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Why can't we get along with Russia asks Tucker (the eyebrows of Doom) Carlson? (Original Post) Boxerfan Nov 2019 OP
We can as soon as they have a Democratically elected lunatica Nov 2019 #1
i wish we could. but not as long as putin is in charge. Kurt V. Nov 2019 #2
Because they are being assholes? CanonRay Nov 2019 #3
They don't want to get along, Corgigal Nov 2019 #4
Ask Ukraine, nitwit. Karadeniz Nov 2019 #5
Because it's always been full of duplicitous snakes? BannonsLiver Nov 2019 #6
Better question: Why doesn't he move to Russia if he thinks it's so great? NCLefty Nov 2019 #7
ummm because they hacked our fucking election??? SlogginThroughIt Nov 2019 #8
MAGAts who foam at the mouth about "liberty" & "less gub'mint" would be executed in Russia. VOX Nov 2019 #9

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
1. We can as soon as they have a Democratically elected
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 09:37 PM
Nov 2019

President who isn’t Putin or a corrupt oligarch.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
4. They don't want to get along,
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 10:04 PM
Nov 2019

they want to steal everything we have. Their own people can’t be squeezed much further.

BannonsLiver

(16,370 posts)
6. Because it's always been full of duplicitous snakes?
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 10:22 PM
Nov 2019

I liken Russia, both presently and historically, to the Klingons in Star Trek.

NCLefty

(3,678 posts)
7. Better question: Why doesn't he move to Russia if he thinks it's so great?
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 10:24 PM
Nov 2019

(Background: Russia de-criminalized beating your woman in 2017--as long as you don't leave too many marks.)

According to Russian authorities, men in Russia are more likely to suffer from discrimination in domestic violence cases – an outrageous claim that flies in the face of the facts.

The dubious statement is part of Russia’s official response to questions posed by the European Court of Human Rights relating to four domestic violence cases filed against Russia. One of the four women who sought redress from the European court is Margarita Gracheva, whose husband chopped off her hands with an ax. As is often the case in Russia, weeks before this happened, a police officer dismissed Gracheva’s complaint about her husband’s routine threats as a private matter.

https://www.hrw.org/news/2019/11/20/are-russian-authorities-trolling-domestic-violence


Actually, it sounds like a Republican paradise.
 

SlogginThroughIt

(1,977 posts)
8. ummm because they hacked our fucking election???
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 10:25 PM
Nov 2019

How about we start there and work backwards you fucking bag of day old shit?!?!

VOX

(22,976 posts)
9. MAGAts who foam at the mouth about "liberty" & "less gub'mint" would be executed in Russia.
Wed Nov 20, 2019, 10:54 PM
Nov 2019

“Mob rule” has a whole different meaning in Russia. The KGB-trained Putin has been in the highest offices for what? Some 17 years at least?

Russia is anything but a democracy. Political dissidents are routinely imprisoned and/or executed gangster-style (poisoned, thrown from multi-story buildings, etc.)

Russia has such a blood-soaked history that brutal methods are commonplace. Remember Pussy Riot, the young women’s street-performance group, who, in 2011, publicly spoke out about feminism, LGBT rights, and opposition to a dictatorial Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church? They were jailed for nearly two years.

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