Russian court fines internet user $470 for calling Putin -'unbelievable fuckwit'

[TheSyntaX]

https://meduza.io/en/news/2019/04/23/russian-court-fines-internet-user-hundreds-of-dollars-for-calling-vladimir-putin-an-unbelievable-fuckwit

A court in the Novgorod region's Chudovsky District has fined a local man 30,000 rubles ($470) for violating Russia's new law against insulting state officials on the Internet.
On March 31, 2019, at 6:45 p.m., Kartyzhev... shared on the social network VKontakte two notes with text that read ‘Putin is an unbelievable fuckwit,’ along with a graphic image of Russian President [Vladimir] Putin.”

He got off lightly, surprised he didn't get accidentally hit by car or something.

[Curls]

That's another one for the word replacer

[God of the Grove]

I actually find it novel that it makes fun of Trump and Bernie, if I'll be honest

[SentientToilet]

looks like someone will be having polonium sushi tonight

[ScottHarvey77]

What a dumb law.

[Aurora Valis]

He really shouldn't have posted that on a social network that is being monitored by the government.
But I agree, Putin is indeed an unbelievable fuckwit.

[TheSyntaX]

-$470

[Tinter]

More like the Russian government shouldn't punish people for just speaking their minds, no matter how obscene it is.

[Clovis]

That's the moderate wing of the Democrat party.

[Grink Of Meat]

Its a nice polite suggestion. But as long as russians love their big-government leatherdaddies, nothing changes.

[meefy]

That's old school kgb, nowadays youd get a nasty novichok stroganoff that will maim you, kill the delivery boy, and kill the hobo that went through your trash.

[Coldmute]

Aww, poor fucking baby. What, is the bear-wrestling superman ultra spy president-for-life to weak to take a simple fucking insult? Useless cock-munching fuck-headed horse-taint-licking vodka-brained dick-inverted piss-breath unbelievable fuckwit.

[TheTalon]

I don't think anything would change even if the Russian people wanted it to

[Merry Nihilist]

Excuse me, but you don't know what you're talking about. You don't just overthrow the government and it's all sweet and good. This is no fairly tale with a happy end, this is a real world we're talking about. Russia is a giant country. You need an organized small group of people with a firm idea how to run things and a desire to get into power and hold on to power. Well, there is no such people in Russia, at least no such people who are also benevolent and want to do good for the whole country and not just themselves. If we imagine we got rid of Putin some 10 years ago in a chaotic revolution propelled by ordinary people, the country would first become more criminalized and then some other authoritarian would take his place. Why? There's simply not enough vested interests distributed among people to establish some sort of distributed political system in Russia. And you have the most important generation of people in their 40s and 50s who were born and schooled in USSR, so having a big government is a no-brainer to them.

Nobody loves Putin in 2019 except those who depend on him to continue pocketing those sweet federal budget money coming from selling gas and oil and metals. But overthrowing him won't do much good, I guarantee it. Putin is just a coating on top of a cake that ties it together.

[Robichaelis]

VLADIMIR PUTIN IS A FUCKWIT

been nice knowing you fellas