• @[email protected]
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    174 months ago

    I always wondered about his health. I’ve seen state photos of him sitting at the end of a ridiculously long table. People interpreted it as a power move, but it could also be because his immune system is fucked. Not a doc, but I know there’s quite a few treatments that end up suppressing the immune system.

    Although given the amount of people he’s ordered poisoned, I’d want to keep my distance from everyone who might hold a grudge too.

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      Not too long ago there were videos of him where his hands were shaking until he grabbed the table.

        • Tuukka RM
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          But many kinds of medicine can induce Parkinson’s.

          • @[email protected]
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            like what medicine? do you even know what parkinsons is? You show me a medicine that can induce the creation of phosphorylated alpha synuclein.

            • Tuukka RM
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              Okay, true, technically not Parkinsons. But medicines can cause symptoms that are the same as those of the most visible symptoms of Parkinson’s disease. Hands shaking, difficulty in walking, mind not working completely. No idea of the pharmacology behind it. All I know that I’ve seen it happen.

              • @[email protected]
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                tremor and parkinsons are not the same… i say this as someone who has parkinsons. you shouldn’t say stuff if you have no idea what you’re talking about, dumb people will believe it and you spreading misinfo.

                • Tuukka RM
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                  True that. And I understand it was impolite of me to not correct this.

                  I would still like to remind that the claim “he has Parkinson’s” is not by me. What is known is that he has tremors, and people jump the gun and assume that’s Parkinson’s. No, it is not necessarily Parkinson’s.

                  It can also be just some other – strong – drugs having tremor as a side effect. And then what those medications might be (partially?) healing is more relevant than whether one can live long with Parkinson’s or not.

    • @[email protected]
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      134 months ago

      Putin being at the end of the table is probably because he’s terrified of being assassinated, but the photos of him at the last Victory Day Parade look terrible. Out of makeup, he looks look a walking corpse.

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    44 months ago

    If CK2 taught me one thing, it’s that claim wars automatically end when the claimant dies. As soon as putin keels over all the red flagged armies in Ukraine will go neutral and have to walk back home.

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    424 months ago

    rumors about the Russian leader’s failing health.

    Yeah yeah, we’ve had these for years now. Wake me up when Russia’s new president signs a peace deal that isn’t a full on annexation of Ukrainian territories with nothing in return. If that ever happens.

  • @[email protected]
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    234 months ago

    Hooo! If this is true Russia’s in for it. He’s been very effective at eliminating any possible successors. Hopefully the nukes stay safe.

  • @[email protected]
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    1444 months ago

    I have kept a bottle of bubbles in the fridge for one of two possible celebrations for far too long now.

        • @[email protected]
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          He said for a long time. Trumps first presidency was disorganized random shit. Not something to save a bottle for. Besides, even if there was a bottle from 2016-2020, I think it would have been used in 2020 when Biden won. At the time, you’d assume that would be the end of trump, but he’s like a cockroach. Still though, that bottle would be gone. So I think it’s more likely the second bottle would be for Mitch McConnell.

          Yeah. He STILL exists. Forgot about him, didn’t ya?

              • @[email protected]
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                34 months ago

                Actually they said they have a single bottle meant for 2 possible occasions worth celebrating. One would be Putin death. Can you guess the other occasion for celebration?

            • @[email protected]
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              54 months ago

              My “bubbly list” is creeping up. On top of the obvious choices, I’ve added a handful of the old guard Democratic dipshits that more or less actively helped us sleepwalk into this complete clusterfuck.

          • @[email protected]
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            Trump’s first presidency ended during COVID’s first year, he killed hundreds of thousands, excess deaths were over 600k for the first year.

    • @[email protected]
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      I don’t drink but maybe I should get a bottle in case one of three people move onto their judgement.

  • @[email protected]
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    I hope whatever happens, the world can find some more stability, peace, and freedom soon. This decade will be spoken about for the next couple hundred years at least.

    • JokeDeity
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      There’s no way we have a couple hundred more years on this planet.

    • @[email protected]
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      I remember when this decade started and me and everybody thought if we could just get rid of covid everything will be fine again.

    • macniel
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      I wonder what Trump will do once the puppetmaster has perished.

    • @[email protected]M
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      54 months ago

      A hundred dictators is still better than a hundred and one dictator. When one approached a difficult task, it’s better to divide it into smaller tasks.

    • @[email protected]
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      24 months ago

      if the next one is one if the loud ones who post on nazi line, theres a good chance they would be more incompetent. but offset by being more unhinged… looking at you Medvedev…

    • @[email protected]
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      The power vacuum will suck, and the next one will suck. But the world will be measurably better once that dictator is dead.

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand
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        Oh for sure, I am standing hella out of the way of anyone who wants to take a shot at him. I just feel he’s only part of a deeper issue with Russia, and I think everyone would be a lot safer if it was balkanized. I doubt we’ll be so lucky, it must be said.

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    There’s probably a bunch of also bad people waiting in line to take his place. But would still celebrate his death though.

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      34 months ago

      Let’s hope there’s a bunch so they stay busy fighting each other for it, instead of other people.

    • Shawdow194
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      At least whoever takes over next has good reason to rescind the war effort. Unlike the panty poisoner who is locked into this by his imperious attitude

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      Yes, there are bad people waiting, but whoever comes in would be a fool to keep the Ukraine war going.

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      244 months ago

      Probably, but there’s likely to be a lot of infighting about which one of them would take over.

    • Diplomjodler
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      After Stalin it took more than 50 years for anyone to achieve the kind of power that he had. Once Valodja is gone (can’t be soon enough), the situation will be similar. The satraps will fight among themselves and maybe, just maybe there will be some meaningful opposition again.

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        It’s also important to note that Putin intentionally keeps all other leaders in Russia as weak as possible to maintain his iron grip. Unless he has a very good succession plan, things could become quite a clusterfuck before the dust settles.

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        Russia will collapse immediately. Their military is a joke. The only tactics they have are meat swarms and those are severely depleted.

        China will seize huge swaths of land, Chechnya will break off, it’s going to be insane how fast it will implode

    • Goldholz
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      Yes. But there will be a huge power vaccume. They will tear each other into pieces to get to the thrown

    • Sidyctism II.
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      really hope he doesnt pull a kissinger. that fuck let us wait for so long, when it actually happened, it was kinda like a wet fart

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      This is why I’m against anti aging research. I can’t get over how bad it would be if anti-aging tech arrives. Only the wealthy and powerful could afford it.

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        Depends on the flavor of the research. I’m all for still dying in my 70s but also am for being relatively fuckable until the very end.

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        Technically DIY gene therapy already exists. You probably can’t afford to do it working at McDonalds if you pay rent, but it’s something.

        But yeah, there isn’t any real reverse-aging tech, yet. Not until that lobster scientist figures out how to extend telomeres, the stem cell dudes figure out how to regenerate entire organs, and the CRISPER dudes invent a way for the cascade proteins to target degraded or virus-alterred DNA regularly. Even then, humans aren’t really built to live past reproductive ages, even a perfect genetic condition would accumulate tissues in all the wrong places.

        I think what the world truly needs is lower total populations only achievable via education and empowerment of young men and women. Mostly women. Especially the empowerment part.

    • @[email protected]
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      My man. I’ve been doing that since I was 5 years old. It is a fucking TRAVESTY that even living in 2010 during the nostolgia orgins era, PeeWee Herman never got redemption in getting his show return to CBS. Although to be fair, by the time 2010 rolled around the whole concept of Saturday morning cartoons was dead. So it would be kind of weird to sandwich PeeWee’s Playhouse between CBS morning news and Meet the Press.

      Still though…