Comments by "Cyberfunk" (@cyberfunk3793) on "NFKRZ" channel.

  1. And as another Finn, I know most of us didn't understand RU at all and certainly not better than many of our European buddies who understood and joined NATO decades ago. We Finns are mostly honest but a bit naive like little children. If you wish to know who understand the RU all along and never trusted them, talk to Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians, Polish and now the Ukrainians. And RU propaganda really isn't smart when you learn to spot it, it's aimed at the average masses, not the nuclear physicists. Perhaps during the soviet times their propaganda was better, but now it's easier to spot: just take everything that makes the west weaker and suspect it's coming from RF until proven otherwise: the peace movement, Brexit / Farage, Le Pen, Trump/Qanon, convoy movement, antivax conspiracies etc. I believe many of these are operations from RF or China or at least supported by them to sow discord in our society.
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  2. It's the same people that still remember Stalin fondly because according to them he made everyone fear them.
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  3.  @Mandate_of_Heaven  It's called collective responsibility. When 80% of the population supports the regime and the 20% are able to achieve nothing it's justified to sanction the whole population until you figure out a way to read each individuals mind and reliable establish who supports Putin and who doesn't.
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  4.  @Machosause  The population has enabled Putin for decades and the majority still support him. They are collectively responsible just as Germans were collectively responsible for Hitlers regime. If the clear majority in Russia were against Putin, he would have been kicked out by now. The ones that oppose him are not culpable but sadly they are still the minority, especially among the older population and more rural places.
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  5. The skepticism is more than justified.
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  6. @Thanos Dione They had multiple actually fair (unlike in Russia) elections in Ukraine and your pro Russian candidate always lost. So you if you wish to call actual democracy "installed by America", go ahead but you are just embarrasing yourself.
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  7. Nothing illegal about a business like Youtube selecting their partners freely using whatever criteria they choose.
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  8.  @alexkozliayev9902  Americans were collectively responsible for their part in Vietnam as their leaders were supported by most Americans but as I said I would not hold those opposing as culpable even if I deemed Vietnam was comprable to war in Ukraine. But Vietnam isn't comprable at all as US didn't start the war, didn't try to annex the country etc. So your analogy is false and typical soviet whataboutism.
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  9.  @bololollek9245  Sure thing comrade, sell your land in Finland and don't return please. Finland is going to apply to NATO very shortly.
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  10. It's not bigotry and intolerance to not just accept all people from societies that attack other countries. Who leads the country of Russia is the collective responsibility of every Russian whether they like it or not. As long as they stay inside their borders, we don't care that much about that, but when they attack other countries everything changes. These people have enabled Putin for decades and now they pay the price for it. Even the ones that say they don't care about politics. Sure there are ones that are innocent, like the ones that have actively been against Putin for years, but there is no easy way for us to distinguish between these and the Putin supporters so pressure sadly must be applied on all of them.
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  11. For the basic address registration thing, Germany was actually easier than in Spain, when I had the approval to register from the landlord (without it at the first place it was harder and required some debating about German law). With the paper, I just walked to the town hall and matter was dealt with in like 15 minutes with a person that spoke English. In Spain, you wait 4 weeks to just get an appointment, they don't speak English and instructions online are not available English either. So I would say so far Estonia was best experience, Germany somewhere in the middle and Spain the worst in regards to bureaucracy like registration as EU resident.
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  12. If he is CIA, his nutbag cover certainly is convincing to me.
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  13.  @leonesytigresyosos2695  If my country starts annexing other countries you can sanction me anytime you like. I think I will do other things to stop it than whining over other places not letting me in to enjoy a better life style.
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  14. They had one job: getting the food, including the bun to the consumer fresh just like they had done decades before and they couldn't even manage that without MCD quality control or whatever they are lacking 🤦🏼‍♂️😂
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  15. Russian McDonald’s best in quality and cleanlines? 😂 What are you smoking?
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  16. Or what about Ukrainian? I don't think he could ever get over that 😂
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  17.  @Mandate_of_Heaven 80% support the government there. The idea that it's just the government and not the people is naive.
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  18.  @NovikNikolovic  Russian is not a race and there is no obligation for any other country to accept Russian citizens on their territory. If their own goverment stops them from leaving that isn't something you should blame on other countries.
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  19. Why don't you apply for visa to some place like Thailand or Vietnam? Might be a good backup option in case you can't stay in Georgia.
