I can’t imagine a worse insult to a dictator trying to preserve the illusion of free elections in his country than to congratulate him on his landslide victory before the election is even over.
Well done
They don’t give a shit. The elections are for ambitious people in Russia to think “if I’m the next Navalny, I can beat him!”. This illusion stops those ambitious people from an actual revolution and is a huge part of a dictatorship.
You’re right that they don’t give a fuck, but I don’t think the reasoning really runs that deep.
If you have an election, no matter how corrupt or coerced, then any assertion that you’re an autocratic dictator is an “opinion” requiring evidence to support it.
This way, it says democracy on the tin, so everyone will behave as though it is that, despite no one buying it.
I was ready to be snarky, then I realised he said it before the results were known.
Well played sir.
A Luhansk resident voting (Polaris images)
Jesus fuck this is on par with that talk show skit in v for vendetta with the audience clapping with shotguns to their heads. And that was an over-the-top joke.
V for vendetta is typical “English come up with dystopian fantasy, Americans try and make it a reality” fare, like 1984.
Britain is also pretty far on the police state track, if you ask me. It makes sense that these novels are from there. How they are criminalising public protest, journalism (hi Assange!), etc. They don’t realize that “see it, say it, sorted” is creepy as hell like it was lifted straight from 1984
Did we watch the same movie? Or read the same comic? From its wiki:
“V for Vendetta is a British graphic novel written by Alan Moore and illustrated by David Lloyd (with additional art by Tony Weare). Initially published between 1982 and 1985 in black and white as an ongoing serial in the British anthology Warrior, its serialization was completed in 1988–89 in a ten-issue colour limited series published by DC Comics in the United States.”
It was british in the comic…
Plot summary of movie?
“Following world war, London is a police state occupied by a fascist government, and a vigilante known only as V (Hugo Weaving) uses terrorist tactics to fight the oppressors of the world in which he now lives. …”
British in the movie.
Now, to be fair, the screenplay was written by 2 Americans who loved the comic and it was directed by an Australian. Your downvotes are coming from you jumping onto the “amerikkka bad” train without any real connection here.
Not where I found it, but it has a snopes page: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/voting-in-russias-2024-election/
And good for you for being critical. Misinformation is everywhere, don’t believe what you see on the internet
Warms my heart how well Russia protects and looks after her new citizens during the act of voting.
Just look at this pic: If she were to make an error with her vote, those officials can point it out and correct her on time, before the ballot disappears in the ballot box. And if she happens to be an enemy of the state, she can be dealt with immediately before she has a chance of attacking the Russian democracy.
Shows you that Putin really does care in a way western leaders don’t.
How does the voting process work there? That pic looks like it’s just signing that you voted
The voting process is that all other serious contenders are thrown in prison and/or killed, international observers aren’t safe to verify the result, protests are forbidden, armed soldiers go door to door, and nobody trusts the secrecy of the vote
Have you noticed there’s an armed soldier inside the voting station?
Yes I haven’t seen the very visible soldier
Circlejerk so powerful asking a question is seen as being fucking blind now apparently
there’s a box in background, and they did actually go house to house irrc.
I heard he’s projected to get 110% of the vote this time.
Who said belgium/eu had no balls haha. If he really said that, im surprised by charles michel haha
