fri., 10 may, 2019: ya say ya want a(nother) (russian) revolution?, iv.: give us This Day our Daily Curse

[NOTE: these terms are weaponized language, & meant to give offense. Which is the whole & compleat point of insult & invective, obscenity & blasphemy, & other political speech.]

RUSSIAN:  yмрн до пенсии товаришщ…!  —  Umri do pensii tovarišč…!  ‡

RUSSIAN:  Метинги  —  Metingi   ‡‡

RUSSIAN:  Несанктсй   —  Nesanktsy   ‡‡‡

RUSSIAN:  Космонут…!  —  Kosmonaut…!  / Cosmonaut…!  ‡‡‡‡

NOTE: These various slogans date from the summer & fall 2018 protests against Putin’s raising the age for retirement & pension eligibility, which he did after years & years & years of resisting the IMF’s suggestions on this. The proposal was for to raise the retirement age for women from 55 to 63, & for men from 60 to 65. The average life span for women is 77, & for men 66…but as low as 62 or 58 in outlying regions of the Russian Federation. Essentially men stand a good chance of never seeing their pension, or at best getting it for a year.. . These were organized by the Labor Federation of Russia, & various anarchist & socialist grps, as well as monarchist/nationalists, libertarians, & the KPRF (the Russian Federation Communist Party. These various groups seldomly protested together, & tended to hold competing demonstrations. There were few arrests in Moscow, where the demonstrations were larger, but hundreds, even thousands, of arrests in St. Petersberg & smaller cities & towns. Despite the fact that 89% of the country hated this, it was passed by the Duma on 27 Sept, 2018…

      ‡)  “Die before you’re due for yr pension, comrade…!”

    ‡‡)  “Meeting” — any officially-permitted & sanctioned rally or protest; 

   ‡‡‡)  “Unofficial protests…”  / “Flash mob protests…”  — organized via mobile phone & laptops, using FB, Twitter, or whatever available online message boards or social media  ;

 ‡‡‡‡)  “Kosmonaut…!”   /  “Kosmonaut…!”   — Those throngs of dark-helmeted & visored throngs of riot squads gathered at the edge of any demonstration, esp. if permitted & sanctioned, & looking more like Kubrick’s 2001 astronauts than riot-geared goon squads.

 

& PS: & a great big go fuck-yourselves to the arseholes at google who are trying to ruin everything that they buy out.

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