We need your comments! More comments, please!

We need your comments! More comments, please!

Resistance to fascism is a team effort. There are limits to what one individual can do. We need to build communities of resistance, and communities are built by sharing of perspectives and experiences, not by monologue.

I created this subreddit partly as an attempt to serve the needs of the Russia-friendly community. Community participation is needed to keep this subreddit alive and growing.

When sane and sensible people remain silent, trolls and shills take over the conversation. Is that really what we want?

This subreddit gives us an opportunity to combat the Russia-haters. Do we really want to waste this opportunity?

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Reddit is designed to support conversation. That is what I intend this subreddit to be. I do not want this to become a blog or monologue.

Reddit supports conversation and interaction, but in many subreddits, the interaction consists of nothing more than the endless battle with trolls -- trolls trash the lead article and then people try to convince the trolls to see the light, a hopeless, endless, demoralizing task. Here, we have an opportunity to break that dead-end mold!

Perhaps we are paralyzed by habit. We have been fighting with the trolls for so long that we have lost the ability to do anything else. We have come to depend on the trolls to drive the discussion -- and that's sad. When the haters and liars are absent, we have nothing to say.

Please, say something anyway! Not every word has to be combative! Find something nice to say about the article. Offer some words of support. Share some experience. Raise some questions. Cite some articles. Let's act like we are alive!

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That which the fascists hate above all else is intelligence.

-- Miguel de Unamuno (1864-1936, great Spanish philosopher, poet, and patriot).