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Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars

RedSnapper posted:

Yes, he has a mindblowing number of fans, mostly in the under-20, male demographic, but also actual women.
I don't get it, in my country, youth is also attracted to most idiotic parties or politicians (ok, second most popular party among them is semi-decent, but whatever). And why would women like someone who considers them to be inferior?

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Tevery Best
Oct 11, 2013

Hewlo Furriend

RedSnapper posted:

His party would have to ever make a headline for that. Seriously, I try to keep up with domestic politics and I can't even tell what they're called at the moment (they change names on what seems to be quarterly basis).

It's not that they change names, he just keeps getting kicked out. Right now, his party is called "Koalicja Odnowy Rzeczypospolitej Wolność i Nadzieja" (Coalition to Renew the Republic "Freedom and Hope"). Or, in short, KORWiN.

A Buttery Pastry
Sep 4, 2011

Delicious and Informative!
:3:

Dwesa posted:

I don't get it, in my country, youth is also attracted to most idiotic parties or politicians (ok, second most popular party among them is semi-decent, but whatever). And why would women like someone who considers them to be inferior?
Mass negging is a powerful tool of seduction.

Cat Mattress
Jul 14, 2012

by Cyrano4747

Dwesa posted:

And why would women like someone who considers them to be inferior?

Same reason why young women would convert to Daesh's brand of Islam and go to a warzone to become a brute's sex slave. Some people just want to be subservient I guess.

TheDeadlyShoe
Feb 14, 2014

* at least in that case, you know your place, and you don't have to find your own place.

* it's part of how you express your identity as a person of faith

* emulating your chosen role models for how you've grown up thinking life is meant to be lived

* you don't think you personally suffer from the poor atittude in question.

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!
Janusz ft. Yoko - The European is the friend of the family of Europe

Guildencrantz
May 1, 2012

IM ONE OF THE GOOD ONES

Tevery Best posted:

It's not that they change names, he just keeps getting kicked out. Right now, his party is called "Koalicja Odnowy Rzeczypospolitej Wolność i Nadzieja" (Coalition to Renew the Republic "Freedom and Hope"). Or, in short, KORWiN.

Actually they recently changed the name. Now the name of the party is "Wolność" (Freedom) because of an apparently spontaneous vote at the party congress.

IIRC though, due to either brand recognition or an amazing clerical oversight, the new name still officially abbreviates to KORWiN. :allears:

RedSnapper
Nov 22, 2016

Dwesa posted:

And why would women like someone who considers them to be inferior?

I actually dated a JKM fan a couple years ago (for about two months). She was a makeup artist who hated her career (that she spent a few years learning in an actual makeup school) for forcing her into creative thinking. When I asked her that exact question she answered with an "I don't wanna talk about that" which was her go to answer whenever faced with a question that required a modicum of self-reflection.
She used to ba an active party member but she quit after they offered her a place on a voting list.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless
Big protests against corruption in Russia, Navalny arrested. Water wet.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Volkerball posted:

Big protests against corruption in Russia, Navalny arrested. Water wet.

Sadly yes, last time anti corruption protests went on, he came out as a passive observer with his entire family, and all of them got a police "escort". Also, the anti corruption initiatives are getting outright shitcanned by FSB et al.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
Russian opposition's weaponised memes


Dimon (diminutive of Dmitry, as in Medvedev). Enough with the stealing. Or I'll nom your ear.


They call you the future of this country
@
Also tell you to stay away from politics
@
You build your own country on Mars

It's kind of funny that Russian imageboard dwellers share their love of memes and edgy humour with American alt-righters from /pol/, but their concerns about corruption and suppression of freedoms are much more warranted, so they are the 'good guys' for the time being.

E: bonus Navalny cosplay

Paladinus fucked around with this message at 15:37 on Jun 12, 2017

Qtotonibudinibudet
Nov 7, 2011



Omich poluyobok, skazhi ty narkoman? ya prosto tozhe gde to tam zhivu, mogli by vmeste uyobyvat' narkotiki
Protest streams are fun. People are very excited when an ОМОН train swoops in to arrest somebody. Lots of ВАГОН! ВАГОН! chants as people are carried off into the waiting police vans.

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!

Paladinus posted:

Russian opposition's weaponised memes


Dimon (diminutive of Dmitry, as in Medvedev). Enough with the stealing. Or I'll nom your ear.

Can't we all just unite to stop Japan from exporting anime into other people's pop cultures?

Grouchio
Aug 31, 2014

SaltyJesus posted:

Can't we all just unite to stop Japan from exporting anime into other people's pop cultures?
I would consider that blasphemous.

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Excerpt from another Levada's poll:
Top 5 Russia's friends (desc): Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Syria, India.
Top 5 Russia's enemies (desc): USA, Ukraine, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania.

Scaramouche
Mar 26, 2001

SPACE FACE! SPACE FACE!

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Excerpt from another Levada's poll:
Top 5 Russia's friends (desc): Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Syria, India.
Top 5 Russia's enemies (desc): USA, Ukraine, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania.

Everyone always forgets about Canada...

cinci zoo sniper
Mar 15, 2013




Scaramouche posted:

Everyone always forgets about Canada...
Canada is friend #39 (1%) and enemy #14 (3%).

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy

SaltyJesus posted:

Can't we all just unite to stop Japan from exporting anime into other people's pop cultures?

