Russian forces cross Ukrainian border 22.02.2022 morning

[dviz]

So, we found out that Westerners are more free than Russians, because in wartime they have the right to betray their people, and also have the right to sexual perversion. Could there be something else?

Westerners have more rights because they can criticize an incompetent governance, before they get fed into a warzone. This is not something Russians can do. Stop hiding your lack of arguments behind gays.

[dviz]

Ukrainians purposefully threw mines at kindergartens and schools in Donbas. They acted naturally with the approval of the West. This is called terror of the civilian population, not to be confused with war, when there are forced accidental victims among the peaceful population.

Russians leveled entire small towns in the first days of war, nevermind kindergartens. Totally unnecessary, just mindless violence and murder.

[Anglo-Celtic]

It's not only YT censoring comments. The YT channels themselves do it as well. I post on various pro-Russian YT channels and I get shadowbanned instantly.

They removed more than half of my comments. They also removed *four* of my channels for wrong think.

[SilverKnight]

[Cybele]

I get the point about corruption to some degree, but are you saying that Russians have the same rights and freedoms as the EU citizens?

I was making a comment about von der Leyen talking in the video. I was pointing out her hypocrisy, because she accuses Putin and his friends of being corrupt, and being afraid of people who fight for freedom. I’m not saying Putin is perfect, he might be corrupt and not willing to give up his chair. Also if the people want to put some flowers in memory of a dead person, I don't see that as a crime.

But she mentions all that, while she is not a stranger to corruption herself. And she’s not a supporter of individuals freedoms in the EU, like freedom of speech. She’s pro-censorship of those who question the official narrative in EU.
She called for collaboration between governments and corporations to fight "industrial-scale disinformation" that threatens official narratives
Anything that challenges official narratives or agenda such as alternative voices, can be labelled as misinformation. Aren’t those disident voices too? And who is she to say, what EU citizens should do? She’s unelected in her position.

But people like her, are not really interested in “freedom of individuals” or “fighting against corruption”, these are mere words thrown around. Otherwise, she would apply these concepts herself.

Spoiler!

About her corruption:

• In December 2018 the German Parliament opened an investigation into von der Leyen case accused her of corruption, mismanagement and nepotism. A parliamentary committee has investigated how the Minister of Defense circumvented public market rules by preferentially awarding contracts worth millions of euros to certain companies.

• Another case that raised question marks while she was Minister of Defense, was the renovation of the three-masted ship, Gorch Fock. The rehabilitation work ended up costing ten times more than originally anticipated.

• On May 20, 2021, she signed a third contract with pharmaceutical companies BionTech and Pfizer to purchase another 1.8 billion doses of the vaccine between the end of 2021 and the end of 2023.
  The negotiated price per dose is 19.5 euros. The disclosure was made by Bulgarian Prime Minister Boiko Borisov, as Von der Leyen and her team avoided publicizing the value of the contract.
  It should be noted that the price was 4 euros per dose higher than the one in the first contract signed by the EU with Pfizer.
  The contracts presented to public opinion by Brussels were 95% redacted, so illegible.
  This huge purchase order has raised questions.
  Because the number of vaccines was three times the current population of the European Union. And at least in Romania, lots of them ended up expiring and being thrown away. There was even a scandal.

About your question, the situation is currently a bit different, because Russia is under martial law. Under martial law a number of rights are suspended.
We too experienced rights suspension during pandemics. I believe that was abusive, and only few people spoke against it, many conformed. With the people in power of EU, that kind of emergency state can return anytime. In the past, many years ago, it might have been different but nowadays it feels like "democracy" is an empty word. There are certain agendas pushed down the people's throat.
Yes, the average people can still criticize their leaders and make protests, but if we would have martial law like the Russians, or another pandemics that would stop. In any case, criticism does not seem to affect politicians much. Even with clear cases of corruption, what actually happens to them? Best case they get a bit of jail time and that is all. Did Iliescu served any time in jail after Mineriade? The brutal scenes were seen by the whole world. And we had the case in Romania of protests from 10 August when force was used abusively, against protesters.

But the censorship in the EU is on the rising too, many who post on social media have their posts removed. Media is usually one sided. Certain Russian media sites were censored.
Last year a new law came into force. 19 social networks, goods markets and search engines, including Google, YouTube, Amazon, Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly Twitter) or TikTok are under surveillance of European Union. They are obligated to "combat disinformation", "online hate", child pornography or counterfeiting, under the supervision of the European Commission (EC). Again, under “disinformation” anything that goes against official narrative can be put.

And Italian president Sergio Mattarella proposed a law requiring access to the Internet only with an identity document, to limit “hate speech”.

If Russia will be heading into a digital dictatorship, in which no one will be able to have different opinion than the official one or else will be sanctioned, I’m afraid we in the EU, might not so far behind. We’ve seen masks falling off, and had a glance of this, some years ago when various freedoms were infringed: there was censorship, social pressure to get the jab & green pass, people who did not comply lost their jobs, the army was put in the streets, the freedom of travelling was limited, freedom of asembley was limited, etc.

This can return any day. None of these officials, truly care about no citizens freedoms. The only one who must defend them, are the people themselves.

[Ugo]

Russians leveled entire small towns in the first days of war, nevermind kindergartens. Totally unnecessary, just mindless violence and murder.

NATO's tactics are to use women and children as human shields. Then you fake civilian casualties, which you killed yourself. For example, the city of Bucha. Then you try to accuse the Russians of cruelty and racial inferiority.

[Victor]

So it's about the fear of ruining your life or because you don't beleive in the goal?

I don't understand the gnostic and ideological language. I just normally think that revolutionaries should be exterminated, no matter the ideology, no matter if they are nationalists, communists or whatever else, as rabid dogs.

[Ugo]

I don't understand the gnostic and ideological language. I just normally think that revolutionaries should be exterminated, no matter the ideology, no matter if they are nationalists, communists or whatever else, as rabid dogs.

The goal of our world is the emergence of true democracy. There is no democracy in the EU, the USA, China, and Russia yet, but Russia today is the closest country to democracy thanks to our last tsar Putin, a pure-blooded Russian smartest man from Tver. Russia is the last country with an Indo-European leader who adheres to the rules of human values. Russia is not perfect, there are a lot of problems, but Putin alone solves them. I do not know of any leader in the world in all of history who has achieved more than this simple Russian guy. He restored Russia's economic potential, he stopped ethnic strife in Russia, he protected ordinary Russians in the Donbas. He gave people complete unconditional freedom of choice and freedom of speech.

[Annihilus]

Air superiority? Lol no, Su-34 and Su-35S were shot down 19 feb

[Cybele]

One can guess the level of democratic potential in a place, by looking at the percentage of EEF in population. It’s difficult to implement such ideas as freedom of speech, in populations where EEF goes lower, than a certain percentage. For example, the input of EEF in Switzerland, through southern influences, help them to maintain such a political system.
The concept of democracy, was born in Greece, in Athens around 500 BCE.
Samples from Bronze Age, showed that ancient Greeks from that area, had really high % of EEF. This percentage was most probably maintained during Classical Era too, when Ancient Greeks began to develop democracy.