Elections? Where we’re going we don’t need elections.
Now let’s get this post soviet sham of a democracy up to 88 miles per hour.
Guessing nobody read the article…
Remember kids, you too can do whatever the fuck you want, if you own a nuke.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Vladimir Putin tightened his grip on power, claiming another six-year term as Russian president after a brutally distorted election in which all serious challengers were wiped out before voting began.
The result more than met the objective of an overwhelming victory to buttress Putin’s claim that Russians wholeheartedly back their leader and his invasion of Ukraine.
The election campaign, which saw three other candidates refrain from criticizing the president, was overshadowed by the death last month of Putin’s key opponent, Alexei Navalny.
Unusually large crowds were seen at polling stations across Russia, from the smallest Siberian towns to Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as at Russian embassies and consulates worldwide — from Phuket to Paris and Brussels.
“This is a great opportunity to create the appearance that there are people who are not satisfied with the current state of affairs, who are willing to unite for collective action, and there are many of them,” — said Daniel, who voted in the Russian consulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Ekaterina Duntsova and Boris Nadezhdin — two potential candidates who advocated for immediate peace negotiations and an end to the war — were barred from running against Putin in the contest.
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when do you get to call a dictator a dictator? when he stops with the pretend elections?
When they decide they should be the president until they die and make it legal. Putin has reached that milestone a while ago.
The Constitution of Russia was adopted in 1993, limiting the President of Russia to no more than two consecutive four year terms. Boris Yeltsin was the incumbent president when the constitution came into effect and had already served for over two years. Yelstin was reelected in 1996, but he resigned near the end of his term in 1999, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin served for the remainder of Yeltsin’s term as acting president. Putin was elected to a full term in 2000 and reelected in 2004.
Putin was not constitutionally permitted to run for reelection in 2008, so he endorsed First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who went on to become the next president. The day after Medvedev’s inauguration, he appointed Putin as Prime Minister of Russia. While Putin did not hold the office of president for the following four years, he held de facto control over the country’s executive, extending his tenure beyond what term limits would normally allow.
The Constitution was amended in 2008, expanding the presidential term from four to six years following the 2012 election. Having been removed from the office of the presidency for a term, Putin was constitutionally eligible to run again and was elected president in 2012 and then reelected in 2018. The Constitution was amended in 2020 to reset the number of terms Putin has served, allowing him to circumvent term limits in the 2024 and 2030 elections, enabling him to legally stay in office until 2036.
So I guess he first broke the rules in 2004 if you count his time as acting president, but I think it’s no longer up for debate after 2008.
I wouldn’t count the part where he was acting president instead of Yeltsin, but yeah, since 2008 he’s stopped being sneaky about wanting to be a dictator.
For Putin specifically, 2008.
When you have nothing left to gain from acting like their friend?
I don’t think you have to wait.
He even was one when he didn‘t run for office. Hell most people don‘t even remember the name of Russia‘s other „President“ they had for 5 years. I for sure don‘t.
I think everyone knows the name, he’s kinda (in) famous lately with all the talk about nuking Europe and stuff. It’s Medvedev.
Depends on the flavor of leftism he or she supports.
Accidents already planned for the administrators who allowed the 12% through.
WDYM, they’ve likely just drawn the numbers.
At this point nobody is seriously trying to get some data from them (that they pretend to give openly, the last time these were text on a webpage with scripts and WOFF fonts used for obfuscation - like the letter “a” is in fact “+” and so on ; people used OCR for that, there were “anomalies”).
There’s a meme percentage in Russian-speaking web - 146%, that’s what once made it to TV for some voting district.
Ye, Churov’s coefficient
Nah, that 12% is left for the satellite parties to test the waters for Putin. The satellite parties can fail freely, without affecting the popularity of Putin.
I just want to point out here that this is what many Trump voters are hoping for. If you’re a US citizen, please vote in November.
They’ve been pushing “both options suck so why bother” rhetoric really hard too. They know they can’t get people to vote for trump so their best bet is to get them not to vote
It sure would make it harder for them if both options didn’t indeed suck. Biden is light years better than Trump, but he’s still pretty much shit.
Yes, to the point that
Shit like this will only continue
Australia solved this. We have to vote.
They also made it easy to vote - our main voting day is always a Saturday If you won’t be able to vote on that day for some reason, there are small polling places open for a couple of weeks ahead of that date.If you won’t be able to vote on that day for some reason, there are small polling places open for a couple of weeks ahead of that date.
For the record, early voting is an option in many US states, too, and it’s really expanded since COVID. In my state, you could go to any poll location to cast an early vote. It used to be you could only cast an early vote if you were going to be away from home in election day for a specific reason (college or military are the ones I remember, but there were other reasons, too), but it’s expanded so pretty much anyone can do early voting now. On election day, you have to go to your assigned poll location in order to vote if you don’t do early voting.
This varies by state, though. In any case, it’s getting easier to vote, and there are more options to be able to vote, but it’s not nationwide (yet, hopefully).
This is fantastic to hear. Now, you just need to be able to vote at any elementary school and get your democracy sausage and you’ll be voting like the professionals!
