Awww, a genuine succdem, how precious.

saying he was worried they might restrict the internet like they do in China

They probably want to. But they don’t have the means as of right now.

Then he completely switched gears to guns, saying that he was ok with shooting dangerous people in Mexico…

Oh boy.

how affordable is life, what is the cost of living, and what is the reality of poverty and the everyday struggle

Depends a lot on whether you are renting a living space. People who rent aren’t many - I’ve seen estimates of 9%, 11% and 16% - thanks to many apartments being inherited since USSR, but most of those renting people are also young ones, who look at the housing market and see that even with the government’s help to young families(35% of mortgage compensation and it’ a 2% credit, if I recal correctly) many of them can’t afford to take credit for a new apartment, as those are overpriced af. And apartments in old buildings aren’t sold that often.

So, if you’re renting and work bottom of the barrel unqualified jobs, your budget is probably airtight and you have a credit or two. Starting a family would be near impossible under those conditions if not for subsidies. In some regions young families can get partial compensation of rent, if they can’t afford mortgage even with help, there is some money young mothers get and separate benefits for families with three children and up.

If you work a good unqualified job(you know, stuff that may require some experience in specific things, but no higher education) and don’t have to rent, stuff it’s already not bad. Qualified jobs can varry wildly.

Public transportation is good and universal healthcare is still kicking, even though there is defeinitely someone slowly choking it, so that helps.

But speaking of government workers, teachers and doctors get overworked and underpayed af. See the earlier comment about someone choking healthcare.

Poverty is there. Yay for capitalism. But it helps that if you own a living space, it’s pretty hard to lose it. You kinda have to try.

plus the relationship between the government and the people?

Since UR and Putin stabilized shit after the 90’s, it’s been a “we don’t make your life difficult, you don’t care what we do otherwise” sort of relationship. Since now the government has to make people’s life didfficult in certain ways, more and more people are becoming increasingly politically conscious at least. No party for “red” workers to rally behind though. CPRF isn’t very well trusted.

Uuuh, might’ve been a lib. They tend to scare themselves with their own propaganda. Like in 2023 when a shitload of them fled to Georgia, even though most of the ones who fled were in no danger to begin with.

If by “draft” he meant mobilization, there are no signs of a new one so far, and if he meant mandatory conscription for a year, those conscripts don’t get sent anywhere, so the scariest things are food and boredom.

Economy isn’t great, what with the sanctions and our moneybags’ unwillingness to industrialize, but I woudn’t call it a worse crisis than say 2014. That is to say things got more expensive in a way you feel, but life i still affordable. No ridiculous hyperinflation or anything. Housing market is shit. Not as bad as what I hear from the US, but shit. I also hear bad things about the car market, but I’m about as far from cars as a person that rides a taxi once a week can be.

I dunno, ask something specific, these “how’s life in x” questions are a bit loaded. Although I might not be the best person to ask some things, on account of being a loner by nature.

Edit: also, Argentina? Great choice.

This is a psychotropic assault…

The question is not whether A.I. weapons will be built; it is who will build them and for what purpose. Our adversaries will not pause to indulge in theatrical debates about the merits of developing technologies with critical military and national security applications. They will proceed.

I mean…surely this isn’t coming from the country that never upholds it’s end of various arms deals, if it even signs in the first place. Right?

Meanwhile cucks in my governnent be like:“we give education to genetic engineers, but genetic engineering in Russia is illegal, please leave the country and work for our enemies”. Here’s the actual dumbass alarmists who’ll ask a million questions before developing weapons with AI, by which time US of F will have something ridiculously overpriced but functional.

It has a pretty comprehensive legal system, up to and including lawmaking built in, which I think makes Islamic countries uniquely resistant to any change towards secularity, unfortunately.

Otherwise it’s not so different from the other Abrahamic religions. There is a “Love thy neighbour as yourself” strain in all of them that can make for some allies to socialists(I’m pretty sure there is a quote by a Christian socialist in Lemmygrad’s pool? You know, the ones at the top of home page) and then there are others: zealots, corrupt priesthood in collision with the finance capital and so on. The latter outnumber the former in all of these religions, the way I see it.

Surprised Kyle Kulinski face.

About time my spineless government told him Iran is under our nuclear umbrella or something. I don’t think there are enough adults in US leadership to prevent this idiot from being the president who releases the threequel.

Dude got yelled at by the PM for having some sense. What a level of discourse.

Is she having the shakes from Japan not having been on the wrong side of history in a major way for a while?

What comrade rainpizza said about context.

I don’t see anyone commenting on the rights themselves though. No gay marriage and it’ll be 3 years in June since the ban on transition. No criminal responsibility for simply being gay, at least, but that’s all the good news.