Russian President Vladimir Putin can choose not to hold presidential elections next year because he will “obviously” win re-election, Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said late Sunday.

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That he will win them is indeed obvious. Since there have not been fair elections in Russia for quite some time, one cannot expect these to be fair.

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Also, any relevant opposition tends to end up poisoned or jailed or both.

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Hey now, windows and balconies were doing the heavy lifting (dropping?) earlier this year. Must have been a shortage in poison due to the embargos.

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Not having elections would make it more transparent to what is going on though. It should not be in Putin’s favour to just stop having them. Maybe he can’t afford the bill of having one this time.

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What transparency do you want after all those jailings and murders?

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There is also the added cost of rigging all those machines and stuffing the ballot boxes.

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There it is folks.

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I’m surprised he waited so long, honestly. all this tip-toeing around rigged elections and shoving his political opponents out of windows into cups of polonium tea is lot of work for a guy who has to shop for gigantic conference tables all day and poop into a collection bag for his secret service guys to catalogue for whatever reason. when you combine all of that with his busy schedule of genociding Ukranians, well… obviously, one of those activities will to have to go. an evil autarch has only so much time in the day!

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I think at this moment, there could be protests even with a rigged election. Take away the election entirely and maybe it’s a lower chance of protests. No opposition to galvanize around, etc.

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Kind of hard to be sarcastic when thinking about that

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Cataloguing bags of shit?

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Sauce?

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That’s when they stop pretending.

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republicans creaming their pants rn.

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They’re taking notes!

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Fucking lmaooo

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They forgot to step one though. Have someone in your ranks with more brains than a fruit fly.

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It would be a “technical violation” of constitution, which apparently is not a crime.

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Special election operation

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These people loves rules and laws, except of course if it applies to them.

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I think I understood that this was a reference to that other, very free country (the freeestest of all), where that previous president did…things.

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He has achieved conservatism’s natural final form of “leadership”.

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