• lemmygarden@lemmy.todayOP
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    5 days ago

    When I first read this, I felt, “yeah, fuck those guys” But thinking more about it, the elite Russians with actual power already have residency or citizenship in EU. Spies can enter EU without the tourist visa. This might end up just impacting the anti-Z Russians.

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      5 days ago

      Meh, how useful is a tourist visa for an asylum seeker? I think that’s what we should support them with.

      • nummy@lemmy.world
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        5 days ago

        Very useful, ask any LGBT refugee from Russia or Belarus in Spain, Germany, Netherlands or almost any other EU country.

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      Thank you for thinking a bit more than a regular reactionist. This ban will hardly help with EU’s “defense”, and it’s certainly not going to make an ordinary Russian angrier at their government because it’s too fucking expensive to go to EU anyway.

      Yeah, some middle-class moskali will cry about it a bit, but above everything else it will make leaving Russia for people in danger more difficult. But yeah, it’s gonna give an illusion that EU finally does something decisive for Ukraine (cough-cough, >4.5 years of the invasion).

    • Ann Archy@lemmy.world
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      It makes it much harder to infiltrate us. Right now our gates are wide open and barbarians are just pouring in.

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        4 days ago

        This may be arguably the most fascistic thing I’ve read on Lemmy.

        Anarchy79? Give me a fucking break.

      • lemmygarden@lemmy.todayOP
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        4 days ago

        Barbarians? Are all Russians barbarians? Are the anti Z Russians barbarians?

        And are they really pouring in? Are you suffocating from too many Russians? I’m genuinely asking, as I don’t know your experience.