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  20.  @KovietUnionDefector  "You have the Automatic right to be joined by your non EU wife" There is no such right. When the non-EU national has not lived inside the EU with the EU-national before, it's up to national immigration legislation and no automatic right exists.
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  21.  @cheaptrip9467  Why do you think you should be entitled to travel anywhere? Lithuania has the right to even cancel visas if they like. If a non-EU national is given visas or right to visit family members is governed by the immigration policy of the host nation, not the EU as a block. Lithuania has good reasons to not allow any Russians in, like it or not you are an obvoius security risk and should be dealing with pressing matters at home currently rather than attempting to flee the regime you have collectively enabled for decades.
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  22.  @matthewbeniamin4834  How do you know if I lived under a dictatorship or not? And I'm not punishing, I'm holding people responsible. It's obviously not the foreginer's responsibility that Russia has leaders that don't decide to invade other countries, that is the responsibility of all Russians. Stating something is morally wrong is just your opinion, there is no such thing as objective morals and you are not even able to represent my position correctly. All you do is make assumptions about where other people that you don't know have lived and then create strawmen arguments. If you don't understand how preventing every Russian from using MC help, you must not be the brightest bulb in the pack. We are obviously not intending to make their life as comfortable but making clear to them that what their government is doing is not ok with us and we let them know that by means that regular Russians experience in their regular lives. This should have been obvious to anyone with any common sense. "when education is an international human right" There is no such human right where a foreigner can move to another country to study, it's a privilege afforded at the sole discretion of the host country. "regular Russian people who have done nothing wrong " Regular Russian people have enabled Putin for decades and he still seems to hold the support of the majority in the country according to independent polls and even when polling ethnic Russians abroad in the EU. You are trying falsely claim that it's only a small minority of Russians supporting Putin while most are just innocent by standers. This is not factual at all.
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  23.  @alexkozliayev9902  Well you obviously implied there was something similar in what happened in Vietnam to what is going on in Ukraine now that was the analogy. If some 17 year old is part of the Z team, yes I would already deem the partly responsible as they are old enough to have some culpability but obviously not anywhere the same as the adults that actually voted for Putin and still publicly support him.
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  24. America has large supermarkets like Wallmarts, but similar size large supermarkets exist in Europe too. I have personally seen them mostly in Northern Europe and Estonia, but they are probably elsewhere too. In some other EU countries, the people seem to have more of a bit smaller supermarkets that are closer. So I guess it's a culture thing: some people typically drive and get everything from one place and others like to walk to the local baker, butcher and smaller supermarket.
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  25. Yup, only 2 places where this could happen: The US or Russia.
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  26.  @GargamelGold  How are they not helping their cause? Why should the opinions of Russians matter in the resolution of this war? We see the opposition in Russia isn't able to do anything and certainly doesn't look like they are going to be able to kick Putin out.
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  27. Registration in Spain was a pain also: hard to find an appointment, and when you get one it's like many weeks ahead. Need to pay the application money with wire transfer, you can't pay at the station with card. And even the police at the police station that deals with immigrants all day every day didn't speak any English 😃 And after that if one is self employment, one needs to get that also somehow registered so it's not only just getting one social security number but it seems a lot of paper work is required at every step and most of it isn't very efficient. One place I found stuff actually worked efficiently was Estonia. If I remember correctly, I got my address registered in like 15 minutes at the local city level and getting the ID/residency card also didn't require any appointment, you just went to the police station, waited in line, took photos (digital, at the same police station) paid with card (also at the police station) and then few weeks later you picked up the card. And many things after that work online, like changing address, car registration details, doctors appointment etc. etc. and English is often an option on the webpages you need to get those things done. Spain etc. should go to Estonia to learn how to handle that stuff.
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  28.  @toxa35 Soviet whataboutism is the best you have? 😂 US hasn't annexed parts of any other country recently so your analogy is false and even if they had, that would not justify the actions of Russia today.
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  29. It's not as simple as dismissing the polls simply because they are done in Russia, there seems to be support for Putin's war even among ethnic Russians living abroad in places like Narva where they can say whatever they like without fear of being prisoned for it.
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  30. You could try submitting some receipt you received when you made the residence application, something with a stamp basically and with your explanation that there are 400k other people in queue before you in Portugal.
