“election”
I couldn’t get 88% of people to agree on which day of the week it was, much less who should be president.
Lol, I think that nobody outside of Russia has any belief that this was a free and fair election. I mean, even if you don’t count that Putin imprisoned his political ally and killed him.
GOP is just jealous because they have a hard time trying to pull off the same stunt in the US
As stupid and fucked up the US elections are, that doesn’t give you the right to do something objectively worse. Shit up.
Edit: I decided to not correct that typo.
I love how all the western polling in Russia before the election shows that Putin has over 80% approval, and now all the western media acts like it’s shocking that he got around that in the election. For example, here’s an example from CNN just a few days ago
But Putin undoubtedly has reaped the rewards of a political landscape tilted dramatically in his favor. The Levada Center, a non-governmental polling organization, consistently reports Putin’s approval rating at over 80% – an eye-popping figure virtually unknown among Western politicians, and a substantial increase on the three-year period before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/14/europe/putin-russia-election-explainer-update-intl/index.html
Absolute clown shit.
I don’t think anyone is acting like it’s shocking. On the contrary, it’s exactly what everyone expected so it’s not a surprise. After all, he’s been Russia’s President for 21 of the past 25 years.
The whole context for this thread is a BBC article throwing shade on the Russian elections.
It’s not hard to get the majority of votes when the real opposition is in jail or dead
