• balsoft@lemmy.ml
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    23 hours ago

    What the hell is Trump admin trying to achieve here? China was already overtaking the US in scientific research. Randomly detaining researchers just because they’re foreigners (among other things like defunding universities) ensures that in 5-10 years US will be hopelessly behind on everything from social sciences to medicine to physics, the list goes on really, and not just behind China but likely behind EU too. This really does seem like an empire in decay, however I’m willing to bet that people working on missiles to kill brown children will continue to be well-paid until the bitter end.

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    Kseniia Petrova is a russian who opposes the Ukraine war. She’s fighting amongst other things a possible deportation to Russia.

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      20 hours ago

      For further context, opposing the war can and does lead to 10-15 years imprisonment in Russia, and Russian prisons are even worse than ones in the US.

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        20 hours ago

        How could you possibly know that? Have you been a prisoner in both?

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          19 hours ago

          People can know things without having experienced them personally you twat… waiting for the “show me your sources” post next

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            Not if you’re simply parroting western propaganda, which you are! Russia isn’t some backward country. Like most western countries, they have various types of prisons or gulags. Gulag is just Russian for prison! Some are horrible, just like supermax is in the US.

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      Jesus fucking h Christ the actual state of the nation rn rip / lol / fml fuck fuck fuck