Same, but with united states culture

SaltyJesus
Jun 2, 2011

Arf!

Truga posted:

united states culture

What? :confused:

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
my point exactly

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars
You can grow it in Petri dish.

Volkerball
Oct 15, 2009

by FactsAreUseless

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Excerpt from another Levada's poll:
Top 5 Russia's friends (desc): Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Syria, India.
Top 5 Russia's enemies (desc): USA, Ukraine, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania.

Rip you.

Aumanor
Nov 9, 2012

cinci zoo sniper posted:

Excerpt from another Levada's poll:
Top 5 Russia's friends (desc): Belarus, China, Kazakhstan, Syria, India.
Top 5 Russia's enemies (desc): USA, Ukraine, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania.

Awww, Poland didn't make it into top five enemies. How close were we?

Rogue AI Goddess
May 10, 2012

I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

Aumanor posted:

Awww, Poland didn't make it into top five enemies. How close were we?
Sixth.

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars

Aumanor posted:

Awww, Poland didn't make it into top five enemies. How close were we?
6th

Dwesa
Jul 19, 2016

Maybe I'll go where I can see stars
-deleted, wrong post

Fabulous Knight
Nov 11, 2011
Russia absolutely hating and detesting the Baltic states, collective population a bit over 5 million, will never stop being hilarious and terrifying. Can Russia hold back the existential threat that is Estonia?

Aumanor
Nov 9, 2012

Dang, we were so close. Curse you, Lithuania!

anilEhilated
Feb 17, 2014

But I say fuck the rain.

Grimey Drawer

Aumanor posted:

Awww, Poland didn't make it into top five enemies. How close were we?
Curiously enough, most of Russia's enemies seem to be countries that dare share a border with it. So you're pretty close. Couple years at most.

Zudgemud
Mar 1, 2009
Grimey Drawer

Fabulous Knight posted:

Russia absolutely hating and detesting the Baltic states, collective population a bit over 5 million, will never stop being hilarious and terrifying. Can Russia hold back the existential threat that is Estonia?

They are on the poo poo list as even after everything Russia has done for those people they are treacherous and invited NATO to the border of the Russian heartland.

Basically the same feeling you would get as Americans if a Native American Reserve managed to declare independence and enthusiastically entered a defense pact with Russia. Also the US army would need to be 20x smaller and the Indian Reserve would need to be right next to New York...

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

Which explains why many of those states on the border who didn't join NATO ended up with Russian backed frozen conflicts (many of which predate NATO membership in Eastern Europe) or straight up invasion and annexation.

If only Ukraine hadn't joined NATO they could have avoided everything!

Warbadger fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Jun 13, 2017

pigdog
Apr 23, 2004

by Smythe

Zudgemud posted:

They are on the poo poo list as even after everything Russia has done for those people they are treacherous and invited NATO to the border of the Russian heartland.

Basically the same feeling you would get as Americans if a Native American Reserve managed to declare independence and enthusiastically entered a defense pact with Russia. Also the US army would need to be 20x smaller and the Indian Reserve would need to be right next to New York...

I literally can't tell if you're being serious.

fatherboxx
Mar 25, 2013

Zudgemud posted:

They are on the poo poo list as even after everything Russia has done for those people they are treacherous and invited NATO to the border of the Russian heartland.

Basically the same feeling you would get as Americans if a Native American Reserve managed to declare independence and enthusiastically entered a defense pact with Russia. Also the US army would need to be 20x smaller and the Indian Reserve would need to be right next to New York...

Cool, by drawing the parallel with nations that have endured genocide you cast Baltics in a very positive light, thank you!
"border of the heartland" :wtc:

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
To protect the precious Heartland, Russia rightfully deserves a ring of buffer states. And it needs a second tier of buffer territories to protect the buffer states from foreign malice. And it needs additional buffer zones to protect the integrity of the previous buffer zones. As you can see, it is wholly reasonable to proclaim all of the Solar system Russian clay, not due to imperial ambitions, but for the sake of self-defense.

steinrokkan
Apr 2, 2011



Soiled Meat
Imagine if a former British colony existed as an independent country next to the US - that would obviously not be possible, since those people are innately mortal enemies who must dominate one another and can never live in peace.

Paladinus
Jan 11, 2014

heyHEYYYY!!!
Canada's won its war against America. There's nothing left to prove there.

Truga
May 4, 2014
Lipstick Apathy
https://twitter.com/BBCSteveR/status/874547267642028032

is this the real life?

Warbadger
Jun 17, 2006

Paladinus posted:

Canada's won its war against America. There's nothing left to prove there.

In Russia-lingo this translates to Canada being a nation of bloodthirsty invaders and any hostility against them is forever justified.

Rogue AI Goddess
May 10, 2012

I enjoy the sight of humans on their knees.
That was a joke... unless..?

Truga posted:

is this the real life?
Apparently there are now more people in Russia who have been arrested for protesting against corruption than those arrested for said corruption.

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Zudgemud
Mar 1, 2009
Grimey Drawer

pigdog posted:

I literally can't tell if you're being serious.

First paragraph is me trying to channel my best Russian nationalist interpretation. Second paragraph is me trying to picture a scenario where American nationalists would react similarly. Which is really dumb as it's totally different geography, history and premise, but I tried anyway v:v:v


fatherboxx posted:

"border of the heartland" :wtc:

The only cities that exist in Russia is St Petersburg and Moscow.

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