Russian President Vladimir Putin has seemingly invited conservatives chafing under "neoliberal ideals" in their home countries to move to Russia, where he claimed "traditional values reign supreme," and Alex Jones suggested he might take him up on the offer.The Russian president signed a decree offe...
  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Hey, if you and your buddies wanna go, Alex, knock yourselves out. Seriously: get the fuck out of here, because the vast majority of us hate you for being one of the worst calibers of human.

  • Red_October@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    1 month ago

    I hope they all agree and go in one big wave, because otherwise stories of the early adopters being conscripted to die in Ukraine might dissuade the rest of them.

  • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 month ago

    ”[Putin’s] new decree blows the lid off the establishment’s agenda, letting freedom-loving folks bypass the usual bureaucratic nonsense like language tests or history exams," Jones posted on X. "If you’re ready to reject the insane policies of your home countries that push these destructive, anti-human, neoliberal agendas, Russia is rolling out the red carpet!”

    Based and fuck off to Russia pilled

    • kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      ”… bypass the usual bureaucratic nonsense"

      Immigration laws? Quotas? Checking that they’re not importing the “criminals, drug traffickers, human traffickers and people from insane asylum from those shithole countries”?

      “like language tests”

      “Speak 'Merican!” “Why should I press 1 for English!?”

      “or history exams,”

      “They come over here and don’t even integrate to our culture, our laws and our history. They want to bring their own culture here and replace us”

      I know it never stops, but even still this level of hypocritical entitlement still amazes me. Either way, can’t wait for these Leopard Ate My Face posts.

      • N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Russia needs meat for the meat grinder. Putin is delaying sourcing his meat from St. Petersburg or Moscow for as long as possible.

      • jonne@infosec.pubEnglish
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        1 month ago

        I love how the same people that call for tougher immigration laws are clamoring for looser laws in other countries.

        You just want to go to Russia and live there without ever bothering to learn Russian? And you’re not expecting any resentment to grow against those immigrants that just come and don’t adjust?

    • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      “It’s an oppressive authoritarian regime but it’s not ‘woke’” seems to be good enough for them.

      So much for their claims of wanting “liberty”.

  • NutWrench@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    1980’s conservatives: “Why don’t you move to Russia if you don’t like it here?”

    2020’s conservatives: “Why don’t we move to Russia if we don’t like it here?”

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      1 month ago

      In the 1920s, a brash group of young and ideologically committed Americans saw the Bolshevik Revolution taking place in Russia and decided to travel halfway around the world in order to join it.

      In the 2020s, a boorish group of over-the-hill talk radio hosts and their most die-hard hangers on are witnessing the last dregs of humanity squeezed out of the failed revolutionary experiment and have decided “Damn, now is definitely the time to pop over and go golfing.”

      I wonder what the Russian police will say the first time they see Alex Jones light up a fat blunt?

  • renrenPDX@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Didn’t a conservative family already try living in Russia recently and found out it wasn’t all like a better version of America?

    • Sway@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 month ago

      There was a homophobic family from here in Sasktachewan (the Feenstra’s), who sold their family farm and dragged their 8 kids to Russia to escape the “far leftist” and “lgbtq ideology” here in Canada. Guess it didn’t work out too well for them since they had their bank accounts frozen (possibly assets seized) and then proceeded to speak ill of Russia (including they don’t speak English there) only to have to publicly apologize and eat their words.

      • Nurgus@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        30 days ago

        I’d laugh but that sounds like 8 kids had their lives ruined by some idiots.

  • ours@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    They can all go and make their own new Russian town. They could call it Jonesgrad or perhaps Jonestown to keep it closer to their American roots.

    Don’t forget to pack up some FlavorAid for those scorching Russian summers.

  • zv0n@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    1 month ago

    “This new decree blows the lid off the establishment’s agenda, letting freedom-loving folks bypass the usual bureaucratic nonsense like language tests or history exams”

    This coming from the “LEARN ENGLISH, YOU’RE IN AMERICA!” crowd

  • ccunning@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 month ago

    Don’t forget to renounce your citizenship so you can’t come back don’t have to pay taxes…

  • RegalPotoo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    … Wasn’t there a story a few months ago about a family that had done exactly that and turns out living in Russia kinda sucks?

    • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      Haha, yes. They were home schooling, antivaxxers who sold a fully owned farm in Canada because of “the gays,” then hoped a plan to russia with their 8 kids.

      Of course, Russia froze all their funds, forced them all to get vaccinated, then refused go process their visas for months, while they had to live in a one bedroom with a broken sink. The husband posted a video talking about how they missed their washing machine.

      The wife then posted a video about how she hated Russian bureaucracy, which they pulled down quickly. Suddenly, they are talking about howm much they love Russia, how its great that they can’t access their money.

      Now, months later they find out that they need to speak fluent Russian to become citizens, and that it can take years after that. They also can’t own more than 49% of a farm without being citizens, so they found a russian to own the 51%.

      So after all this, they are going to build a house and a barn and raise farm animals, all for some guy they met to actually own, all while not speaking the language and being utterly dependent on strangers.

      Man, that fully owned farmed farm in canada where they were utterly independent and had free healthcare sure sounds like shit in comparison.