Honestly been avoiding this site and worldwide political news in general cause the defeatism just fucks with me. There is enough of it here for fucks sake. Though there's been more resistance recently and it gives me faith. I really hope you won't end up like we did

I still live in a country that wants me dead and a society that will throw me under the governments bus first. I'm still one bad thing away from another mental health episode. I still have no education and I still struggle with work and life and general. And I don't even want to die so no way out...

Genuinely pains me to just sit on the language barrier. So much stuff that Russian speaking and English speaking leftists could learn from each other

Damn for six figures I would BECOME a bidet

And don't get me wrong, local work and community work is important, but when THESE are the thought leaders of the opposition, it seems that if any change comes to this political system, it will come from the existing top. These guys and their audience seem deflated and weak at best

The entire sphere is full of drama and fraud, Navalny's former employees shit themselves all the time THE guy that first got me into politics and urban planning lets "experts" spew transphobic bullshit on his show. I feel no safety with those people and their general competence is dubious at best

Adding to that, while on irl local or niche internet level political discussion and work seems to be as alive as it could be in these conditions, popular liberal speakers tend to miss the mark on everything besides, still only at times, the Ukraine war