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[-] NutWrench@lemmy.world 124 points 4 weeks ago

1980's conservatives: "Why don't you move to Russia if you don't like it here?"

2020's conservatives: "Why don't we move to Russia if we don't like it here?"

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 31 points 4 weeks ago

In the 1920s, a brash group of young and ideologically committed Americans saw the Bolshevik Revolution taking place in Russia and decided to travel halfway around the world in order to join it.

In the 2020s, a boorish group of over-the-hill talk radio hosts and their most die-hard hangers on are witnessing the last dregs of humanity squeezed out of the failed revolutionary experiment and have decided "Damn, now is definitely the time to pop over and go golfing."

I wonder what the Russian police will say the first time they see Alex Jones light up a fat blunt?

[-] andros_rex@lemmy.world 6 points 4 weeks ago

Is nose candy legal in Russia? He’ll fit in well with the alcohol abuse - I’m just not sure how kosher all of his uppers will be.

[-] schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de -2 points 4 weeks ago

Yeah well, not too illogical a position considering the fall of communism between those decades. This is a trait of Russia, not of conservatives.

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