They’re not likenesses (I did check) and pretty cartoonish. But I do worry about them seeming celebratory or inappropriately trivializing.
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(If Putin goes that way, though, I assure the readership it will be a likeness, celebratory, and appropriately trivializing)
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You would think Putin would mix it up a little to make it less obvious…
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Fair enough, and I look forward to that one
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The obviousness is intentional. It’s a message to the rest of them: “I did this, openly. If you step out of line I’ll do it to you too.”
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Is it better to just ignore it and hope it all goes away? You know that is not how it usually works, right?
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Don’t worry. It is not celebrating the murder but clearly illustrating (at least to most of us) out how grotesquely barbaric the behaviour of the Putin regime is.
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This seems like a great time in Russia to push anyone you don’t like out a window. No one will ask too many questions.
However, Putin might consider it an IP violation.
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The clumsiness of the excuses are of course the exact point: Putin wants everyone to know these are assassinations, not accidents or suicides, which is why he’s using windows. It’s flashy, public, and the deniability isn’t plausible.
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You can have some of mine; I’ve got… something like 99 problems. (but that’s not one of them.)
(Video has naughty words in it, along with the Beetles.)
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An unnamed police official
Also, it seems the Indian government/police are on the take as well. Although it could be a case of Hanlon’s Razor as well.
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Cops are lazy and suicides mean a lot less paperwork than homicides.
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In? Or slightly outside, beneath a window?
Anyway, mystery solved. I learnt today that the Indian word for ‘window’ is the same as the Russian word for ‘door’.
(it’s really not).
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Meat Magnate? More like Cement Magnet.
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They’ll always have Putin.
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Not a problem. Being an oligarch is at least cushier, if not necessarily all that much safer, than getting used to absorb Ukrainian ammunition; so they’ll have mobiks jumping at the chance.
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yes putin does not like it when people steal his jokes … especially his favourite running gag.
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It’s called Karma.
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I really don’t want to see how the sausage gets made.
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