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[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

This is the end result of a fascist and imperialist regime and it's brain rot propaganda mobilizing it's population for ideological war.

[–] [email protected] 147 points 1 week ago (3 children)

How, as a Russian, do you watch the blowing up of a fictional children's joy bringer as a good thing?

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A world where Comrade Krampus canes fascists would be pretty awesome.

Unfortunately, Putin has absolutely no interest in punishing the wicked.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Not trying to justify this but neither the article or anyone here is picking up on the detail that Russians have their "own" Santa, that's the guy dressed in blue.

So they are shooting down the western Santa and their kids still get their presents from their own Santa.

Idiotic video still but it is not like they kill Christmas worldwide. Just for everyone else, as in typical fashion.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"Father frost" is actually the "santa" version of many post-soviet countries, including Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yes, you are actually right about that and I missed that detail.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm missing where Russian Santa's presents are shown, he mostly seems to be involved in surprise pyrotechnics

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Have you looked at our caps recently? … The badges on our caps… have you looked at them… they’ve got skulls on them. … They’ve actually got little pictures of skulls on them.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 week ago

Given the recent Azerbaijan airlines disaster this really is cartoon level evil.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 week ago

Ah, so that's how they shot that Azerbaijani passenger plane. They should put the Krokodil down.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Is Russia trying to be the bad guy? I've been told that everyone's the hero of Their Own story, but this is making me seriously doubt that. These stupid fucks equate NATO with Santa and then depicted themselves killing him. This is literally the most bad guy coded thing I've ever heard of my entire life. This is like the most blatantly evil children's cartoon villain thing they could have possibly done.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

The quiet part out loud is russia is an ideological extremist warmonger who considers itself to be in a life or death struggle with an amorphous idea of "the west". And doesn't give a fuck about what anyone says or thinks about them.

Which is exactly why the west should treat them how they want to be treated. A wartime enemy.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 week ago

"Santa" in the form you know it is a typical American holiday character. It made it's way into Russia as well, but it is now used as a symbol of the west like it used to be. What for you may seem as good is something they may see as evil. They have their own "Santa", as seen in the video, dressed more in the style of the Russian orthodox church.

Too bad though Russia doesn't know the difference between Santa in a sled and an Azerbaijani airliner.

[–] Justas 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

inb4 they electrocute the Easter bunny, gangrape the Tooth Fairy, commit a genocide against elves and dwarves and firebomb Shrek's swamp.

Edit: I will be eating my hamster any day now and same with using a horse to get to work.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 week ago

They did a cartoon because they cant shoot down a real NATO plane. They cant even buy one and shoot that one down. Best they can do is an Azerbaijani airliner. Wow.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

"Santa represents peace, and brings happiness to children. We could not tolerate that"

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Why do they need DRM for a fucking news article

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Fuck DRM, fuck Widevine, I just compile my browser without them

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It's not compiled into Firefox ever. A binary blob is downloaded after the first time you activate DRM. So just don't activate it and it'll never be present on your machine.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

That's good to know

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

I just disable it on my browsers, am too lazy to compile :3c

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, never noticed that before. I guess they have embedded videos?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Embedded videos don't need DRM

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They do if they're DRM'ed!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well yes, but they shouldn't be and they really don't need to

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Absolutely correct.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 week ago

This one became real dark when the Russians shot the Azerbaijani flight. This video was released days before that tragedy, no?

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

The other "Santa" in the video is "Father Frost" smh my head

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Grandfather frost if be more specific

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

This is not the Russian government being paranoid of NATO, this is the Russian government trying to remind us population that the decadent west, where people have fun, is evil and they shouldn't want to be like the west. Don't enjoy life, be a good little slave for Putin.

It's all smoke and mirrors just to add another seed of "hate the west" so that Putin and his oligarch friends can stay in power. Wouldn't want people to get wrong ideas like actual democracy where people could make decisions that are good for them, now would we.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

That’s right up there with “Freedom Fries”. A weak and petty jab that nobody actually gives an F about other than the few people needing to compensate for their egos.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This is so completely idiotic that I don't even understand the point of going through all the effort of making it.

Who's going to cheer to it? Or is it just so that we can share it and find it stupid ?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Perhaps it was just a bird strike

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

The blyats are pathetic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

why does santa rus need someone else to take out santato? was santato violating ITAR?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Santatos.... Boil em, mash em, stick em in a stew

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 week ago

It's actually really funny.