lotusmars

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by lotusmars 4y ago
Thanks for trying to whitewash him, but no, we Russians know him very well. Sterilization of anti-invasion people is one of the mildest things he suggests. He’s also a huge homophobe standing against “Western homosexual values”. He’s been a
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Europe pays billions for gas daily basically sponsoring invasion. It’s enough for Russian elite to flourish and pay people and companies reliant on state (most of Russia). Putin’s bet is that sanctions will be lifted before tech embargo hit
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Series director Shakhnazarov is one of the ultra pro-war and pro-Putin celebrities. He’s almost daily on Russian TV spewing hatred against Ukrainians, Americans, minorities. Be careful. It’s tempting to say “not all Germans”, but this case
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by lotusmars 4y ago
No, there are credible and quite horrifying reports[1]. Also some of the actual rapists were found out and victimes stepped forward. Please don't spew Russian propaganda. [1] https://meduza.io/en/feature/2022&
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by lotusmars 4y ago
People in Russia felt much safer using iCloud, Gmail or Google Drive. Of course they comply to some requests by Kremlin or police. But Yandex or VK just give information straight away often times without much procedure.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
There's a world of difference between Five-Eyes and being harrassed, mobbed, jailed, having a "Z" and "traitor" spray painted on your apartment door or being murdered. By conflating those two clearly means you don&#
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by lotusmars 4y ago
It's still working as usual and they announced the transition after 8 years of warmongering and blacklisting all opposition resources. And only when sanctions hit. Now they scramble to present a whitewashed image to Western public. The
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Say what you want, most people in Eastern Europe, Ukraine and even lots of people in Russia would prefer to be under protection of NATO. If it were not for NATO, Russian rapists would already be in Tallinn, Vilnius, Helsinki. Claiming they
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Well they've made their choice and silenced our protest and opposition, and later spewed pro-war anti-Ukrainian propaganda using country's largest media (Yandex News). If you're profiteering from our suffering and choose Krem
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Its developers stayed complicit with a company with a biggest propagandist pro-war resource in a country (Yandex News).
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Americans just love to talk about themselves. Who cares about Russians under Putin's oppression or Ukrainians being exterminated. Let's talk about your government, Bush, Trump and Google.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Just take it to America from us, thank you. Along with VK. Great search engine and a social network. Full of backdoors for thugs and corrupt police, censorship and other lovely stuff... but you'll probably say that Google is full of it
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by lotusmars 4y ago
> Our governments have no problems exterminating, starving and displacing people It's high time to bring "but US bombed Iraq". Classic playbook.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
It was hilarious when people from Moscow wrote "they took away our ability to buy Chanel bags, so much for European tolerance!" Not even seeing the irony. What did they expect in response to bombing, pillaging, mass rape? Friendly
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Well you can have it in the West. We'd prefer something separate from Kremlin.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Maybe not be "apolitical" for 20 years that led to this? Russian IT and media were showered with relatively high wages to stay quiet while last semblance of elections was finally destroyed, independent media was took over by pro-P
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Yes, similar to VK where low-level police can retrieve all of your location, messaging, IP data and sell it to mafia or thugs. Russian police is notorious for selling logs, private data or access and also selling databases on a black market
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by lotusmars 4y ago
No, they just removed all but pro-Putin or state media out of Yandex News. It's just only pro-war Kremlin propaganda now.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Yandex is arguably the biggest censoring and propaganda machine in Russia. Yandex News is IIRC the biggest news media in Russia. It filtered all results on protests and opposition resources leaving only government propaganda. Same with war.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Putin's media will go into a frenzy. You will have Petersburg trolls posting all over the Reddit "spiteful gay Europeans leave refugees to death, so much for European tolerance!" On the other hand if you let them in, Putin&#x
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by lotusmars 4y ago
> "Ukraine’s ports are at MARSEC (maritime security) level 3 and remain closed for entry and exit. Sea mines have been laid in port approaches and some port exits are blocked by sunken barges and cranes." So yeah, this quote li
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by lotusmars 4y ago
I don't know what reply did you expect me to give to "try to board a plane to Moscow then".
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Ukraine did not "tore apart" in 2014. Putin's army and mercenaries invaded its eastern regions, downed a passenger jet, weaponized criminal gangs, occupied cities and turned them into criminal neo-Stalinist enclaves with exec
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Actually a lot of Moscow tech workers came back after fleeing initialy to Yerevan, Tbilisi, Baku and Istanbul. Most bought Bloomberg propaganda and were expecting a crash. It never came. On the other hand Moscow feels great, restaurants are
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by lotusmars 4y ago
11%. Slashed three days ago from 14%. It will be back to single-digits pretty soon. https://edition.cnn.com/2022/05/26/business/russia-economy-r...
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by lotusmars 4y ago
> Google is your friend on this one. Petersburg shills are lazy these days.
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by lotusmars 4y ago
> Yet still winning.. Because Germans do not provide weapons they've promised. In fact if they drag their feet more, war may change its course. > Ukraine doing that and the US doing that are drastically different Of course Ukrain
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Ukrainans equipped with modern weapons and intelligence. They already notoriously sank a Russian flagship. In reality though Germans drag their feet by not providing weapons they've already promised. Seems like Putin's policy of b
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by lotusmars 4y ago
Putin will always push further by saying "cave in to my demands or I'll nuke you". Most of it is bluff. Which like any bluff is scary to call bluff. Russian army is in corrupt disarray and even tacticals nukes are not gurante
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by lotusmars 4y ago
> Russia pulled out of most of the country the day after Zelensky announced they might not go in NATO after all They didn't. The only time they made a major retreat was when they overstretched and Kyiv offensive that was expected to

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