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I find it weird to defend Russia but you seem to be missing couple things. most importantly - it's not homogeneous, not even a republic. there's around 190 ethnic groups and ~40 officially recognized separatist groups. and that's important because it skews national narrative, mandates harder punishments and corruption as a crutch. when the media follows "99% heroic bullshit, 1% truth" scheme, it's somewhat challengin…

I was born in Russia and lived there good chunk of my life. I agree it's not that simple and it took two decades to turn the country into whatever it became now. When country is already turned into authoritarian military regime there is obviously no way to turn back to democracy by political actions alone. Yet back in 2006-2016 it was still possible to turn things around if enough people cared. Unfortunately majority…

i realized that after commenting. which is bit awkward - I'm not in a place to school you on such topics so take that as a look from neighboring country. would like to add that in modern days democracy is endangered by media manipulations and faked crowd opinions.

Re: Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator

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Post by mhb » Sun, Apr 26, 2026, 1:32 PM UTC

hunter67 wrote: post #899

mhb wrote: post #892

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And then it's a business that is funded by political patronage.

okay so the police is a business too? Just like private security firms?

The point is that, just like journalists if they are paid by the government, the police also have biases regarding which laws to enforce. I suppose you consider the BBC a shining example of unbiased reporting?