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I couldn't get 88% of people to agree on which day of the week it was, much less who should be president.
So is the basis of a "true" democracy something like dumber and less vigilant citizens? Or is it more like whatever "civilised West" is at any point in time?
Lol, I think that nobody outside of Russia has any belief that this was a free and fair election. I mean, even if you don't count that Putin imprisoned his political ally and killed him.
Navalny was not killed by Putin. Navalny was not even liked that much in Russia. He had lower votes than approval rate for Biden and Trump. We could talk about Assange, though, if you want to get into that debate.
If he was so unpopular, then why did Putin try to assassinate him, then imprison him on fabricated charges with no intent to ever release him? Why couldn't he just defeat him in a fair election and then ignore him?
- https://www.state.gov/second-anniversary-of-the-poisoning-of-aleksey-navalny/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny#:~:text=Traces%20of%20the%20Novichok%20nerve,other%20undisclosed%20object(s).
- https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/kremlin-critic-alexei-navalny-says-he-has-received-new-criminal-charges-2023-12-01/
- https://www.state.gov/conviction-and-sentencing-of-aleksey-navalny-on-additional-politically-motivated-charges/
- https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/04/europe/navalny-extremism-trial-verdict-russia-intl/index.html
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Are you saying Putin didn't kill him just because he didn't fall out of a window? /s
GOP is just jealous because they have a hard time trying to pull off the same stunt in the US
That's literally all this is. He can fix an election and they can't even really pick their own fuckin candidate.
yet
(Don't ask why they won last time despite getting less votes)
As stupid and fucked up the US elections are, that doesn’t give you the right to do something objectively worse. Shit up.
Edit: I decided to not correct that typo.
upward shit fireworks
Insert Tubgirl.flv
If you don't know, I don't know if I'd suggest looking it up.
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