- Putin has signed a decree that Russia will welcome foreigners who want to escape Western liberal ideals.
- Applicants may include those from countries unaligned with “Russian spiritual and moral values.”
- The application process has been simplified, and visas will be issued as soon as next month.
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Huh, is the meat grinder not getting enough?
Probably also a massive brain drain to boot.
Yeah, I don’t think this will help very much with that particular issue…
What are you on about? This migration will cause the IQ in Russia and the originating country to go up.
/s
I don’t know. Maybe they need more cryptocurrency experts and sovcit hedge-lawyers to help with getting around sanctions
Maybe they need more cryptocurrency experts and sovcit hedge-lawyers
They can have them.
Preferably before November.
I have bad news for them if they think accepting people running from “Western liberal ideals” is going to help with that somehow.
Probably. “Come to Russia! Is safe place! Is not place with liberals! What? No, we don’t need bodies for military! No conscription of foreigners here!”
Fast and easy to get citizenship!
Service guarantees citizenship!
Would you like to know more?
Plus a little state sponsored travel, for a treat!
See the world* for free!
*Ukraine
“If it works for Isis, surely this will work for me.”
Odd thing is, he might not be far off. He could try to sell some incels on hot single Russian women whose men have all died in 60 year old tanks. Also maybe some gravy seals might be willing to sign up. Maybe when Trump loses he’ll move there followed by some of his MAGA cult, and they’ll be this English speaking enclave in Russia somewhere. Could be the premise for a sci-fi tv show.
I mean, most of them want a strong man dictator type anyway!
Yes, please take them all.
Go Republicans. Go to the land of *true freedom!
^^^true ^^^freedom ^^^not ^^^guaranteed ^^^nether ^^^is ^^^food, ^^^goods, ^^^and ^^^conscription ^^^highly ^^^likely. ^^^Visas ^^^surrendered ^^^apon ^^^entry ^^^and ^^^use ^^^as ^^^a ^^^bargaining ^^^chip ^^^for ^^^Russian ^^^spies ^^^guaranteed.
Dang, that reads like a commercial for pharmaceuticals.
Ask your propagandist if Copium is for you…
That would be a sideways move.
Changing from one oligarchy to another oligarchy.
Well, if you become a whistleblower or if you are a journalist that the west wants to arrest, or get rid of, that might be your best bet.
Edward Snowden is alive and kicking.
Edward Snowden is alive and kicking.
Alexei Navalny isn’t. I wonder what the difference could be?
I wonder what the difference could be?
Actually, it’s pretty simple. Edward Snowden exposed government surveillance and ran away, seeking asylum to protect himself after revealing what he believed was in the public’s interest. Navalny, on the other hand, wasn’t motivated by public interest—he actively betrayed his country, aligning with foreign interests and openly opposing the government. Unlike Snowden, who wisely fled, Navalny stayed behind like an imbecile. And guess what happens to traitors in Russia? It’s not like in the US, where all that matters is money, fast food, and the latest social media trends—Russia doesn’t mess around when it comes to nationalism.
Chelsea Manning isn’t even in prison anymore.
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That’s a different issue. The point was if she had done it in Russia, not only would she not have been allowed to transition, she’d be dead.
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That is why Chelsea Manning was brought up. Because if she had done what she did in Russia, she would have been murdered by the state for doing it.
I dunno, seems like there’s a significantly higher chance of falling from a window and dying in Russia
As an American, I know about our regime-change wars and about our military leaks, including some of our real civilian causalities in our forever wars.
Not to mention our civil rights activists keep dying, as well as other information about the three letter agencies.
I try to avoid races to the bottom, especially when comparing citizen deaths in the US and Russia.
It will not make any nation more popular.
As an American
[X] Doubt
No Doubt is a great band.
As an American
I add that due to encounters with non-Americans.
We are strangers on the internet; feel free to think what you will, I will not try to force it on you, hahaha.
this is just rebranding oligarchy in a way thats palatable to religious whackjobs, like US conservatives.
rebranding oligarchy
How? The billionaires and corporations own the most important resources while having great influence over our elections and politicians.
We are only a republic or a “democracy” in our dreams, but in reality, we are also already a fascist country with our police state.
Not to mention the Patriot Act and the many more policies that follow.
The USA PATRIOT Act was a landmark Act of the United States Congress, signed into law by President George W. Bush.
nothing youve said here negates my point. these kinds of messages arent meant for people paying attention.
im not disagreeing with you. rebranding is all about optics, and attempting to change peoples view of something… often a terrible thing.
