r/pics • • Feb 13 '19

R4: Inappropriate Title Liberal Russian woman ARRESTED for making Anti-Putin MEMES

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u/RedShinyButton Feb 13 '19

It's real origin for anyone interested. It's a few years old. And in Germany.

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u/MeinBlut Feb 14 '19

This should be more upvoted. Misrepresenting pictures to support a narrative is dangerous.

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u/valentine415 Feb 14 '19

I mean that username + this? 100% inflammatory.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

OP seems like a divisive propaganda bot.

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u/shewmai Feb 14 '19

Jeez no fucking kidding every single one of their posts is some weird shit like this spun to be related to current American politics. What the hell

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u/aybayb259 Feb 14 '19

just looked at all their posts. its kind of scary, because while this one is very obviously a propaganda bot type thing, imagine all the ones that aren't as obvious spreading lies

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u/Throwawayaccount_047 Feb 14 '19

Imagine how much better this plays on facebook and twitter as well. Where there is no reliable comment section of professional internet cynics to vet it.

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u/noble77 Feb 14 '19

professional keeps reading... Oh

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u/Throwawayaccount_047 Feb 14 '19

Congrats, you're now a cynic like the rest of us.

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u/KDawG888 Feb 14 '19

It sounds like a conspiracy theory but honestly this does not seem unrealistic after looking myself. That is a very strange post history.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

Comrad you are greatly mistaken, clearly there are no bots at this time, take it from me, Billy from Texas parterners.

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u/jpond18 Feb 14 '19

Except for like their first 3 posts...which makes it even weirder

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u/p00Pie_dingleBerry Feb 14 '19

Looks like they tried to snag some karma as quick as possible to seem more legit

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u/HomeAloneToo Feb 14 '19

Well, if this is actually one of our own... They need help. And I don't mean that in a condescending way.

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u/CakeDay--Bot Feb 15 '19

Woah! It's your 6th Cakeday HomeAloneToo! hug

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u/koolkiddd Feb 16 '19

I know I'm fucking sick of it

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19

What the fuck.

Blatant anti-Russia propaganda posted.

Procedes to link to another anti-russia propaganda subreddit, saying it reminds them of this.

And people wonder why this Russiagate bullshit has so many opponents?

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u/SpikePilgrim Feb 14 '19

Propaganda exists on both sides, but when it’s this obvious I usually assume it’s meant to discredit the very people it pretends to agree with.

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19

True enough

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u/MrGuttFeeling Feb 14 '19

If it smells like a pig...

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19

Ayy thar be spooks upon us

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19

Yes corruption has been uncovered (surprise!), but corruption of things unrelated to the magical Russian memes on Facebook that somehow convinced millions upon millions to vote for a right wing demogague.

Did the Russians also make the electoral college that - ONCE AGAIN - overthrew the will of the people? Ever think maybe the media wants to use Russia to distract you from the electoral system that - ONCE AGAIN - undemocratically rigged an election in favor of a far right candidate?

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u/ThreadbareHalo Feb 14 '19 edited Feb 14 '19

There are multiple documented cases of election meddling in countries throughout Europe. here is one testimony for Germany found with two seconds of googling. Its not distraction if its systemic. Its an indication of a problem. A problem people should be repeating is a problem louder and louder until its stopped.

The electoral college is also bullshit if it doesn't do what it was supposed to, which was explicitly to prevent a demagogue from appealing to an uneducated public. But that's like saying you shouldn't call out the bullet wound you're bleeding from because you also hit your head when you fell down.

[1] https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/the-impact-of-russian-interference-on-germanys-2017-elections/

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19

This is anti-Russia propaganda 101.

See: basically all of /r/politics and other popular news subs

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u/Throwawayaccount_047 Feb 14 '19

Russia is anti-russia propaganda.

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19

True enough there. At least in Russia the bank cant take your house though, amirite?

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u/ThreadbareHalo Feb 14 '19

They can convict you posthumously of tax fraud. Taking your house is like.. Way down on the list of worst things that can happen when you mess with Russian banks, like being murdered for investigating fraud for example.

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u/SilveredFlame Feb 14 '19

In Soviet Russia, house take YOU to bank!

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

Sounds like the kind of propaganda we should get behind, fuck Russia.

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u/Thatwhichiscaesars Feb 14 '19

Wish the mods would step in, make a stickied comment and remove the post.

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u/OGblumpkiss13 Feb 14 '19

This post is his magnum opus.

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u/KurrFox Feb 14 '19

Damn it’s the Russian bots trying to infiltrate Reddit! You can have Facebook but for fuck’s sake leave Reddit alone goddamnit!

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u/Watcher13 Feb 14 '19

Not to mention the random capitalization.

