Ballet stars, and their notoriously poor balance.
He seems to have astonishing balance for someone with one leg
His other leg:
Stay on the ground floor, Russians.
Heart attacks happens on every floor.
So do poisonings, and shootings but we’re just mitigating circumstances here lol.
There could always be a feral bullet that has ran away from it’s gun!
“Tragically fell from the ground floor balcony and landed on two bullets to the back of the head.”
A nice window to the future for US citizens critical of their government… a window ripe for defenestration…
If I die mysteriously from a fall, please refer to this comment.
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You may want to check the history of your country. It’s your past your present and your future.
A window to the present for journalists critical of Israel.
They don’t have any budget to do it differently or it’s a power move, like, it’s not official but you know it?
It’s a calling card. Everyone knows what happened, not a single soul will comment on it. Unless they fancy being the next up for flight lessons.
I wonder how Red Bull sales are in Russia.
What do you think Trump’s calling card will be? McDonalds induced heart attack?
Government issued tesla drove into a lake and drowned the occupants.
Bronze stained ligature marks the size of a child’s hands around the neck of anyone who openly opposed him.
Without the textbook.
Happy Cakeday! 🍰🎂
Power move. That and shooting yourself, in the back, multiple times.
“haha no problem, this is polonium tea”
don’t worry this is just normal tea I offer before I throw you off building
This isn’t funny.
You’re just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We’re actually jealous of you.
make sure you check your railings in America before January.
Everyone else is stocking up on food and drugs.
I’m stocking up on steel railings and evacuation air pads.
Unfortunately anti-russian racism is acceptable here. When you see a headline like this, just be ready for the comments.
Gallows humor about the suspicious deaths of people critical of an oligarchy is not racism.
Unless you are a wilfully credulous root vegetable of a person.
Russia isn’t a race.
It’s a failed state, ruled by a corrupt dictator.
Just like America in a couple months.
What exactly was racist?
And who said it’s funny. I’m confused
It’s not racism to point out that a surprising number of Putin critics have died from falling from tall buildings.
Vladimir Shklyarov:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/vladimir-shklyarov-death-st-petersburg-ballet-star-fall/Dan Rapoport:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/26/dan-rapoport-putin-critic-was-it-suicide-00053836Pavel Antov:
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-critic-pavel-antov-dies-falling-out-hotel-window-2022-12I think the comment meant to point out that these humorous take on a tragedy are only accepted as part of a russiophobic perspective. I tend to agree, although I don’t find it offensive I understand that similar comments on for example, the killing of a ukranian ballet dancer, would be seen differently by all of us. Hence, the xenophobia. Ukranian is western and we relate.
“The last thing a fish notices is the existance of water”
Just changing the victim nationality makes it palatable for jokes, that’s something that calls for observation
Do you seriously think Russian is a race?
I agree this isn’t racism against Russians.
But also, let’s not be pedantic. A nation can be discriminated against, any group of people can be. That’s what they meant by racism. They used it more broadly and that’s ok, I’m sure even you understood what they meant. What term would you use to be more precise?
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You’re trying to convince the person who agreed in the first place, this isn’t discriminatory.
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TIL Russian is a race
You need to update your vocabulary comrade. There may be new definitions of the word racism. Remember literally no longer only literally means literally. What a time we live in.
Criticising a government isn’t racism. If you criticise a country’s government it doesn’t mean you hate every person who lives in that country.
Pro-Russian comment meant to wield the left’s propensity to over-diagnose racism to redirect and distract.
I’d more call it politicism, as it’s more criticizing the political state and not someones origin/heritage.
I mean ballet dancers are known for being klutzy and prone to tripping over their own feet. Right?
Happens all the time, it’s why they recommend you don’t practice ballet on slippery roofs.
I imagine Russia is like the Star Wars setting, lots of crazy steep drops and they never install railings.
The platform where Darth Vader confronts Luke has railings, so they clearly have the parts, tools, and a guy who installs them. Maybe he’s just held up on Level B?
Or maybe they literally one have that one guy/gal installing the railings throughout the entire Republic‽
I hope ey finished the job on the Death Star and didn’t explode with it. Cause then it would be zero people installing railings afterwards
They are a contractor. They were obviously on a different job starting that before they came back to the Death Star.
Contractor: finishes 15 miles of railings on death star sub levels, moves to imperial star destroyer for next job
casually looks out window, death star explodes
Contractor: “mother f…”
Edits report to now state 20 miles of railings
wow and all that overtime too!
Russia be slippery. My heart goes out to these rare brave souls in a land of cowards.
Give it 2 months for the US
The US would never do this. Too much money to be made in the prison industry with legalized slavery. Much better investment to put them behind bars to generate profit.
