jimbojambo [he/him]

I am disappointed. I’ve decided to stop talking to a person I had been talking to for a while who I had thought was becoming increasingly left-wing. Today we were discussing the recent shooting in Belgium where two Swedes were killed. I tried to make them understand that Islamic extremism and its prevalence is as much a product of Western imperialism and funding of extremists at the expense of left-wing movements such as the Kurds as anything else, as well as the racism and exclusionary politics that Muslims face in Europe.

From there we moved onto talking about the burning of the Qu’ran, my position is the burning of the Qu’ran should be considered a hate crime and serves only to boost right-wing forces. They started screeching about freedom and democracy, I tried to reason with them but in the end I just had to tell them I refuse to talk to them anymore until they educate themselves.

I dm’d you a link but I also found it on YT in poor quality https://youtu.be/RBh-ivZ5C-w

I remember watching Oliver Stone’s interviews with Putin from 3/4 years ago (I’d recommend watching them, v interesting) and you could see he had Windows XP with a picture of the Kremlin as his desktop background. In recent photos of him at his desk you can make out that he’s still going strong on XP with the exact same background. :putin-wink: