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rehabforcandy26 karma

As an editor I once got to work with an interview of you that was shot for a feature film, the doc was never released but I really enjoyed the few days i got to spend researching you and Mr. Magnitsky.

The question is, how much support do you think there really is for a popular uprising among average citizens? The Russian population receives a very manipulated reality through their media and I think we receive a very manipulated image of them. do you think more than half would truly rise up with Nevalny as their leader? Less than a third? Are the sanctions fomenting animosity in the average citizen?

rehabforcandy11 karma

When did you start developing this? Did you create this with a team or is this your own refined strategy?

rehabforcandy5 karma

Did you think about doing one for the pandemic year? It’s been a tough one.

rehabforcandy3 karma

Tandy 1000 sx Mic=dropped

rehabforcandy2 karma

This. This right here.

Your book points out that we’ve stripped civility from our conversations and that’s a sad loss but I think it’s much worse: Democracy asks us to be knowledgeable about the people running for office and understand what they do after they are elected. Trump has effectively silenced the discussions that help us inform each other and stamp out misinformation. Instead of correcting our uncles at Thanksgiving when they say the Mexicans are taking our jobs or Tennessee is basically under Sharia law we just ignore it for the sake of keeping the peace. but we have to stop doing that. we have to start talking about politics again and really arming ourselves with information.