He better stay away from any windows not on the ground floor.
this post was submitted on 29 Jan 2024
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He better install Linux on his PC. Windows can be deadly πͺπ
An Apple a day keeps the Kremlin away
Just make sure you have a food tester take a bite first.
Especially when you throw it really hard ...
Only in Russia can you fall 87 feet to your death from the basement.
And tea, Russian tea is deadly.
Yeah there we go. I've never heard of this guy before, but the description doesn't paint him to be just another a lesser evil at least. I hope this guy gains momentum.
Hopefully that momentum is not gathered at a rate of 9.8 (m/s)/s.
Most likely he'll gain momentum from the 5th floor to the ground, unfortunately
He'll be dealt with before he becomes an actual threat
Does anyone believe they have non-rigged elections in Russia?
It doesnβt matter how many people they let run, theyβre never winning.
Russian politics isn't primarily about rigging the elections. That alone will create a dissatisfied populace, you don't want this. You want complacency, fear, ignorance, apathy, patriotism, pragmatism. Ideally you want to maintain a strong authentic base that will preserve the status quo and keep you in power. Alternatives, in such a system, need to be destroyed, discredited, or assimilated, they can't become a loudspeaker for growing dissatisfaction with the status quo.
And yet every election there is widespread fraud.
Didn't we even watch them on CCTV last time doing it or was that the time before? It gets hard to remember when, when there so much of it.
Yup, there is. And it's not a democratic system. But the point is that, even to the autocratic cannibals that are currently in power, it matters to keep a sizeable chunk of the population just content enough to be a majority supporter of the status quo. Thus, elections matter. They are a way to gauge the stability of the system. I have no doubt that, prior to the elections, the party will expend a lot of its resources to placate, inspire, threaten, confuse the population in its favor. Stuff like further mobilisations and austerity measures will come after the elections.
It's actually very hard to override people's votes. Countries like this usually take unused votes and put them in the government's candidate AFAIK. There's nothing they can do if he actually makes it on the ballot and, say, all of Russia votes for him. Which is why anyone with a risk of something like that happening is executed by suicide.
The latter isn't always the case, but the rest is very accurate. I try to use my skills in English to offer people outside Russia some insights, both to help them understand this place a little more and help myself cope with everything a little better, but your post is precise and concise, which is best for this kind of case; I just can't stop talking and end up writing confusing and complicated paragraphs because ei get emotional and try to put too many things into a single comment.
So good job and thank you!
Iβm not going to take the easy route and make window or tea jokes like every other time Russians are mentioned on this site..
I hope he gets on the ballet and at least gets the populace to consider an alternative. He needs to be kept under constant guard and be very careful the rest of his days for openly opposing the oligarchs or theyβll end his campaign.
I donβt think his odds are good, but i hope one day weβll see a world with a truly democratic russia sitting at the table and truly wanting peace
Even if he ends up on the ballot, there's no way in hell that he will get fair elections and does have any chance of ousting Putin. Putin has killed a lot of Russians to get into the positions he's currently in to give it up now.
Places your bets, which is it:
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He isn't a credible 'threat' to Putin, and the state media is letting him get away with some visibility so that he can be crushed in the definitely-not-completely-fake polls in order to preserve the democracy kayfabe. Possibly to achieve a domestic policy goal like getting out of the Ukraine war without losing as much face for Putin.
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He is a credible threat and will be dealt with brutally and violently.
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He is a sockpuppet. Either of Putin or the next generation of Russian leaders who, in proud Soviet tradition, are going to honor and glorify Putin in his retirement then quietly delete and replace his history and influence with their own.
This is controlled opposition and it's critical for the Putin regime.
Controlled opposition doesn't require direct collusion, but it doesn't preclude it either. It just means he's useful for Putin maintaining democratic legitimacy or even just the illusion of it.
Regardless, if he was an actual threat to Putin, he wouldn't be allowed to remain in any elected office.
I'm fairly confident in this assessment. However, if he's found in motel with a dead hooker and a live boy, or falls out a window, feel free to call me out and rub my noise in it.
I bet on the first option. It's maybe a way of convincing the people that all those topics were opinions of the minority. The protests and therefore resistance might quiet down if enough people think that the average citizen would support the war and Putin in general.
If somebody like him actually runs, it will only happen to gauge public support for peace. He is never going to win, but if he should have won Putin might try to go for a peace deal in Ukraine.
...aaaand he's gone.
Not really unlikely. He's been trying to get on the ballot for years. There's a lot of stuff like this that never makes it on the English speaking Internet. I'm also surprised that he is still alive, but I wish him all the luck in the world
Boris Nadezhdin is a hero. I am deeply saddened by what is about to happen to him.
Conservative governments do not tolerate challengers.
I'm hopeless about this situation either way. i wish the Russian government would once more become a beacon of technology and stand in its own feet instead of trying to find a future in invading other countries. the current path is a path into the medieval times and the result is not wealth. I'm not even pro capitalism, but this is plain unintelligent and wasteful.
A tiny candle in the dark, but it may be blown out any time by the storm that is ravaging this country right now.
This man is controlled opposition, but it might be controlled opposition that has gone a bit too far for the Kremlin. We'll see.
Whatβs the dilemma, which window to throw him out of, how many bullets to use, what?