Putin ‘wins’ rigged Russian election with 88% of the vote, early results show

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  Hear me out
- ah yes posting "le gay bad" memes in response to a dictator who made the lives of queer people in the country he controls an actual hell
  go back to fuckin r/conservative with that shit
  
  I'm pretty sure you misunderstood. Putin doesn't like gays, so depicting him as one is bad. Doesn't mean gays are bad
  
  Also, yet unmentioned, Putin's government BANNED use of that Putin in drag image because it hurt his sensitive ego.
  
  It's not "le gay bad", but more-so the idea of turning Putin into a gay icon in direct opposition to his identity politics.

88?? I can't believe that, with all these candidates!!

In East Germany the people loved their nation most only weeks before collapse: 99,92% voted for the pro-soviet government.
Then the CIA dropped 20 million agents from invisible helicopters which fakes mass demonstrations and used mind-control rays to make them love the west and hate the soviet union.
In the first election after reunification the Communists got 11,1% of all votes in Former East Germany. Damned CIA mind control rays.
- This is my favorite tankie cope.
  "The CIA obviously staged the protests and rigged the election against the communists!"
  So like, they snuck in millions of undercover agents?
  "Don't be ridiculous, that's not how it works!"
  So they stuffed the ballot box?
  "No, that's what we tried to do."
  You mean they forced people to vote at gunpoint?
  "NO IT WAS THE PROPAGANDA."
  So the CIA just... Convinced people to support Western politics?
  "IT'S NOT FAIR! HOW CAN WE WIN IF PEOPLE HAVE AGENCY!"
- There aint no mind control rays.
  CIA sucked off commies into a democracy.

Have they voted yet, or is 88% what they decided the result is going to be?
- If he's going to lie he should lie big, like his pal in North Korea. Tell everyone he won with 189% of the total votes. Nobody outside his cult is going to believe him either way.
  
  Makes it easier for those liking Russia to pretend though. I think that's the point.
  
  In Russia, the magic number is 146%.
- "according to exit polls"
  
  12% had an unfortunate accident after their exit poll.

88? What a coincidence
- The link wasn't working but I found what I think is being shared.
  Neo-Nazis also employ various number symbols:
  18, code for Adolf Hitler. The number comes from the position of the letters in the alphabet: A = 1, H = 8.[11]
  88, code for "Heil Hitler", a phrase used in the Nazi salute.[12] Also used as a reference to the "88 Precepts", a manifesto written by white supremacist David Lane.
  14, from the Fourteen Words coined by David Lane: "We must secure the existence of our people and a future for white children."[13]
  14 and 88 are sometimes combined with each other (i.e. 14/88, 8814, 1488).[14] They are also sometimes depicted on dice.[15]
- It's also amateur radio slang. Not everything is about Neo-Nazis.
  But to another commenter - Russian Neo-Nazis use 1488 too.
- oh shit i didn't even spot it, was right in front of us
- Yes because Putin a Russian speaking Russian planned out this for a few English speaking American Neo Nazi.
  Just in case you were wondering the 8th letter of the Russian alphabet is Ж it make a kind of zh sound.
  
  88 isn't just an American thing. I'll agree it's unlikely, but it's not because it's only an American thing.
  The number is banned on Austrian license plates due to its association with "Heil Hitler [and] where H comes in the alphabet". In June 2023, the Italian Football Federation (FIGC) and the Italian government announced that the number 88 would be banned from use in Italian association football, as part of a joint initiative to combat antisemitism. This followed an incident in March of that year in which a Lazio supporter wore a club shirt bearing the name "Hitlerson" and the number 88, which led to the supporter receiving a lifetime ban from attending Lazio matches.
  
  ~~Zheil Zhitler!~~
  Жeil Жitler!
  
  Yeah because the Russian propaganda machines aren't very, very aware of and in communication or control of modern fascist movements.

when do you get to call a dictator a dictator? when he stops with the pretend elections?
- I don't think you have to wait.
  
  He even was one when he didn‘t run for office. Hell most people don‘t even remember the name of Russia‘s other „President“ they had for 5 years. I for sure don‘t.
- When they decide they should be the president until they die and make it legal. Putin has reached that milestone a while ago.
  
