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by properpopper 660 days ago
I don't understand why it's acceptable in the modern world to discriminate a human being based on where they were born? I see no protests, no news about it, everyone silently agrees.

Feels like they learnt nothing from racial discrimination

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It isn't discriminating on where you are born.

The people in that country can move or overthrow their government to replace it with one that isn't trying to genocide eastern Europe and install dictators in the rest of the world.

> As long as your billing information has never been associated with Russia, you will regain access to Notion once you leave the country.

They can't even move to keep the account.

Easier said than done, they are not French after all.
maybe you aren't aware, but the russians slaughtered their ruling family and installed a different government at one point, too.

there's an interesting parable in the movie A Bug's Life where the grasshoppers get a lesson from the boss grasshopper about how if the individually-puny ants ever realize that they vastly outnumber the grasshoppers, the grasshoppers wouldn't be able to steal from the ants any longer.

if every ant woke up tomorrow with an unresistable biological urge to overthrow the grasshoppers, it would be done in a day.

War is peace, liberty is slavery.

Because the bosses say so. Welcome to "democracy", whatever that means.