Several top Russian officials have plunged to their deaths from windows in recent years, including a top oil executive and a defense official.

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        3 months ago

        Not the death. The method. The location. They have to be the laziest assassins ever—or Russia really needs to improve their building codes.

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          Or, maybe, it’s a terror tactic for everyone to keep in line, since it is a signature method of killing opponents. It is also gruesome enough to be a huge deterrent. There is nothing funny about this, it’s completely tragic.

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            3 months ago

            It’s funny as hell how bad building standards are in Russia.

            killing opponents

            Pffft, thats your opinion. Man.

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            3 months ago

            Or, maybe I will disregard all your opinions because you parrot idiotic “internet comment tropes” like starting with “or, maybe”.

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              3 months ago

              Since when is talking about russian terror tactics making someone a russian bot?

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                You are 100% correct. It is awful and tragic and nothing to laugh at.
                But you also have to realize that there’s nothing that the majority of us here can do about it. Even as a country we are already doing everything we can do to deal with the war.
                So, how are we as powerless humans supposed to deal with the knowledge of this unstoppable horror? How are we supposed to process this horror and the 20 other worse ones we will hear about before lunch time?
                For many people, the only way to make it through a day and fight against the onslaught of never ending horror by summoning up another emotion. Sometimes it’s anger, but anger is bad if you have no purpose for it. If you can’t become constructive with it then it becomes destructive. So what else is there that isn’t destructive or paralyzing? For many of us, it is dark humor. We push aside the constant onslaught with laughter. That’s how we get through the day instead of lashing out or curling up in a ball.
                So you are both right. It is awful and horrible and not humorous at all, but at the same time it’s deeply and darkly hilarious.

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                  You are using the “black humor comes from soldiers and EMTs to get them through a shitty day” argument but this isn’t that. OP who makes those jokes doesn’t live in Russia and doesn’t care about the assassinations. They are here to make a joke. You can see a trend of “just making a joke” everywhere online - with how many people comment on any topic attempting to be funny just for the fun of it. Someplaces though simply show a complete lack of empathy or understanding on their part. Example is the famous “I also choose this guy’s dead wife” joke - in person you’d get punched immediatelly if someone has just shown such vulnerability and you responded with that joke.

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          If there’s one thing I’ve learned from Star Wars, it’s that evil empires generally don’t put much emphasis on workplace safety. Good handrails and such cost money that could be used for superweapons and cool outfits for your bodyguards.

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    They must get on with it now… find some other way of accidentally dying. If this proves one thing it is either the total lack of imagination in Russia, or the total lack of education on the risks of heights

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      I think it’s done that way for brand reasons.

      Dude becomes undesirable -> falls out of window -> everyone knows he didn’t fell on it’s own

      It’s fear tactic.

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          With a suicide/accident you don’t need to open an investigation. It’s basically showing off that the execution is state sanctioned at every level, I’d say.

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      They just have to add some flourish.
      Falling from the basement window on 6 bullets someone accidentaly dropped on the ground while shooting themselves 3 times to the back of the head with hands tied behind their back after totally by accident splashing novichok on their undies.

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    In a few hundred years it’ll be written that during this time a whole bunch of people with important jobs died in Russia by falling out of windows, and there will be people thinking ‘no way’, when actually, ‘yes way’. I’m a little tired of watching history happening in my lifetime, ngl.

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    It’s like Groundhog Day in Russia, just with the economy.

    If the economist falls out vindow, …aaahh, another gloomy year.