  The Constitution of Russia was adopted in 1993, limiting the President of Russia to no more than two consecutive four year terms. Boris Yeltsin was the incumbent president when the constitution came into effect and had already served for over two years. Yelstin was reelected in 1996, but he resigned near the end of his term in 1999, and Prime Minister Vladimir Putin served for the remainder of Yeltsin's term as acting president. Putin was elected to a full term in 2000 and reelected in 2004.
  Putin was not constitutionally permitted to run for reelection in 2008, so he endorsed First Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, who went on to become the next president. The day after Medvedev's inauguration, he appointed Putin as Prime Minister of Russia. While Putin did not hold the office of president for the following four years, he held de facto control over the country's executive, extending his tenure beyond what term limits would normally allow.
  The Constitution was amended in 2008, expanding the presidential term from four to six years following the 2012 election. Having been removed from the office of the presidency for a term, Putin was constitutionally eligible to run again and was elected president in 2012 and then reelected in 2018. The Constitution was amended in 2020 to reset the number of terms Putin has served, allowing him to circumvent term limits in the 2024 and 2030 elections, enabling him to legally stay in office until 2036.
  So I guess he first broke the rules in 2004 if you count his time as acting president, but I think it's no longer up for debate after 2008.
- For Putin specifically, 2008.
- When you have nothing left to gain from acting like their friend?
- Depends on the flavor of leftism he or she supports.

- Who? Where?
- No, that is unacceptable discourse! You may disagree strongly with them, but by dehumanizing them with such statements you prove yourself no better than them. They are not animals or things, they are people with very different views, with emphasis on people.
  
  probably just top comment ads
- You know we are real communists because we can live rent free in your minds
  
  I don't understand the link between communism and celebrating an imperialist dictator's sham election.

88 just happens to be a Nazi reference used by white supremacists. Curious coincidences.
- This time it might actually be a coincidence, someone at the political bureau tried to pick the closest number to 100 that wouldn't look made up, 73 they were promptly excited for sedition my their boss who added 3 to the number and routed it to his boss,. Repeat the process 5 times and there you go "88".
- Did the article get edited or something? It's saying that he won by 87% to me.

88% is a little too on the nose, Putin
- Fitting victory number for a nazi.....
- Wasn't the previous one somewhere in the 90-ish percent? This is a huge loss!
  
  nah, was around 76 iirc
  
  According to the article, this was his biggest win yet

I just want to point out here that this is what many Trump voters are hoping for. If you’re a US citizen, please vote in November.
- They've been pushing "both options suck so why bother" rhetoric really hard too. They know they can't get people to vote for trump so their best bet is to get them not to vote
  
  Yes, to the point that
  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/fake-joe-biden-robocall-tells-new-hampshire-democrats-not-vote-tuesday-rcna134984
  Shit like this will only continue
  
  Australia solved this. We have to vote.
  They also made it easy to vote - our main voting day is always a Saturday If you won't be able to vote on that day for some reason, there are small polling places open for a couple of weeks ahead of that date.
  
  It sure would make it harder for them if both options didn't indeed suck. Biden is light years better than Trump, but he's still pretty much shit.

even in a rigged election that stupid cunt isn't able to achieve over 90%. what an absolute worthless sucker!
Fast forward to the point where you put an end to your miserable life you russian fuck and finally relieve us from your existence!
- If you're rigging an election, it can be better politically to give yourself 65% of the vote than 97% of the vote.
  97% is obviously fake. 65% is easier to make people beleive in.
  
  we talking about Putin...everybody knows.
- that is because you cringe KAMARAD russians are most intelligent, much more than african dictators 88% for most glorious president of russia and 22% for president's prime minister That way we can lie to people about opposition being very close to glorious president ideas
  
  110% sound about right.
- achieve over 90%
  He's RUSsian not Asian.
  Cut him some slack, will ya

I dare you to scroll these comments until you find a hexbear CCP cuck insulting the "liberal west", it'll be a fun 20 seconds.
- Hexbear's defederated on my instance, thankfully.
  
  .ml, too? That one is pretty sus.
  How can we request defederation?
  And what is stopping all the bad ru actors from just joining and infiltrating .world anyway?
- I see only 100% mocking Russia

One of my favorite traditions is world leaders congratulating Putin the day before Russian elections.

Accidents already planned for the administrators who allowed the 12% through.
- WDYM, they've likely just drawn the numbers.
  At this point nobody is seriously trying to get some data from them (that they pretend to give openly, the last time these were text on a webpage with scripts and WOFF fonts used for obfuscation - like the letter "a" is in fact "+" and so on ; people used OCR for that, there were "anomalies").
  There's a meme percentage in Russian-speaking web - 146%, that's what once made it to TV for some voting district.
  
  Ye, Churov's coefficient
- Nah, that 12% is left for the satellite parties to test the waters for Putin. The satellite parties can fail freely, without affecting the popularity of Putin.

Why do they bother with this show? Do Russians think they live in a democracy? Who is this for?
- It's all to keep up appearances. You keep up the propaganda and fake news and some people will be no the wiser. I'm sure there's many who know that this is fake but there's also some who just accept the propaganda.
  
