Š„ŃŠøŃŃŠ¾Ń, ŠŗŠ°ŠŗŠ°Ń Š¼ŃŠ“Š°Šŗ!
Wrong pronoun, and āŠ„ŃŠøŃŃŠ¾Ńā has a rather specifically liturgical ring to it. I believe in the appropriate vernacular it should be āŠŠ¾ŃŠæŠ¾Š“Šø, ŠŗŠ°ŠŗŠ¾Š¹ Š¼ŃŠ“Š°Šŗ!ā
In Soviet Russia, debt collect you?
So itās completely legal to rape and burn people in Russia if they owe you money. Wow.
I mean thatās what the headline says, right? So Xeni, how much does Buzzfeed charge for their headline writing seminar?
Xeni isnāt a journalist. Thatās a mistake Iāve made, as well, before I was corrected. Or rather, she is a journalist, but not on Boing Boing. Sheās not a journalist in the sense that an inkwell is an inkwell. Sheās an inkwell. An inkwell is a journalist. A journalist is a journalist. To be an inkwell is to be a journalist. A journalist inks well. A well-inked journalist is not.
Hopefully that clarifies.
Often it seems like some journalists canāt tell the difference between āwe canāt prosecuteā and āitās legal.ā I assure you the judge knows the difference.
The scary thing? Debt collectors in the US are probably watching this and thinking of ways to make it legal to do that here.
āMayā can also mean āmightā. Nothing about the headline implies that itās legal unless you really want to read that into it (which one may do if they felt the need to make disingenuous criticism I guess).
Using your stance on the intent of the use of the word āmayā here the headline becomes meaningless. If the implication is that someone might do something illegal and get away with it isnāt new information.
The headline was meant to imply that this is, on some level, accepted practice in Russia. Itās bait.
66 Rubles to the US Dollar, they are hurting for sure.
I took Latin in high school. Google Translate is responsible for this one.
But is it not in fact, on some level, accepted practice? Itās accepted practice not in the sense that it isnāt covered by a criminal code, or that it doesnāt attract the disapproval of the citizenry, but it appears to be accepted practice in the sense that offialdom tolerates debt collection shenanigans.
Russia is hardly alone in that, though this is written from a perspective of outrage which seems to have got your goat a bit. How are you more disappointed with the dramatic drawing of attention to injustice than you are with the injustice itself?
If itās not effectively legal, then surely the authorities can punish these people and get redress for the victims? Itās one of the other no matter what the penal code or constitution might say.
Iām sure Xeni is glad youāve explained what her intention was. She probably wasnāt able to articulate it herself.
Yes, it implies itās becoming accepted practice among some number of debt collectors in Russia, which is what the article is saying. No, that doesnāt mean the headline implies itās fully legal or widely viewed as socially acceptable. Youāre reading an extreme and unrealistic meaning into this headline.
No, it doesnāt. If it did before I got here, it now says debt collectors may. The collectors got away with the crime. Therefore they de facto may assume they can do it. For example, I may smoke weed in downtown Austin provided I donāt walk up to a cop and blow it in his face. Itās illegal. I may do it anyway. If you take issue with the headlineās implication that collectors getting away with it means they can expect to get away with it in the future, then fine (though I will point out that even if officials make a few examples with actual investigation and prosecution of the criminals, it will probably be because the media gave the crime attention). But when you change the meaning of the headline to suit an unsupported reading of it, that undermines your argument, and defending the mistake doesnāt change that.
Itās all a matter of greasing the right palms.
I just got a PM from @xeni, and she is disappointed in BoingBoing.
Canāt believe she gets on the list before I do, totes misandry.
Itās all in the delivery.
Or at least figure out how to get away with it. They already do a lot of things that are illegal, but theyāve figured out how far they can push it before they get in trouble.
