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Meanwhile in Estonia... The corruption case against the former mayor of Tallinn (also the former leader of the center party) is going absolutely great. His health is just as bad as they need it to be to delay the hearing. "His blood pressure was over the norm today, better call the ambulance and postpone the trial". He only needs not take his medications and that's a "get out of court for free" pass for the day. The trial has now been postponed until 8th of August. On the first day of the court he was attended by various minions and rear end kissers, who have been losing their former positions. Funny. Meanwhile his party is losing some support because they are trying to pander to both Estonians and Russians at the same time, but even without that they are doing a poo poo job, as is the whole government coalition. They created a new gaping hole in the budget and are now trying to fix it in any way possible, mostly by introducing new taxes. I can't wait until next party popularity polls are out.
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How the gently caress do you link twitter videos and not have it be twitter? Like a direct link to the video?
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Baronjutter posted:How the gently caress do you link twitter videos and not have it be twitter? Like a direct link to the video? By searching for it on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PU7ePd4kPAs edit: so Navalny was arrested before the demonstrations started and he got sentenced to a month in prison only a few days later. We in western countries can only admire the efficiency of the Russian judiciary. Trogdos! fucked around with this message at 19:38 on Jun 14, 2017 |
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Our facade prime minister has (unwittingly?) paraphrased the fourteen words and related them to refugee crisis during yesterday's commemoration of deportation of Polish prisoners to Auschwitz.  
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fatherboxx posted:Putin's annual hotline is wild this year Tfw your shitpost is shown to the entire country.
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https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/875376315637084160 And he was never seen again...
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Brown Moses posted:https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/875376315637084160 Jeeeeesuuuuusss kid, brutal
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I love how Putin just reflexively deflects any legit question by hinting that obviously the kid is some sort of agent. No one can be upset about corruption in russia without there being a foreign agent behind them feeding them these traitorous questions. And the saddest thing is that it works. This kid is going to be labeled unpatriotic, why does he hate russia, how much did they pay him to try to embarrass Putin like that? Do you think there isnt corruption in the west?? What about the iraq war! US are war criminals! Ukraine Junta!
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No kidding. I remember reading an interview with a guy from a drug harm-reduction NGO in Moscow that got officially labeled as a foreign agent because drug addiction isn't a Russian problem. They were forced to label all their stuff to make it clear they were a foreign agent - so they stuck a picture of a cartoon spy in a fedora on their packages.
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Baronjutter posted:I love how Putin just reflexively deflects any legit question by hinting that obviously the kid is some sort of agent. No one can be upset about corruption in russia without there being a foreign agent behind them feeding them these traitorous questions. And the saddest thing is that it works. This kid is going to be labeled unpatriotic, why does he hate russia, how much did they pay him to try to embarrass Putin like that? Do you think there isnt corruption in the west?? What about the iraq war! US are war criminals! Ukraine Junta! Ah, that type of rhetoric should be familiar to most Eastern Europeans. In Serbia we even have a joke about it which is a callback to 90s state propaganda, calling somebody a "Foreign Mercenary and Domestic Traitor"
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Brown Moses posted:https://twitter.com/meduza_en/status/875376315637084160 RIP
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Baronjutter posted:I love how Putin just reflexively deflects any legit question by hinting that obviously the kid is some sort of agent. No one can be upset about corruption in russia without there being a foreign agent behind them feeding them these traitorous questions. And the saddest thing is that it works. This kid is going to be labeled unpatriotic, why does he hate russia, how much did they pay him to try to embarrass Putin like that? Do you think there isnt corruption in the west?? What about the iraq war! US are war criminals! Ukraine Junta! And the kid is not even criticizing Russia itself, nor is he implying that the USA, Europe etc. are somehow better, he's just suggesting maybe Putin is being harmful in some ways. How dare he try to destabilize the internal political situation! Putin often yaps on about how criticism is perfectly allowed as long as it's "legal" and "constructive", well I don't know how much more non-threatening than that it can really get.
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Fabulous Knight posted:And the kid is not even criticizing Russia itself, nor is he implying that the USA, Europe etc. are somehow better, he's just suggesting maybe Putin is being harmful in some ways. How dare he try to destabilize the internal political situation! Putin often yaps on about how criticism is perfectly allowed as long as it's "legal" and "constructive", well I don't know how much more non-threatening than that it can really get. Whataboutism is a hell of a drug basically, Russia pretty much invented it / coined the term no?
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Had it coined about them yeah https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_you_are_lynching_Negroes
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SaltyJesus posted:Ah, that type of rhetoric should be familiar to most Eastern Europeans. In Serbia we even have a joke about it which is a callback to 90s state propaganda, calling somebody a "Foreign Mercenary and Domestic Traitor" Isn't this type of rhetoric a characteristic of basically every dictator ever? Any time a citizen gets uppity or someone speaks out against the beloved leader he must be a western agent! It's on like page 1 of the dictator handbook.