  100%. Like how many conservatives in America assume everyone else does or wants the horrible things they want to do. So that basically all of their accusations end up being projection and confessions. There is a not insignificant number in Russia that believes that America is just as dysfunctional as they are. And at Western criticism is hypocritical. They have a point to a small extent. But they are in many ways a bit worse off. Though I may not be able to say that next year.
- I think most Russians are too busy trying to survive and not get sent to war or a gulag to care which particular despot rules over them.
- The entire point is to spread cynicism about democracy as a process. That way autocrats can say "look, it doesn't actually matter, voting is as free here as it is in the west." It's not to convince you that they are free, it's to make people question the value of Western freedoms.
  The reality is that democracy obviously doesn't work without civil liberties to go along with it. But this is more nuanced than your average person will grasp without explanation.
  
  Exactly this: I remember meeting some Russians that had moved to Belgium a few years ago, and we got to talking about this topic. These were well educated young people, yet they told me the thing that surprised them the most when moving to Belgium was that people actually cared about elections, and that elections actually mattered. They had been completely convinced that elections in the west were just like the "elections" they were used to from Russia.
- Reminds me of the joker from Christofer Nolan's Batman. If things go according to plan, nobody cares. Even if its clearly fake, keeping up the resemblance of a working system raises less concerned citizens.
  The true power of any country always lies with the people. For example, every previous chinese dynasty ended due to civilian uprising.
- I was told by a Russian that they venerate beaurocracy. The documents show the objective truth and it doesn't matter that everyone involves knows that the contents is bullshit as long as the process has been followed to the letter.
- To force the population to believe the lie. Out of fear or because they have been brain-washed. A test of loyalty.
- Who is this for?
  Administrative machine
- I can really recommend the William Spaniel video on the topic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf5floG0aP8
  
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  https://www.piped.video/watch?v=Qf5floG0aP8
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- Why do they bother with this show?
  For the same reason millions of depressed Americans will report to their local polling place to choose between two old men in a few months.
- Putin seems to be obsessed with legalities. Every day a new law, a decree, a statement. Tonnes of paper just to satisfy his ego.

This month's list of executions is relatively long

12% of the population will fall from some window??
- Not all of them. Some will commit suicide by five shots to the back of the head.
- In exit poll their exit is window.

saying “nobody in history has ever succeeded” in suppressing the will of Russians
Nobody except you
- And Stalin
  And the Monarchies
  
  Practically everyone except Nicholas II succeeded in that.
  
  And Lenin, and Khrushchev

88? He's slipping!
- He's down a solid 35%!
  
  58
- I think it's just his version of coming out of the closet.

88? Only?
- https://www.adl.org/resources/hate-symbol/88
  No way his propaganda team hit that number accidentally.
  
  I wouldn't be sure. It's a 1 in 100 chance randomly, and 1 in 49 if they want him over half. They probably want him well over half and not quite 100 though, so probably 1 in 20 or 30. It's not that low of odds. I don't know what they'd gain from it anyway, if they wanted to send that message. They easily can just say it without consequences.
  
  I just assume someone on his propaganda team is a big fan of back to the future.

Election, my arse 🤦🏻‍♂️

Russia is a fascist dictatorship.
- The sky is blue.

I suspect that Trump will congratulate him on his win soon.

The only surprise is that he hasn't won by 187%.
- Yeah, he's down by about 40% of his usual vote. That must be all the dissidents!

Managed Democracy carefully selected the best candidate for each citizen to vote for. According to the best algorithms.

Those quote marks around the 'wins' are just great.

88% is so typical - for Nazis it means the eight letter of the alphabet twice, which means "Heil Hitler". Given that the Z symbol of his genocidal war looks like a half Swastika we can now finally agree: Putin is the reincarnation of Hitler.
- Give him a mustache and no one can tell the difference.
- Yep, search “Wolfgang vom Schemm” German draughtsman and graphic designer...
  
  Why .... Ummm.. Why are they lumpy?
- He keeps Hitler's cap as a relic. In the Temple of the Armed Forces.
- He's a "we have Hitler at home" type of situation.
- Well I mean "technically" he "got" 87.28%

Isn't this a failure? He didn't have any real opposition, 88% is an abysmal result.
- Say you're a dictator without saying you're a dictator
  
  Exactly he has always been careful to get safe but somewhat realistic percent of the vote

I would like to see Trump talk about the 12% of fake voters that Russia has.

Remember kids, you too can do whatever the fuck you want, if you own a nuke.

Trump is literally trying to copy this guy, if you don't believe it it's because you're willingly ignoring it

Related: Hexbear userbase has world's first collective orgasm
- Where?

Crap I forgot to vote is there still time?
- Don't worry. The current version of the KGB already filled in your ballot.
  
  current version of the KGB
  FSB
- Same here, but I've seen the list of candidates, and the only one not causing immediate disgust is the senior citizen from CPRF.
  
  Invalid ballot means second round anyway. The one with multiple ticks.