Interesting! Thanks for expanding on your thoughts a bit!
Snowden never wanted to be in Russia. He was trapped there inadvertently by diplomats.
RuSsiAn moral values.
hahahaha!
Russian moral values:
- Papa Putin is always right
- See point 1
…Also something about the gays.
About to be a bunch of confused conservatives showing up in Kursk with a few bullets and no training?
One gets the rifle, the other gets the spare mag.
The man with the gun shoots the gun.
The man without a gun finds a gun.
Who quickly realise that hunting deer isn’t a proper way to prepare for modern combat.
And who have just relocated their best hostages to within Putin’s power. Yes, bring your nine children and wife along to Russia–now stay in rank on the front line, or maybe your oldest gets to come serve in your place (earlier than they would have anyway)!
One extra vote per child!
My deer shoot back, don’t yours?
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I hope these people put their money where their mouth is and leave.
Let’s use trump’s plane to start the maga transfer to Russia.
If he doesn’t win in November, he’ll probably arrange that himself.
I know a lot of people who should go! They won’t of course, but it would be great if they did.
I don’t expect people who take him up on that will enjoy it if coming from America. Just a guess.
Putin would probably turn them right around and drop them in the middle of the Ukrainian frontlines while laughing.
russia is not conservative at all, but it is a fascist police state without 1st, 2nd, in fact all amendments I’ve checked up to the 10th, so they’re going to love it, I guess.
Well, most countries aren’t going to have the same constitutional rights as the USA has. In the same way, the US doesn’t give their citizens the same rights as those in other countries receive. As such, I’m not sure if there’s too much point comparing the two.
Otherwise. Yes, it’s not going to be a nice place to live, and anyone that chooses this option has only themselves to blame when they realise they made a deal with the leopard that has a history of biting faces off.
Arend also highlighted the former Soviet Union’s perceived “strength” to “stand up against Western pressures” and its ability to shield their family from ideologies they found objectionable.
“Other countries are under the Western influence and wouldn’t be able to stand up against it,” he claimed.
“Western chauvinist” to “eastern chauvinist” speed run any%
LOL
_Arend also defended their portrayal of Russia as a country with a free press, prompting challenges from viewers to critique Russian leadership and ongoing conflicts. _
…it didn’t occur to them to even start learning Russian before they went?!
Sometimes clickbait is so bad that it’s good again
Ok those people are dumb. But is the Russian government really hard up enough to steal the value of a Canadian farm from some yokels? Or more likely it’s some lower level corrupt officials. Come for the conservative ideals, stay for the corruption and scams.
I’m not sure if that story is onionesque or real. Now, that uncertaintly is a problem with the modern world.
the US doesn’t give their citizens the same rights as those in other countries receive.
The U.S. doesn’t give their citizens the same rights that the U.S. constitution has.
You mean the same rights guaranteed by the constitution? Or you mean the rights of the document itself? Like no flash photography or stored in a climate controlled box or something like that?
Yeah, I meant “guaranteed”
My comment was about the irony them “escaping” to have freedom of speech, gun freedom and trial by jury of their peers to a country that has none of those, not being a bad place to live. It’s not about “other countries”. Other countries can do whatever they want.
(yea, I think I commented in the wrong thread, this was meant to go on the other one where magats ponder moving to russia)
Yeah, my point is, comparing them to constitutional amendments doesn’t make too much sense for the rest of us.
But you know, I think they do have trial by jury. Just, I think like the elections there, the jury gets told the result, before they decide it.
If they want to own guns, no problem. The government will supply them, and even provide transportation to a place they can use them. (I hope the /s is implied here).
Their Facebook feeds will be absolutely hilarious.
“They aren’t respecting my second amendment rights!!” As they live in a completely different country…
Shhh, They THINK Putin’s Russia is a conservative utopia so don’t crush their dreams.
But they have bread…and shopping carts!
Not just bread, fresh bread! In many varieties! Something you would never see in one of those filthy American supermarkets with their shelves stocked with nothing but stale loaves of Wonder Bread.
Ok, ok, bread culture is generally better in most of Europe.
Sandwich loaves didn’t even cross my mind :/
All I know is I would never pick up and sniff a flithy American loaf of bread.
Oh please let this happen, the alt right fleeing to Russia thinking they’ll have better lives only to get shoved into a shitty overcrowded apartment or forced to work on a farm with 19th century farming technology would be the funniest fucking thing.
None of this will happen. They will be sent directly to the front ending up as fertiliser for Ukrainian ground like the rest of the Russian military.
Wouldn’t this be the equivalent to like…