In another article emergency services responded with this gem.
He died a natural death. It’s not a crime.
cause of death: the natural impact of cement on the body experienced after a perfectly natural fall
Gravity, is natural, no?
Lead is too
Yes, the police said he fell down an elevator shaft. Onto some bullets.
Everything is fine, nothing to see here. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m just going home. To my family. Which I love very much. And who I would never put in danger by not doing my job exactly as instructed.
This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.
Good news Russias economy is in the toilet and someone has started flushing already, Ukrain will prevail and hopefully we’ll have peace one day.
More realistically, he’ll probably die of old age or be ousted by someone younger and more exciting to the wealthy elite that keep Putin in power. Real change may come after that, but a change in leadership is not going to immediately fix long term issues like corruption, wealth disparity, etc.
I think they will become a Chinese vassal.
I don’t know exactly what that’d look like, but the pure economic/political dynamics make it seem kinda inevitable.
A unified China/Russia alliance sounds like a player in a near future sci-fi, so I’ll take that as a good sign
A unified China/Russia alliance
The Red Alert and Generals cross over we don’t want!
Unless the Russians violently purge there elites, a new dictator will take the seat before the corpse is cold. He may even hold a sham election to “legitimize” himself as the best person to sand next to a window with.
True. Another possibility is that the economy (and infrastructure gotten their maintenance money stolen for 20 years and starts to crumble) goes down with a skyrocketing inflation going to the moon killing the ruble, and who knows what happens when you can’t pay your army any more …
Interesting times for russia.
Oh, so China expands to fill that void and hands out a portion to Kim Jong Ug before repainting things?
Take it with a grain of salt, as I am not an expert, but it looks like China would prefer an ‘independent’ country that is ruled by Chinese government in secret. That way they don’t need to fix and repair all the shit, and can only spend bare minimum of effort needed to keep
slavescitizens aliveOh, so Russia & N.K. already, then? Let’s not even start with Iran, et al. 👀🤌🏼
I doubt the USA would let them do that freely, but it’s an interesting take.
Uh. I’ve got some news you might not enjoy, citizen…
Sure, who knows. It’d be a full mess though.
Russia is Game of Thrones in real life. I wouldn’t bet on positive change there.
This just piles up on the reasons Russia needs to be denuclearisased, putin getting ousted, democracy installed and so on.
Indeed and same goes for israel or USA. Every nation involved in shady actions should be denucleariased and its politician held account for their crimes.
Good luck with that.
Hey, at least you know what the possessive form of “it” is. 🤓🤘🏽
“in an apparent suicide, putin critic ________ shot himself in the back 20 times. more at 11”
He’s gonna do it again at 11? Damn, that’s super sus.
Gotta give him time to reload.
I laughed way to hard at this. I never thought of it like this
That’s the second addition this week: Suspicious deaths of notable Russians
It’s only Tuesday
“Fell out of window.”
“He was on the ground floor.”
“Fell out of window and face-planted twenty-six times.”
“Fell out of window… hard.”
Colonel Vadim Boyko 2022
Shot himself 5 times in the chest. Russia not even trying to hide it
Yeah, it’s an interesting list.
So many people fall from their windows or balconies in Russia that I am surprised they are still legal
Someone pushed for a new law outlawing them, but the efforts ended after he accidentally fell off a balcony to his death.
his proposal had quite the impact, they say.
It’s to make the point that they were murdered. It’s a fear tactic with plausible deniability.
It’s like how so many people in America did by hitting bullets with their squishy bodies.
Yes. Everyone is aware of that.
I wasn’t.
Anyone paying attention is.
Every comment in this post, except yours, is proof of that.Oh so now you’re qualifying your previous statement.
I get to use the new tags.
Cool story bro
they are still legal
People?!
Comrade Putin thanks you for your contribution, we will do as you suggest and make people illegal.
Mandatory murder-windows.
This is what happens when you loosen up regulations. Bunch of really shoddy sub-par balconies. They practically throw you off them.
You just know that once Trump takes office, a bunch of balconies are just gonna become death traps. Particularly balconies owned by Mexicans, Democrats, members of the “fake news”, and transgender people.
This cisgender male Republican-owned balconies will still be safe. Miraculously.
Turns out Epstein didn’t commit suicide after all: He just fell out of his notoriously unsecured cell window on the basement floor while the cameras were off.
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How long before windows make it to the statistics of average deaths per-year in Russia?
I honestly wonder if the Kremlin figured the ratio of trained military personnel to dissidents needed to keep pushing people out of buildings.
Why do you think Microsoft left the Russian market?
Good comrades run Astra.
