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« on: February 11, 2018, 08:51:28 AM »

Ksenia Sobchak is running against Putin in the presidential election as an independent candidate. She has criticized Putin on many issues but some believe that she was chosen by the Kremlin to stand as a token opposition candidate as Aleksei Navalny, the most prominent opposition politician, was not allowed to run.

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« Reply #1 on: February 11, 2018, 09:02:46 AM »

Of course she is.
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« Reply #2 on: February 11, 2018, 09:20:36 AM »

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« Reply #3 on: February 11, 2018, 10:15:23 AM »

Obviously. Her dad is one of Putin's buddies and she speaks pretty highly of Putin too.
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« Reply #4 on: February 11, 2018, 10:31:51 AM »

Obviously. Her dad is one of Putin's buddies and she speaks pretty highly of Putin too.

He died in 2000, apparently poisoned. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatoly_Sobchak
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« Reply #5 on: February 11, 2018, 04:01:03 PM »

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« Reply #6 on: February 11, 2018, 06:57:46 PM »

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« Reply #7 on: February 23, 2018, 01:20:25 AM »


People that suggest otherwise have a similar level of understanding of Russian politics that tankies who think China is still Communist do of that country.
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« Reply #8 on: February 23, 2018, 09:36:46 AM »

To some extent, it's a mutually beneficial relationship between her and Putin where both think they are playing the other. Putin thinks he is promoting an extremely unappealing neo-liberal SJW who could never gain more than 3% of the vote to be the official leader of the opposition. Sobchak thinks this is a foot in the door and that she's controlled opposition now, but she'll be in a good position to take power if Putin somehow gets Soros'd.
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« Reply #9 on: February 23, 2018, 10:03:54 AM »


There are several different versions of what I call Schrodinger's China:

Tankies/Maoists:
When China is better at something than the US/West, it's because China has remained a Marxist Leninist Utopia true to the PRC's founding principles. When China is worse at something than the US/West, it's because China has deviated from the true path set by Mao and embraced Capitalism, becoming a deformed worker's state.

Traditional Conservatives:
When China is better at something than the US/West, it's because China has fully embraced capitalism. When China is worse at something than the US/West, it's because China is still Communist.

Alt-Rightists/Fascists:
When China is better at something than the US/West, it's because China is a homogenous ethnostate which practices Eugenics and uses the one-child policy to breed super-babies. When china is worse at something than the US/West, it's because China has too much cultural diversity and it's actually Japan that will dominate the 21st Century.  
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