#fencesitting

"On August 13, Roskomnadzor announced the upcoming restrictions, linking them to the danger posed by calls through messaging apps. In particular, they have "become the main voice services used for deception and money extortion, as well as for involving Russian citizens in sabotage and terrorist activities," according to the official statement from the regulatory body"

Nevermind the fact that that kind of stuff has been happening on VK, the most popular Russian social media for decades now, but this is just a very loose justification to block a whole outlet for the "west ideology" as they call it. People are about to lose their only safe space. Their friends.

And the government is calling us to move to the government funded app called MAX. Which, by the way, has access to your GOVERNMENT ID and other info including the fact that it collects data from your camera and microphone at will! So if you start your little rebellious gay chat there, you're risking 15 years in prison. For propaganda. Something that is undefined and easy for them to invoke.

I think the best place to start writing is to write about things that me off the most: hypocrites, credit grabbers, and power-hungry people.

The worst thing you want to do when you’re a political entity is alienate your audience. Alienate here means excluding people who you clearly do not share the same values with, and continue to make that very obvious.

It’s extremely strange then for a political entity to come for another leadership organization attempting to piece itself together by calling them “fencesitters” when they can’t get their shit together. It comes off as arrogant, self-serving, and hypocritical. It makes absolutely no sense to tell us that we’re merely sitting on the fence when we cannot create a stand on every single issue we need to stand up for because we’re already having difficulty communicating within the organization. Does that mean that this political organization creates statements about themselves without consulting its members as well? It would sound hypocritical if they didn’t, right?

We’re already dealing with an internal crisis, and here they come parading around us that we are affiliated with them like it’s the most important thing in the world. The organization they’re trying to reel back in is fighting tooth and nail to regain the interest of their members, and the last thing they wanna hear is that the most insensitive, out of touch, and borderline elitist political parties in the university is trying to get our attention. 

It’s the real tea though that they have lost their ground in the students, and their attempt to regain our trust is looking more political than ideological. And that claim holds up because we do not share the exact same ideologies as them anymore. It just makes absolutely no sense to re-affiliate with an organization that we cannot even share the same vision with.

ON THE FENCE

In this day and age we are often quick to ostracize others without a second thought. Perhaps we are becoming more and more entranced in our own judgments and subsequently filling in the blanks of broken information with our preformed ideals. Our deliberation of thought for the most part is determined from our experiences which of course is different in each individual. Translation of these…