• MushuChupacabra
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    662 hours ago

    Ballet stars, and their notoriously poor balance.

    • @[email protected]
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      -217 minutes ago

      Unfortunately anti-russian racism is acceptable here. When you see a headline like this, just be ready for the comments.

  • @[email protected]
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    2 hours ago

    A nice window to the future for US citizens critical of their government… a window ripe for defenestration…

    If I die mysteriously from a fall, please refer to this comment.

  • @cyd
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    272 hours ago

    I imagine Russia is like the Star Wars setting, lots of crazy steep drops and they never install railings.

    • @FourPacketsOfPeanuts
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      91 hour ago

      The platform where Darth Vader confronts Luke has railings, so they clearly have the parts, tools, and a guy who installs them. Maybe he’s just held up on Level B?

      • @reinei
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        16 minutes ago

        Or maybe they literally one have that one guy/gal installing the railings throughout the entire Republic‽

  • Flying SquidM
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    985 hours ago

    Stay on the ground floor, Russians.

      • @ATDA
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        172 hours ago

        So do poisonings, and shootings but we’re just mitigating circumstances here lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    774 hours ago

    They don’t have any budget to do it differently or it’s a power move, like, it’s not official but you know it?

    • @Kyrgizion
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      994 hours ago

      It’s a calling card. Everyone knows what happened, not a single soul will comment on it. Unless they fancy being the next up for flight lessons.

  • @Valmond
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    This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.

    Good news Russias economy is in the toilet and someone has started flushing already, Ukrain will prevail and hopefully we’ll have peace one day.

    • @solomon42069
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      334 hours ago

      More realistically, he’ll probably die of old age or be ousted by someone younger and more exciting to the wealthy elite that keep Putin in power. Real change may come after that, but a change in leadership is not going to immediately fix long term issues like corruption, wealth disparity, etc.

      • @brucethemoose
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        122 hours ago

        I think they will become a Chinese vassal.

        I don’t know exactly what that’d look like, but the pure economic/political dynamics make it seem kinda inevitable.

        • @[email protected]
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          42 hours ago

          A unified China/Russia alliance sounds like a player in a near future sci-fi, so I’ll take that as a good sign

      • Sabata
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        53 hours ago

        Unless the Russians violently purge there elites, a new dictator will take the seat before the corpse is cold. He may even hold a sham election to “legitimize” himself as the best person to sand next to a window with.

      • @Valmond
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        63 hours ago

        True. Another possibility is that the economy (and infrastructure gotten their maintenance money stolen for 20 years and starts to crumble) goes down with a skyrocketing inflation going to the moon killing the ruble, and who knows what happens when you can’t pay your army any more …

        Interesting times for russia.

        • @[email protected]
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          63 hours ago

          Oh, so China expands to fill that void and hands out a portion to Kim Jong Link before repainting things?

  • @[email protected]
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    264 hours ago

    “in an apparent suicide, putin critic ________ shot himself in the back 20 times. more at 11”