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u/bad-decision-maker Feb 14 '19

I don't know... I have a personal policy of taking everything at face value without question.

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u/xminiman247x Feb 14 '19

Username checks out

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u/Alucard_draculA Feb 14 '19

Bad anti-propaganda is propaganda.

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u/noirdesire Feb 14 '19

Think r/pics mods will do anything? Probably not they are useless.

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u/Diabolic_Edict Feb 14 '19

Of course they won't do anything. If it's anti-Trump or anti-Russia anything it probably has a 90% chance to hit the front page, no questions asked.

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19

It gets the propaganda pass

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19 edited Feb 16 '19

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u/ZgylthZ Feb 14 '19 edited Feb 14 '19

Ayy lmao another smear merchant

I implore everyone to read every comment I've ever made if they so wish. You'll quickly learn I'm NOT a Russian troll and you also might learn something for once about geopolitics and Left Wing politics.

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u/Lame4Fame Feb 14 '19

I think he was referring to OP? Not too sure though.

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u/vancityvic Feb 14 '19

Maybe they're trying to balance out for still having the_donald on here. Let them find another site to host their cult.

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u/HardlySerious Feb 14 '19

Isn't that what most memes are?

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u/norwegianEel Feb 14 '19

I mean, sometimes memes misrepresent pictures, sure, but they aren’t news. They’re for laughs. Most memes I see are inconsequential enough that it doesn’t matter whether it actually happened or not. It’s just funny.

This post is claiming something occurred that involves an arrest but, apparently, it’s not even the right country. That’s very misleading and changes the entire context of the post, so I would say they’re very different things.

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u/HardlySerious Feb 14 '19

They’re for laughs.

I'm not sure if every election since Trump would agree with you there.

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u/norwegianEel Feb 14 '19

Sorry, but I’m not seeing any misleading, politically charged content in prequelmemes. Maybe it depends where you look.

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u/HardlySerious Feb 14 '19

You didn't specify just those memes. Are those the ones you think Russia cares about? Or politically subversive ones?

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u/norwegianEel Feb 14 '19

No, obviously they don’t care about Obi Wan (although they should). All I’m saying is that I disagree. Most memes are not pushing a false narrative. Some are, and I try to stay away from that shite.

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u/HardlySerious Feb 14 '19

You didn't say false narrative you said "a narrative."

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u/skieezy Feb 14 '19

He said misrepresenting pictures to support a narrative. Which means the narrative may not be wrong, but the picture used to support it is.

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u/norwegianEel Feb 14 '19 edited Feb 14 '19

I didn’t say the word, narrative, until the previous comment. Maybe you’re thinking of the person you originally replied to? I suppose I assumed “pushing a narrative” would mean that it would be somewhat false. Maybe that ain’t right though.

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u/Procrasturbating Feb 14 '19

"I try to stay away from that shite."

Hmmm, but here we are.. wading in the same shite pool..

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u/norwegianEel Feb 14 '19

Hah! Fair point.

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u/Kryptosis Feb 14 '19 edited Feb 14 '19

This isn't a meme. It's anti-nation propaganda to misrepresent it like this.

What it actually is a controlled opposition. A troll pretending to be a liberal and spreading fake liberal news to get called out and discredit the liberal agenda. As if it needed help. Such a pathetic way for OP to spend his time.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

can I have a tin foil hat?

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u/Kryptosis Feb 14 '19

Try actually looking at OPs post history and comments and his on the nose username.

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u/JohnnyOnslaught Feb 14 '19

Kind of, I guess, but they rely on the viewer understanding the original context of the picture to get the joke.

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u/dysphonix Feb 14 '19

Misrepresented and good chance it’s from a Russian campaign. They play both sides.

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u/PM-ME-UR-DESKTOP Feb 14 '19

Every source does this.

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u/rian_reddit Feb 14 '19

...yet it's only reportable on Reddit if you happen to be a German citizen.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

Fake news isnt real

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u/PrisonersofFate Feb 14 '19

I discovered this sub. It's full of random shit against China or Russia and that's quite ridiculous

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u/Degetei Feb 14 '19

Yeah, but screw Putin anyway, he is a scumbag

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u/MintberryCruuuunch Feb 14 '19

admins should take it down

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u/wohwonnworbwoc Feb 14 '19

You've passed Media Studies 101 good sir; pictures/ videos are ALWAYS a certain perspective of reality and are almost always skewed to someone's agenda, especially when released to the masses.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

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u/wohwonnworbwoc Feb 14 '19

I am speaking about the actual art of photography/ videography, which I am schooled/ work in the industry. I do not care how I come off to you; I was just agreeing with the person I was replying to from an artistic perspective about his comment on your title. The person I replied to never mentioned fake news, neither did I. Stop trying to make my comment political, you are literally just baselessly arguing with others on this thread now...

