Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!panix!.POSTED.panix2.panix.com!panix2.panix.com!not-for-mail From: kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money Date: 12 Jan 2025 15:50:28 -0000 Organization: Former users of Netcom shell (1989-2000) Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <9891a370-55ec-e6c9-062b-f425970314f6@example.net> Injection-Info: reader2.panix.com; posting-host="panix2.panix.com:166.84.1.2"; logging-data="6287"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@panix.com" Bytes: 1925 D wrote: >This is the truth! In the 2 big cities, things are ok, but have a look at >the russian country side, and the anger is increasing in proportion with >the bodies that are sent back from Ukraine. Yes, and this is in a country which is used to being used to support their government rather than the other way around. They've served under crazy dictators for the past seven hundred years. But... what can the angry people do, that's the question? It took a lot of very angry people combined with a depressed and disenchanted government to take down the Soviet Union. Can people get that angry again and can the upper reaches of the government get that demoralized? >There is a reason why russian soldiers from the country side are stealing >kitchen and bathroom equipment. Russia is bigger than Moscow and St >Petersburg and when the country side farmers and serfs get angry, it is >game over. Yeah, but they did that in WWI and WWII also.... the farmers have been angry for a long time. How much more angry do they need to be? I wish I knew. --scott -- "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."