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People in Russia are trying to protest the war, and are being met with state violence and arrest. Abolition of protests is using COVID as an excuse.
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Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,007 posts)Probatim
(2,529 posts)prove self-defense, and fudging COVID numbers. This is shit straight out of fascist regimes.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)quakerboy
(13,920 posts)Putin is ruling a country and the GOP are following instructions.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)quakerboy
(13,920 posts)They are willing lapdogs to ANYONE willing to pad their pockets and indulge their racist dreams. Putin just happens to fit the bill at the moment.
Irish_Dem
(47,131 posts)And would sell their own grandmothers.
FoxNewsSucks
(10,434 posts)you can run over BLACK protesters, LIBERAL protesters and "DEMOCRAT" protesters.
I'll bet that law won't apply if someone mowed down a few MAGAts
You so much as ASK a RWNJ to please be quiet, and you're accused of "cancel culture" and likely to get shot.
Tommy Carcetti
(43,182 posts)Mind boggling.
It's time for another Russian Revolution. Hopefully this one will bring democracy.
The Magistrate
(95,247 posts)They know what will be done to them.
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,034 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)To the tune of Rawhide keeps runnin thru my brain.
ancianita
(36,091 posts)analogy, about being right twice a day.
Not defending them, but thinking maybe someone didn't ask why they thought that, I don't know; so, assuming they explained or didn't, it's still worth figuring why they might have said that.
Imo, many humans want to believe there can be such a thing as more-or-less democracies -- from those that 'upgrade' contract tracing apps to surveillance use, and jail, assassinate, or 'disappear' dissidents; to those that hold fake elections with fake or no opposition, with compliant media; to those that hold regular free and fair elections whether some media are truthful or not.
quakerboy
(13,920 posts)to get the message out and stir as much doubt as possible in places like this.
ChazII
(6,205 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)world wide wally
(21,744 posts)Eh, Donald?
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)... think he'd invade the WHOLE DAMN COUNTRY
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geardaddy
(24,931 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)The political scientist Gleb O. Pavlovsky, a close adviser to Mr. Putin until falling out with him in 2011, said he was stunned by the presidents dark description of Ukraine as a dire threat to Russia in his hourlong speech to the nation on Monday.
I have no clue where he got all that he seems to be reading something totally strange, Mr. Pavlovsky said. Hes become an isolated man, more isolated than Stalin was.
oldsoftie
(12,555 posts)Hekate
(90,714 posts)
on the spot?
Psychopath Putin was spawned and raised in a KGB bunker, so to speak. Hes old-style.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)a mind bubble.
dchill
(38,505 posts)... they were neither ruling nor elite.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Multiple government websites including the Kremlin and the State Duma are now offline.
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WOW. Look at the size of anti-war protestors in St Petersburg.
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Liberal In Texas
(13,556 posts)But it would probably take military leaders to remove him.
KS Toronado
(17,259 posts)who could help him "accidentally" fall out of a 20 story window......KARMA
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)ffr
(22,670 posts)We have it. They don't.
They only know threats and intimidation. They was us to go silently into the night.
We will not go down without a fight! It's in our creed, ingrained in our souls as we yearn to be free from oppression.
RESIST!
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Norbert
(6,040 posts)Just saying.
Hekate
(90,714 posts)spanone
(135,844 posts)L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)HTF can I get my hidden assets out of Russia now?
Should have placed all that tax evasion money in the Caymans!
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)Getting their asses kicked.
But the day the jackboots come after them, they'll cry a river and never admit they had signed away their own freedoms at the same time.
RussBLib
(9,020 posts)instantly I suspect hackers.
Hey, if a sizeable number of Americans are pro-Putin, some of them could be hackers ready to cause mayhem.
dchill
(38,505 posts)Heartbreaking to know what will happen to them for doing it.
Botany
(70,516 posts)Good Americans and the people of the world will stand with these brave Russian Patriots. I hope this will be like the fall of communism in the late 1980s in Eastern Europe after a while the military and the police will join with the people.
From the Civil Rights Days. They can't arrest all of us.