Ah, no, post-Soviets absolutely do. I mean, tend to view everything through the lenses of their lil stupid traumas And, yes, diasporoids are usually the worst in this regard, like, totally mental
Aaron Bastani
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The narcissism of Iranian monarchists is actually impressive. Turks, Russians, Japanese - nobody else views everything, and everybody, through the prism of their own country. Nobody in Ankara is comparing Mamdani to Turkish politics. Giant babies.

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The funny aspect of diaspora life, is that diasporas very often get sort of "frozen" in time. So, basically, the discourse and the reality of home country has changed, for better or worse, while the diasporoids are still battling the same battles of decades ago
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Someone said Russian liberals in response and, to be fair, it feels kind of identical: alternative modernities were possible, combined and uneven development, and they lost very, very badly.
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I would Iranian diaspora is somewhat mentally challenged in this matter .... they could have achieved more.. The Armenian diaspora suffered from this till the new regime said no more PTSD sessions just real politic it worked
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Any distinction from the host population also gets amplified too. Greeks, other Balkan peoples, Turks will make a whole personality trait about how much we HECKIN LOVE BLACK COFFEE! in the UK for example. Very cringe.
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I don't think you can begin to understand the extent of the derangement if you don't speak the language.
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Which "post-Soviet" would actually compare Mamdani to a communist? It's an entirely US thing to do that. Most "post-Soviets" find Western leftists, who think the USSR was a social democratic people's paradise, nauseating. The trauma, on the other hand, is real.
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