Things Russians Never Do
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I would point out that Russia arrests people for criticizing the government and rigs its elections, but the UK is now doing that too.
In Russia you can be as politically incorrect as you want and no one bats an eye.
If you are anti-government enough you get in trouble.
If you gave me the choice to use my freedom of speech to talk about culture (I hate all the ghetto crap) without fear, or the freedom of speech to criticize the government, I'd take the former any day of the week.
I really don't care that much about politics and would prefer to go back to not knowing or thinking about it at all. Politics landed on me because of all the wokeness being at that level.
If I looked through everything I've ever posted ever, the names Obama, Biden, Trump, etc would make up a fraction of a percent.
The things I actually talk about, culture war stuff, is the stuff that would get the police at my door at the UK, but would result in Russians nodding along and either agreeing or talking about it in Russia with no legal consequences.
If you look up the arrests in the past year for social media posts in the UK vs arrests in Russia for social media posts, it's not even close.
I can't remember the exact numbers, but the scale was something like 8,000 in Russia compared to like 100,000 in UK approximately.
There's only one unwritten rule in Russia speech. Don't openly criticize the ruling powers.
Ok....so the rule pretty much every nation has had for all of history, got it.
In UK, and America (when democrats get back in office) the rules become
"don't misgender, don't dead name, don't say anything that could be construed as racist, don't be apolitical, don't have the wrong politics when you are political, don't say anything anti gay, trans, Islam, etc etc etc and on and on and on."
That is way more of a stifling culture than "don't criticize Putin".
For a nation where I can use the word faggot as a slur in public and no one thinks anything of it, that's a level of freedom I haven't known in America in a long time.
Even with total ability to criticize the government, it's not an ability I excercise all that much because to me, politics are, and always will be lame.
I'd rather criticize feminism, ghetto culture, things like that because that lives where I live. Politics is distant, removed.
About western problems. The second you become politically incorrect about domestic problems is the second you become politically inconvenient.
And the hordes of niggers flowing in, and their regions, and the war, and the laws, and don't do any civic activity on your own, don't criticize anything related to the war actually and generally just be a good little goy and shut the fuck up.
UK has definitely gone waaaay overboard in their enforcement of speech. that said, UK and Russia, and China for that matter, are the same in that they prosecute speech that the government disapproves of.
I'll also be willing to wager that Russia's population is much more used to living under an authoritarian regime, so the average person knows how to keep their head down. people living in the UK still remember what freedom felt like, and are having a difficult time accepting its gone.
The Russians do say all of these things actually, you just don't understand because its in Russian.