Posted on 04/18/2014 1:33:04 PM PDT by Mariner
Moscow (AFP) - The Kremlin is preparing a new culture policy for Russia focusing on its distinctive civilisation and traditional values, which observers say has political ends amid Moscow's standoff with the West.
At the end of four hours of questions Thursday in his annual call-in, President Vladimir Putin waxed philosophical on what it means to be Russian.
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Rock music is destructive of any society. Compared to classical and swing it is garbage; however, rap is not music and is akin to the sound manure would make if it was tortured.
Let's follow that logic: If you oppose Putin, you support Obama. Oops, no logic to be found.
It’s easy to say what you aren’t.
It’s harder to say what you are.
My friend and I were looking through a very old copy of the boy scout manual yesterday.
A Scout is Trustworthy, Loyal, Helpful, Friendly, Courteous, Kind, Obedient, Cheerful, Thrifty, Brave, Clean, and Reverent.
How many kids ever get taught even what these virtues are in public school.
The media values are upside down, everything good is bad, everything bad is good.
Oh yeah and tea party people are vicious racists for wanting smaller government.
"Perhaps Russia will be the last keeper of European culture, Christian values and truly European civilisation."
"Russia is not Europe DECADENT."
Let me follow yours.
“Vlad is Hitler because I say so”
Nope no logic to be found. Or...
“Vlad did this all by himself even though many posters have shown me otherwise so it’s ALL his doing”
Nope. Sans logic. How about...
“I like posting nonsense to get attention”.
Now there is some logic. Twisted, but then so is your whole view on this subject.
More: “I support Putin, therefore I support Ahmadinejad, Castro . . . .” Nope, still no logic to be seen.
The Charge of the Light Brigade: Tennyson, since the British are not European either.
It’s the myopia and emotionalism I explained to you on the other thread. Blinds you to reality. And the fact your supporter there couldn’t even figure out we were being sarcastic pretty much proves the myopia part is contagious.
You'll have to cite a reference for that or nobody will believe it or you.
I posted a piece by the director of the Heritage Foundation that was critical of Putin a while back. Your “logic” holds that it makes me an Obama supporter. What about Heritage? More myopic emotionalism?
Morality as an individual yearning for purity and salvation = Christianity.
Morality as a uniform top down law and weapon of the state = Stalinism.
Damn right Russia is not part of Europe, it seems to yearn for the paradise which is North Korea.
Was that filmed in Golden Gate park?
No patriot with half a brain supports Putin. Anything positive you can say about Putin can also be said of Kim Jong Un and Ahmadinejad.
Obama is a liberal nitwit that is bankrupting and embarrassing the country, but he is not even in the same league of evil as Putin. If Free Republic was in Russia it would either be shut down or be forced to adhere to party line.
Would you say the same thing of Cultural and Religious Conservatives in the US?
Russia is very unlikely to use morality as a weapon of the state. It's not needed when you have the GRU.
Besides how do you make morality a weapon?
I don’t care what the Armchair quarterbacking of Heratige or you comes up with. You are being fed complete BS from -both- sides over there and choosing to believe one based on your personal dislike of the ‘dreamy shirtless bear rider’.
Then you infest the threads spouting things you know factually nothing about based on questionable at best info from media sources you yourself condemn when it suits your argument to do so - the MSM...while taking other questionable at best info as Gospel truth...and you think people like me are the idiots.
Got it.
Like your tag line.
Lesser evil doesn't work.
No to all tyrants.
Obama, Putin...
Totally agree.
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