Temporarily occupied Ukraine encouraged to vote in Russian election by armed men

shapesandstuff, 2 months ago

Local man encouraged to donate liquid assets to community by masked men in his house at 3am.

boredtortoise, 2 months ago

USA: vote for either of these rich old men

China: these rich old men will vote for each other

Russia: neighbor, vote for our rich old man or we will shoot you

veroxii, 2 months ago

Australia: voting is compulsory, but you can just draw a dick on the ballot if you want.

boredtortoise, 2 months ago

Europe: vote in a bazillion different levels of governance and still it’s the same old rich people who decide what happens

Dasus, 2 months ago

Well technically, since the US has the electoral college, the US is what you wrote down is China.

But that aside, one of Chomsky’s books or something from the 80’s discussed exactly that difference. Or was it Slavoj Zizek? Anyway.

How in the US, there’s an illusion of choice, but how in Russia, there’s only the one option. Both Americans and Russians have equally much agency, but the Americans want to believe it isn’t true for them, whereas Russians are bored of pretending it’s not true for them.

Or something. Memory fails.

Burn_The_Right, 2 months ago

“Encouraged”?!

Reporters need to grow a fucking spine. They are being threatened into voting… And voting for Putin.