Can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or not (the sausage thing seems to imply you are), but all public schools (elementary, middle, and high school) are closed on election day so that they can act as polling locations. Many libraries also act as polling locations on election day.
This is stability that long-term planners appreciate.
88% is so typical - for Nazis it means the eight letter of the alphabet twice, which means “Heil Hitler”. Given that the Z symbol of his genocidal war looks like a half Swastika we can now finally agree: Putin is the reincarnation of Hitler.
Yep, search “Wolfgang vom Schemm” German draughtsman and graphic designer…
Why … Ummm… Why are they lumpy?
He’s a “we have Hitler at home” type of situation.
He keeps Hitler’s cap as a relic. In the Temple of the Armed Forces.
Give him a mustache and no one can tell the difference.
Well I mean “technically” he “got” 87.28%
In East Germany the people loved their nation most only weeks before collapse: 99,92% voted for the pro-soviet government.
Then the CIA dropped 20 million agents from invisible helicopters which fakes mass demonstrations and used mind-control rays to make them love the west and hate the soviet union.
In the first election after reunification the Communists got 11,1% of all votes in Former East Germany. Damned CIA mind control rays.
This is my favorite tankie cope.
“The CIA obviously staged the protests and rigged the election against the communists!”
So like, they snuck in millions of undercover agents?
“Don’t be ridiculous, that’s not how it works!”
So they stuffed the ballot box?
“No, that’s what we tried to do.”
You mean they forced people to vote at gunpoint?
“NO IT WAS THE PROPAGANDA.”
So the CIA just… Convinced people to support Western politics?
“IT’S NOT FAIR! HOW CAN WE WIN IF PEOPLE HAVE AGENCY!”
There aint no mind control rays.
CIA sucked off commies into a democracy.
Does this mean 12% of the population is about to fall out of windows?
No, but they are about to win povestka and sent to dig okop.
Nah, it means that an arbitrary number was chosen to make it seem like there was competition on the ballot. A happy little math error.
You know, kinda like back in the day when Boris Yeltsin got 1 million votes from Chechnya even tho the war he himself instigated left the voting-eligible population at around 500k. Reportedly, exactly 70.0% out of those 500,000 voted for Yeltsin, and 70% of 500k is about a million because math.
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Why do they bother with this show?
For the same reason millions of depressed Americans will report to their local polling place to choose between two old men in a few months.
Who is this for?
Administrative machine
I was told by a Russian that they venerate beaurocracy. The documents show the objective truth and it doesn’t matter that everyone involves knows that the contents is bullshit as long as the process has been followed to the letter.
Reminds me of the joker from Christofer Nolan’s Batman. If things go according to plan, nobody cares. Even if its clearly fake, keeping up the resemblance of a working system raises less concerned citizens.
The true power of any country always lies with the people. For example, every previous chinese dynasty ended due to civilian uprising.
I think most Russians are too busy trying to survive and not get sent to war or a gulag to care which particular despot rules over them.
The entire point is to spread cynicism about democracy as a process. That way autocrats can say “look, it doesn’t actually matter, voting is as free here as it is in the west.” It’s not to convince you that they are free, it’s to make people question the value of Western freedoms.
The reality is that democracy obviously doesn’t work without civil liberties to go along with it. But this is more nuanced than your average person will grasp without explanation.
Exactly this: I remember meeting some Russians that had moved to Belgium a few years ago, and we got to talking about this topic. These were well educated young people, yet they told me the thing that surprised them the most when moving to Belgium was that people actually cared about elections, and that elections actually mattered. They had been completely convinced that elections in the west were just like the “elections” they were used to from Russia.
To force the population to believe the lie. Out of fear or because they have been brain-washed. A test of loyalty.
It’s all to keep up appearances. You keep up the propaganda and fake news and some people will be no the wiser. I’m sure there’s many who know that this is fake but there’s also some who just accept the propaganda.
100%. Like how many conservatives in America assume everyone else does or wants the horrible things they want to do. So that basically all of their accusations end up being projection and confessions. There is a not insignificant number in Russia that believes that America is just as dysfunctional as they are. And at Western criticism is hypocritical. They have a point to a small extent. But they are in many ways a bit worse off. Though I may not be able to say that next year.
Putin seems to be obsessed with legalities. Every day a new law, a decree, a statement. Tonnes of paper just to satisfy his ego.
I can really recommend the William Spaniel video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5floG0aP8
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Russia is a fascist dictatorship.
The sky is blue.
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8 is also similar to the infinity symbol. And 1988 is the year when USSR very clearly began crumbling.
I mean, Nazis and Hitler are things which Putin always very clearly didn’t like, from all his history of interactions. This even seems to be a trait of personality.
My dude, H is not the 8th letter in Russian. Come the fuck on.
Sure, because the Russian propaganda machine has absolutely no contact with or knowledge of modern fascist movements.
One might even point out that it not working in Cyrillic is even better for him, because he sends a dogwhistles to his allies his citizens don’t hear.
If one wasn’t a simpleton that thinks there wasn’t a discussion over what exact percentage he should win by and why.
Do you idiots hear yourselves
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That’s quite a reach there friend
