‘Put him on trial’: pro-Kremlin loyalist turns on Putin in rare outburst
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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.
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.
Stay away from windows, comrade.
And poisonous frogs only found in the Amazon
And walk faster than anyone with an umbrella.
And Don't fly on any planes near Russia airspace.
Or drink tea.
Or touch door handles
Or get pranked by two separate women at the airport.
Or get dust blown in your face.
Don't wear underpants
Don’t drink anything
Unfortunately, VX also works on your face
Apply directly to the forehead.
Or they can shoot you with a poison dart
Oh they will just construct a building around him instead. Just to throw him out.
A very minecraft murder method, I like it.
That's one way to commit suicide, I guess.
"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."
“…yeah major depression. Shame.”
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.
They mentioned that in the the at article as well, and also why it's not likely
The Tzar will fall. Ukraine will be victorious. Russia will be free.
Nah fuk both putin and zelensky
I'd rather not.
But especially putin, right?
Zelensky didn't invade a country and start an illegal war to the detriment of all the countries surrounding it.
Ofcourse
The fuck did Zelensky do to piss people off? Or is this part of the US American fox news school of thought?
Didn't you hear that he hasn't even thanked the USA once?
But what about Russia and Ukraine?
Wish them the best. Ordinary people didn't deserve this
He's been put in psychiatric institution today, reportedly
Does it have Windows?
Nah, all of it runs on Linux
*Gets thrown off Arch
Defenestration incoming.
No, those are usually outgoing.
I stand(in front of a window)corrected.
How did it go? Was he ... Put-in jail? (sorry)
Ignoring the joke, basically yes:
https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-blogger-putin-criticism-remeslo-hospital/33710904.html
"Honey, I'm going window shopping"
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.
Hitting the concrete ground at terminal velocity definitely makes you snap in half
Oof. Touché. lol
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:
Supports a fascist regime enthusiastically for the better part of a decade, cries when the fascist regime discards him.
The sharks are smelling blood.
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.
Holy shit this comment explains a lot.
Is it again that this loyalist just wants the war to go better, not that they want the war not to have happened?
Ah... Following the MTG playbook, eh? Whelp, hope this guy doesn't have a lot of him-sized windows wherever he is.
The regime could collapse any minute now.
Putin found himself in the problem of the intelligentsia, how refreshing.
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.
Mmmm yummy I can taste it now - russia but competent. Imagine the economic possibilities!