Putin wins the election!!!!

[Uzkin]

There's a sizable number of Russians who fled from USSR. Why they'd cheer at Putin however....No idea whatsoever. Maybe they made a wrong choice in not staying.

Hmm... you may be experiencing cognitive dissonance, here. Don't worry, such a condition often happens when a person holds contradictory beliefs: it's nothing a good exercise of contemplative, objective meta-cognition cannot cure. The problem, of course, is that the state of cognitive dissonance is often caused by lack of objectiveness in the first place, causing such an exercise to easily fail -- if attempted at all.

- - - Updated - - -

Pot calls the kettle black. Putin and his pet lackey Medvedev should be spending eternity in jail for everything they stole. Medvedev is so hilariously corrupt that not even your stock vatnik would consider him clean.

Eventually they both will get strung up by the balls posthumously or maybe even while they are alive and instead of them another corrupt bunch will come and then another... It's how Russia works for hundreds of years, give plebs a living icon to pray at and they will be happy swimming in their own shit.

Hey, I'm not claiming Russian politicians are saints. Just exposing ppl's double standards. In fact, I quoted someone's message almost verbatim.

[Deleted]

Would've been funny if world leaders congratulated him on winning the day before the election

[TwistedSkull]

So is the turn out gonna be 102%, don't wanna over do it.

[alexw]

All hail the aging dictator! lol

This is gonna go reaaaaaaaal well.

At least the music will be good.

[JohnBrown1917]

As if there was ever any doubt. Problem with Russia is there are no viable candidates. That is caused by everyone joining into one big party, the only people not in that party are either western shills or commies.

Also I wonder why there is no coverage in western media about Ukraine using military to completely block Russian embassy to prevent all Russian living in Ukraine from voting. Ukraine is now such a pinnacle of democracy, totally not a corrupt shithole, right?

I don't see anything wrong with not helping that shithole.

[Deleted]

Still, it's nice to see the resident russophobes being butthurt about this. Carry on.

Funny, coming from a Fin. You might want to consider buying a local history book.

[Uzkin]

Funny, coming from a Fin. You might want to consider buying a local history book.

"Countries X and Y have been at war at some point in their history. Countries X and Y should be enemies forever."

Is that what you wish to imply?

[zmp]

Did Novichok hackers that took down the Florida bridge, interfere in the election?

[zorkuus]

"Countries X and Y have been at war at some point in their history. Countries X and Y should be enemies forever."

Is that what you wish to imply?

Who said anything about being enemies? When your neighbor elects an autocrat time and time again a healthy dose of scepticism doesn't hurt.

[Bakis]

Who said anything about being enemies? When your neighbor elects an autocrat time and time again a healthy dose of scepticism doesn't hurt.

Dont waste your breath on the kid with a Che t-shirt.

[zorkuus]

Dont waste your breath on the kid with a Che t-shirt.

Russia is far right these days so it isn't so clear cut anymore who sides with them.

[Uzkin]

Dont waste your breath on the kid with a Che t-shirt.

Aww, you're so cute. I'll add "clueless arrogance" to the list of the defining traits I mentioned earlier.

- - - Updated - - -

Who said anything about being enemies? When your neighbor elects an autocrat time and time again a healthy dose of scepticism doesn't hurt.

I said, in a question.

[Tailswipe]

Did Putin even have any political rivals to contend with? I figured he would have assassinated them all by now.

Hopefully the Y'all-Qaeda types go back to their caves once half of the world gets over its edgy fascist fad.

The main opposition guy was disqualified before the elections began.

[Gaidax]

Hey, I'm not claiming Russian politicians are saints. Just exposing ppl's double standards. In fact, I quoted someone's message almost verbatim.

The problem is unevenness - Putin and Medvedev have financial crimes piling up sky high, yet nobody bars them from election. They are not convicted? Paint me surprised, you don't get convicted when you are the justice and the judge.

But really, it is the usual Russian story and by extent the story of that region - almost all ex-USSR republics have corruption ingrained in them as a culture, there is maybe on ex-USSR republic so far that seems to be making real progress at eliminating this disease... and no, in case someone asks - it's not Ukraine - Ukraine is literally a failed state, a banana republic where everything and everyone can be bought and sold.

[zorkuus]

I said, in a question.

So none of us did then. Glad we sorted that one out. What was your point again? An attempt at strawman?

[Bdatik]

Moscow (AFP) - Russian opposition activists and an NGO on Sunday reported ballot stuffing and multiple voting during the presidential election which is set to see Vladimir Putin win a fourth Kremlin term.

The non-governmental election monitor Golos, which publishes a list of fraud cases online, by early afternoon had counted 1,764 irregularities, including observers prevented from carrying out their work.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/oppositio...114556222.html

Early returns showed Putin receiving 72.1 percent of the vote with 22.6 percent of the ballots counted, according to the Central Elections Commission. The runner up was Communist Party candidate Pavel Grudinin with 15.6 percent.
:
At 6 p.m. Moscow time, Russia’s Central Election Commission said, nationwide turnout stood at 59.9 percent — just above the level in the 2012 election at that time.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world...=.3d991946ffa7

[JohnBrown1917]

Funny, coming from a Fin. You might want to consider buying a local history book.

Even tho Russia is responsible for MH17, we still got a ton of people here who love the Russian regime.
No idea why.

[Uzkin]

So none of us did then. Glad we sorted that one out. What was your point again? An attempt at strawman?

Here's a wiki link you might find useful if you're still confused:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Question

I guess you're not Myz's second account? Then you might also want to pay attention to the fact that the question was not for you.

[Draco-Onis]

I wonder why they even bother holding elections no one takes it seriously may as well say he won with 100% of the vote and leave the poor people of Russia alone.

[zorkuus]

I wonder why they even bother holding elections no one takes it seriously

Their own people might. When the abnormal is seen year after year it becomes normal.