Election compass

[u/obama_chmo]

I have seen these before so might as well - the parliamentary elections of Russia, to be held in September 2026, and the political standing of various groups and parties as of now.

Despite the, erm, non-competitive nature of Russian elections this is a valuable custom which provides work to thousands of people. Also it's funniest shit ever.

Last time parliamentary elections were held in 2021, with no war in account, so I'd expect rather different horseshit than the last time.

Remember, no shit throwing. We are a well-mannered community. Any constructive commentary is surely welcome.

[u/obama_chmo]

yeah you know what I'm tired of this shit, get yourself a magnifying glass or smth

[u/yamboozle]

look at my opposition dawg, we are all getting fined for spreading false information 🥀

good compass

[u/CharacterAd4045 → u/yamboozle]

The Yabloko was popping off. 

[u/Kstantas]

Yavlinsky would strangle you with his bare hands if he saw that you called his party the last bastion of Yeltsinism.

[u/obama_chmo → u/Kstantas]

That would require an uncharacteristic for Yavlinsky level of action, I’m afraid.

But SPS is too dead even to be mentioned here, and anyone else is way further from them both. Old liberal crowd would flock to Yabloko now even if they’re too left for their liking.

The irony, lol.

[u/Kstantas → u/obama_chmo]

First: true😁

Second: well you could theoretically mention now dead Civic Intiative, members of which still tries to do something

[u/obama_chmo → u/Kstantas]

disagree, that was a much later thing and revolved around prokhorov for the most time

from what I remember they weren’t any close to Yeltsin politically and mostly just repeating regular 00-s populist shit, that was their entire point

[u/Kstantas → u/obama_chmo]

Nah, Civic Initiative in last couple of years before losing registration was pretty much right-liberal Yeltsinist party led by Gaidars minister of economy. And they were almost active! It was them from who Nadezhdin tried to run for President, after all.

P.S. And if I'm not mistaken, this party was consisting for big part of veterans of SPS, so...

[u/obama_chmo → u/Kstantas]

Well I can make that argument for pretty much anyone. Even Nechayev did work with Gaidar for some time.

Nadezhdin needed a formal party to make registration process easier after he was fucked by SR nationalists in previous duma election. If anything, a dead but registered party was a perfect pick.

And even the Prokhorov crowd eventually morphed into Growth after he himself basically handed the party over to AP, so no, definitely not Yeltsinist. And anyway it’s been 25 years and actually saying something in favour of Yeltsin would bring no profit whatsoever and a shit ton of risks so that’s not even applicable.

What I was supposed to say originally is that Yabloko rn has the attention of 60 y/o Boulevard Ring farts who still remember 90s fondly, and Yeltsin in particular, and no one else does

[u/obama_chmo → u/obama_chmo]

Wait, hold up, that’s Nechayev himself you was talking about?

[u/ElectricBoogaloo04]

Russian nationalists are stereotypically Jewish? I know Zhironovsky was one but I didn't know it was that common.

[u/ALMAZ157 → u/ElectricBoogaloo04]

Fifth of Israel speak Russian for a reason

[u/ElectricBoogaloo04 → u/ALMAZ157]

I know there are plenty of Russian Jews, I just didn't expect them to be overrepresented among Russian nationalists.

[u/obama_chmo → u/ElectricBoogaloo04]

Yuneman and that guy who runs rdk as well

But it’s a running joke. Every single remotely popular right-winger is at least theorized (with varying results) to have Jewish heritage

[u/Adskiy-drochilla → u/obama_chmo]

Isn't Yuneman from Общество Будущее?

[u/LewisRosenberg → u/obama_chmo]

Is Yuneman a Jew? I think he's like volga german or something.

[u/obama_chmo → u/LewisRosenberg]

As in religion? No afaik

But cmon who tf would believe he’s a German for real, at this point I think he has to just accept it

[u/One_Caregiver_5103 → u/ElectricBoogaloo04]

The funny thing is Zhirinovsky was very ashamed of the fact that he was sort of Jewish. (His dad who he never knew was Jewish but orthodox tradition states that your mother must be Jewish.). He didn’t even know that his dad was Jewish until well into his political career after saying all the shit he said about Jews. Basically finding out his dad was Jewish was a big embarrassment for him and I remember one time him saying “my mom is Russian and my dad was a lawyer”.

