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Re:The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain by EugeneOZ on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:06AM (#19521791)
Actually Putin just raised the temp a little (because it's became dangerous to live in Russia if you don't like Putin), but this process was predictable and unstoppable: almost every country in the world has better quality of life, climate and level of culture.

Don't be fooled with Dostoyevsky and Chaikovsky legacy - these times are gone and people who had read more than 1 book of Dostoevsky or can name at least one work of Chaikovsky - they are pretty rare, around 0.01% of population. If you have good education - it's a reason to hate you. If you can't afford good education but read a lot of books - it's a reason to hate you even more. And I'm talking not about hatred from kids - adult, grown up people sincerely HATE anybody who loves ANY kind of culture. Books, dancing, music - anything.

So when internet removed the borders, it was just question of time when "brains" will start "draining".

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Re:The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain by senderista on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:12AM (#19521832)
Doesn’t sound so different from the US.
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Re:The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain by EugeneOZ on Friday March 29, 2019 @10:19AM (#19521896)
heh. Do you live in US? If you do (and only if you do), will it be risky for your life, health or freedom to write tweet "I hate POTUS"? Is there a 100% guarantee that you will be beaten by police if you dare enough to show your political disagreement with the president on the street? If no - you're living in a VERY different country. I'm not fan of US, but comparison of US and Russia is a really ridiculous thing.
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Re:The Putin Exodus: The New Russian Brain Drain by AnimalMuppet on Friday March 29, 2019 @01:10PM (#19523543)
I live in the US. I would expect that if I went downtown on a street corner tonight and started screaming "#$%@% the president", I would get some dark looks, and perhaps some covert signs of approval. The police might show up, but if they did, it would be because I was disturbing the peace, not for the content of what I said.

I haven't actually tried the experiment, so I could be under-estimating what the reaction would be. But, yeah, I agree. People who equate the two countries don't get it.

That said, doombolt quoted a colleague as saying "all of my canaries are now dead". Well, most of mine are still alive, but they don't look too healthy...

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