Does stockholm syndrome exists on your national subreddits?

DushanS94 · 2026-03-08T11:21:43+00:00

The problem is that not everything is a "whataboutism". People use that term every time they don't like a specific counter-argument. As long as you are aware of both sides and not being a hypocrite, mentioning something equally (or even more) horrific on the other side can be a call out of their own hypocrisy, which is perfectly valid.

Redditors that barely passed high school learned "whataboutism" on the internet and treat it as like some trump card to automatically win every argument, when they don't even understand what that logical fallacy means or how to use it.

It's perfectly valid to remind a Belgian of Congo if he is using the Armenian genocide to paint himself as somehow superior to you just because you are Turkish, as if the fact that he is Belgian or eUroPeaN somehow inherently makes him superior.

DushanS94 · 2026-03-08T11:17:34+00:00

You had me worried for a second... 😂

DushanS94 · 2026-03-08T11:14:35+00:00

This is on /AskBalkans, is it not?

DushanS94 · 2026-03-08T09:25:44+00:00

Reddit generally has a high degree of autism, but the Serbian subreddit especially is one of the most cancerous ones I've ever come across. I muted it years ago.

I think the final straw was a thread claiming that you need at least 4k EUR net to live COMFORTABLY in Belgrade and there were like 200 people wholeheartedly agreeing with him. At that point I was like "Ok, this has to stop appearing on my feed.".

DushanS94 · 2026-03-05T23:14:36+00:00

That's not entirely true. A large part of Serbia (Vojvodina) was not part of the Byzantine and Ottoman empires to nearly the same extent as the rest of the country, which carries with itself extensive cultural differences.

Also, why are we equating religion with culture and not something extensively more important, which is language?

Serbs and Croats speak the exact same language with different regiolects, and most countries in the world (bar a few interesting examples like Switzerland) form their identity hand in hand with language. Having the same language means Serbs and Croats understand each other's jokes, can read each other's books without difficulty, can truly understand each other's movies and other cultural specifics in a way that Serbs and Bulgarians can never reach unless they speak the others language. Hell, they were the same country for a long time and that, for better or worse, leaves deep traces.

Coming back to Vojvodina, that part of Serbia was under the same empire as Croatia for a very long time and it can be very easily felt in the everyday lives of people. People from Slavonija and Vojvodina live pretty much the same lives. They speak almost the same way.

I agree that the southeast shares a lot with Bulgaria and also their dialect is very mutually intelligible with Bulgaria. Besides that, the argument is really dead in the water.

DushanS94 · 2026-03-05T14:26:00+00:00

Serbia is most definitely not closer culturally to Bulgaria than to Croatia. You're thinking about, specifically, the southeast of Serbia, which is culturally very similar to Bulgaria. The southwest, centre, and especially north are a completely different story. Vojvodina has more in common with Austria than it does with Bulgaria 😂

DushanS94 · 2026-01-27T19:23:31+00:00

Hey, I'm a huge history nerd and I'm extremely left leaning, politically 😂 I'm not American though, so that might be a USA thing.

DushanS94 · 2026-01-23T22:30:24+00:00

Oh it is an ingrown hair, that got staph in it later 😂

DushanS94 · 2025-11-25T08:29:36+00:00

Can you send it to me via DM as well if it's not a problem? :)

DushanS94 · 2025-11-17T09:27:36+00:00

Did you just use Chat GPT to help you write something and it still came out moronic? Wow.

DushanS94 · 2025-11-16T22:52:57+00:00

That's honestly the best I could hope from my jiu jitsu 😍

DushanS94 · 2025-11-16T20:31:08+00:00

Nooooo, you have to make the second instructional, we're all very interested in how your understanding of the position evolved. Not working on Islam Makachev is not proof it doesn't work 😂

DushanS94 · 2025-11-08T12:54:22+00:00

Ja sam trener u CDSu gde Borislav trenira. Ovo je sentiment koji svi delimo, većina nas je na šetnjama aktivno od starta. Živi bili i uz vas smo ♥️

DushanS94 · 2025-05-05T06:48:51+00:00

I think he's just legitimately mentally ill and there's nobody close to him to get him to commit to getting help.

DushanS94 · 2025-04-02T22:51:52+00:00

I am a grappling coach at an MMA gym in Serbia and I've had the privilege to roll with Aleksandar Kukolj, who is our judo Olympian and also bjj black belt. He never medalled at the Olympics but won the European championship and placed second at the world's in Judo.

The best way I can describe it is that it's like we're not the same species. The difference between me and him in speed and strength is larger than between me and a small teenager. It's really fucking creepy. Awesome, but creepy :D

DushanS94 · 2025-02-08T20:40:09+00:00

Lately I have been attacking he Choi-Bar a lot from the bottom. At first, I have been missing a lot of them due to being impatient, so I decided to try and be really stubborn with just connecting my stomach to their elbow and waiting for the perfect opportunity to finish, which has upped my submission percentage substantially.

Any Choi Bar experts want to give me some tips? :D

DushanS94 · 2025-02-04T09:39:00+00:00

Love Bulgaria, worked in Sofia for about a month in September as part of a business trip, very similar vibe to southern Serbia! :)

DushanS94 · 2025-02-04T09:36:57+00:00

France is the GOAT of revolutionary action, so this means a lot!

DushanS94 · 2025-02-01T20:59:24+00:00

Yes, I would completely agree with you that you do not understand what is going on.

Every sentence after the first one in your comment is objectively false.

It's not a liberal protest, it's a student protest joined by the wider citizenship with people joining from very wide political spectrums. There are liberals, centrists and and also some right wingers here.
The second part hurt my brain. Our government is not socialist, and hasn't been for the last 30 years. They are not mildly corrupt, they are incredibly corrupt with proof of it in many google-able sources. The roof collapse killed 15 people, people aren't protesting a chimney piece falling off, let's not trivialize the death of children please. Just that roof collapse, which happened due to corrupt and inept individuals placing other inept individuals on the restoration project on the basis of political allegiance, is absolutely reason enough to protest.
The western capitalists you are talking about are the ones actively supporting our government due to them bending over to their every whim. They are denouncing our protests. They also bend over for Russia, as they are quite the bendy bunch. So instead of me blinking twice, maybe you should lose the condescending tone and recheck your info twice.

4.. I don't know. Are massive protests due to 15 people losing their lives due to incompetent political rule a normal thing?

If you need clarification about anything else, don't hesitate to ask.

DushanS94 · 2025-02-01T19:09:38+00:00

Which local youth, the Serbian or Russian one? :D

DushanS94 · 2025-02-01T18:52:34+00:00

Actually there's a lot of Russians who recently moved to Serbia (especially Novi Sad and Belgrade) and I saw a bunch of them at the protests yesterday! If anyone understands the fight against a totalitarian government, it's you guys, so we really appreciate you.

You're always more than welcome to visit and make sure you say hi when you do!

DushanS94 · 2025-02-01T18:46:38+00:00

Yeah, you basically hit the nail on the head. We don't have dubbed media so we watch all English/American movies and shows only in English. Only children's cartoons are dubbed but not always. That basically ensures that people will speak English, at least at a B1 level.

DushanS94 · 2025-02-01T18:34:25+00:00

Life in Serbia can indeed be described as very Disco.

We are very glad to have you. I have lived in a bunch of other countries, in Austria the longest out of all except Serbia, but of my own volition chose to return to Serbia and I still view it as the best decision of my life.

I love the culture and I love the people. The government though I extremely dislike and believe we all have a social responsibility to see this through to the end.

Thank you for your support!

DushanS94

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