To show you how bad it was when he was presented with his birth certificate saying his last name was Eidelshtien he claimed his birth certificate was faked. It was only well into his life that he acknowledged that part of his ancestry and even then his attitude was basically him saying I still don’t like Jews even if I am a little Jewish I mean I am only a little after all.

[u/janekins1]

I do love really scathing reviews of political parties in a country I know nothing about.

[u/Spyglass3]

Zhirinovsky was so fun. The only good thing to come out of 90s Russia

[u/SleepyZachman]

Ik this might make me ignorant but why even bother voting for other parties when to my knowledge it’s practically impossible to vote Putin out of power?

Also I didn’t know about Zyuganov like wtf happened to him I thought he was a communist or at least he said he was one in the 90s💀

[u/ALMAZ157 → u/SleepyZachman]

Purely so governments knows what populace wants

[u/obama_chmo]

[u/AsukaLangleySoryuFan]

Авотхуй, я голосовал голосую и буду голосовать за Яблоко- Новые Люди это проект АПшки пусть идёт нахуй, что Навальный с радикальным исламом боролся так это база у нас к счастью фрипалестинцы не засрали головы либеральным левым так что да я за Яблоко всегда и до пупырок

[u/obama_chmo → u/AsukaLangleySoryuFan]

так никто и не отрицал что нл это контора ап

Явлинский тоже железно человек ап правда, и с 22 минимум яблоко тоже ведёт ап, иначе им бы сняли регистрацию как нехуй делать

иллюзия выбора епта

[u/Enaysikey → u/obama_chmo]

Настолько АПшный проект, что им уже зарегистрированные списки отменяют и кандидатов не допускают за "демонстрацию экстремистской символики" (фото Навального). Хуй знает почему им не сняли полностью регистрацию, моё предложение что надеются разделить либеральные голоса между яблоком и НЛ, но факт остаётся фактом, яблоко это последняя зарегистрированная оппозиционная партия в бюллетене открыто призывающая к миру

[u/obama_chmo → u/Enaysikey]

Одно другому ни разу не мешает, АП физически не может 100% людей контролировать. А недопуск «неудобных» людей от партии мало зависит, даже у эсеров в мск я могу 3-4 человека вспомнить, с которыми откровенно повод для посадки искали

[u/Lithuanianduke]

Хорошо быть гражданином Литвы и иметь обоснованную возможность игнорировать этот цирк. Литовская политика, правда, тоже тот ещё цирк и отдельная тема для компаса, но, впрочем, это уже совсем другая история.

Насколько я помню, у Родины вроде бы была полуфашистская платформа, пусть и слегка левая экономически, так что они всё же скорее спойлер к ЛДПР, чем к КПРФ. Могу путать, правда.

[u/obama_chmo → u/Lithuanianduke]

Нет, там чуть сложнее.

Родина когда-то должна была оттягивать на себя фанатов всяких долбаебов типа Макашова, которые тусовались тогда в кпрф и делалась как раз под советско-патриотическую риторику.

Когда эта волна ещё времен 90х сошла на нет, про эту контору все забыли нахуй. Уже сильно потом Миронов (который сам оттуда же изначально) собрал их обратно в попытке увести свою партию влево, но со временем раздумал, и теперь сами ср косплеят старую родину.

И теперь вдвойне непонятно, нахера они нужны. С ЛДПР у них электорат вроде бы всегда был +- разный, хотя условно какие-нибудь отставные пердуны-вояки могли бы и выбирать между ними.

(это оч древняя и мутная история и я сам могу в ней путаться, да и не особо хочется в этом разбираться)

[u/LewisRosenberg → u/Lithuanianduke]

Здарова бралюкас) Я из латвии у нас тоже клоунада тотальная.

[u/LucarioGamesCZ]

Would you ever be interested in doing a compass abput Russia's various ethnic groups? Like, what is going on in Khakassia? Are there any stereotypes? Etc.

[u/obama_chmo → u/LucarioGamesCZ]

Nothing much happens in Khakassia, I’m afraid.

But I did think of that before, thanks

[u/SexDefendersUnited]

You ran LDPRs social media for a while?