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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

This is stability that long-term planners appreciate.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Election, my arse 🤦🏻‍♂️

[–] [email protected] 132 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

88? I can't believe that, with all these candidates!

88?? I can't believe that, with all these candidates!!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Managed Democracy carefully selected the best candidate for each citizen to vote for. According to the best algorithms.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

My 127% prediction can still be realized. The 400k+ votes from ~~the~~ Ukraine still need to come in. That has some delay as not all registered voters have been identified...

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

His main electoral base is as old as him though, mostly.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You really think they bothered to count the votes

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

they opened up an rng, had it gen a number 60-100, called it a day

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He would have lost his mind if it landed in the 60s or 70s range. Had to have been 85-100 to show a dominant win.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

would have shot the guy who pressed the generate button lol

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Isn't this a failure? He didn't have any real opposition, 88% is an abysmal result.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Say you're a dictator without saying you're a dictator

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Elections? Where we're going we don't need elections.

Now let's get this post soviet sham of a democracy up to 88 miles per hour.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

12% of the population will fall from some window??

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The link wasn't working but I found what I think is being shared.

Neo-Nazis also employ various number symbols:

18, code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1, H = 8.[11]

88, code for "Heil Hitler", a phrase used in the Nazi salute.[12] Also used as a reference to the "88 Precepts", a manifesto written by white supremacist David Lane.

14, from the Fourteen Words coined by David Lane: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."[13]

14 and 88 are sometimes combined with each other (i.e. 14/88, 8814, 1488).[14] They are also sometimes depicted on dice.[15]

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[–] [email protected] 235 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Have they voted yet, or is 88% what they decided the result is going to be?

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If he's going to lie he should lie big, like his pal in North Korea. Tell everyone he won with 189% of the total votes. Nobody outside his cult is going to believe him either way.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Makes it easier for those liking Russia to pretend though. I think that's the point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It's also polling for the government to give an idea of public sentiment.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (1 children)

12% had an unfortunate accident after their exit poll.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure I can take exit poll comrade. But question first, why is poll conducted near vindow?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

is for fresh air comrade. now please, take poll

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago (7 children)

when do you get to call a dictator a dictator? when he stops with the pretend elections?

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't think you have to wait.

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Vladimir Putin tightened his grip on power, claiming another six-year term as Russian president after a brutally distorted election in which all serious challengers were wiped out before voting began.

The result more than met the objective of an overwhelming victory to buttress Putin’s claim that Russians wholeheartedly back their leader and his invasion of Ukraine.

The election campaign, which saw three other candidates refrain from criticizing the president, was overshadowed by the death last month of Putin’s key opponent, Alexei Navalny.

Unusually large crowds were seen at polling stations across Russia, from the smallest Siberian towns to Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as at Russian embassies and consulates worldwide — from Phuket to Paris and Brussels.

“This is a great opportunity to create the appearance that there are people who are not satisfied with the current state of affairs, who are willing to unite for collective action, and there are many of them,” — said Daniel, who voted in the Russian consulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Ekaterina Duntsova and Boris Nadezhdin — two potential candidates who advocated for immediate peace negotiations and an end to the war — were barred from running against Putin in the contest.


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