George Takei 
🏳️🌈🖖🏽The government’s incompetence is leading to horrific acts of cruelty.
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@ReinhardGeiger @georgetakei For example, the USSR and some of the Eastern European communist regimes went on having ostensibly antisemitic purges long after almost all the Jews were gone. "Jew", "Kulak" and various other terms meant whatever they wanted them to.
Julian Nyča
aproitzThat is a big #Difference to democratic #Countries:
You're #Citizenship and #free #movement are #guaranteed by the #Country you're living in.
In a #Dictartorship like #Putin's they can #switch on and off these human #Rights whenever they want. So there, these Rights are not worth the Dirt from the Street under your #Sole.
André Polykanine@ReinhardGeiger @georgetakei this joke was so spread that even now in Russian there is an expression "prove that you're not a camel". for example: "I'm going to my HR department, need to get a paper from my employer to prove the tax office I'm not a camel". Or: "It's you who know I'm not the culprid in this road accident, but try to prove the police I'm not a camel!".
RenkeSiems@menelion @ReinhardGeiger @georgetakei There are even many variations on it, like Peter Hacks' story, writer in the GDR:
A rabbit races across the fields in deadly fear, a second joins it. After a few hundred miles, he asks: “By the way - what are we running from?” “They've passed a law,” replied the first, “that all rabbits must have their fifth leg sawed off.” “If that's the case - we both only have four legs.” “You don't know them,” said the first rabbit. “First they saw, then they count.”
AlinaDavid Woodruff (@dmwoodruff.bsky.social)
A very old Soviet joke, from an especially dark time: Foxes are fleeing the USSR in droves. Q: Why are you running away? Fox: The Soviets passed a new law that they’re going to arrest all camels. Q: But you’re foxes! Fox: Yeah, why don’t *you* try proving to the NKVD that you’re not a camel. [contains quote post or other embedded content]
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