Ballet stars, and their notoriously poor balance.
Stay on the ground floor, Russians.
Heart attacks happens on every floor.
So do poisonings, and shootings but we’re just mitigating circumstances here lol.
“Tragically fell from the ground floor balcony and landed on two bullets to the back of the head.”
They don’t have any budget to do it differently or it’s a power move, like, it’s not official but you know it?
It’s a calling card. Everyone knows what happened, not a single soul will comment on it. Unless they fancy being the next up for flight lessons.
I wonder how Red Bull sales are in Russia.
Without the textbook.
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
Power move. That and shooting yourself, in the back, multiple times.
“haha no problem, this is polonium tea”
don’t worry this is just normal tea I offer before I throw you off building
This isn’t funny.
You’re just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We’re actually jealous of you.
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Unfortunately anti-russian racism is acceptable here. When you see a headline like this, just be ready for the comments.
Gallows humor about the suspicious deaths of people critical of an oligarchy is not racism.
Unless you are a wilfully credulous root vegetable of a person.
Russia isn’t a race.
It’s a failed state, ruled by a corrupt dictator.
Just like America in a couple months.
What exactly was racist?
And who said it’s funny. I’m confused
It’s not racism to point out that a surprising number of Putin critics have died from falling from tall buildings.
Vladimir Shklyarov:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/vladimir-shklyarov-death-st-petersburg-ballet-star-fall/Dan Rapoport:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/26/dan-rapoport-putin-critic-was-it-suicide-00053836Pavel Antov:
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-critic-pavel-antov-dies-falling-out-hotel-window-2022-12Do you seriously think Russian is a race?
I agree this isn’t racism against Russians.
But also, let’s not be pedantic. A nation can be discriminated against, any group of people can be. That’s what they meant by racism. They used it more broadly and that’s ok, I’m sure even you understood what they meant. What term would you use to be more precise?
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Criticising a government isn’t racism. If you criticise a country’s government it doesn’t mean you hate every person who lives in that country.
I’d more call it politicism, as it’s more criticizing the political state and not someones origin/heritage.
Pro-Russian comment meant to wield the left’s propensity to over-diagnose racism to redirect and distract.
I mean ballet dancers are known for being klutzy and prone to tripping over their own feet. Right?
Happens all the time, it’s why they recommend you don’t practice ballet on slippery roofs.
I imagine Russia is like the Star Wars setting, lots of crazy steep drops and they never install railings.
The platform where Darth Vader confronts Luke has railings, so they clearly have the parts, tools, and a guy who installs them. Maybe he’s just held up on Level B?
Or maybe they literally one have that one guy/gal installing the railings throughout the entire Republic‽
Russia be slippery. My heart goes out to these rare brave souls in a land of cowards.
Give it 2 months for the US
The US would never do this. Too much money to be made in the prison industry with legalized slavery. Much better investment to put them behind bars to generate profit.
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cause of death: the natural impact of cement on the body experienced after a perfectly natural fall
Gravity, is natural, no?
Lead is too
Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
Everything is fine, nothing to see here. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m just going home. To my family. Which I love very much. And who I would never put in danger by not doing my job exactly as instructed.
This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.
Good news Russias economy is in the toilet and someone has started flushing already, Ukrain will prevail and hopefully we’ll have peace one day.
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I think they will become a Chinese vassal.
I don’t know exactly what that’d look like, but the pure economic/political dynamics make it seem kinda inevitable.
A unified China/Russia alliance sounds like a player in a near future sci-fi, so I’ll take that as a good sign
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True. Another possibility is that the economy (and infrastructure gotten their maintenance money stolen for 20 years and starts to crumble) goes down with a skyrocketing inflation going to the moon killing the ruble, and who knows what happens when you can’t pay your army any more …
Interesting times for russia.
Oh, so China expands to fill that void and hands out a portion to Kim Jong Ug before repainting things?
I doubt the USA would let them do that freely, but it’s an interesting take.
Uh. I’ve got some news you might not enjoy, citizen…
Sure, who knows. It’d be a full mess though.
Russia is Game of Thrones in real life. I wouldn’t bet on positive change there.
This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.
Indeed and same goes for israel or USA. Every nation involved in shady actions should be denucleariased and its politician held account for their crimes.
Good luck with that.
Hey, at least you know what the possessive form of “it” is. 🤓🤘🏽
So many people fall from their windows or balconies in Russia that I am surprised they are still legal
Someone pushed for a new law outlawing them, but the efforts ended after he accidentally fell off a balcony to his death.
his proposal had quite the impact, they say.
It’s to make the point that they were murdered. It’s a fear tactic with plausible deniability.
Yes. Everyone is aware of that.
I wasn’t.
Anyone paying attention is.
Every comment in this post, except yours, is proof of that.Oh so now you’re qualifying your previous statement.
I get to use the new tags.
Cool story bro
they are still legal
People?!
Comrade Putin thanks you for your contribution, we will do as you suggest and make people illegal.
Mandatory murder-windows.
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That’s the second addition this week: Suspicious deaths of notable Russians
It’s only Tuesday
“Fell out of window.”
“He was on the ground floor.”
“Fell out of window and face-planted twenty-six times.”
Colonel Vadim Boyko 2022
Shot himself 5 times in the chest. Russia not even trying to hide it
Yeah, it’s an interesting list.
How long before windows make it to the statistics of average deaths per-year in Russia?
I honestly wonder if the Kremlin figured the ratio of trained military personnel to dissidents needed to keep pushing people out of buildings.
Again? That’s another reason to uninstall all windows. Especially in Russia.
Bill gates and Steve balmer in shambles.
Why? so they can take you alive?
This is Russia, no joke.
