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    From Oli@2:280/464.47 to All on Mon Sep 20 07:25:28 2021

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_legislative_election

    Turnout: 45%

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_legislative_election#Exit_polls

    Poll source UR CPRF LDPR SRZP NP RPPJ CoR
    Insomar 45.2% 21.0% 8.7% 7.9% 4.7% 3.6% 1.9%

    Yabloko Greens Rodina PoG RPFJ GA CPl
    1.6% 0.9% 0.8% 0.6% 0.6% 0.3% 0.3%


    Around 20% of all voters have voted for United Russia. 55% didn't care enough to cast a vote. Maybe a censored voting app is not really the problem. Maybe the majority doesn't care about Putin or thinks he's a hero. Maybe playing the newest cool game from the app store is even more interesting than elections. Or maybe our idea of democracy is a farce anyway.

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  • From Björn Felten@2:203/2 to Oli on Mon Sep 20 11:57:17 2021
    Maybe the majority doesn't care about Putin or thinks he's a hero.

    Or maybe not enough of them could be told that they actually *could* replace the oligarchs because of the successful censoring?



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  • From Oli@2:280/464.47 to Bj”rn Felten on Mon Sep 20 11:57:14 2021
    Björn wrote (2021-09-20):

    Maybe the majority doesn't care about Putin or thinks he's a hero.

    Or maybe not enough of them could be told that they actually *could* replace the oligarchs because of the successful censoring?

    Yeah, I guess the Russians are clueless about the censoring and just don't understand how elections and democracy work. They just consume input from the state controlled media/internet and then cast their vote for the party/people in power. Or the input does not compute and they do nothing.

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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Björn Felten on Tue Sep 21 16:49:18 2021
    Hello Bj”rn,

    Maybe the majority doesn't care about Putin or thinks he's a hero.

    Or maybe not enough of them could be told that they actually *could* replace
    the oligarchs because of the successful censoring?

    Jimmy Crack Corn
    Folk Song

    When I was young I used to wait
    On the master and hand him his plate;
    And pass the bottle when he got dry,
    And brush away the blue tail fly.

    (Chorus)
    Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,
    Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,
    Jimmy crack corn and I don't care,
    My master's gone away.

    When he would ride in the afternoon,
    I'd follow him with my hickory broom,
    The pony being rather shy,
    When bitten by the blue-tail fly.

    (Chorus)

    One day he rode around the farm,
    The flies so numerous they did swarm;
    One chanced to bite him on the thigh,
    The devil take the blue tail fly.

    (Chorus)

    The pony run, he jump and pitch,
    And tumble master in the ditch;
    He died, the jury wondered why,
    The verdict was the blue tail fly.

    (Chorus)

    They buried him 'neath the sycamore tree
    His epitaph is there to see,
    "Beneath this stone I'm forced to lie,
    A victim of a blue tail fly."

    (Chorus)

    --Master Lee

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  • From Lee Lofaso@2:203/2 to Oli on Tue Sep 21 16:49:30 2021
    Hello Oli,

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_legislative_election

    Turnout: 45%

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2021_Russian_legislative_election#Exit_polls

    Poll source UR CPRF LDPR SRZP NP RPPJ CoR
    Insomar 45.2% 21.0% 8.7% 7.9% 4.7% 3.6% 1.9%

    Yabloko Greens Rodina PoG RPFJ GA CPl
    1.6% 0.9% 0.8% 0.6% 0.6% 0.3% 0.3%


    Around 20% of all voters have voted for United Russia. 55% didn't care enough to cast a vote. Maybe a censored voting app is not really the problem. Maybe the majority doesn't care about Putin or thinks he's a hero. Maybe playing the newest cool game from the app store is even more interesting than elections. Or maybe our idea of democracy is a farce anyway.

    Maybe apathy is a sign of political stability.

    --Lee

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