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      Russians are no stupider, on average, than anyone else. They just have shittier luck regarding the system they’ve been born into.

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    At the time, he believed Russia offered an attractive alternative: a society built on Christian faith and family values

    As the bible says: Give birth to as many children as possible, so that your corrupt leader can send them to war.

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        With that claim, I want to know the exact wording. Not because I don’t believe you, but because it’s a great meme!

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          I’m not entirely sure in the war part, the bible does make it pretty clear the Abrahamic people are totes the best people, so I’m sure it’s in there. But there is a whole lot of breed like rabbits in there. It’s why Islamic and conservative/traditional christians make having babies a core part of their values.

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          It’s pretty much the foundation of the quiverfull movement. They literally use the imagery of an archer having a quiver full of arrows. Kids, in this case, being “arrows of faith”.

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      As the bible says: Give birth to as many children as possible, so that your corrupt leader can send them to war.

      As Putin himself says.

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    This article inspired me to check and Teddy Boy Greg (the disgruntled white power barber with a ton of ridiculous facial tattoos who moved to Russia to get away from what he called “degenerates”) has recently died in Ukraine

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      White supremacist died fighting Russia’s war against… checks notes… alleged neo-Nazis? Dude wasn’t blessed with an overabundance of critical thinking.

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        checks notes… alleged neo-Nazis

        Allow me to present this handy guide:

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        One of the interesting things about their propaganda style (which unfortunately is spreading elsewhere…) is that they will spin up entirely different conflicting narratives and even have people arguing between them on their platforms. This is because if they stick to just one kind of narrative, it can only find purchase with the particular sort of audience it’s geared to and will probably fail elsewhere. But if they spin up a ton of different narratives from various mouthpieces geared to many different audiences and blast them unceasingly, then there are still plenty of other hooks to potentially catch a listener even if some are definitely flubs. And if there’s mass confusion in what you actually stand for with all sorts of contradictory statements constantly in the churn of being advanced or withdrawn and defended or blasted, then past a certain point people just kind of give up in the face of the background noise and believe whatever they want rather than if everyone were more closely keeping track of the same smaller and simpler narrative. Part of the reason why they have numerous controlled opposition parties.

        So to people who hate nazis they indeed target a constant barrage of “WE ARE FIGHTING UKRONAZIS” content as justification. This guy however was part of a different stream pulled in by the presentation of Russia as a stern conservative defender of traditional values against the wokeness of the decadent west.

        The barbershop pole on his nose got me every time lmao

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          Plenty of white nationalists among the domestic elite. It’s practically a prerequisite to join certain social clubs and fraternities.

          But white supremacy isn’t just a belief, it’s a goal. Plenty of very smart, savvy, and committed individuals are working overtime to jam their collective boots on our necks.

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            Yep. Education can shield you from being indoctrinated into white supremacy by cheap propaganda, but if you’re just an asshole that loves oppression, you’ll find your way there anyway.

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      you got a source for that? I’ve been lookin’ but I can’t find any news about him less than 2 years old.

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        On his Instagram fanpage in the comments people were posting RIP and some dude was gloating saying he died at Potrovsk in March according to some Telegram or something that popped up when I searched him up but not like an journalist’s article or anything that credible. I took it at face value but I guess it could be trolling albeit one really easy to contest

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    Russia is the perfect country for the MAGA fucknuts. I’m surprised Ben is not serving as canon fodder on the front. 224 idiot Germans moved to Russia, WTF! Stay there and do not return.

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    I’m entirely in favor of a program that promotes the voluntary exit of xenophobic reactionary cunts from the US, as long as we can come up with some way to not let them return after it inevitably all goes to shit for them.

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    Some prospective migrants complain about high immigration in their own countries or what they see as declining living standards, he says.

    Pot calling the kettle black.

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    it just constantly boggles my mind how mentally ill people (Leo clearly has some form of mental illness) and truly idiotic people (again, applies to Leo) always seem to have enough money to just blow away like this. Meanwhile intelligent and sane individuals are barely scraping by.

    I mean i’m comfortable in life, more than comfortable, but i don’t have “move to another country simply because I hate a particular thing in society” money.

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      I also think people with the mental caliber of Leo don’t think of consequences when they spend their money, so it’s possible he sold everything he owns and built debt to leave.

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        “Sure, I’ll borrow $100k. Good luck collecting when I’m in Russia!”

        Honestly, getting rid of them for $100k is probably a bargain.

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      Yep, and please prevent them from ever coming back. May they rot in Russia.

      What about the Russians already there?

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        They stay there. Those who wanted really to leave, left. Or did your forget about the traffic at the frontier to Finland or to Georgia or to Turkey or to … BTW, looking at Romania, Poland and their revolution against the « communistic » regimes, well, that was some chuzpe, which unfortunately I cannot see in Russia.

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    As Russia faces international isolation, a few thousand people from countries including Canada, Britain, the United States and parts of Europe are choosing to move there.

    Europe is not a country and Great Britain is also a part of Europe. Brittain just isn’t a part of the European Union anymore. Their island didn’t drift away from the continent. Then the United Kingdom, also known as Great Brittain and Northern Ireland, consists of 4 counties, namely England, Wales, Scotland and the north of Ireland (which they should give back to Ireland). Then there are small weird situations like the City of London within London and the Isle of Man which is a self-governing British Crown Dependency in the Irish Sea.

    So Great Brittain aka. the United Kingdom is a country consisting of several countries and Europe is a continent. The European Union is a union of countries which are most (not all) countries in Europe but not including the UK. It’s not that hard.

    How is the BBC not getting this.

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      “Parts of Europe” implies “other countries.”

      Great Britain is also a part of Europe

      In British usage, “Europe” means the mainland. So it depends on context. If you’re talking geography, that’s one thing. Politics is another. Common usage, something even different (and less precise).

      So Great Brittain aka. the United Kingdom is a country consisting of several countries

      It’s a state consisting of four countries (England, Scotland and Northern Ireland) and a handful of other bits, as you mentioned. The status of the City of London is not autonomous, except for local affairs: it’s still part of England. There were other random parts of England with limited self-governance, such as the stannary towns which had their own Parliament-- the City is a relic of that time.

      How is the BBC not getting this.

      There are lots of important things the BBC doesn’t get, but this is lost in the noise.

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        Fine. If Brittain doesn’t want to be a part of Europe anymore, go float to the other side of the pond. Just leave Ireland out of it, they are awesome.

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        The full name is The United Kingdom of Great Brittain and Northern Ireland. Souece

        So the UK includes the north of Ireland but great Brittain does not.

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          Correct.

          It’s also worth knowing that both Britain and the island of Ireland are both part of the British isles - just to further confuse the situation.

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            So for me the UK and GB are the same, as I personally do not recognize their annexed land in the north of Ireland.

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              But you recognise the annexed land of Wales and Scotland? Interesting.

              I suppose we all draw arbitrary lines somewhere.

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                  Funnily enough I did think of including there, but wasn’t sure how well versed non-Uk and Irish people would be.

                  Personally, again, I think it should be down to the will of the people.

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                Not really, I do recognize their independant states. However, Scotland did vote to stay, although after brexit they would have voted differently, which they aren’t allowed to do.

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                  So if the unionists outnumber the republicans you’d then be ok with Northern Ireland remaining in “Britain”? The will of the inhabitants and all that.

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          Great Britain is the name of the big island in the British Isles. Northern Ireland is a smallish part of the second-biggest island.