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.
Obvious aside, who thinks moving to a country where you can’t speak to anyone would get them in touch their culture? How would you know what the culture was osmosis?
man I wish we could convince the entire GOP to go. imagine that timeline…
Play with fire, get burned.
Devout religious people… Lol
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, 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.
“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.
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.
Us french have tried for years but the island isn’t moving away fash enough 😔
I think the French have tried that with every European country.
You can’t really expect the BBC of all networks to be nuanced about this thing.
Now, ask them about sizes and colors of dicks…
There is only one size and color, which is big and black. Everyone knows that.
The UK is different to Great Britain. The terms are not interchangeable.
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.
Great Britain is the name of the big island in the British Isles. Northern Ireland is a smallish part of the second-biggest island.
North of Ireland *
Norn Iron.
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.
So for me the UK and GB are the same, as I personally do not recognize their annexed land in the north of Ireland.
But you recognise the annexed land of Wales and Scotland? Interesting.
I suppose we all draw arbitrary lines somewhere.
Hey, what about Cornwall?
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.
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.
One of the few good things russia has done. Voluntarily pulling dumbasses into their own borders.
Hey now, give credit where it’s due. They have been a great recruiter for NATO as well.
And then sent to be mercifully put out of their stupidity by Ukrainian drones.
…or NATO/Ukrainian made tungsten.
Leo is a devout Christian who had become increasingly disillusioned with…the rise of the LGBTQ movement.
Although he is committed to staying in Russia out of a sense of “destiny”, he now says he misses the freedoms that have shaped the American personality.
“[In] Russia you don’t have these human rights values.”
I mean…
these human rights values
LOL, that’s just FAFO with a chef’s kiss. Kudos for honesty though. I hope he becomes reformed and much more skeptical of bullshit narratives; although the article does not read like it. More like he’s comfortable with a 50/50 divide in his mind. Christianity, I guess.
I hate gays more than I love human rights
hope the guy gets sent to the front and barely survives just so he can share his message with all the other idiots.
bet he’ll see dudes blowing dudes for socks or boots on the front lines.
I hate gays more than not being homeless.
Imagine hating a group of people SO much you’d rather be homeless in Russia of all god damn places.
And you think they’d believe him?
In some unmentioned corners of lemmy, they’d tell you without a hint of irony, that this is Western Propaganda and Russians are enjoying much more freedom than people in lets say Germany, where oppression has reached unheard of levels. …
or something like that.
Well, I know a person from Canada that had an opinion that Russia is a great place to do business in, because you can do whatever you want if you pay the right people. That was a long time ago, don’t know if any later events changed his mind
Good news, the West is moving towards that as well. The US is already pretty much there, Putin’s allies on the populist right (but also some on the populist left) aim for the same.
These people construct a dream world in which all their problems are the result of “woke”, and in which Russia is a bastion of Conservative values. It’s delusional, and sad, but there’s a lot of influencers talking convincingly about how awful our life is. Sometimes people believe them.
Eat the rich, don’t move to Russia.
dream world in which (…) Russia is a bastion of Conservative values
According to the article Russia is actively creating that image, and the special visa to go with it, for numbskulls like Leo.
You can’t fix stupid, but you can laugh when it moves to Russia.
It’s propaganda poisoning all the way down.
The Russians, the Americans, and the Brits are all choking on their version of Nationalist Exceptionalism as all three countries nosedive.
More then just those countries.
Yeah but we (America) and they are the loudest about it.
Have you met many Serbs? And let’s not forget the Israelis.
i remember reading somewhere that russia is conservative because it lacks access to the sea. it’s the sea access that made england the birth land of liberalism because the sea connects more than it divides. so you get in contact with lots of other cultures. and that breeds liberalism.
Wait until you find out what the liberals did to all of those other cultures
Looks dubiously at Indonesia.
It’s well known cultures that are more urban, closer to the sea and thus meet more diverse people, are more open.
Also, note that Saint Petersburg is the most liberal city of Russia.
This makes that argument too: https://youtu.be/OS1NZLgKM2c
My man Russia has had access to plenty of sea. Sankt Petersburg is on the Baltic Sea and has been there for like 300 years. The Russian Empire had access to the Black Sea and the Pacific and so did the Soviet Union. It’s not the access to the sea that’s making them conservative, it’s the Russian Orthodox Church and their governments keeping them uneducated so they can control them easily. The Russian Orthodox Church is so conservative they refuse to change to the Gregorian calendar, they still use the Julian Calendar which is innacurate and keeps drifting so that they celebrate most Christian Holidays like 2 weeks later than everyone else.
And access to the Baltic Sea and to the Black Sea is worth, jack sht, if access to the Atlantic from there can be blocked by multiple countries. It is actually worse than access of Austria to the Seas. In the case of Austria goods can be delivered within the Single Market to an Atlantic port. The only access to the Oceans is at the Pacific but the Transsiberian Railway doesn’t have nearly the capacity to make that Russia’s main port and there is not that much of anything in the far east to need a huge port. It is good as a military harbour but terrible for projecting maritime power to Europe where Russia is engaged in imperialist wars of conquest.
I don’t think there’s a very strong relationship there. While inland areas do tend to be more conversative, I think that’s just generally due to the rural/urban divide. Cities historically have been located on the coasts for shipping purposes. And that also divides by education level, which is also related to political tendencies. And cities have historically been located on the coasts for convenience of shipping. Even inland cities are usually on major rivers.
But there are plenty of racists there too. London has been a huge melting pot of different races for a long time, but there are still plenty of racists in England.
In England, as in the US, the level of racism in an area inversely correlates with the percentage of the population who are immigrants. The white riots that recently happened in lily-white Northern Ireland are a recent illustrative example.
In London, there are a lot of racists, but not proportionally so. There also happen to be a lot of all kinds of people there. It’s a big city.
it lacks access to the sea
Wow, that’s a bold statement.
I think dumb is a better word. Russia has a crazy amount of coastlines.
It is way less dumb than you think it is. As long as climate change is not doing something about it, Russia’s access to international waters is a lot more compromised than many think. Russia’s main ports have access to the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea. In both cases other countries can block access of Russian ships to the Atlantic. Other than that, the only ports with all year round usable access to international waters is in Russia’s far east (Vladivostok primarily), which can compensate a bit but not nearly replace the ports in the European parts of Russia.
Frozen, tundra coastlines. It lacks warm water ports, which is why it invaded Ukraine for Crimea in 2014.
The UK on the other hand is nothing but warm water ports. I think their point stands for at least modern Russia.
But in relation to this statement, it is not wrong. The large coastline in the north does not really provide contacts except for polar bears, the east is a completely different society, which leaves only the Baltic coast and a few, summer-only harbors in the north and the black sea.
Imagine being dumb enough to think Texas isn’t conservative enough for you
I don’t think I can
Ive heard afghanistan is a great alternative for repubes
They might find the Pashto boy-raping culture congenial. And the rule by religious reactionary idiots with guns will feel a bit like back home in Texas.
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.
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.
You joke, but this is 100% in the Old Testament.
With that claim, I want to know the exact wording. Not because I don’t believe you, but because it’s a great meme!
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.
If there are that stupid let them.
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.
Matter of time. Once they’re no longer useful for the propaganda machine, that is.
That’s right. They should stay there for a bit, get conscripted, and then get killed in Ukraine. Fucking pieces of shit.
Whenever these morons move to Russia, they improve the average IQs of both countries.
Russians are no stupider, on average, than anyone else. They just have shittier luck regarding the system they’ve been born into.
