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kpete

(72,904 posts) Sun Feb 20, 2022, 10:13 AM Feb 2022

When people ask why Russians don't protest--- [View all]

Since the mass rallies of 2012 against election rigging & against Putin, he’s made sure to crack down on all forms of dissent including street protests. Remember it’s really not easy to be in opposition in Russia today

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"Russia don't touch Ukraine!" 6 people unfurled banners against invasion in downtown Moscow. Waiting police immediately arrested them

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When people ask why Russians don't protest--- [View all] kpete Feb 2022 OP

Remember Alexei Anatolievich Navalny JohnSJ Feb 2022 #1

... secondwind Feb 2022 #2

Exactly the kind of society traitorous republicans want to create in the USA Mysterian Feb 2022 #3

Exactly kpete Feb 2022 #6

Only because Trump IS God. world wide wally Feb 2022 #29

Get off your ass, Merrick Garland Mr. Ected Feb 2022 #4

I have an online acquaintance in Russia Tetrachloride Feb 2022 #5

I wouldn't expect anything approaching candor from online communication originating in Russia EYESORE 9001 Feb 2022 #10

Russian dissidents pay a price. greatauntoftriplets Feb 2022 #7

And yet arresting truckers to free up a blockaded city after THREE WEEKS Grokenstein Feb 2022 #8

How on earth Busterscruggs Feb 2022 #11

Unless I am mistaken the republican party was founded to fight AGAINST slavery. HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #18

Yeah, but they have since been bought up Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #20

it became the party of limbaugh and now it rots with him. they're all ditto heads certainot Feb 2022 #22

Yes.... look back to Ronnie Raygun and his "states rights" speech in MS groundloop Feb 2022 #23

I think Reagan was trying to buy votes on the racism that already existed. TeamProg Feb 2022 #32

Yes, very true, but-- HUAJIAO Feb 2022 #26

I get it. It brought us Abraham Lincoln Farmer-Rick Feb 2022 #27

+100 nt reACTIONary Feb 2022 #24

Republicans believe being asked to follow the law is proof we are victims of a tyrannical regime. sop Feb 2022 #12

They have no concept of what living under a tyrannical regime is like. Irish_Dem Feb 2022 #13

Candace Owens "thinks she is Rosa Parks when the right sees her more in the role of Sally Hemmings" Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #14

... ShazzieB Feb 2022 #17

I don't get this metaphor. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #30

Sally Hemmings was a favoured slave of Jefferson who he 'impregnated'. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #35

Candace Owens chooses her associations. Hemings could not. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #38

That makes Owens a dimwitted sucker, by her own choice. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #39

That's fine. No need to bring a victim of trafficking into it. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #40

Another difference is that I expect Hemings to have had a much more realistic assessment Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #45

You asked me to explain it. It was not my coinage, but I did the best I could Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #46

No, I know. Any contempt in my tone is not directed at you. WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #47

Yep. Same as it ever was.... paleotn Feb 2022 #9

Surprised Russian Police aren't wearing Brown-Shirts. KS Toronado Feb 2022 #15

In the spirit of the Olympics, reposting a classic Grokenstein Feb 2022 #16

Who knows what news Russians are fed. Jetheels Feb 2022 #19

+1 uponit7771 Feb 2022 #43

You would think that the populous would refuse to participate Buckeyeblue Feb 2022 #21

Excellent perspective, Bb....... DENVERPOPS Feb 2022 #33

Russia populous is propagandized twice as bad as we were here before Iraq, no doubt. uponit7771 Feb 2022 #42

Also Tucker Carlson Fox News videos probably dismay freedom loving Russians gulliver Feb 2022 #25

I think it's part of the Russian psyche too jgmiller Feb 2022 #28

Yeah, you're way off base. Russian resistance and protest looks different there than it does here, WhiskeyGrinder Feb 2022 #31

Russians do protest Celerity Feb 2022 #34

Aren't those pictures 8 or 9 years old? Bernardo de La Paz Feb 2022 #36

many are from the last several years nt Celerity Feb 2022 #37

A lot of protest has been clamped down upon, but still many came out fairly recently... Silent3 Feb 2022 #44

Putin's opposition ends up dead a lot, that is enough to uponit7771 Feb 2022 #41

Polonium adds a nice flavor to the tea. A 15 year sentence to the Gulag builds muscles. And... Hekate Feb 2022 #48