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Imagine if you live in a autocrat country. You want to protest something and yet not get shot. Oh that is the color of uniforms we had left... Its not a lie

• gruez 5y ago
  >You want to protest something and yet not get shot. I wouldn't be so sure. Didn't some people get arrested for protesting with a blank sign? I also saw a video of protester with a sign "two words" getting hauled away.
  • jrockway 5y ago
    Astronauts are expensive government assets relative to random people with a sign. Can you apply for political asylum aboard the International Space Station?
    • number6 5y ago
      I would love to see this playing out: Cosmonaut applying for asylum. Obviously Russia can't arrest him in space, but where do they land? There is material for a nice movie in there.
      • aeternum 5y ago
        Check out "For All Mankind" on Apple TV. Although now it might hit a little too close to home.
      • dougSF70 5y ago
        They could get a ride back on the spaceX vehicle
      • dragonwriter 5y ago
        > Obviously Russia can't arrest him in space, but where do they land? Depending on whether it's a US or Russian vehicle, either in the ocean or Kazakhstan (which, while generally aligned with Russia, is a whole separate country and disappointed Putin by refusing a request to supply troops to support the invasion of Ukraine.)
    • dragonwriter 5y ago
      > Astronauts are expensive government assets relative to random people with a sign. Among those arrested in the recent purges are, ISTR, 8 army generals, the head and first deputy at FSB, and a bunch of other “expensive government assets”.
• dougSF70 5y ago
  Good for them. Good for all the people who are fighting for democracy.