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[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 month ago (2 children)

No matter how many bad people are waiting to take his place, one less Putin in the world is a net positive.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I'll believe it when I see it.

He's a hard cockroach to get rid of.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Evil has a way to endure. Just look at Mitch McConnell.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

That's who I was thinking of when I first had the thought. Thanks for the reminder

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The good news is that Moscow Mitch will be dead soon, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're giving him the Lenin treatment before he's even dead

He's going to be around forever

Only the good die young, assholes live FOREVER

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Stalin tried to enforce the Lenin treatment for himself...

It doesn't always stick.

The next person to gain power is 100% going to clean house, because the Russian government is a pit of back biting vipers.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

You’re not worried that Putin is really just a puppet for all the oligarchs running the place now? Seems likely they’ll pick a new puppet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

They're all in it together, but the ones less loyal to Putin have a habit of dying.

Putin has had a bunch of them killed.

There's a great podcast called Sad Oligarch that goes over it all.

So yeah, Putin is not currently a puppet ruler.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Good to know, I’ll check out that podcast. It sounds pretty interesting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

A puppet is someone whose actions are fully steered from the outside.

Putin is a person chosen by KGB/FSB because he makes decisions that are very useful its leaders, but he retains a large amount of autonomy.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

So far in our species history, the most rich and powerful have not been able to defeat father time (they want to, but they can't figure out how ... Yet).

When I watched the first season of altered carbon, all I thought of was how the worst of our species will be the ones to live forever. I think avoiding death is really just a bio-engineering problem, and will be figured out if climate change doesn't unalive us all first

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Let's see them escape heat death of the universe

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

But then we have to suffer dealing with them for a few billion years lol

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

His replacement will almost certainly be bad but they will have the opportunity to hang the whole Ukraine debacle on Putin and end the war. No certainty of this of course, but it's possible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

They will of course attempt to keep the lands gained, they will be obliged to play the card of the referendum regions. But most of all they will need support, Oligarchs losing money, public losing sons, jobs, purchasing power. They will need to regain a hold on power and they cant do that by projecting what they have.