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The Putin Gang seems to rely heavily on fake election results. Simply need to reverse-corrupt the small group of individuals that collate the ballots and the sm

The Putin Gang seems to rely heavily on fake election results. Simply need to reverse-corrupt the small group of individuals that collate the ballots and the small group of media bosses who disseminate the results. That might be a start.

Const-me 6y ago
> Simply need to reverse-corrupt the small group of individuals that collate the ballots On the lowest level, all school teachers are involved. On the highest level there’s central election committee, these people aren’t just doing that for money, pretty sure their lives are at stake too. The system’s redundant, any of these levels is enough to falsify the results. I remember a screenshot from national TV where percent of votes cast added up to 146%. They later explained it was a technical error. > and the small group of media bosses Too late, almost no independent media are left there. These media bosses are all Putin’s people. Officially, all major media is state-controlled media, including so-called “opposition” media. > That might be a start. Will cause no changes until majority of people gonna support an armed revolt. Not sure that’s going to happen, ever. People don’t believe in democracy, don’t believe they can change anything, and were forced to comply to corrupt authorities for centuries now. Here’s a short story from 19-th century to illustrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumu_(Turgenev)#Plot_summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumu_(Turgenev)#Plot_summary be sure to check “prototypes” section. A recent illustration, couple days ago an editor of a local independent newspaper in a city 400km away from Moscow publicly set herself on fire, and died after another episode of years-long political repressions. The 47 years old lady left a suicide note on facebook saying “Russian federation is responsible for my death”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Slavina_(editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Slavina_(editor) In Tunisia in 2011, similar event started a revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi In Russia in 2020, this changed nothing.
- satisfaction 6y ago
  Then just give up and spread your cheeks forever.
  - Const-me 6y ago
    Fortunately, that was not the only option. Another one was give up and GTFO. Which I did. BTW, more than 50% of my classmates and ex-colleagues did that, and more than 50% of these who did are working in FAANG companies. Probably due to legal stuff, i.e. larger companies have better immigration lawyers.

Const-me 6y ago

> Simply need to reverse-corrupt the small group of individuals that collate the ballots On the lowest level, all school teachers are involved. On the highest level there’s central election committee, these people aren’t just doing that for money, pretty sure their lives are at stake too. The system’s redundant, any of these levels is enough to falsify the results. I remember a screenshot from national TV where percent of votes cast added up to 146%. They later explained it was a technical error. > and the small group of media bosses Too late, almost no independent media are left there. These media bosses are all Putin’s people. Officially, all major media is state-controlled media, including so-called “opposition” media. > That might be a start. Will cause no changes until majority of people gonna support an armed revolt. Not sure that’s going to happen, ever. People don’t believe in democracy, don’t believe they can change anything, and were forced to comply to corrupt authorities for centuries now. Here’s a short story from 19-th century to illustrate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumu_(Turgenev)#Plot_summary https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumu_(Turgenev)#Plot_summary be sure to check “prototypes” section. A recent illustration, couple days ago an editor of a local independent newspaper in a city 400km away from Moscow publicly set herself on fire, and died after another episode of years-long political repressions. The 47 years old lady left a suicide note on facebook saying “Russian federation is responsible for my death”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Slavina_(editor) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irina_Slavina_(editor) In Tunisia in 2011, similar event started a revolution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohamed_Bouazizi In Russia in 2020, this changed nothing.

satisfaction 6y ago
Then just give up and spread your cheeks forever.
- Const-me 6y ago
  Fortunately, that was not the only option. Another one was give up and GTFO. Which I did. BTW, more than 50% of my classmates and ex-colleagues did that, and more than 50% of these who did are working in FAANG companies. Probably due to legal stuff, i.e. larger companies have better immigration lawyers.