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PUTIN: Ah, time to sell all of Gazprom and pocket the proceeds, a thing I, Vladimir Putin, am definitely able to do.
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Plutonis posted:Imagine if someone in the US proposed cutting military spending in half and giving actual wages to people instead lmao. The Russian ethnonationalist is more left wing than the US Dems I guess u could call it National Socialism
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Mar 22, 2018 14:49
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R. Guyovich posted:the "putin is the richest man on earth" line is the dumbest poo poo imaginable Russia has a smaller, shittier economy than California, but it is #1 in causing lovely gringos in the US to flip the gently caress out.
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Mar 22, 2018 15:36
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Frijolero posted:Russia has a smaller, shittier economy than California, but it is #1 in causing lovely gringos in the US to flip the gently caress out. *according to official gdp figures, but enough of russia's economy is black/grey market that if you take that into account russia gdp would be much larger
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Mar 22, 2018 16:56
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putin definitely keeps a tight leash on russia's wealthy elite to add to his political legitimacy, but that doesn't mean he has actual access to their money. if he did, he'd be richer than Bezos, but he doesn't, so he's not
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Mar 22, 2018 20:09
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Typo posted:*according to official gdp figures, but enough of russia's economy is black/grey market that if you take that into account russia gdp would be much larger climate change is also opening more oil/gas exploration
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Mar 22, 2018 20:11
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get that OUT of my face posted:putin definitely keeps a tight leash on russia's wealthy elite to add to his political legitimacy, but that doesn't mean he has actual access to their money. if he did, he'd be richer than Bezos, but he doesn't, so he's not after a point those super high numbers aren’t that meaningful to distinguish. what is available to Putin as a sort of Tsar is much greater than Bezos
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Mar 22, 2018 21:51
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also measuring putin's wealth assumes some kind of anglo-americans notion of property rights in which who owns how much money or how many shares in a company you own is neatly listed on pieces of paper. there's a great line on the mafia: they don't own things: they own people, they own favors they can call in, they own completely ambiguous shares in certain industries that's based on mutual understanding between partners rather than contracts, it is difficult to put that in monetary terms because exactly how much money putin can call in at any given moment is probably unknown even to him
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Mar 22, 2018 23:38
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Typo posted:also measuring putin's wealth assumes some kind of anglo-americans notion of property rights in which who owns how much money or how many shares in a company you own is neatly listed on pieces of paper. this is a cool, longer way to say the same dumb thing the other guy did.
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Mar 23, 2018 02:03
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OldAlias posted:after a point those super high numbers aren’t that meaningful to distinguish. what is available to Putin as a sort of Tsar is much greater than Bezos
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Mar 23, 2018 04:48
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Money is a mcmansion, power is a castle - disgraced actor Kevin Spacey
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Mar 23, 2018 15:12
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R. Guyovich posted:this is a cool, longer way to say the same dumb thing the other guy did. Except hes right and youre just a pedant
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Mar 23, 2018 17:03
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power is ruling the decayed ruins of the shining city on the hill, but so tenuously that you need multiple stooge opponents just so you can remain king of dead conscript mountain, since the average brain damaged krokodil addict could make a more appealing platform
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Mar 24, 2018 11:46
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Bro Dad posted:Except hes right and youre just a pedant no. it's a fundamental misunderstanding of the relationship between the russian government and the oligarchs. get bent
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Mar 25, 2018 03:48
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Typo posted:also measuring putin's wealth assumes some kind of anglo-americans notion of property rights in which who owns how much money or how many shares in a company you own is neatly listed on pieces of paper. Indeed the subhuman slavic "people" that make up the oligarchy of Russia are uniquely different in their use of money/power compared to the noble anglo-american west.
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Mar 25, 2018 05:52
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i would gladly make little Putins with this woman OP
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Mar 25, 2018 17:10
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Frijolero posted:lol R. Guyovich posted:the "putin is the richest man on earth" line is the dumbest poo poo imaginable Would you like to explain why? Nah it's better to just call other people idiots and never give a reason why. That way the rest of us might think you really know what's going on.
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BarronsArtGallery posted:Would you like to explain why? Sir, sir, sir, explain yourself
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