One of my biggest fears is waking up during an operation, this is substantially so much worse.
Any other person going in a spiel about a pro sportsman having a huge cock that everyone marveled at during a speech would be getting laughed out of the building. Instead the old fart is legit a strong chance at being president again.
It's why Israel tries so hard to pretend that their propaganda is coming from legit sources despite being obvious hasbara where the people speaking are speaking arabic with an obvious Israeli accent. They don't have a subset of people going "YEAH SO? IT'S STILL TRUE" like Russia does.
They don't even need to pretend to cover up because right wingers have decided that "actually Russia are cool and based" and there are morons on the left dedicated to being contrarians. They'll happily be fed misinformation and then act like calling it out is just anti-Russia stuff.
Especially because the previous boxing scandal involving the woman in question coincidentally started after she beat a Russian boxer.
So if it wasn't completely obvious back then, the Olympic boxing scandal was basically a kremlin op. www.washingtonpost.com/sports/2024/...
Banned from the Games, Russia wanted to upend the Olympics. Enter Umar Kremlev and the boxing ‘gender controversy.’
I too am a public transport and footy afficianado.
At the very least he's going to do everything he can to muddy the results.
Every time I hear people crying about localisation they do a direct translation of the dialogue and it's the most boring and dry shit you'll ever see.
It's good to know that the death of a teenager due to transphobia is just as worthy of passive voice from the media as police shootings. Did I say good? I meant utterly horrible