Would you vote against him knowing that could be your death?
- Not voting would have been the only answer, as the other parties are basically controlled opposition. Yet, not voting would also count as a unpatriotic move, thus exposing you? I don't know. Sure enough, Russia has a story of antidemocratic centralised powers, be they Tzars or party leaders. And for any neighboring country, that has always been a problem.
  
  invalidating the ballot. Not not voting. There is a big difference. I am not sure how the terms are in English and whether there is a parallel, but you can "vote against everyone" - your count will count to the total percentage vs your vote is lost.
  And yes, some people were absolutely forced to vote. But make no mistake, even if the elections were "free", the actual result does not matter at all. Numbers were drawn no matter what happened during the election.
  What actually matters and I am very disappointed to hardly see any coverage in the media - a ton of people showed up to Noon Against Putin. Even in Russia. Navalny's last wish was for people to go vote on the last day at noon and the lines were impressive. (It is not a meeting, you are literally just standing in line to vote, they can't arrest you.) If you're unhappy with the current state of affairs, just show up. Even if you have already voted, just show up on the voting point at noon. And people did. And they saw that there are many.
  Needless to say, with few places you were able to vote abroad, and less persecution to be feared, the lines were humongous. Surely, the Berlin embassy made sure how to cause a disgraceful bottleneck to keep people from voting before it closed.
  Btw, you can see exit polls from Russians outside of Russia made by independent volunteers on voteabroad.info . But keep the bottlenecks in mind and that many people stood in line for 9+ hours and didn't get to vote, so they are not represented in the results.

Elections? Where we're going we don't need elections.
Now let's get this post soviet sham of a democracy up to 88 miles per hour.

Does this mean 12% of the population is about to fall out of windows?
- Nah, it means that an arbitrary number was chosen to make it seem like there was competition on the ballot. A happy little math error.
  You know, kinda like back in the day when Boris Yeltsin got 1 million votes from Chechnya even tho the war he himself instigated left the voting-eligible population at around 500k. Reportedly, exactly 70.0% out of those 500,000 voted for Yeltsin, and 70% of 500k is about a million because math.
- No, but they are about to win povestka and sent to dig okop.

It's 80/80 as expected

My 127% prediction can still be realized. The 400k+ votes from ~~the~~ Ukraine still need to come in. That has some delay as not all registered voters have been identified...
- Why do people keep calling it "the Ukraine"? Serious question.
  
  Because in English it used to be called that before its independence in 1991. It's now considered wrong and demeaning though.
  A similar issue exists in other languages, so it's also likely that the error repeatedly gets carried over when translated to English.
  
  force of habit
  
  I think lack of sleep could be at play here too 😴

His main electoral base is as old as him though, mostly.
- You really think they bothered to count the votes
  
  they opened up an rng, had it gen a number 60-100, called it a day
  
  In the beginning - yes, but not at the end. There were cases of dropping a pack of lists into the urn, so they do count on the ground level (:
  I'm looking a little into the future. Not election-wise, but frustration-wise.

This is the best summary I could come up with:
Vladimir Putin tightened his grip on power, claiming another six-year term as Russian president after a brutally distorted election in which all serious challengers were wiped out before voting began.
The result more than met the objective of an overwhelming victory to buttress Putin’s claim that Russians wholeheartedly back their leader and his invasion of Ukraine.
The election campaign, which saw three other candidates refrain from criticizing the president, was overshadowed by the death last month of Putin’s key opponent, Alexei Navalny.
Unusually large crowds were seen at polling stations across Russia, from the smallest Siberian towns to Moscow and St. Petersburg, as well as at Russian embassies and consulates worldwide — from Phuket to Paris and Brussels.
“This is a great opportunity to create the appearance that there are people who are not satisfied with the current state of affairs, who are willing to unite for collective action, and there are many of them,” — said Daniel, who voted in the Russian consulate in Almaty, Kazakhstan.
Ekaterina Duntsova and Boris Nadezhdin — two potential candidates who advocated for immediate peace negotiations and an end to the war — were barred from running against Putin in the contest.
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Very auspicious

My left nut came in second! It's cuz it's a little bit larger than Putin.

- My dude, H is not the 8th letter in Russian. Come the fuck on.
  
  Sure, because the Russian propaganda machine has absolutely no contact with or knowledge of modern fascist movements.
  One might even point out that it not working in Cyrillic is even better for him, because he sends a dogwhistles to his allies his citizens don't hear.
  If one wasn't a simpleton that thinks there wasn't a discussion over what exact percentage he should win by and why.
- That's quite a reach there friend
- 8 is also similar to the infinity symbol. And 1988 is the year when USSR very clearly began crumbling.
  I mean, Nazis and Hitler are things which Putin always very clearly didn't like, from all his history of interactions. This even seems to be a trait of personality.

This is stability that long-term planners appreciate.

He looks ecstatic about his win.

Guessing nobody read the article....