Post 9vDbhv0fXr34VBKNGK by CyberSocialist@social.privacytools.io
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(DIR) Post #9vCoYWa06w3yNBkEWe by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2020-05-19T13:25:14Z
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Very interesting feature of economy is Russia is large percentage of people employed in all kind of "security" jobs - army, security services, national guard and a dozen of others. Out of 75m "economically active" citizens over 4.4m is employed in government "security" plus another 2.4m in private security sector, 9% in total.P.S. before you comment "what about America", please go and bring the data here so we have something to compare :)
(DIR) Post #9vCxQEZO5QV5mrZzKy by guenther@chaos.social
2020-05-19T15:04:34Z
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@kravietz it must be a really secure country
(DIR) Post #9vCxo1D3PY3TIjTTo8 by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2020-05-19T15:08:52Z
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@guenther Yes, it goes to great effort to make sure your money is secure in their pockets 😂 Irony apart, from personal experience Russian streets are probably just as secure as any other European town. There is much more cops who stop random people for "document checks" usually trying to get a bribe. Road police are absolutely masters of this. As I was driving in Russia back in 2000's there were police patrols like on every major road crossing and their *only* purpose was to extort bribes.
(DIR) Post #9vD16cRA2RXnpqdMPo by dump_stack@lor.sh
2020-05-19T15:45:47Z
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@kravietz, you've got too much perspective from a very poor area of Russia (I've never been there, lol).I have a feeling that most big EU cities are actually much less secure than big cities in Russia. It was an unexpected thing when I moved to the EU and start to travel there.@guenther
(DIR) Post #9vD1nm8Ds0QaM2M1Q0 by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2020-05-19T15:53:38Z
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@dump_stack @guenther You can drive through the whole EU - from London to Kraków - and you will see zero road police patrols on the way. In RU you'll meet road police on every large junction in towns and every 50 km outside of towns.And between republics you've got actual borders with bunkers, BMP, armed cops and document checks. This is from Rostov-on-Don all the way down south.In St Peterburg as I walked from Биржа to Таврический сад I've seen minimum 3 road police patrols hunting :)
(DIR) Post #9vD3mle6OHZOSyueDw by dump_stack@lor.sh
2020-05-19T16:15:49Z
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@kravietz, I'm not talking about how much police there, but rather actual safety.In Saint Petersburg, I've usually left a laptop on the table when I'm going to get another coffee. In Paris or Barcelona or any other popular cities in the EU, I'm afraid to use my smartphone on the streets sometimes, because there's just too much street criminals which I'm not used to.@guenther
(DIR) Post #9vD4SAeCL9ufsdhTGK by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2020-05-19T16:23:21Z
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@dump_stack @guenther > In Saint PetersburgWould you risk that in Moscow? 😂
(DIR) Post #9vD52Qho76WS6og5zM by dump_stack@lor.sh
2020-05-19T16:29:53Z
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@kravietz, I'm doing the same in Moscow too, actually ¯\_(ツ)_/¯I've never got robbed in my life.@guenther
(DIR) Post #9vD5okOwBlbD5stKWe by kravietz@social.privacytools.io
2020-05-19T16:38:36Z
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@dump_stack @guenther Me neither, although I had my laptop stolen in a train in Poland in 90's.
(DIR) Post #9vDbhv0fXr34VBKNGK by CyberSocialist@social.privacytools.io
2020-05-19T22:35:59Z
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@kravietz I can tell you somewhere that has an even higher percentage! And the results are even less pretty. https://www.thenation.com/article/archive/how-israel-privatized-its-occupation-of-palestine/