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[shadenight123]

you mean the same indigenous native, who, in need of more space for their population need, are the principal cause of wood chopping in south america?

Sources?

none, i phrased that wrong.
since i was referring to indigenous natives as "brazilians/peruist/excetera" while rereading it carefully he is referring to the actual "ancient tribes" who live in the forest. my wrong.

[RedKing]

Spoiler: Meanwhile, in Russia... (click to show/hide)

Protests continue to build against the United Russia Party over widely perceived rigged elections (which, despite the rigging, United Russia still lost a big chunk of their share in Parliament).

[MetalSlimeHunt]

I love how Putin went from beloved sex god of the Russian people to a hated tyrant who can barely even rig elections to make himself win a majority in a single election cycle. I absolutely love it.

[RedKing]

I love how Putin went from beloved sex god of the Russian people to a hated tyrant who can barely even rig elections to make himself win a majority in a single election cycle. I absolutely love it.

He's still a beloved sex god-czar in some circles, which is to say that to the nekulturny he's still an entertaining tough-guy. But apparently even there he's losing support. Like when he was booed at a Russian MMA event recently. It'd be like Rick Perry getting booed at a NASCAR race.

[shadenight123]

9gag is everywhere.
i'd like to even start a social experiment to earn trillions of money.
you turn on adsense on an empty blog.
you then ask the entire 9gag community to pass through it.
there. money.
you do the same with youtube videos.
there, more money.

[Montague]

I love how Putin went from beloved sex god of the Russian people to a hated tyrant who can barely even rig elections to make himself win a majority in a single election cycle. I absolutely love it.

He's still a beloved sex god-czar in some circles, which is to say that to the nekulturny he's still an entertaining tough-guy. But apparently even there he's losing support. Like when he was booed at a Russian MMA event recently. It'd be like Rick Perry getting booed at a NASCAR race.

nekulturny? Is that the same thing as a bydlo?

Anyways, I think Russians are starting to realize that his leadership isn't getting them anywhere. Russia should be a major world player in technology and business these days, not just letting their industry rust-belt into irrelevance and selling gas and oil that goes into the elite's pockets like some middle-eastern third-world. Putin's fan's yearn for that kind of return to when Russia was relevant in the world's eyes, but besides lots of saber-rattling and political theatrics, he isn't doing anything to improve the country.

[Another]

Here you can see some graphs related to the official results of the last Russian elections.
http://samarcandanalytics.com/?page_id=39
Based on officially published data. To anyone remotely familiar with statistics what happened is quite clear.

The reasons why the results of the election were skewed by thousands vote-counting officials are quite complex but the most common is based on fear to lose their job in paid by government position like a school director. Add some region level unlawful pressure by regional Governors that are all now appointed from Moscow instead of being locally elected and you get whatever numbers you like. Central Electoral Committee doesn't even have to make its own hands dirty. They just have to shut their eyes to what their subordinates are doing.

P.S. I doubt that many people here would be happy about the Communist party of Russia gaining majority in Russian parliament at a perfectly honest elections. And you thought that being forced to choose between the Democrats and the Republicans without any other real options is bad, didn't you?

[RedKing]

Oh, I know that a lot of the opposition to Putin has its own problems, considering that the next two largest parties are the Communist Party and Vladimir Zhirinovsky's party (I can't believe Zhirinovsky is still around). But those two should act as a foil to each other, so that hopefully if the United Russia Party were beaten down, they'd need to work with the Just Russia party (the one party that probably wouldn't have a "nuke the Western bastards" platform) to retain power.

[Kogut]

I love how Putin went from beloved sex god of the Russian people to a hated tyrant who can barely even rig elections to make himself win a majority in a single election cycle. I absolutely love it.

He's still a beloved sex god-czar in some circles, which is to say that to the nekulturny he's still an entertaining tough-guy. But apparently even there he's losing support. Like when he was booed at a Russian MMA event recently. It'd be like Rick Perry getting booed at a NASCAR race.

nekulturny? Is that the same thing as a bydlo?

My guess: nekulturny is the same as (or false friend) niekulturalny in my language-> negation of kulturalny -> negation of cultural/polite/refined/sophisticated

bydlo -> bydło -> livestock (= barbarian)

@Communists.  Now I think that Putin is better. Argh.

[RedKing]

I love how Putin went from beloved sex god of the Russian people to a hated tyrant who can barely even rig elections to make himself win a majority in a single election cycle. I absolutely love it.

He's still a beloved sex god-czar in some circles, which is to say that to the nekulturny he's still an entertaining tough-guy. But apparently even there he's losing support. Like when he was booed at a Russian MMA event recently. It'd be like Rick Perry getting booed at a NASCAR race.

nekulturny? Is that the same thing as a bydlo?

My guess: nekulturny is the same as (or false friend) niekulturalny in my language-> negation of kulturalny -> negation of cultural/polite/refined/sophisticated

bydlo -> bydło -> livestock (= barbarian)

@Communists.  Now I think that Putin is better. Argh.

Yeah, nekulturny = uncultured. It's sort of a pejorative class term, like "chav" or "naco" or "white trash".

[Phmcw]

Fighting in Egypt, 10 dead, 400 wounded, assholes cops beating protesters. It won't stay peaceful for long imo, they may need armed resistance, now.

[Duuvian]

200 dead in the past two days

BEIRUT (AP) — Government forces surrounded residents of a restive Syrian village in a valley and killed all those trapped inside — more than 100 people — in a barrage of rockets, tank shells, bombs and gunfire that lasted for hours, a witness and two activist groups said Wednesday.

The attack on Tuesday pushed the death toll for two days of violence across Syria to more than 200, and was one of the deadliest single events of the entire nine-month uprising against President Bashar Assad's authoritarian rule.



Would Putin regain some popularity in Russia if he were to support the Arab League's likely efforts toward regime change after such high casualties and visible armed resistance to the Syrian government? Would he be willing to work with the Arab League (and maybe the West as well) towards a new democratic state in Syria?

[RedKing]

Yeah, the Syrian crisis seems to be breaking out of the stalemate (for better or worse). One telling sign is that the violence and protests weren't on a Friday. Now that Assad has been ostracized by the Arab League, he's running out of room to manuever. And as goes the fortunes of Assad, so goes the fortunes of Hezbollah in Lebanon. If Assad falls, Hezbollah is seriously compromised. Which means that if things get uglier in Syria, they could get uglier in Lebanon.

If there's one silver lining in all this (Syria and Egypt), it's that despite any inclinations for well-intended meddling by the US, we're gonna have to sit on our hands due to budget and logistics problems. The Arabs are going to have to sort this one out themselves. Which is probably for the best.

[MetalSlimeHunt]

Wikipedia is having a discussion on renaming the 2011 Syrian Uprising article to 2011 Syrian Civil War. I am inclined to agree, this has gone beyond a simple uprising.

[RedKing]

Agreed, especially since the "protester" side now has the support of a decent chunk of the former Syrian Army and they've been conducting offensive (albeit guerrilla) operations against the Syrian Army.