Yuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months ago🇺🇦 I consent. 🇷🇺 I consent. 🇺🇸 Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?hexbear.netimagemessage-square70fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down118file-text
arrow-up1129arrow-down1image🇺🇦 I consent. 🇷🇺 I consent. 🇺🇸 Isn't there someone you forgot to ask?hexbear.netYuritopiaposadism [none/use name]@hexbear.net to politics@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 months agomessage-square70fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareTomorrow_Farewell [any, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28·edit-23 months ago There was not a fair presidential election in Russia since (arguably) 1996 Imagine pretending that the 90s elections in Russia were ‘fair’ when NATO literally intervened in them on the side of Yeltsin. EDIT: grammar. I seem to have mixed up both ‘intervened in’ and ‘interfered with’ when I initially made the comment.
minus-squarebalsoft@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·3 months agoI concede that elections before then were not really fair either, but definitely not as blatant as 96.
Imagine pretending that the 90s elections in Russia were ‘fair’ when NATO literally intervened in them on the side of Yeltsin.
EDIT: grammar. I seem to have mixed up both ‘intervened in’ and ‘interfered with’ when I initially made the comment.
I concede that elections before then were not really fair either, but definitely not as blatant as 96.