One third of Russians can't afford to buy a pair of shoes

This will be us if republicans stay in power

One third of Americans can't either. They just put the shoes on a credit card like everything else. Then use their other credit card to make minimum payments.

Yes the billionaire class want this for us peasant stock. That’s 65 and younger for you eldergays.

All they have to barter with is oil. And if the planet weans itself off fossil fuels they are screwed (same for Saudi Arabia).

So the plot is to take over the world.

You beat me to it, R1.

Trump has the Deplorables in his pocket and Republicans know it and love Trump for that reason. If Republicans keep the White House and the Senate (and maybe even take back the House), expect them to gut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid completely. And the Deplorables will go along with it, because Trump will tell them he's cutting programs to "undesirables," i.e. blacks and browns) and they'll go for it wholeheartedly,, too stupid to realize it will effect them as well.

Fuck inbred drunken Russkies. Let them all die.

Stop trying to make sympathy for Russia happen, OP, you shilly McShillanovski.

Trump can have his pal Kanye supply them with free Yeezys.

You know what would help them get healthier incomes? Allow a murderous thug to strip mine the country, refuse to diversify their resource base, drink gallons of vodka and shoot krokodil and accept one beet per post at their troll farm jobs and raise hell all over the world. Path to success.

No wait, it’s the opposite. Sucks to be them, but my god, rise up and rebel already! Do they like living in hell? Are they happy their population is either gangsters or hookers?

What a shithole country.

How bad must that country be if being a low wage internet troll is a desirable career?

The is the last place you should come looking for sympathy for homophobic Russian filth OP

I am not, dearest R11

It has always been a shit hole. I watched HBO's show about Catherine the Great, and the Russian monarchy alone owned millions of slaves, i.e. serfs, as did other Russian "noblemen."

I guess our trolls must walk to work barefoot in the snow. Sucks to be them!

Russia is basically a third world country with the GDP of Mississippi. They have nothing to offer the world other than oil reserves. Their people have been conditioned to love a strong man dictator and accept their borscht and sawdust pies.

When some of their people speak out like Pussy Riot, Putin puts a quick stop to that by throwing their asses in jail.

Much like parts of the flyover states, the Russian people are bitter about their lot in life and want to reclaim former glories of yesteryear that will never come back. Instead of innovating like other countries and trying to improve, they get nasty and militant, just like all of the Red Hat MAGA morons.

Well said, R15!

But they've got really good figure skaters and ice dancers, so they got that.

Miss, with all due respect I have my own problems. I have no time to accommodate everyone else’s. My sister is suffering HIV right now. Is anyone worried about my problems? Some people can be so damn selfish. Next time you e-mail me with any requests, you will be reported. Have a great day! m.c.

They should have filmed The Walking Dead there.

[quote]Then use their other credit card to make minimum payments

Try again, genius

Then maybe they should start offering up their feet to them cannibals over there. Two birds/one stone

Losers!

Amazing that such an enormous country with a rich history in the arts and sciences has such a shitty economy. Russia should be prosperous, diversified and a world leader.

It's not sad, because Russians prefer to go barefoot because of the heat and humidity.

But they can afford to buy vodka

R1 it already is the US.

R26 You wish, Whorelana

The Russian people were the first serfs of the Feudal System Monarchy. They suffered then, they suffered under Communism (although jobs, especially medical careers for women, were more available), and they have been suffering under rapacious Oligarchy since the Fall of Communism.

But Putin is a master psychologist; he knew and knows the way to pacify his poverty-stricken populace is to support the Russian Orthodox religion, the opiate.....

Let them eat snow!

Haha.

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In typical fascist fashion, Putin tried to distract from his disastrous economy by blaming the gays for all his problems.

Lies from decaying West! I have nine shoes and eat boiled egg from chicken and Potato Okroshka, not boiled cat meat as has been speculate!

There is one glimmer of hope about Russia though - she produces some of the most brilliant mathematicians in the world., It's bizarre. Of course most of the brilliant ones get the hell out of Russia as soon as they can.

It also explains why North Korea will never have a long range ballistic missile. If you were North Korean and had a brain you got the fuck out of there. So in essence it's the dullards remaining in North Korea and China won't help them develop a weapon that could be turned against China.

With the help of oil, coal and cows- global warming WILL happen!