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This could be the last time we see these funny videos. In this elections they “defeated” all opposition candidates with electronic ballot. Before electronic ballot results, even with all election fraud you see on camera, 90% of opposition candidates were winning in Moscow and Saint-Petersburg. Electronic ballot results were delayed by a few hours and when they released it turned out that opposition lost everywhere. This means next time they won’t even bother with a fraud in camera, they just put the numbers they need in a computer and declare a victory.

The federal constitutional court in Germany forbid the use of electronic or online voting machines in 2009 anticipating exactly this kind of misuse.

I had a discussion with some friends about how impressive it is that Putin can do so many outrageous things and the world doesn’t stop him. Clear election fraud, assassinating foreigners, invading Crimea, etc. there are very few other countries that get free passes like Putin does.

Other countries don't have nuclear weapons and can't unilaterally turn off Europe's gas supply. This makes Russia less ripe for "regime change".

All the great powers act this way, because they can. No one wanted to fight a nuclear war over Crimea and when the time comes, no one will fight a nuclear war over Taiwan. And no one is going to war with a European power the next time they intervene in one of their current or former colonies. Then there's the US...

Wish Russia was the only country with this. Many politicians all over the world do similar stuff and the only way I think would "change" things might be the public being more educated about who these politicians really are and have a new paradigm about the view of a "country" and politics.

A doomsday nuclear Arsenal can do that

You are speaking as if none else does that...

Hasn't the US done all those things in recent, say 30 years, memory?

Edit: election fraud in other countries

I don't think this is any surprise really. Russia is still a big, powerful country, and the West has changed it's attitude so that it's less concerned about things that don't directly challenge its interests.

I mean, China gets away with much worse I think (Uyghurs, South China Ses belligerence, Hong Kong, etc.), and they get little substantive pushback for the same reason as Russia.

It's all about money. Countries like Germany and France depend heavily on Russia and are willing to basically ignore everything. They roll out their strongly worded responses and the next day build pipelines or sell equipment that should be on a sanctions list.

NATO is a joke and everyone knows it. Russia will do what it wants and their opinion is that Euro's can go fuck themselves. There isn't one country or a group of countries in Western Europe that could even muster a military response to any Russian actions. I've spoken with many and that is basically their attitude. They like Putin, he doesn't take shit from the West. Really, the only country in the world that is currently at war with them barely gets a mention anymore. Do people even know what country it is? Probably not.

It's a new world, Western Europe and America is a joke, everyone knows they don't have the will to stand up to Russia or China (at least this administration), they're more concerned about diversity and wokism....

Junk away...

From the high score but low placement on the HN page, I’m guessing this is being heavily flagged.

It’s less about the submission itself and more about the quality (or lack thereof) of the comments below it.

The HN post isn't linking to the comments. I wonder if the mods can look to see which countries the flags are coming from.

> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon.

> If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.

This is also always interesting to see with submissions that are critical of CCP/PRC :)

Though it's probably more obvious where the flags are coming from in those cases.

Also anything related to gender

i always encourage hckrnews.com as a front page to avoid these problems and more

I misinterpreted this as an "electron" being stolen in realtime. Sadly, it wasn't that.

Election in Canada today unrelated to OP.

There’s absolutely no way that this could have happened in Philly and Atlanta. Absolutely no way. The pipes burst. They had to stop counting.

I mean it's possible that it could have happened, but I feel like if you're going to make claims like this, there's a pretty high threshold of evidence required.

That's kind of the point, though.

There's approximately as much evidence for Russian election fraud as there was for the 2020 US election: that is to say, some numerical anomalies, and poll workers acting strangely, with a few unlikely coincidences, but nothing that reaches the bar of hard evidence.

But the same people dismissing these claims in the US last year on the basis of "no evidence" are screaming positive affirmations about the same thing in Russia.

People are making affirmative claims of fraud on the basis of political priors in both cases, not actual evidence on hand.

Did you click the link? People are literally stuffing ballots on camera. Do you have a similar video for the 2020 election?

I didn’t see any credible videos of ballot boxes actually being stuffed in the 2020 US election.

What makes the Russian videos credible?

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