Opinion of Pingvin

[LastVoter]

The third option.

[LastVoter]

is he very, very young (<18)?  the only thing that would save him from an HP.  almost nobody that young should be called an HP: think of it as sending them to the juvenile ward instead.

Hence the third option.

[LastVoter]

he's from Russia?  I wonder, the class background of his parents?

A better question would be who got him into religion.

[LastVoter]

he's from Russia?  I wonder, the class background of his parents?

A better question would be who got him into religion.

1. Dad is a small business owner. This is why I hate taxes. Despite Russia has a 13% income tax rate, there are many other sky-high taxes.
2. When your country suffers from dictatorship, corruption, alcoholism what would you do?

1) That's shortsightedness, if that's what you are going by in life your views will change many times(unless you are going to live with your parents your entire life).
2) I think that's a sign of weak character, but my question was more along the lines, if it was you grandma or another relative that got you into religion. Let's say one of my grandmothers actually convinced me to be baptized when I was 9, but I took a hostile turn against religion, after seeing the American Evangelical community.  To solve the underlying problem, you could emigrate to an English speaking country, since you already know English. Best time to do that is college.

But, if you suffer from patriotism, I really don't think there's a bright future for you. If conscription doesn't do it, I don't know what will. When I was growing up every single male kid(well except maybe for the Georgian, because it wasn't socially acceptable to voice such things if you are a  minority, racism was rampant) in my class hated Russia as much as he hated America. I think our football team's performance was partly responsible for that, because we never won against European teams when it mattered, but it's still has deep roots in the society because of well... czars and politburo and later oligarchs. It will be about 20 years before a critical mass of them will die off, and you have to hope their kids and friends don't know how to run the show. 10 families own 60% of stock market in Russia, for those that don't know.

[LastVoter]

he's from Russia?  I wonder, the class background of his parents?

A better question would be who got him into religion.

1. Dad is a small business owner. This is why I hate taxes. Despite Russia has a 13% income tax rate, there are many other sky-high taxes.
2. When your country suffers from dictatorship, corruption, alcoholism what would you do?

1) That's shortsightedness, if that's what you are going by in life your views will change many times(unless you are going to live with your parents your entire life).
2) I think that's a sign of weak character, but my question was more along the lines, if it was you grandma or another relative that got you into religion. Let's say one of my grandmothers actually convinced me to be baptized when I was 9, but I took a hostile turn against religion, after seeing the American Evangelical community.  To solve the underlying problem, you could emigrate to an English speaking country, since you already know English. Best time to do that is college.

But, if you suffer from patriotism, I really don't think there's a bright future for you. If conscription doesn't do it, I don't know what will. When I was growing up every single male kid(well except maybe for the Georgian, because it wasn't socially acceptable to voice such things if you are a  minority, racism was rampant) in my class hated Russia as much as he hated America. I think our football team's performance was partly responsible for that, because we never won against European teams when it mattered, but it's still has deep roots in the society because of well... czars and politburo and later oligarchs. It will be about 20 years before a critical mass of them will die off, and you have to hope their kids and friends don't know how to run the show. 10 families own 60% of stock market in Russia, for those that don't know.

Seatown, I have no love for current Russian gov't, you know.
But current War on traditional West values on the West is also very disappointing for me.

Fixed it for you. Those are traditional protestant values, they have no business in Russia.

[LastVoter]

Also, LPR hardly exists anymore.

Oh, are you aware that hating everything Russian is required for PiS supporters?

I think that self-loathing is pretty standard in Russia except for the extreme right-wingers. I think the assumption here is you are born in said country when picking the party though.

[LastVoter]

My World Cultures teacher said that any party that has the words "national" or "people's" in it are likely...not good.

Wouldn't say that in every case, see Austria or New Zealand.

What about Spain? Or are fascists in power there?