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  31. In Spain it took me something like 6 weeks to get an appointment to register at the immigration police. And you apparently need an appointment to get anything done. Also police that deal with foreigners for a living didn't speak that much English and many of the websites are also in Spanish only. In Sweden I can't get a bank account, because I'm unable to prove where my money came from (don't have bank statements going back +15 years) but at least I got the ID card here fairly easily. Estonia is one the few places where the bureaucracy worked well: walk into police station, take photo (only digitally) at the same place, leave your application to the officer and pay with card on the spot. Card was ready for pickup in a few weeks and most things since then have been easy to do on a website that has also pages in English. I wish other EU countries would just ask Estonia for advice on how to set up an efficient system that doesn't waste police time nor migrant time.
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  32.  @beepoboopo546  And you think anything will ever change in Russia if everybody thought so? Many people do more, so your question "what do you expect" is a bit silly.
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  33. I think you drew one incorrect conclusion: believing western europeans are like American evengelicals. I think the Trump supporting Americans are probably like Russian in many aspects whereas western europeans are bit different on average. It's not so much the divide between nationalities but between conservatives vs. more liberal or "progressive" people. In America there is about 50% that are conservative and 30% that are full blown butter nutter evangelicals. In Russia it might be 75% or more of these conservatives.
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  34. He should join an army waging a criminal war he doesn't support? 🤦🏼‍♂️
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  35. I think Shoigu said something like that every war ends with negotiations. Seems like he came close to breaking the law, maybe they should lock him up.
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  36.  @rbgerald2469  Why whould I do any coups when I'm not Russian and my country isn't invading other places? 🤦🏼‍♂
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  37. He is earning income in Portugal no matter what ad-sense account he uses so that isn't relevant and I don't think Google is going to check any visas.
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  38.  @toxa35  Well the topic is Russian crimes so unless you intend to employ whataboutism, there is no reason to bring up other countries trying to draw attention away from the actual topic. And again, US hasn't annexed other countries so no point in speculating what the response would be if they had done the same as Russia.
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  39. @Thanos Dione You can't even get the year correct 😂 It was 2014 and the only coup in Ukraine was in Crimea were Russians used a fake referendum as an excuse to occupy the Island.
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  40. Now we just need to know what dirt they have on Trump.
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  41.  @denkt  Saddam killed over 200k.
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  42. Obviously Americans know NSA can probably access their data if they wanted to (although illegal without warrant) but you don't really understand Americans or any other citizens for that matter if you think having your data go to China is the same as having your own government possibly spy on you. I couldn't care less what the NSA does with my data, but I certainly would not want places like cn, nk or ru to have any of it.
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  43.  @ٴٴٴٴ-777  Learn what the words you use mean before you try to imply other people are being naive. "Corporatism does not refer to a political system dominated by large business interests, even though the latter are commonly referred to as "corporations" in modern American vernacular and legal parlance; "
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  44. The bureucracy in Spain isn't much better: in one of the largest cities, in a large police station especially for foreigners, the guy dealing with my papers spoke 0 words of English. Glad that my vocabulary of "gracias" and "adios" were enough this time and I actually got done what I came to do, which often doesn't happen in this country. I can understand why some local that doesn't wish to deal with foreigners doesn't speak English, but I can't understand how police officers that deal with foreigners all day every day as a profession, don't speak English. It's frankly just silly and I feel a bit like in France where you are lucky if they don't spit at you for speaking English.
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  45. So why do the ethnic Russians in places like Narva support the war also, when they have no fear of voicing their opinions?
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  46. Out of their control? They enabled Putin for decades and still show strong support for him according to independent polls. Even ethnic Russians in EU countries where they can speak their mind freely often blame NATO for the war in Ukraine. The Russians opposing Putin are naturally innocent but don't fool yourself thinking they are the majority in Russia.
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  47.  @theMoporter  I didn't mention anything about asylum seekers but dodging the draft isn't a justification to receive asylum.
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  48.  @hashira9223  Source: you can see it in interviews even on channels like 1420 here. I have also seen polls done with ethnic Russians living in places like Narva Estonia where they have no reason to lie and the support for Putin is much higher than gullible people like you think it is.
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  49.  @rbgerald2469  Not possible to say what I would do on this platform. Read some history and see how people in different times have actually taken action.
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  50.  @ilanweinberg2561  Oligarchs and Putin's close circle already own all the assets, I don't think there is much chance anything valuable will be available to western companies after the war. If Putin's regime ends, maybe but probably not even then.
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