• Diplomjodler
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      Executions will continue until GDP improves.

  • Nougat
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    That window just jumped right out in front of her!

  • @[email protected]
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    That line…

    “She fell out of the window of her apartment, unfortunately, it was not possible to save her, the injuries she received were incompatible with life,” the source said.

    • @[email protected]
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      That caught my eye too and made me laugh. I’m guessing it was something lost in translation.

      • @Etterra
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        More likely she braced her fall with her skull, but her neck muscles were inadequate to the task of keeping her alive. I think Russians need to start putting in cybernetic shock absorbers.

        • @[email protected]
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          I just wanted to give an example of an injury incompatible with life. /u/[email protected] thankfully linked the Wikipedia article onto the definition of the fixed term. From the linked Wikipedia article total body disruption might be a possible trauma caused by

          a fall at terminal velocity onto a solid surface or water [.]

          The injury you suggested probably doesn’t count yet, as it’s not ‘evident’ enough to be incompatible with life.

  • BombOmOm
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    She must not have said the sweet nothings Putin wanted to hear.

  • Blackout
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    Every time I’m near a window I look behind me to make sure a Russian is not there.

    • @saltesc
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      Just say “Wow. Putin sure is a swell guy.” before you approach.

  • Echo Dot
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    So is Russia’s plan at this point just to kill everyone in their country very very slowly?

    • @ikidd
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      They just have to be unpredictable and unexpected. The idea is to have everyone terrified at all times. That is the most efficient scenario for control, as you don’t have to police actual rules if the rules are made up and the consequences are lethal.

      This is pretty typical in totalitarian terrorist governments like Russia, NK and past dictatorships like Cambodia, Libya, Chile and Uganda.

      • partial_accumen
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        The idea is to have everyone terrified at all times. That is the most efficient scenario for control, as you don’t have to police actual rules if the rules are made up and the consequences are lethal.

        Doesn’t this method have diminishing returns? As soon as the populace believes anything and everything will get them killed by the state, there’s nothing preventing the populous from rising against the state because they have nothing to lose.

        • @ikidd
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          There’s a balancing point. Most people aren’t really able to process the idea of “they came for my neighbor and I said nothing” and do something about it.

          • partial_accumen
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            Perhaps, but eventually one member of nearly every family will have been “came for”. At that point it ceases to be a theoretical exercise and becomes a practical reality.

    • @kautau
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      Putin’s plan, and anyone who supports him, but yeah. This is the look of a fascist nation, just kill off anyone who opposes you as the world slowly unifies against your actions until someone in your country kills you, or those you’ve wronged reach your doorstep and you kill yourself. Granted not all fascist nations end up like this, often they have years of terrible reign for their people, it generally only changes when they decide they need more land

  • @Etterra
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    They need to spice these up, it’s getting repetitive. How about “Pavement suddenly accelerates upwards, killing top Russian economist; police blame window.”

  • @saltesc
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    It’s a pandemic at this point.

  • @[email protected]
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    Except for children and the elderly, fatal falls from windows are not all that common it would seem. Most places.

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    Did windows/defenestration shit ever happen in Ukraine like before all the current stuff?

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        I know, I’m asking if this kinda thing was ever occurring in Ukraine prior to the war (people falling out of windows). It seems incredibly Russian

        • Echo Dot
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          The USSR were high on assassinations of their own people if that’s what you’re asking. Obviously it’s not a brilliant strategy because it just means that the people who are the most talented are going to not want to rise to the top or going to want to the rise to the top in other countries.

          It’s ultimately self-defeating, which of course is why only Putin thinks it’s a swell idea.

        • @Pardal
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          Is it, or was it before the war? In Ukraine, like you’re asking?

      • AmidFuror
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        It’s tangential to the war in Ukraine. Russia has been accused recently of reporting false economic numbers to hide the war’s impact.

        • @[email protected]
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          Agreed, Putin is worried about support at home and also needs people abroad to think Russia is strong and can continue the Kremlin’s barbaric war. The economist didn’t want to cook the books like Putin suggested, so they were murdered.