lotusmars

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by lotusmars 5y ago
You just try to downplay struggle of oppressed people in non-West countries for some reason by saying "welp it happens everywhere nothing special". It's so puzzling why Americans do it all the time.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Man, you're comparing American "cancel culture" to actual torture and murder of opposition and journalists, kidnapping, beatings by unmarked men, spray paintings "Z" and "traitor" on the walls, prosecution
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by lotusmars 5y ago
It's actually okay. The sanctions are a joke overhyped by Joe Biden. USD to RUB exchange value is around 81 which is almost pre-war levels. Most banks still use SWIFT just fine. Russians sign up for Visa and MasterCard in Kazakhstan vi
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by lotusmars 5y ago
No, Nuremberg is a legit framework for this.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
> That’s every other search engine too. Please leave your "look at the West" whataboutism out of it. In the end it's your problem how you solve it. We in Russia had our media crushed, filtered by Yandex and most journalist
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by lotusmars 5y ago
No support to the fact that she resigned in protest. Please don't spread this whitewashing of Yandex. Many Russian executives stepped down so not to be hit by sanctions. She was already scheduled to be replaced by Khudaverdyan and then
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Honestly don't care about "it's all propaganda" rhethoric. Yandex abused its dominant market position and silenced our protests and filtered sources alternative to Kremlin. Yandex News is the largest Russian media by a m
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Germany paid reparations for many years, so no, it's an actual pathway that can be implemented by a framework similar to Nuremberg.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Whenever me or people I know were contacted by a person claiming to be a pollster, including Levada, we just hang up. Nobody risks a chance of being "tested" by FSB or "anti-extremist" operative. The risk is huge from be
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by lotusmars 5y ago
10k is the number of people who were ready to be beaten, detained, tortured, have huge fines and later have their families harrassed.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
So tired of this Kremlin propaganda everywhere and Western people actually believing it. We were force fed this bullshit everyday on Russian TV and Yandex News. Please resist it while we in Russia couldn't.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Europe is choke full of Russian or Ukrainian criminal money: mafia, oligarchs, police, prosectutors all launder their money to Montenegro hotel property and Italian villas. Corruption is rampant in Europe. It's only layman's money
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by lotusmars 5y ago
As a Russian, this is the reason I can’t support Snowden or take him seriously. He keeps his trap shut about our suffering or plays softball at best which effectively makes him a great weapon in FSB/Russian oligarch hands and a RT mout
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Yes, and this is the most puzzling lie in Durov’s post. He knows he’s lying. Personally I think he’s found a common ground with Kremlin behind the scenes.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
I wish there was a foreign power interference in Russia. At this point I will accept NATO intervention (will never happen though, West is just complicit with Putin).
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Why do you always bring up America when we're talking about injustices in other countries? As a Russian, it pisses me off. It's like saying "black people shouldn't moan, because white people suffer too".
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Why do you always bring up USA when people are talking about injustices in other countries? Every time.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
You can create a political party in US. In Russia even attempting it will get you jailed or murdered. It's still weird how on the West it's customary to compare the uncomparable. In Chechnya (or Iran) all gay people are lynched wi
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by lotusmars 5y ago
They still looked unprepared. The inquirer asked basic questions like "who controls App Store" or "what is the relationship between local subsidiary and Apple Inc." They stumbled and mumbled looking lost. They looked lik
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Apple drops iOS Private Relay feature for users in Russia(appleinsider.com)
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by lotusmars 5y ago
All people allowed to take part in elections are sanctioned by Kremlin. Try to sign up as a candidate and best case you'll get rejected, worst case beaten, bullied, jailed or murdered.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Why do you always start talking about US when somebody talks about injustices in other countries? Like really.
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by lotusmars 5y ago
Honestly Apple's Russian executives look very weak and unprepared in this video. I suspect they're just hired from some agency or consultancy as FAANG have very limited corporate presence in Russia. So they just keep being sheepis
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by lotusmars 5y ago
As a Russian, I agree. Boycott Putin, Lukashenko and other bloody murderers. Otherwise it's just talk. You can post whataboutism under this comment (e.g. "what about China?", "US is bloody too", "US always supp
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by lotusmars 5y ago
I know you're trolling yet this approach turned off not only me but lots of talented kids from math and technology for years. We thought we were "bad at math" when in reality our parents couldn't afford to buy teachers&#
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by lotusmars 5y ago
> What definitely exists in Russia (or at least some big cities) is a system of free after-school classe I've been studying in a "respected" Soviet / early post-Soviet school. These classes were super elitist and had
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by lotusmars 6y ago
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by lotusmars 6y ago
There is a difference between this and VK (owned by Mail.ru) basically having a web interface for police or anyone with money to read your messages. You can bring a lot of “Apple is just as bad” outsider evidence, but I don’t know anyone wh
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by lotusmars 6y ago
The difference between giving data to Apple or Yandex/Mail.ru for Russians is this: Apple will help advertisers and spammers target you. Russian corporations will help thugs, racketeers and corrupt police target you and government will

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