Agreed.

Yank is a polite term. The rhyming slang of Seppo is more derogatory and of course is from "septic tank & contents". Yank means anyone carrying an American passport or greencard.

@FrayedBear The English language is different all over. British English, Australian English, and US English all have different terms that the others don't usually use. It's like Mexican Spanish and Spain Spanish. Interesting. Never did hear the term Seppo before. In American English cunt is the most foul word, but in the UK it's not really bad. Someone would say something "he's a jolly old cunt". But here you'd say something like fuck that cunt.

@TheGreatShadow No. "cunt" is still the ultimate "taboo" word in UK English and would never be used in everyday language,

@Moravian From some articles I read it is not as bad as saying it in the US. But then again, the internet is full of lies.

@TheGreatShadow, @Moravian LOL. Here in Australia everyone's a cunt.

@TheGreatShadow Biggest of the lot! And he'll probably tell you. Seem to remember that he wanted to deny his fellow citizens $ millions of his tax payments. That sounds like a big cunt to me.

You have to pick and choose the info to believe. Sometimes when I travel in 3rd world it's all there is.

@rogueflyer

I do not need to choose any source for which there is a wide variety of other sources that claim RT deserves no credibility. RT has only the agenda of Putin's propaganda. I'm not claiming RT never gets any story correct, I'm claiming there is plenty of reason to doubt whatever they are saying.

@FearlessFly Your pavlovian response is sad. Here are some alternate sources to RT's

[m.dw.com]

[forward.com]

[aljazeera.com]

[bbc.com]

I have not read anything to change my opening remark.

@FrayedBear You are making my point. RT is a lousy choice when there are plenty of others (that have reason(s) to assign credibility to) to choose from.

@FearlessFly I have not been indoctrinated like you into having automatic distrust of RT. . . Like trusting politicians, I just don't trust any of them.

@FrayedBear Where do you get the idea that my (or any) distrust is "automatic" ?

Put these search terms in your fav search engine :
[Russia Today,trust]

@FearlessFly RT It appears that more people worldwide trust RT than your American Networks — THE FIRST TV NEWS NETWORK IN THE WORLD TO HIT 10 BLN VIEWS ON YOUTUBE [rt.com]

@FrayedBear There are no checks and balances in an authoritarian state.

@FearlessFly So it seems. Have you read my post at "I received the following email about privacy in USA on 29/01/2020 and felt it worth sharing with ..." and exercised your checking ability?

@FrayedBear This is not the first time I have had back/forth with member(s) of "Out Of The Illusion" group.

My concern(s) about privacy are greater that most folks I have met.
I contend that in this RT context it is a different can-of-worms.

If you think RT/Putin/Russia is better on privacy/transparency/accountability, continue to argue that in the other group or visit/live in Russia yourself.

@FrayedBear "So it seems" ??? Really ? Do you dispute that ? On what basis ? Why would you be so dismissive of that assertion ?

Do you have examples of ANY checks and balances on Putin ?

@FearlessFly Yes self preservation. Do you really think that he does not want prosperity and peace for the Russian people?

Most of Russia's problems have been deliberately created by America - even the revolution.

@FearlessFly Why would I wish to live in another country bullied and hectored by America? I already do.