Content. Without it there wouldn’t be an abundance of free learning material. I’m already feeling the pain of trying to find any decent lesson about my interests after Russian government blocked YouTube.
How are things within Russia?
Like for the past 23 years. In my life literally nothing is changing. (For the exception of this fucking censorship)
I have met some Russians in my community (MA) and they have all mentioned that they are scared of the censorship their relatives are now facing in russia. I remember hearing one of their nephews got a visit from the local police department for their social media activity.
This was at a local repair cafe, and I was sharpening tools. Got to see some cool old Soviet shears, scissors and knives.
Yea, censorship getting worse day by day. Not sure about the cop situation, but I think it is probable, since I got cops called on me once for calling one annoying woman a few hearty names.
Any plans to move, or stuck with your cursed citizenship?
I don’t have any money sadly, and it’s very hard to find a job for some reason (personally, my friends don’t seem to have this problem). There was only one person that hired me in 6 years, and only paid 20k rubles a month for back breaking labor. I would pretty much like to move, but that’s probably gonna stay a pipe dream.
That fucking sucks. The Russian/Slavic community here (new england, USA) is very hospitable, and many Ukrainians and Russians moved here after the “special military operation”. The local bazaar was even handing out free care packages to displaced Ukrainians.
That’s the first Amendment to our constitution that you like.
Ugh! That word again.
The national parks. I visited Yosemite Valley two years ago and it was amazing. We don’t have acces to nature in this scale in central europe.
No matter how bad it gets, there is always you to show it could be worse.
Dolly Parton
God bless Dolly.
Mexican food
Seriously, as an American the best part of America are the Mexicans.
No matter how much you disagree with someone, there is always a possibility to shoot them in their face
God Bless 🇱🇷
We have a certain minimum level of dignity all interactions must abide by.
What? Have you existed the last 10 years?
High quality and rugged leather goods. PNW boots, deer/elkskin gloves, belts, wallets and so on.
We’re a nation of frontiersmen.
The First Amendment.
A blessing and a curse.
- Cultural influence: music, cinema, social movements of the 1960s and 70s
- Beautiful nature
- Agility in business environments (although I might have a limited sample)
- not without criticism but I think NATO is generally a positive thing
- Food (no not junk food, there’s several fascinating regional cuisines)
The Entertainment. You have really good movies, tv series, music, comedy.
Your individualism. Of course I’m aware of the huge downsides, but my understanding is that personal freedom has been a vanishing rare thing in human history. As I see it, some very odd circumstances (puritans and the frontier) generated the USA, which morphed into something even weirder still: a libertarian superpower. Which then, in extremis, saved the rest of us from authoritarianism of both right and left. Probably temporarily. I predict that after it all collapses, and with better hindsight, we’ll appreciate the USA more than we do today.
The landscape.
Without the American innovation of deep frying a wrapped dough something within another wrapped dough something and serving it in a bucket, I don’t think civilization would be on the positive path it is on right now.
Wikipedia says people have been doing that since at least 2000 years before Christ!
Movies/TV Show.
Sure, with the 75 different steaming services all trying to produce content the majority is horseshit, but even if just around 15% is decent, that’s still more decent content than the output of entire other country’s film industries.
Cars, probably a controversial one, but we don’t really have “muscle” cars like the firebird and mustang in the UK, and I’ve always been a little fascinated by them.
As machines they are cool. But they just encourage people who can afford them to drive like complete twats.
I think you’re confusing them with pickup trucks, our official badge of douchebaggery.
No, those as well, and anything with an Audi badge.
