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[–] Avicenna@programming.dev 8 points 2 days ago

Supports a fascist regime enthusiastically for the better part of a decade, cries when the fascist regime discards him.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 116 points 3 days ago (2 children)

That takes guts. Good for him.

I felt that was necessary to say at least once amid all the grim comments about how welp he’s fuckin dead. I mean there’s truth to that but it shouldn’t be the sum total of our reaction to this.

[–] GelatinGeorge@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It does. It's such an abrupt about-face that I can see why everyone initially thought it was staged. It's like a gazelle turning round and headbutting a chasing lion or something. Maybe he just received a terminal diagnosis and thought 'fuck it'?

[–] ol_capt_joe@piefed.ee 12 points 3 days ago

I was thinking rather of hyenas circling a lion, each one nipping at a heel, a tail, an ear, none quite confident enough yet to bum rush the fucker all at once... Except they're all just hamsters... Nasty, evil little fucking hamsters, ready to rip each other to shreds 🐹

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 91 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Stay away from windows, comrade.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 48 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And poisonous frogs only found in the Amazon

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And walk faster than anyone with an umbrella.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)

And Don't fly on any planes near Russia airspace.

[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] dubyakay@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or get pranked by two separate women at the airport.

[–] northface@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or get dust blown in your face.

[–] Hadriscus@jlai.lu 3 points 2 days ago

or open your mail

[–] random_character_a@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Don't wear underpants

[–] venusaur@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 9 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, VX also works on your face

[–] P00ptart@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Apply directly to the forehead.

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[–] zr0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Oh they will just construct a building around him instead. Just to throw him out.

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[–] pound_heap@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He's been put in psychiatric institution today, reportedly

[–] Professorozone@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago (2 children)
[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Nah, all of it runs on Linux

[–] quantumcrop@lemmy.today 1 points 1 day ago

*Gets thrown off Arch

[–] Tiger666@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 13 hours ago

No, those are usually outgoing.

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Sometimes these things are also a trap. Someone will deliberately be positioned to make a public opposition stand, just to flush out anyone who would support them.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago

They mentioned that in the the at article as well, and also why it's not likely

[–] MrChewy@lemmy.world 18 points 3 days ago (1 children)

How did it go? Was he ... Put-in jail? (sorry)

[–] jballs@sh.itjust.works 58 points 3 days ago (1 children)

That's one way to commit suicide, I guess.

[–] SippyCup@lemmy.world 30 points 3 days ago (1 children)

"he shot himself 9 times in the back of the head, jumped out of a window, and ate toxic tree frog venom on the way down."

[–] monkeyslikebananas2@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

“…yeah major depression. Shame.”

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 18 points 3 days ago

"Honey, I'm going window shopping"

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 29 points 3 days ago (8 children)

The Tzar will fall. Ukraine will be victorious. Russia will be free.

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[–] perestroika@slrpnk.net 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I'm not entirely certain (because Telegram is disrupted and it's harder to get information from Russia), but I think this bears some relation to RosKomNadzor f**ing with Telegram and mobile internet in general, recently also in the Moscow region (arguably because the sky is full of Ukrainian drones, but perhaps for additional reasons).

Two political principles applicable to Russia:

  • don't take people's alcohol away from them, sober people will do rational things
  • don't take Telegram, people depend on it and will be angry, possibly forgetting how to lie
[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wish him a painless autodefenestration. I can't imagine it ending any other way. It takes courage to do something like that. I wonder what made him snap.

[–] DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I wonder what made him snap.

Hitting the concrete ground at terminal velocity definitely makes you snap in half

[–] daychilde@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Oof. Touché. lol

[–] vga@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

Is it again that this loyalist just wants the war to go better, not that they want the war not to have happened?

[–] PixelatedSaturn@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

The sharks are smelling blood.

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The rats are fleeing. I've been hearing rumors about an internal power struggle and a possible silent coup. Putin is now extremely paranoid and this is bound to start backfiring. This is yet another little puzzle piece to this.

[–] chloroken@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 days ago

Holy shit this comment explains a lot.

[–] TheOneAndOnly@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ah... Following the MTG playbook, eh? Whelp, hope this guy doesn't have a lot of him-sized windows wherever he is.

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