“People” in an authoritarian police state are not going to get organized until a) they have no other choice and b) the elites have no will left to fight them.
It’s the same pattern everywhere. Russia is worse than usual because its economy is lopsided towards exporting raw materials so the elite class is smaller/less diverse than usual.
It’s not as hard to organize as you make it seem in Russia. The problem is that opposition is fractured, and unfortunately much of the opposition is the right wing kind, accusing putin of being some type of left wing guy. Their platforms have become less convincing now that the west has completely cut off Russia.
The left opposition is unfortunately not that motivated as they’re not big enough, and fear that their movement might lead to someone worse then putin from the right wing.
as much as I wish it were spontaneous, it seems organized (many cases happened right on the first day of elections; (nearly?) all of the perpetrators were women across like 5-10 cases that I’ve read about; they all immediately started taking photos as if to show proof to someone), it seems like either Russia or Ukraine is behind that (the former would want it to discredit the opposition, the latter to discredit the Russian state, either option sounds plausible to me). Of course, the Russian police says Ukraine-linked scammers promised money for doing it.
honestly with how much some scammers can achieve at times (I’d rather not say, I’ve seen some abhorrent cases in the news) I tend to believe the official Russian version
There would be a slight decline of support from those who against Pooh after his win. Maybe, some people would know each other if some actions like staying-on-sunday would get traction, but I doubt so. I feel like the most hate would arise after they put their delayed measures all at once after the election is secured, and that’s where the question of loyalty would look more timely. More taxes, another wave of mobi, killing Youtube? Whatever really. I’m pissed at older gens because they stopped to care about anything long ago and use TV as their daily entertainment, so they are certain to vote for the Savior of the Nation, Volodya.
Random acts of praxis or can the people get organized? We’ll see
“People” in an authoritarian police state are not going to get organized until a) they have no other choice and b) the elites have no will left to fight them.
It’s the same pattern everywhere. Russia is worse than usual because its economy is lopsided towards exporting raw materials so the elite class is smaller/less diverse than usual.
It’s not as hard to organize as you make it seem in Russia. The problem is that opposition is fractured, and unfortunately much of the opposition is the right wing kind, accusing putin of being some type of left wing guy. Their platforms have become less convincing now that the west has completely cut off Russia.
The left opposition is unfortunately not that motivated as they’re not big enough, and fear that their movement might lead to someone worse then putin from the right wing.
as much as I wish it were spontaneous, it seems organized (many cases happened right on the first day of elections; (nearly?) all of the perpetrators were women across like 5-10 cases that I’ve read about; they all immediately started taking photos as if to show proof to someone), it seems like either Russia or Ukraine is behind that (the former would want it to discredit the opposition, the latter to discredit the Russian state, either option sounds plausible to me). Of course, the Russian police says Ukraine-linked scammers promised money for doing it.
honestly with how much some scammers can achieve at times (I’d rather not say, I’ve seen some abhorrent cases in the news) I tend to believe the official Russian version
False flag theory could also hinder actual people’s uprising, interesting point!
There would be a slight decline of support from those who against Pooh after his win. Maybe, some people would know each other if some actions like staying-on-sunday would get traction, but I doubt so. I feel like the most hate would arise after they put their delayed measures all at once after the election is secured, and that’s where the question of loyalty would look more timely. More taxes, another wave of mobi, killing Youtube? Whatever really. I’m pissed at older gens because they stopped to care about anything long ago and use TV as their daily entertainment, so they are certain to vote for the Savior of the Nation, Volodya.