But barrel, how am I supposed to baselessly feel superior to the people around me if I’m not enforcing arbitrary language rules despite knowing full well what people mean when they talk about there new haircut or or use new words like startup? I don’t care about effective communication, I care about an artificial hierarchy that I can place myself near the top of.

(/s)

Wasn’t “protecting Russian language and culture” one of Putlers first justifications for the invasion? Like, I think it’s kinda fucked up to ban the language and culture, but then again my country has never been invaded by a neighboring war criminal who used “we’re just protecting our language and culture in your land” so my opinion isn’t nearly as valid as the opinion of people who are currently in that situation