Message from @banestrum
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wew
wat
r u ok Putin?
Every now and then, people need to remember how far ahead Putin's Russia is on issues like suppressing speech
well some of that speech was surely hate speech so I'm sure it's all very progressive
More annoying, as this video points out, is how Western media (you know, the ones who have been 'ooo spooky evil Russia, Putin baaaaad') have also been dogpiling on Telegram too
Some dude got arrested (and I think wound up under house arrest) for playing Pokemon Go in a church
Which, from a memetic perspective, is funny enough, but legit dystopian in actual practise
^^
I thought he got a prison sentence
He did, but I think he wound up serving it stuck in his house, or something like that
I remember footage of armed guards shuttling him to and from his apartment
General responses I saw from priests (not in Russia) was, "just don't hunt Pokemon during mass."
weird
They take their religion more seriously over there than you'd expect
Not in Russia.
Also if you want to hold an anti-government protest, you can, but you have to apply with the city you live in, and if the city approves you're pretty much gauranteed that you'll be having your little protest right on the edge of the city limits, not in the town square
Yeah, that's the smart way to suppress dissent
If you're Orthodox, Russia takes it seriously
If you're not Orthodox, there's a good chance you're fucked
*rummage*
not to the point of punishing people for speaking out against it
that's fucked
it's the sort of thing we're fighting against in the west
Even if it's fucked up from a freedoms/rights perspective, it's a nice change from people trampling each other to be the first to spit on their own culture
Not endorsing it, just a nice change of pace
I wouldn't call "spitting on your culture" nice, but I wouldn't call arresting people for mocking your glorious State Religion 'nice' either
I'm not saying it's nice or that I'd want to live with it, just that seeing the grass on the other side is a breath of fresh air
He's even cracking down on Orthodox churches that don't step in line with him
```The law that Putin signed on July 6 restricts religious proselytizing and imposes heavy fines for doing so. While the law exempts the Russian Orthodox Christian Church, opponents point out that exemption only extends to the Moscow Patriarchate critics say has been entangled with the Russian government since the Soviet era. ```
sucks for them
Wait, Patriarchate?
wat
it's really called that?
Oh, that's their pope
you seem... oddly surprised
I didn't know that was the title
I thought it was something like Primus
Orthodox has patriarchs