Teenager jailed for playing anti-Kremlin song on the streets of St Petersburg
Teenager jailed for playing anti-Kremlin song on the streets of St Petersburg
I know folks hate the us peanut gallery with this but this is exactly the type of things we were told made russia worse than the us and now people are arrested for playing innocuous songs in front of ice facilities. Heck even prayers by actual clergy results in being shot in the head.
I remember monsters of rock or whatever it was. I was hugely into Pantera, my parents hated Pantera. Pantera played to the largest audience in the fucking world after the fall of the commie scum, suddenly, Pantera ain't so fucking bad.
RIP Dime and Vinnie.
Except that the frontman is a fucking nazi
Fascist regime is fascist.
Every time I see a picture of a Russian activist its the most beautiful person ive ever seen. What are they putting in the water over there???
A raving beauty now, but at age 38 she'll turn into a beautiful babushka! Something about the water....
.. and prison
Ah, the Nadezhda Tolokonnikova effect
How tf you gonna fight back against someone who looks like this? If this woman told me I was doing something wrong I'd hang myself
I believe this is the song she was playing
Terrible Google translate of the lyrics:
I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here's my answer to your non-question:
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his "Lake." Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!
When it's all over, you'll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You're clearly slightly depressed about something.
I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!
Let Grandpa tremble for his "Lake."
Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!
A lot of references to the fall of the USSR
This kind of thing coming to 'merica thanks to Taco and pals.
It's already there.
Pussy Riot vibes
Hey, just like us in the Freedom country of USA.
How long until an anti MAGA song has the same penalty?
O7
Mad respects.
As a Chinese-American, I feel so depressed about the situation of both countries I lived in, tyranny is everywhere. I'm being targeted by both countries and tbh I'm just not brave enough to do actual protests, because I'm scared and I just want to stay under the radar. I'm dealing with a lot of depression, and I don't think I have the endurance it takes. I already got falsely arrested once by the US Gestapo and I'm still dealing with the PTSD.
If anything it's not up to you to protest inside the US. Minority opinions have mattered very little inside this country. Its up to the white majority to realize that eventually the rights they take away from others they take away from themselves
American vibes.
This generation’s Pussy Riot?
only jailed? america's best allies in the middleeast would have killed her and sentenced her entire family to life.
whataboutism
Russia being a tolitarian oppressive shithole is old news. I just pointed that the US's closest allies in the middleeast are a genocidal aparthied that bribes their government, and oppressive dictatorships that enrich their elites with their natural and political resources. All are objectively worse than Russia.
so I agree russia is bad and deserve their sanctions from the US and rest of EU,, but where are the sanctions against Israel? it's lawless hypocracy
yes i too enjoy doing things i know will send me into jail and be put on my record.
The point is to show how fucked up and authoritarian your current government is. Someone just got arrested by the police in the US for playing the Darth Vader song to protest the National Guard. So yeah, we're about as fucked as Russia right now.
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar in Berlin for a friendly drink
CIA Agent says: Why do you like Russia so much? You have no freedom. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan", and you will not be punished.
KGB Agent smiles and shakes his head: Nonsense, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan", and you will not be punished, either.
lemmy.ml in a nutshell
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best, but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused.. There's no propaganda in America."
The KGB smiles and says "Exactly".
Today it is the US president yelling "Down with Ronald Reagan(s advert)"
Nowadays the President is also a KGB asset.