Another sign of rigging is that 2024 election results peaked at round figures, Shukshin wrote. This distribution of results looks like a saw on graphs, which led to the nickname “Putin’s saw.”

    • @anticolonialist
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      The guy polling at 6% was hardly a rival. Several other candidates polled higher.

          • @[email protected]
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            By credible you mean in your favor? All polls favoring Biden around here are viewed as credible and accurate. Anything else is seen likewise.

            You dropped this.

            I especially enjoyed the grammatical errors.

      • JackFrostNCola
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        138 months ago

        Yeah imagine removing a rival that was only actually polling 6%, what a huge threat to your completely legitimate reign…

        • @anticolonialist
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          -138 months ago

          The 6 other candidates were polling way higher

    • @[email protected]
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      -858 months ago

      This is a very dumb comment. The only party who could actually compete with putin was the communist. Navalny didnt get 3%

      • @hoshikarakitaridia
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        448 months ago

        Probably because he was imprisoned. It’s hard to say what his results would have been, but a lot of experts said just by virtue of being the only opponent he could have beat Putin in a fair election.

        • @[email protected]
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          -228 months ago

          This community is very averse to facts, and those “experts” are very stupid. Propaganda is all you feed on

          • @Bernie_Sandals
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            148 months ago

            While they’re definitely wrong in ignoring the communist party’s value as a signal for disliking the regime/as a protest vote, you’re also feeding on propaganda if you think Navalny and his smart voting campaign weren’t a very large movement.

            If Navalny wasn’t a threat to the regime, then Putin wouldn’t have hounded him for a decade.

            • @hoshikarakitaridia
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              28 months ago

              Putin might not have killed him, but he most definitely made him unable to compete in the election one way or the other.

          • @[email protected]
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            68 months ago

            Russian people tend to disagree with you on this one. At least those I’ve met and read the work of.

            A friend put it to me that ‘the death of navalny was so hard because he was the entire face of resistance. Now there isn’t anybody for the people to gather behind.’ (not verbatim at all).

            I agree that .world can be averse to truth, but I think you (and your instance) probably can be too

            • @[email protected]
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              -18 months ago

              I dont think they disagree because thats what the elections result say, you can check for yourself

      • @[email protected]
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        298 months ago

        This is a very dumb comment.

        Proceeds to write a very dumb comment.

        Hey, I appreciate the honesty.

      • @[email protected]
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        158 months ago

        FYI In the last elections he passively participated, he got 27% while Putin’s bitch got 51%.

        And we know that in Russia, the second tour almost always ends up not in the favor of the ruling party.

  • Jaytreeman
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    Guy got 87%.
    You can’t get 87% of people to agree on pizza toppings for the night

    • Billiam
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      408 months ago

      Shit, you can’t get 87% of people to agree they’re all hungry.

    • Flying SquidM
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      198 months ago

      The sad thing is that of that bullshit 87% figure were still people who voted for him and far more than should have. There are way too many Putin sycophants in Russia. I realize it doesn’t help that the media is state-controlled, but it’s amazing what he can get away with and still be worshiped by a significant segment of the population.

      I guess it’s not that much different from Trump.

      • Jaytreeman
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        98 months ago

        (Assuming you’re American)

        Lots of Americans seem to think that state media is a bad thing. Lot’s of countries get it right. Especially after it’s first been implemented.
        I’d often rather have a government (obviously not Russia, China, or in my case Canada) over some oligarch controlling it. Murdoch hasn’t exactly been doing good things wherever he goes

        • Flying SquidM
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          168 months ago

          I am American and I have nothing wrong with some of a country’s media being state-run. The problem comes when it is all state-run. That is the issue in Russia. All the media they consume is an outlet of Putin’s government.

      • @[email protected]
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        08 months ago

        I guess it’s not that much different from Trump.

        It looks completely different from my perspective. Vast majority of Putin’s supporters are quite passive and want to have tomorrow everything they have today. They do not organize into groups themselves, and they are not invested emotionally.

        I’d say that war supporting Z-groups behave much more like Trump supporters. But don’t let yourself to be tricked here, they are 2 distinct groups with not complete intersection

    • @tudor
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      18 months ago

      you can’t get 67% of family members to agree on who goes to the shower first

  • katy ✨
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    218 months ago

    most rigged in russia’s modern history so far

  • @TheJims
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    148 months ago

    This is what republicans want for America and they’re one stolen election away from pulling it off.

    • @anlumo
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      08 months ago

      Doesn’t have to be stolen, it takes one large trip-up by Biden and it’s totally legitimately done.

      Fully supporting the genocide in Gaza nearly did it, but he’s now recovering from that luckily.

  • @jeffw
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    148 months ago

    I feel like the article would’ve been more readable with visual depictions of the vote distributions, instead of just describing them.

  • @[email protected]
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    108 months ago

    I don’t doubt the elections were rigged (mostly in making sure anybody else with a fraction of a chance was imprisoned and murdered before the elections), but the Kyiv Independent might not be the least biased source around.

  • mechoman444
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    98 months ago

    What! Russia is rigging their elections so Putin continues to be elected president?

    NO! Say it ain’t so!

  • @Superfool
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    98 months ago

    I would love to know what the real figures were.

    Could he have won without cheating, or will his ego not even allow a reasonable tally against him?

  • @Daft_ish
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    78 months ago

    ITT: Unabashed Putin sympathizers.

    Take note and do not listen to a word they say.