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I love it! Can someone translate the stickers?
I got to say though watching some of these interactions with total strangers makes me tense. Especially when the drivers act all tough behind the wheel. Some basically wanting to end your life so they themselves can gain a few extra seconds in their lives.
More info: https://www.boredpanda.com/car-stickers-for-bad-drivers-russia-stopxam-stop-a-douchebag/
And yeah, drivers get really fucking unhinged when you challenge their sense of entitlement. I've been deliberately rammed by drivers more than once while trying to keep them out of a bike lane. (The incidents forced the city to install plastic barriers to keep out the cars, so I won. The lesson is that this sort of direct action is a very effective tactic.)
We've known that driving makes people fucking crazy since at least 1960, BTW:
The incidents forced the city to install plastic barriers to keep out the cars, so I won. The lesson is that this sort of direct action is a very effective tactic
Any press we can read?
Not that I know of (and if there were, I wouldn't link it because it would doxx me).
Very satisfying. I put cards on cars parked by douche bags that say ‘The way you pulled in makes me wish your dad pulled out’. Sticker is even better.
This one has a satisfying body slam of douche bag driver after he assaults them https://youtu.be/ibl6SHbq8sY
I watched like 6 videos before a driver pulled a gun. They still didn’t back down and he got ticketed by the police.
I used to watch this back in the day but there were persistent rumours that it was state propaganda of some kind. I don't see how exactly it is meant to work but it's credible that Russia was active on YouTube and social media at the time. Anyone know?
The organizer of these raids is Nashi (means something like Our Own Kind in Russian, not in a racist way, but like our own close-minded people) which was basically a youth wing of the United Russia party. They don't do anything without the purpose of state propaganda.
And also, if you watch them all, you can see that in a number of these videos, the activists are definitely pushing too hard and being assholes themselves when the driver was not really even pushing back and could just move their car easily, just to get rage views.
Why would this be state propaganda? How would the Russian plutocracy benefit from this?
The politics in these videos is very interesting and regional shit I don't really understand comes up a lot. There's a lot of "things are better now, the cops are no longer corrupt", there's a bunch of messaging I can see but not really contextualize.
Everything that promotes another country is propaganda.
Everything that promotes my country is just the truth.
Everything that makes another country look bad is the truth.
Everything that makes my country look bad is propaganda.
We are winning the war with Eastasia
We have never been at war with Eastasia
Channelling discontent in some way, with a bit of classic divide & conquer
legend. You can see their car brain evaporate when they try to remove the sticker, it's like falling from the Olympus back into being a mere mortal pedestrian, haha, fucking KAPEHs
Great work they're doing, although I gotta say this looks like a prime spot for a bollard (even a guerilla one if the government isn't helping) or even just some paint. I think someone could sincerely confuse that for a road.