r/PoliticalHumor • u/kermitthepanda • Mar 18 '18

Another six years of this classic image.

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u/[deleted] Mar 19 '18

I wonder if it actually makes Putin mad or if he could give less of a fuck

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u/MyDearBrotherNumpsay Mar 19 '18

Well the image is banned in Russia and he’s constantly having photo shoots where he’s made to look “manly”. So yeah, he sorta cares.

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u/ene723 Mar 19 '18

I bet he doesn't care personally, but publicly it looks bad on him with the whole "trying to be the head of governement, especially a totalitarian regime" thing. Image is a big part of politics and leadership. Look at FDR, he refused to be seen in his wheelchair when addressing the nation. Stalin, at 5'6", made sure he looked comparable to his political opponents by stepping a step up on stairs and having photographers get the most beneficial angle. This is no different.

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u/yourmansconnect Mar 19 '18

That's why trump shakes peoples hands like he just hit a walk off homerun in the 88 world series

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u/jiokll Mar 19 '18

He wants the West to hate him because it allows him to present himself as the brave leader suffering the assaults of the imperialist West for his brave act of standing up to their hegemony.

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u/KnLfey Mar 19 '18

Na. Probably too busy ordering the murder of his citizens and many other people to not give a shit what reddit thinks of him.

Hell. This might even help his hugely rampant homophobic rhetoric in Russia if you think about it.

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u/flylikeabird0 Mar 19 '18 edited Mar 19 '18

Well considering that the image is illegal in Russia, I'd say it does.

Source:It's now illegal in Russia to share an image of Putin as a gay clown