Russia asks Elon Musk to hand over names of dissidents: MPs in Moscow want a list of Russians funded by USAid, the American aid scheme shut down by Donald Trump, to be given to the security services
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Musk is just a greedy cunt who fancies himself a king.
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Is Elon secretary of state too now?
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Is the FSB really that incompetent they don't know who in Russia is getting public grants from the US?
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Lord Elon is whatever he wants to be. Peasants would do well to learn their place and to address his majesty with the respect he deserves.
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Of course they do, but why waste a chance to appear as doing something?
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Probably already did days ago. This is just Putin showing who’s boss by asking publicly that which was private.
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Why though? Russian government doesn't really give a fuck who's actually funded by whom. They just use any foreign money transfers as a pretext to bully whomever they want. e.g. If you have a youtube channel and receive adsense or patreon money then you are always at risk of being designated a "foreign agent" at whim, and then you won't be able to buy shit as nobody would want to take money from you due to risk of also being designated as such.
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Would be nice for them to have a list of people that will accidentally trip and fall out of a window
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You said it yourself.. They're looking for the pretext
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Well, what I meant is that, with such shallow requirements, they already have pretext to bully practically anyone. They can just look at banking history and declare anyone who has any foreign transfers, or transfers from anyone who has any, a foreign agent. That's already almost anyone in Russia covered. Those who don't live in Russia are already foreign agents by default. The only category of people it doesn't really cover is people living in Russia but using cash only.
