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TheBlackAdder

(28,211 posts) Sun May 30, 2021, 01:16 PM May 2021

Steven Segal joins pro-Kremlin party -- and proposes tougher laws on polluting company owners

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Hollywood actor Steven Seagal, a long-time admirer of Russian President Vladimir Putin, has joined a pro-Kremlin party, the the party said on Sunday.

Seagal received a party membership card of an alliance named Just Russia - Patriots - For Truth on Saturday, a video released by the party showed. It was formed earlier this year, when three leftist parties, all of which support Putin, merged into one.

Seagal, a Russian citizen since 2016, proposed a crackdown on businesses which damage the environment.

"Without being able to arrest people, when we just fine them, they are probably making more money of the production of the things that are defiling the environment," said in his welcome speech at a party event.

The party controls a faction in the lower house of the Russian parliament and plans to take part in a parliamentary election in September.

Seagal, a U.S.-born martial artist, is best known for producing and starring in action movies, while Putin, who granted him the citizenship, is a fan of martial arts.

At Saturday's ceremony, Seagal posed for pictures next to one of the party leaders, Russian writer Zakhar Prilepin, who enrolled in an army of pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine and admitted to commanding a combat unit in a conflict which has killed 14,000 people in seven years.

https://www.rawstory.com/steven-seagal/

Russia is just one big shit show, just by watching the YouTube content that is published daily. Watch the background.
Perhaps Segal does make a point, that if company heads aren't personally impacted, the pollution continues.

I'll never forget the Safe Spaces South Park episode, where Steven Segal was bullying people and then when people started to bully him, he cried and demanded Safe Spaces. This shit can dish it out but can't take it.

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