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  • Yeah. There’s a lot of things that conservatives hate, that’s what I was saying since the beginning. And I didn’t even mention the hate of non-christians, for example, or for socialists.

    And if you support some things but not the others, you’re still supporting policies based on hate, so my point stands


  • Well… if a conservative:

    • supports gay marriage
    • doesn’t believe in ROGD or the notion that people become transgender because of social contagion
    • is okay with sex education that includes homosexuality
    • supports transgender athletes
    • supports transgender people using bathrooms according to their gender
    • is okay with drag shows and doesn’t believe they’re automatically unsuitable for children
    • doesn’t believe that people of color are inherently more violent/stupid/dangerous/filthy/etc
    • supports schools in teaching even the unsightly parts of the country’s history
    • supports immigration
    • supports diversity and inclusion
    • doesn’t believe that young people are lazy ungrateful brats
    • doesn’t support patriarchy
    • defends women’s rights to abortion
    • believes that government should spend more money on helping homeless, drug addicts, disabled, orphans, etc

    Is this person still a conservative?







  • I meant that these things aren’t as noticeable from outside of the country. Like, foreign news outlets probably won’t report on it much. Plus, eggs are more of an exception because of sudden shortage and prices rising rapidly. For most of the other goods the price grows more gradually and isn’t as obvious. Like in that metaphor about slowly boiling a frog.

    Another problem that is noticeable from inside the country (at least by those affected by it) is that certain medications are vanishing from the pharmacies because they are no longer imported and they were never produced locally, or the local production is insufficient to meet the needs. I don’t know the full list, but the stock of ADHD meds is definitely low, and I’ve heard from friends that they had to switch to a different antidepressant due to shortages.



  • Adding to all the reasons already listed, Russia isn’t striving. For example, right now there is a number of towns and cities experiencing outages in central heating (with houses designed around central heating so basically no other option to heat their appartments) while the weather dips to -20°C (around -4°F). All because the centralized boiler facilities weren’t properly maintained due to the lack of money (or, to be more precise, due to money being diverted towards the war).

    There are other signs, like plains malfunctioning and flights getting delayed because some component broke and cannot be replaced due to sanctions, and they happen more and more often. Also the less noticeable stuff like prices of common goods increasing by a factor of two in the last couple of years while salaries barely increased at all.

    So yeah, Russia is keeping itself afloat, but it isn’t thriving at all