The power Putin wields over there is incomprehensible to Americans. Western journos can't help those girls. @emptywheel @joshuafoust
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@SpaceCoastLaw Is that the point? Or is delegitimizing Putin's power--whether domestically or internationally--the point? -
@emptywheel Western journos praising him for jailing Pussy Riot would hurt him. If Russians ever heard of it. -
@SpaceCoastLaw You may be right. Not sure. I don't think the right does--or has basis to--condemn on human rights grounds. -
@emptywheel Imagine US punks w Russian name going 2 Baptist church & criticizing. Many Americans would view them as hooligans. -
@SpaceCoastLaw Aside from being a totally inapt comparison (we're combating power of small Baptist preachers?) still have audience issue. -
@emptywheel You're right. No comparison. But you don't take on the powers that be with a foreign name.
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No one there cares what any of us think. If Pussy Riot didn't have English name we would never have heard about it.
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@SpaceCoastLaw Maybe? But to the extent that it has gotten coverage here, it has exacted a cost for Putin. That said who is audience?
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@emptywheel@joshuafoust With the Russian church now intervening for mercy, the whole gig looks like a play by Putin. Tough---->Compassion! -
@bmaz Right--he's trying to contest on sphere of spectacle again, of appearances. He feels threatened in a way he doesn't in private evil.
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