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[–] [email protected] 75 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

How will the tankies excuse Russia once again?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago

No no, you don't understand. Just like imperialism, it's only bad when "the West" does it.

[–] count_dongulus 33 points 2 weeks ago

They'll just say the president is lying and trying to do a power grab.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 weeks ago

Tankies are literally fascists. All authoritarians are the same.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

But she said “there were so many violations that it was impossible to detect them all”. She said: “We witnessed something very unusual: this was a total falsification, a total stealing of votes, using all the tricks that can be used to falsify elections, and on top of that – the use of modern technologies to whitewash the elections.

She said it was unprecedented, adding: “We were witnesses and victims of a Russian special operation, a new type of hybrid warfare waged against our people.>

[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Good thing that's not happening in the US.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Not sure which part you’re referring to, but in regards to stealing an election, I thought this recent video from Howtown to be really interesting! The US has a surprisingly robust election system and I wish more folks understood how it all works.

“Could I steal the election?” https://youtu.be/oa7tcuE2TP0

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

The fact russia is puttin a full on information war aimed at making trump win and causing chaos.

[–] Maggoty 21 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Okay for people as confused as I was an hour ago.

She doesn't caucus with either major party and is officially an independent. But she's politically liberal. The pro Russia group is currently in control of the parliament and the pro EU group including her is calling bullshit on the elections.

She doesn't have a ton of power though. They shifted a bunch of power to the parliament right before she took office. I'm not clear on what power she does or does not have in regards to elections to remedy this.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I don’t understand how a country, that is occupied by Russia, has a pro-Russian government!

[–] Nuke_the_whales 4 points 2 weeks ago

Well you said it. They occupy so they control