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Charliegrs posted:Isn't this type of rhetoric a characteristic of basically every dictator ever? Any time a citizen gets uppity or someone speaks out against the beloved leader he must be a western agent! It's on like page 1 of the dictator handbook. that's incredibly hosed up to me,
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Charliegrs posted:Isn't this type of rhetoric a characteristic of basically every dictator ever? Any time a citizen gets uppity or someone speaks out against the beloved leader he must be a western agent! It's on like page 1 of the dictator handbook. Yes, and in addition these days the traitors can also be funded by the (((globalists))) or Soros. But that's mostly on the internet. Today I love how Putin called Trump "supreme commander". Wonder if he called Obama that once during his eight years. Maybe it's just the same thing as commander-in-chief.
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https://twitter.com/CITeam_en/status/877152860089323522 Turns out Putin got caught out by some fake news, the version of the video he shared had fake audio dubbed to make it sound Russian https://medium.com/dfrlab/putin-falls-for-fake-news-9d4e50fc1865
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Scaramouche posted:I was hoping it was from Arma https://twitter.com/RussianEmbassy/status/730701444823826432
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Poland's environment minister claims the Bialowieza Forest - a huge stretch of primeval forest on the border of Poland and Belarus as well as home to the largest concentration of European Bison - has been made (in 2014) a UNESCO World Heritage Site illegally. He added that the matter has already been reported to the state prosecution office. Meanwhile, parts of the forest are being cut down, supposedly to combat a bark beetle infestation, while dead trees, necessary to sustain natural processes, are being removed, despite protests of the European Commission and environmentalist groups.
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Tevery Best posted:Poland's environment minister claims the Bialowieza Forest - a huge stretch of primeval forest on the border of Poland and Belarus as well as home to the largest concentration of European Bison - has been made (in 2014) a UNESCO World Heritage Site illegally. He added that the matter has already been reported to the state prosecution office. Meanwhile, parts of the forest are being cut down, supposedly to combat a bark beetle infestation, while dead trees, necessary to sustain natural processes, are being removed, despite protests of the European Commission and environmentalist groups.  Every time I think your medieval government can't go any further into.the stupid, I swear.
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Karmalis posted:When's the next election in Poland again? Any prospects that the situation might change then?
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coal cures cancer Karmalis posted:When's the next election in Poland again? Any prospects that the situation might change then? Late 2019, unless the government successfully sweeps away the last remnants of the old republic by then. And even so I would not expect a fair election. And even if someone else wins, the only way to stop that craziness would be to resurrect Margaret Thatcher and let us borrow her for a couple years. Coal mining unions in Poland are very powerful and effective, and the government sucking up to them is one of the main driving forces of this War on Non-Coal we have here (trust me, Trump's love for coal has nothing on this place). Our energy system is still like 90% coal-fired, while the mines are digging ever deeper for ever less profitable output that is actually too bad to be used in power plants. The system is set up to essentially force power plants to buy lovely, worthless, and overpriced coal from the mines, then store it in huge dumps because they don't want to have anything to do with it. Every couple of years the most bankrupt mines are passed from one government-owned entity to another in an intricate dance of financial speculation to water down their debts and avoid either shutting them down or running afoul of EU law. Essentially the entire country pays for the coal industry to continue generating more and more cost, and if you don't want to play ball, you run afoul of the miners. If you try to renege on your promises or something unexpected happens and forces you to tackle the problem, you run afoul of the miners. And you don't want to do that. Not because they won't vote for you. That will be the least of your problems. Angry miners coming to Warsaw is a scenario any government wants to avoid, because they will gently caress poo poo up. Burning tyres, ripping the pavement off to throw it at the police, always being a step away from a riot. That kind of thing. And I understand where they're coming from. Being a miner is a hard job that's wildly detrimental for your health, but it pays reasonably well, you get a number of benefits, like better and earlier OAP, and there's not much that could compare in the way of jobs in the region. So the miners are sending their kids to become miners. And they don't want their kids to be unemployed, do they? And they don't trust the government to provide them with any other options, because last time they tried it the whole thing ended up being a bunch of handouts that somehow did not result in a thriving and booming economy of small enterprises. Therefore, if a government starts offering a plan to replace mining with something else, they piss off the miners. The miners have their backs to the wall and are willing to gently caress everything up for everybody else if it sustains coal mining as a profession. No government knows or wants to offer a long-term solution, so regardless of the election outcome, this will not change all that much. cinci zoo sniper posted:Polish people might be extinct by then. Polish health resort towns have five times as much harmful benzopyrene in the air as London.
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