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In reply to the discussion: oooh, Russia's just so evil and baaad. [View all]Puglover
(16,380 posts)28. She was just a doll!
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"Guaranteed not as bad as the Soviet Union" is not a standard anyone should be proud of.
truebluegreen
Aug 2013
#54
Another 'whoosh' moment brought to you by the U.S. propaganda machine.
Egalitarian Thug
Aug 2013
#101
Are you ever going to get tired of the "we're not as bad as Russia!" defense?
NuclearDem
Aug 2013
#12
Thanks for answering. You seem skeptical of my assessment of the human rights records of
sabrina 1
Aug 2013
#162
It remains to be seen how tough it will be since he is being inundated with job offers. nt
Mojorabbit
Aug 2013
#136
Why didn't you know, the U.S. is the source of all goodness and justice in the world!
backscatter712
Aug 2013
#5
I love how all of a sudden the Snowden haters became very concerned over the plight of gays in
quinnox
Aug 2013
#6
Amazing how that works. When it was Lt. Dan Choi handcuffing himself to the White House fence...
backscatter712
Aug 2013
#122
This place generally gets hypersimplistic when one country or another is criticised
Posteritatis
Aug 2013
#43
Yes, they are SO VERY eeville and bad, in fact, that anyone who gets stuck there
kenny blankenship
Aug 2013
#8
Nor can imagine living in BFF Saudi Arabia. The country where 99% of the 911 killers
Luminous Animal
Aug 2013
#143
No, we don't kill most of them, we just lock them up for very long periods of time, for what really
RC
Aug 2013
#91
His choice was to speak out against the United States and then go over to Russia...
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2013
#37
If Snowden returned here, the treatment he would receive would make Manning's treatment seem like
RC
Aug 2013
#93
It doesn't take an expert to know Russia is a fucking corrupt, reactionist nation.
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2013
#141
I think it's pretty clear Snowden will accept Russia's flaws rather happily...
Drunken Irishman
Aug 2013
#89
The gipper spoke of "The Evil Empire" with derision, but the ensuing fawningly slavish worship
indepat
Aug 2013
#41
that was kind of the point, my dear. But of course, you haven't said word one about
cali
Aug 2013
#152
Where did he say he "hate the Russian people. All of them"? Is it ok to speak out against
uppityperson
Aug 2013
#132
As someone who has been to Russia 7 times, yes, we are much better. Much much better.
JaneyVee
Aug 2013
#110
I think it is a positive that some of the Snowden haters seem to care about gay rights now.
The Link
Aug 2013
#118
there is a reason why there are Russian Mail Order Brides, but not AMerican mail order brides for
JI7
Aug 2013
#131
clearly Russian has a lot of Abominable things - but I cannot help but think a lot of the hype about
Douglas Carpenter
Aug 2013
#156