I felt that was necessary to say at least once amid all the grim comments about how welp he’s fuckin dead. I mean there’s truth to that but it shouldn’t be the sum total of our reaction to this.
It does. It's such an abrupt about-face that I can see why everyone initially thought it was staged. It's like a gazelle turning round and headbutting a chasing lion or something. Maybe he just received a terminal diagnosis and thought 'fuck it'?
I was thinking rather of hyenas circling a lion, each one nipping at a heel, a tail, an ear, none quite confident enough yet to bum rush the fucker all at once... Except they're all just hamsters... Nasty, evil little fucking hamsters, ready to rip each other to shreds 🐹
Ah, but you also thought you left Reddit behind... Only to experience the same lame ass cliche jokes and same hive mind down vote brigades and I believe I hear the mod being summoned for dinner with the roommates. Lemmy sure did crap out awful fast.
Sometimes these things are also a trap. Someone will deliberately be positioned to make a public opposition stand, just to flush out anyone who would support them.
I wish him a painless autodefenestration. I can't imagine it ending any other way. It takes courage to do something like that. I wonder what made him snap.
I'm not entirely certain (because Telegram is disrupted and it's harder to get information from Russia), but I think this bears some relation to RosKomNadzor f**ing with Telegram and mobile internet in general, recently also in the Moscow region (arguably because the sky is full of Ukrainian drones, but perhaps for additional reasons).
Two political principles applicable to Russia:
don't take people's alcohol away from them, sober people will do rational things
don't take Telegram, people depend on it and will be angry, possibly forgetting how to lie
The rats are fleeing. I've been hearing rumors about an internal power struggle and a possible silent coup. Putin is now extremely paranoid and this is bound to start backfiring. This is yet another little puzzle piece to this.
Putin has strengthened political unanimity for him in Russia, while strengthening its military and economic power significantly. His peace proposal is reasonable end, but the strategic patience failure is not threatening US bases in Europe to stop their Russophobia propaganda and full NATO responsibility for the war, and end the war more forcefully on that front. The only viable political rulership alternative in Russia is one that threatens a permanent end to EU stupidity.
Peace in Ukraine with Russian demilitarization is opportunity for economic discontent to invest in peaceful economy more, and then call Putin a klepto if he fails to keep economy strong and pluralist.
Yea the economic opportunities will be great. Just imagine if china took over russia - so many great economic opportunities. russia should just totally cease to exist and cede all their land to china. It makes so much economic sense.
Strongest alliance in the world, with trade balance likely to surpass US-Canada (currently 1/3rd that level). The last 2 empires that attempted a Russia invasion were exterminated as a direct result of the foolishness. Peace in Ukraine is not going to anger China. Russia selling all of its stuff is not bad for Russia. Your fantasy wedge is just western propaganda.
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scarabic@lemmy.world · 117 pts · 138d
That takes guts. Good for him.
I felt that was necessary to say at least once amid all the grim comments about how welp he’s fuckin dead. I mean there’s truth to that but it shouldn’t be the sum total of our reaction to this.
GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world · 34 pts · 138d
It does. It's such an abrupt about-face that I can see why everyone initially thought it was staged. It's like a gazelle turning round and headbutting a chasing lion or something. Maybe he just received a terminal diagnosis and thought 'fuck it'?
ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee · 12 pts · 138d
I was thinking rather of hyenas circling a lion, each one nipping at a heel, a tail, an ear, none quite confident enough yet to bum rush the fucker all at once... Except they're all just hamsters... Nasty, evil little fucking hamsters, ready to rip each other to shreds 🐹
x_pikl_x@lemmy.world · -8 pts · 138d
Ah, but you also thought you left Reddit behind... Only to experience the same lame ass cliche jokes and same hive mind down vote brigades and I believe I hear the mod being summoned for dinner with the roommates. Lemmy sure did crap out awful fast.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 91 pts · 138d
Stay away from windows, comrade.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 49 pts · 138d
And poisonous frogs only found in the Amazon
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 138d
And walk faster than anyone with an umbrella.
NatakuNox@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 138d
And Don't fly on any planes near Russia airspace.
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 138d
Or drink tea.
harmbugler@piefed.social · 9 pts · 137d
Or touch door handles
dubyakay@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 137d
Or get pranked by two separate women at the airport.
northface@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 137d
Or get dust blown in your face.
random_character_a@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 138d
Don't wear underpants
venusaur@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 138d
Don’t drink anything
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 138d
Unfortunately, VX also works on your face
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
Apply directly to the forehead.
venusaur@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 138d
Or they can shoot you with a poison dart
zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 138d
Oh they will just construct a building around him instead. Just to throw him out.
Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 138d
A very minecraft murder method, I like it.
jballs@sh.itjust.works · 58 pts · 138d
That's one way to commit suicide, I guess.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 138d
"he shot himself 9 times in the back of the head, jumped out of a window, and ate toxic tree frog venom on the way down."
monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 138d
“…yeah major depression. Shame.”
jrs100000@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 138d
Sometimes these things are also a trap. Someone will deliberately be positioned to make a public opposition stand, just to flush out anyone who would support them.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 138d
They mentioned that in the the at article as well, and also why it's not likely
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 29 pts · 138d
The Tzar will fall. Ukraine will be victorious. Russia will be free.
liuther9@lemmy.world · -22 pts · 137d
Nah fuk both putin and zelensky
radiouser@crazypeople.online · 8 pts · 137d
I'd rather not.
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 6 pts · 137d
But especially putin, right?
Zelensky didn't invade a country and start an illegal war to the detriment of all the countries surrounding it.
liuther9@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 137d
Ofcourse
Kurroth@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 137d
The fuck did Zelensky do to piss people off? Or is this part of the US American fox news school of thought?
quantumcrop@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 136d
Didn't you hear that he hasn't even thanked the USA once?
thorhop@sopuli.xyz · 0 pts · 137d
But what about Russia and Ukraine?
liuther9@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 137d
Wish them the best. Ordinary people didn't deserve this
pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 20 pts · 137d
He's been put in psychiatric institution today, reportedly
Professorozone@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 137d
Does it have Windows?
Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de · 16 pts · 137d
Nah, all of it runs on Linux
quantumcrop@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 136d
*Gets thrown off Arch
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 136d
Defenestration incoming.
NostraDavid@programming.dev · 1 pts · 135d
No, those are usually outgoing.
Tiger666@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 134d
I stand(in front of a window)corrected.
MrChewy@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 137d
How did it go? Was he ... Put-in jail? (sorry)
M137@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 137d
Ignoring the joke, basically yes:
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-blogger-putin-criticism-remeslo-hospital/33710904.html
elucubra@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 137d
"Honey, I'm going window shopping"
daychilde@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 138d
I wish him a painless autodefenestration. I can't imagine it ending any other way. It takes courage to do something like that. I wonder what made him snap.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 138d
Hitting the concrete ground at terminal velocity definitely makes you snap in half
daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 138d
Oof. Touché. lol
perestroika@slrpnk.net · 11 pts · 138d
I'm not entirely certain (because Telegram is disrupted and it's harder to get information from Russia), but I think this bears some relation to RosKomNadzor f**ing with Telegram and mobile internet in general, recently also in the Moscow region (arguably because the sky is full of Ukrainian drones, but perhaps for additional reasons).
Two political principles applicable to Russia:
Avicenna@programming.dev · 8 pts · 136d
Supports a fascist regime enthusiastically for the better part of a decade, cries when the fascist regime discards him.
PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 138d
The sharks are smelling blood.
db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 138d
The rats are fleeing. I've been hearing rumors about an internal power struggle and a possible silent coup. Putin is now extremely paranoid and this is bound to start backfiring. This is yet another little puzzle piece to this.
chloroken@lemmy.ml · -2 pts · 136d
Holy shit this comment explains a lot.
vga@sopuli.xyz · 5 pts · 137d
Is it again that this loyalist just wants the war to go better, not that they want the war not to have happened?
TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 138d
Ah... Following the MTG playbook, eh? Whelp, hope this guy doesn't have a lot of him-sized windows wherever he is.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 138d
The regime could collapse any minute now.
5714@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 1 pts · 138d
Putin found himself in the problem of the intelligentsia, how refreshing.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · -23 pts · 137d
Putin has strengthened political unanimity for him in Russia, while strengthening its military and economic power significantly. His peace proposal is reasonable end, but the strategic patience failure is not threatening US bases in Europe to stop their Russophobia propaganda and full NATO responsibility for the war, and end the war more forcefully on that front. The only viable political rulership alternative in Russia is one that threatens a permanent end to EU stupidity.
Peace in Ukraine with Russian demilitarization is opportunity for economic discontent to invest in peaceful economy more, and then call Putin a klepto if he fails to keep economy strong and pluralist.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 137d
Yea the economic opportunities will be great. Just imagine if china took over russia - so many great economic opportunities. russia should just totally cease to exist and cede all their land to china. It makes so much economic sense.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · -8 pts · 137d
Strongest alliance in the world, with trade balance likely to surpass US-Canada (currently 1/3rd that level). The last 2 empires that attempted a Russia invasion were exterminated as a direct result of the foolishness. Peace in Ukraine is not going to anger China. Russia selling all of its stuff is not bad for Russia. Your fantasy wedge is just western propaganda.
CovfefeKills@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 137d
Mmmm yummy I can taste it now - russia but competent. Imagine the economic possibilities!