Posted on 12/15/2019 12:55:53 PM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Yegor Zhukov was tired of giving interviews. So instead of using the main entrance to an event in his honor, where a television crew was waiting for him, he slipped past a security guard and headed for a side door. He didn’t go unnoticed.
“Please, young man, follow the rules,” the guard ordered, running after him.
Zhukov, a 21-year-old politics student and popular libertarian YouTube blogger, doesn’t particularly like rules. Or rather, he explains, he doesn’t mind rules in principle, it’s just that he grew up in a country with a big government that uses them to infringe on the rights of its citizens.
Wanting that to change is why he made a bold declaration last week, a day after a Moscow court had bowed to public pressure and released him on a suspended sentence of three years under the condition that he not use the internet.
“I want to be the president of the country,” he said in an appearance on the independent Dozhd television channel.
His ideas have raised eyebrows. Critics have pointed to his support of Jordan Peterson, a Canadian thinker who has been described as a purveyor of “fascist mysticism.” They have also noted one video from January of this year titled “Feminism Is Dangerous,” in which Zhukov, seated behind a desk with a red Make America Great Again cap on it, tells his audience: “Today the nutcases are lefties and particularly left-wing feminists.”
During the Dozhd interview, Zhukov defended his views, comparing the idea of feminism to the Soviet notion of collective identities. This sparked a new round of criticism among Russian liberals...
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I don’t think there are going to be pictures of him in his old age.
Or middle age.
Somebody's got it right.
Only nuclear weapons could do more damage than what feminism has detonated on the western world.
Brave young man.
I'm barely old enough to remember it, but it seemed to happen overnight. The "Summer of Love" they called it. Maybe it really was, for a while, but it mutated into a summer of confrontation, opposition, rebellion, and violence.
Liberal and Conservative? Real Americans vs. Communists? Well, yes, but the divide was more generational than ideological. "Don't trust anyone over 30" was the meme back then.
So I'm thinking "Could the same thing happen again, with a new generation?"
Maybe so, but this time ideological roles are reversed.
But it's only a silly dream, right? There aren't that many Alex P. Keatons out there...
Feminism continues to be fanned with wind tunnel level velocity in Hollyweird.
Women are the big heroes now and men are regulated to diminished supporting roles.
Not content to let men, women, boys, and girls just be normal; they have to change the entire dynamic like there’s something wrong with normality. Such is the level of mental illness in Hollyweird today.
Is it any wonder mental illness is a huge and growing problem now? Can’t fool nature indefinitely.
Yeah, huh?
Man obviously read his Solzhenitsyn, who warned the West, that this was going to happen.
Very typical to Russia it is more a parasite group than a family with generations of single mothers passing hatred towards men on their daughters. The central idea of such group is that 'all men are bastards and should be destroyed by all means possible'.
Russia lost their best men during the Second World War. I think I read somewhere the average lifespan for males during Soviet times was 54, mainly due to Vodka abuse.
Not really in Soviet times although it was below 60 since 1992 for about a decade. I think there are complex reasons to it, alcohol and substance abuse are one of them but also overall poverty and deterioration of health care.
Why? I like the guy’s ideas although he is quite naive in many senses.
With that absurd sentence government did him a great service. He is now a famous public figure.
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