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[Loud Whispers]

So when's Putin gonna become the new tsar

[pisskop]

he doesnt need to do a napoleon.

he has most of the power, indirectly or not.

[MaxTheFox]

gays are not allowed to marry per the Constitution

Since when were they allowed to in the first place? There were, unfortunately I'd say, no changes in that area, it stayed illegal as before. And honestly I didn't vote and urged my friends to not vote either. They complied.

We need a second third revolution where we kill Putin and his cronies. Preferably after I escape this accursed country. I fucking hate it.

[Iduno]

https://twitter.com/LabConcerner/status/1278990910391488513

gays are not allowed to marry per the Constitution

Since when were they allowed to in the first place? There were, unfortunately I'd say, no changes in that area, it stayed illegal as before. And honestly I didn't vote and urged my friends to not vote either. They complied.

We need a second revolution where we kill Putin and his cronies. Preferably after I escape this accursed country. I fucking hate it.

Yep.

[MaxTheFox]

He is... really unpopular among most people younger than 30 from what I've seen. And his supporters aren't immortal, they will inevitably die off or become too old to care. The opposition keeps growing too. In any case I hope communism doesn't return because the USSR was even worse than this. But the commies do have a point. So do the Putinists. And the liberals. And almost every other ideology. An ideal state combines what works from a lot of ideologies.

[Iduno]

He is... really unpopular among most people younger than 30 from what I've seen. And his supporters aren't immortal, they will inevitably die off or become too old to care. The opposition keeps growing too. In any case I hope communism doesn't return because the USSR was even worse than this. But the commies do have a point. So do the Putinists. And the liberals. And almost every other ideology. An ideal state combines what works from a lot of ideologies.

Depends on how you combine them. Stalin kind of showed that having an authoritarian capitalist in charge of a communist country works out badly (parasitic relationship).

[Loud Whispers]

He's so WIDE

[scriver]

Wide mir is wide

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

All right who stole Merkel's snaccs

[da_nang]

Coronavirus recovery fund tentatively agreed upon. I say tentatively, since it still needs to go through both national parliaments and the EU parliament.

It's a clusterfuck of a compromise that will leave a lot of people angry: 360 billion € in loans from the capital market collateralized by the commission (i.e. the common man in the end), 390 billion € in grants (straight up wealth transfer).

I personally hope that it gets voted down, since not only is it ceding more power to Brussels (possibly even beyond the Lisbon Treaty if the rumors of EU taxes is anything to go by) but it also puts member states dangerously close to losing control of the national purse since we'd practically be forced to become guarantors.

Oh, and this also includes slashing into climate funds et al., effectively a US-style debt ceiling (we all know how that will play out), and a laughable rule of law "emergency brake".

All the frugal four really got out of it is an inconsequential increase in the rebate.

[Reelya]

gays are not allowed to marry per the Constitution

Since when were they allowed to in the first place? There were, unfortunately I'd say, no changes in that area, it stayed illegal as before.

You really don't get it?

If something is in the constitution then you can't just pass a law to legalize it. It's a huge deal because it makes it illegal to have a law to make it legal, so even if Putin is out of power and the opposition has the majority of parliament, they still couldn't pass a law about that.

Just saying that because it was illegal before then having it in the constitution is no different just shows you don't get the difference between a law and the constitution. One issue is that in the current system it might have been possible for one of the provinces/Republics in Russia to pass a gay marriage law locally. Note how gay marriage developed in the USA, first with one state, then slowly, but eventually with all states recognizing those marriages as legal. The constitutional change is a top-down ruling preventing any city or republic within Russia from choosing to legalize this.

[martinuzz]

Thank you Reelya.
I should have tried to explain that after MtF's post but I didn't have the energy.

[MaxTheFox]

gays are not allowed to marry per the Constitution

Since when were they allowed to in the first place? There were, unfortunately I'd say, no changes in that area, it stayed illegal as before.

You really don't get it?

If something is in the constitution then you can't just pass a law to legalize it. It's a huge deal because it makes it illegal to have a law to make it legal, so even if Putin is out of power and the opposition has the majority of parliament, they still couldn't pass a law about that.

Just saying that because it was illegal before then having it in the constitution is no different just shows you don't get the difference between a law and the constitution. One issue is that in the current system it might have been possible for one of the provinces/Republics in Russia to pass a gay marriage law locally. Note how gay marriage developed in the USA, first with one state, then slowly, but eventually with all states recognizing those marriages as legal. The constitutional change is a top-down ruling preventing any city or republic within Russia from choosing to legalize this.

Huh. I didn't realize that. Thanks.

Well that just increases the need to, in the event of a violent revolution, simply shred the constitution and write a new one. This one is pretty fucked up anyways at this point.

[Eschar]

I'd say those constitution writers have got their priorities way out of balance

[Kagus]

I'd say those constitution writers have got their priorities way out of balance

It was their dump stat.