• RogueBanana@lemmy.zip
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    The link you attached already mentions that isnt accurate. Not everyone living in Russia will publicly annouce they are against their government even if they are.

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      Right, but we still blame the Germans for WW2. We don’t say, “Well, not The Underground, or the partisans, or…”

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        I don’t and there are many records of Germans who helped Jews and acted against Hitler so why blame everyone. Hate the actual Nazis not the commoners who had no choice.

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          We’re talking about common idioms and modern parlance, not actual blame. Almost everyone involved in WW2 are long dead.

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            Me neither but can you say the same about others in this thread or the comment we are replying to? They seem to actually wish harm to all Russians.

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              My point is you can’t tell intent from simple statements and you shouldn’t make assumptions when in modern vernacular the phrase is perfectly accepted as syntactically correct.

              TL;DR – you’re making up arguments no one is arguing.

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                Mate you’re the one making assumptions here as I even said seem to despite people literally saying its hard to sympathize with Russians. Either way this is going in a completely unrelated direction and pointless to argue more.

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        Define “we”. I don’t know anyone doing that, bar impulsive people on social media.