategy is to create successful consumer capitalist economies that are constrained from ill actions by the value of international trade. This forces human rights, and prosperity into the world.

Now, it may be true that the west overextended this approach in the belief that all civilizations (even Islam) are capable of development. And it may be true that the west foolishly advocates democracy rather than consumer capitalism and human rights regardless of means of political organization. And it may be true that the Americans talk about the carrot (use democracy to select the government of your choice) without the stick (if you choose a government that violates the international goal of peaceful commercial cooperation then we will punish you very, very harshly for choosing that government). But that does not distract from the fact that a the general direction that the west has taken the world is to consumer capitalism and human rights. And has dragged humanity out of ignorance poverty and totalitarianism kicking and screaming.

On the one hand we have a positive influence that makes mistakes (the west) and a negative influence that can’t do anything right at all (Russia), who has a “black-thumb” when it comes to government (everything it touches gets worse).

Ukraine has had enough of “Russia’s Black Thumb”. We will take the problem of democracy in the midst of prosperity, rather than the problem of Russian corruption in the midst of poverty. That’s not a very hard decision to make. The west is naive but prosperous and fixable. Russia is a collection of hopeless corrupt incompetence that has murdered tens of millions of its own, and untold numbers of its neighbors, and set eastern Europe behind by the centuries it will take to recover.

I don’t hate anyone. I just state the facts. I love mankind, that’s why I want to save as many as possible from the sick and evil people we call ‘Russians’.

Cheers.