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  • Scott_of_the_Arctic@lemmy.worldto196@lemmy.worldMovement rule
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    3 days ago

    As someone who lives next door to Russia, fuck that with a rusty fork! open borders are great between Britain and Ireland or between Schengen countries because there’s a level of shared values and goals and no aspirations to expand. But if Estonia for example opened it’s border to Russia, the entire country would be annexed within the year. And they’d all be shitting in buckets too.

    There’s a fairly secure high standard of living throughout Europe, which is largely because Russia isn’t part of it. Yeah geography Russia is parry of Europe, but no-one considers them to be. Similarly we don’t necessarily need china sending a few million people into Mongolia or open borders between Armenia and Azerbaijan.

    It’s a lovely sentiment, but grow up.





  • You realise that Donald kiddie fiddler Trump isn’t the president of Scotland right? He’s objectively your fucking problem. You ought to be grateful for any foreign countries who want to help out. I never said there were proportionally more people protesting in Scotland.

    If you look back at the comments, I’ve only ever argued with your position that any country that doesn’t field 5M protesters isn’t outperforming the states. Which, by the way, is still some grade A stupidity. I’ve no fucking idea how many people showed up, but as previously mentioned trump is definitely more of a problem for the USA than anyone else so I genuinely wouldn’t expect that many to show up.

    However if the first minister of Scotland did even half the shit trump’s done, Edinburgh would fucking burn with the riots.



  • Protests are measured in raw numbers because if you said 1.4% of the population of the usa gave enough of a fuck to turn up, it would show just how little you people care about What’s happening in your country. And if you compare that to the protests Georgians had about the Russification of their government, they had raw numbers of around 169000 at the low end, but that’s over 4% of their population. So yeah if you want your passive population to seem politically engaged, by all means use the raw numbers, but nobody’s impressed when the survival of your country is on the line and only 1.4% can be bothered showing up.