• 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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          I don’t know. Maybe they need more cryptocurrency experts and sovcit hedge-lawyers to help with getting around sanctions

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            Maybe they need more cryptocurrency experts and sovcit hedge-lawyers

            They can have them.

            Preferably before November.

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          What are you on about? This migration will cause the IQ in Russia and the originating country to go up.

          /s

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        I have bad news for them if they think accepting people running from “Western liberal ideals” is going to help with that somehow.

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      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!”

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      “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.

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    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.

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    On arrival, you will be provided with a military uniform with minimal bloodstains, a rifle from WW2 that may or may not work, and free transportation to the beautiful Russian countryside of Kursk.

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    About to be a bunch of confused conservatives showing up in Kursk with a few bullets and no training?

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    Let’s use trump’s plane to start the maga transfer to Russia.

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    I’ll buy them plane tickets if they need help getting the hell out of my country

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      At first I was going to say “сука бля, nyet, we have enough shitheads already”. But then I realized that they would honestly just fit right in. So you have yourself a deal… as long as you could also find a safe place for Snowden - the dude does not deserve to be in this hellhole.

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    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.

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      Shhh, They THINK Putin’s Russia is a conservative utopia so don’t crush their dreams.

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          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.

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            Ok, ok, bread culture is generally better in most of Europe.

            Sandwich loaves didn’t even cross my mind :/

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      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.

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          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%

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          I’m not sure if that story is onionesque or real. Now, that uncertaintly is a problem with the modern world.

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          …it didn’t occur to them to even start learning Russian before they went?!

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          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.

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        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)

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          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).

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        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.

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          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?

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      Their Facebook feeds will be absolutely hilarious.

      “They aren’t respecting my second amendment rights!!” As they live in a completely different country…

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      I’m guessing it’s more of a propaganda thing. I’d be shocked if he’s hoping to net enough people for significant extra “мясо пушки”, given that this sounds like it only applies to Western countries.

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        Agreed, but I think it’s more than that

        I don’t think he’s offering them plane tickets. That means they have enough wealth to move there - it would instantly be a shot in the arm for the Russian economy. They’d get a captive market, and he’s not even inviting them to be Russian

        That selector also means they’re more likely to have useful skills, and the messaging is targeting people very susceptible to Russia style propaganda - he could censor their connection to the outside world, and they’d thank him for it

        Also, if NATO arms hit American civilians, that would be a powerful message to reduce international support for Ukraine or NATO.

        They’re too valuable. They’d pay off for him immediately, and long term he’d have an isolated community that is just begging to chug the Kool aid

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      Took way too long in this thread to come to the real reason. They will become food for the war machine. Troops like that have a horrid survival rate.

      I will fund to my best any repugnicunt that wants to go but can’t afford it.

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    You can have 'em!

    The reality is Putin is attempting two genocides, one in Ukraine and one in Russia. He has purged undesireables from liberals and independent media to the LGBTQ+ community, ethnic minorities, political opposition, boisterous oligarchs, prisoners, and so forth… He and his Rasputin, Aleksandr Dugin, believe they can create a stronger Russia by making it a more pure one. But good luck with that lol.

    Putin be like, “Watch me speed-run becoming North Korea, stuck in the past and global pariah.”

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    They made the same offer to men from Nepal…many relocated to Russia

    So far 10 are dead and hundreds missing

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          This would be the most circuitous immigration route they could take to get to Europe… go to russia, head to front lines (and survive), surrender, become a POW, claim refugee status (and avoid being deported), land in a western country and start from scratch.

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            I was thinking just because they realized if they didn’t defect, they’d be killed, not to get to Europe.