Zero Escape VLR’s pantry room puzzle for me - was stuck on it for hours and had to look up a guide because of how unintuitive it was. Can’t say it was necessarily an awful puzzle though.

No, I hate music

Pretty much, Russia has definitely earned the reputation even back when it was being “socialist” - it’s an imperialist hellhole, one that also meddles in today’s politics by funding far-right parties like AfD.

Though, I personally take issue when the russophobia doesn’t stop at targeting the state and its ruling class who made these decisions, but to the Russian working class as well, all of whom are getting exploited in the standard capitalist fashion but also a section being conscripted to kill and die for their ruling class benefit and their imperialist interests. That’s why it doesn’t feel right to me when a country targets Russian nationals with discriminatory laws in a fashion that’s not too different from 9/11’s treatment of Arab people that most of us can agree was wrong.

You personally wouldn’t travel back and forth, but this doesn’t necessarily apply to everyone - there were and still are a decent amount of Russian nationals working/living here with their families, distant or otherwise, still living back home in Russia/Belarus. No matter your nationality, you might want to go back to your home country and visit your family. What if there’s an emergency/funeral you have to attend after visiting? It might not be a valid reason to go back (given how vague the articles are), and you might lose your residence because of it. It’s only one example of course, but there definitely are more scenarios like this one.

Also, reading one of the news articles, counter-terrorism prevention isn’t even mentioned once, and it wouldn’t make sense given how I already outlined how it would be easier to get tools for terrorism locally, much safely too given how you don’t have to go through security that scrutinizes you more due to war-time, not to mention it doesn’t prevent terrorism from foreign agents who don’t own a residence here. If anything, the article mentions how these methods are there to further sanction Russia, to show solidarity to Ukraine and “limit specific Russian/Belarusian citizen rights”.

I dunno chat, as a Lithuanian (as if it matters) this feels like a bit of an over reach in a war on terror in US type of way. This isn’t the only law that explicitly targets Russians/Belarussians as a security threat that has been enacted.

These people are often just nationals, citizens of their country and not automatically foreign agents. If they were here doing espionage, they would report back using encrypted channels on the internet which is much cheaper than traveling back and forth. If they were smuggling tools for terrorism like bombs, it’s much easier to smuggle them over the border or even obtain them locally than having the foreign agent themselves smuggle.

I can’t help but view it as discriminatory in a similar way how Muslim and Arab populations were treated post-9/11, it just doesn’t make much sense unless I’m missing something.

If you’re gonna bring up class interests, war in general (both defensive and offensive) is not in the working class interests, with geopolitical aspect being pretty much irrelevant.

If the war is offensive, the proletariat are the ones dying on the battlefield to further their imperialist bourgeoisie ruler interests.

If the war is defensive, the proletariat are the ones dying on the battlefield to protect the private property and the rule of their bourgeoisie rulers, and win or lose - the class relation will remain the same.

It would quickly fall apart due to reactionaries and nationalism, Yugoslav wars except on a continental scale

Wonder what their financials are actually, usually with cloud capital ventures like these they usually still magically keep raking it in even though they’re “losing money”.

For instance, Amazon during the pandemic paid zero corporate tax even though they had record sales because they “didn’t make any profit”, Tesla too who didn’t make profit during 2020 yet their share price went 10x and they had plenty of shares to sell if they wanted.