The number of Russians who say their salary does not cover basic spending has jumped by 20 percentage points in two years to almost half, a survey by recruiter Headhunter showed, as Moscow diverts record fiscal resources to funding its war in Ukraine.

If this is the finest level of respect and politeness that our culture can produce, we deserve to be defeated and collapse. We’re on terminal stage.

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At least something we can agree on, except that people like you being the reason why that is the case.

I was talking about behavior and word choice being wrong, never about individual people. This has escalated badly, I won’t be answering any more.

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You made up some word salad that had nothing to do with the topic, got called out for it and now got no actual arguments left. You’re welcome.

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