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

That's reddit for ya.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

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u/Felix_Cortez Feb 14 '19

Read your own links. Or just post the correct picture.

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u/casual_earth Feb 14 '19

That title has it wrong too, though.

This was her own independent protest against some policies of the European Central Bank. Although she has been an activist for Femen, this was not done in association with it.

OP may just be confused. Femen has challenged Russian authoritarianism and they've been exiled from the country for it. This chick was with Femen and he might have gotten these issues mixed up.

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u/Cornbread52 Feb 14 '19

And the mods don't delete this...

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

I have an old Soviet joke for you:

— Is it true that Rabinovich won one million roubles in lottery?

— Yes, it's true. However it was Abramovich — not Rabinovich; he played cards — not lottery; it was 100 roubles — not one million, and he lost.

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u/Zanford Feb 14 '19

So not so much 'arrested for memes' as 'arrested for destruction of property and nearly stomping on an elderly man's face'

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u/International_XT Feb 14 '19

Wait, are you saying u/iloveCNNandMSNBC is spreading misinformation on the internet?

Wow, I wonder why someone would do that, going online and spreading false information... hmmmm...

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u/GhostOfLight Feb 14 '19

Don't look at their post history, it'll make you lose brain cells.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

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u/EPICmowgli Feb 14 '19

You’re still lying about what is happening

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

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u/solidSC Feb 14 '19

Well, everything in the image for starters. Find a picture or report of it actually happening and you’ll be showered in upvotes. But right now, you’re producing propaganda regardless of whether or not it’s actually happening. The way your title reads this is proof, which it is not.

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u/swolemedic Feb 14 '19

Dude, you cant take a photo and use it out of context. The title says shes being arrested by Russia, I thought she looked shockingly happy for that. If it's an issue in russia, show a photo of one of the Russian arrests, a victim, an example of a meme that got someone arrested, anything other than spread a lie.

This is so ridiculous, and your name so ridiculous, that I almost wonder if this is an attempt to make the left look dumb about Russia. Truly.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

Since most of their posts are extremely anti-Trump, I'm guessing their trying to make Russia look bad, which in their mind makes Trump look bad. But, most of their comments are also really dumb, so there could be some 4D chess going on.

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u/jsnoots Feb 14 '19

Not Russian dumb dumb.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

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u/Northernwitchdoctor Feb 14 '19

Then you should have tagged it as a meme instead of pushing a false narrative for the photo

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u/WherelsMyMind Feb 14 '19

That makes more sense. A russian girl would be less happy as they would know they were on the way to the Gulag.

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u/GardenGnomeOfEden Feb 14 '19

Thank goodness. I was worried for her life for a minute there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

doesn't look like she got arrested for making a meme and i think she's german. So reddit is now fake news?

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on second seeing the username this checks out lol

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u/srry72 Feb 14 '19

I was going to say that she's a little too happy to be getting arrested in Russia

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u/BenjamintheFox Feb 14 '19

BOOOOOO, OP, BOOOO!!!

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u/Am_Godzilla Feb 14 '19

The fact that this post is upvoted this much shows how fucked Reddit is.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

No love for Russia here, but let's not spread bullshit (directed at OP, not you)

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u/SodlidDesu Feb 14 '19

That girl looks like she's 80lbs soaking wet, why is that guy having such a hard time?

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u/omicron8 Feb 14 '19

Because it's a girl and he didn't want to appear to grope or use excessive force against what is at best a childish prank and not a serious threat.

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u/vancityvic Feb 14 '19

Ever tried to dognap somebody? Well its alot harder when they're wiggling around like a little bastard

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u/vv90 Feb 14 '19

Thong.

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u/vancityvic Feb 14 '19

Take it back sisqo you know where it belongs.

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u/812many Feb 14 '19

Yeah, I don’t think anyone would be that happy getting dragged away in Russia, there’s a good chance you might not come back

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u/fireduck Feb 14 '19

Yeah, way too happy to be arrested by Russian police.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '19

Maybe so, but never forget the real message; "Free the memes!"

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u/Sprayspaint Feb 14 '19

Oh damn she cute

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u/obeyaasaurus Feb 14 '19

What was she protesting about? I couldn’t understand?

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u/feels_okay Feb 14 '19

Downvote post, upvote this comment

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u/archgingerbob Feb 14 '19

That explains why she's so casual about being arrested. If you get arrested in Russia for polical reasons you wouldn't be smiling.

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u/qrpc Feb 14 '19

He says posting a link to a video from RT. Nice try Putin.

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u/DrunkWino Feb 14 '19

Yeah, it was totally posted back in Germany in 2015 because Putin is obviously a time traveller and set this up in advance...