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usonian

(21,738 posts)
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:34 PM Wednesday

Hundreds call for Putin to be overthrown in huge gathering at St Petersburg

Last edited Wed Oct 15, 2025, 10:40 PM - Edit history (1)

It's catching on! 🚫👑

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15195147/Hundreds-call-Putin-overthrown-huge-gathering-St-Petersburg-rare-display-public-dissent-against-dictator-Ukraines-long-range-strikes-bring-war-home-Russians.html



A massive crowd was seen joining street musicians at Kazanskaya Square to sing banned anti-war lyrics on October 13.

Russian citizens jumped up and down as they sang the lyrics to Co-operative Swan Lake by Noize MC, a pro-Ukrainian rapper, which was being played by a band that had set up in the historic square. (1)

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They chanted in Russian: 'Where have you been for eight years, you f***ing monsters? I want to watch ballet, let the swans dance. Let your grandpa tremble with excitement for Swan Lake.'

Lyrics also include: 'When the czar dies, we'll dance again. The old man still clings to his throne, afraid to let go. Old man in the bunker, still thinks it's nineteen eighty-five.'

The song became something of an anti-war anthem for Russia's youth, who have long detested Putin's regime and his invasion of Ukraine, which is now threatening to harm targets in Russia.


(1) Lyrics to "Swan Lake Cooperative" (with notes, thank goodness)
https://lyricstranslate.com/en/kooperativ-lebedinoye-ozero-swan-lake-cooperat.html
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Hundreds call for Putin to be overthrown in huge gathering at St Petersburg (Original Post) usonian Wednesday OP
it's about fucking time Skittles Wednesday #1
Putin will be adding a new Gulag to the Gulag... wcmagumba Wednesday #2
He's gonna need more windows. tclambert Wednesday #15
Let's ship them some frog costumes!! 🐸🐸🐸 CrispyQ Wednesday #3
Ribbit, ribbit, ribbit... wcmagumba Wednesday #4
Hundreds of people will likely fall from 4th floor windows. lamp_shade Wednesday #5
They are some courageous people. raccoon Wednesday #6
Incredible strength. Passages Wednesday #7
Let's go for a daily double, trifecta, superfecta! usonian Wednesday #8
Ok, this last photo??? FAWKING HATE IT, This is not acceptable behavior. It's just wrong to deface one of the most a kennedy Wednesday #12
I copied it off the web. usonian Wednesday #13
and sorry, but damn.....the iconic Abby Road?? Please get rid of it. a kennedy Wednesday #14
The last photo perfectly represents the damage these three enjoy causing. Lonestarblue Thursday #21
Right. usonian Thursday #22
Love your pics, usonian. Keep em comin' Clouds Passing Thursday #24
My Dad was an artist. Painted in oils for pleasure, and damn fine paintings! usonian Thursday #25
Please please pretty please .... 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽 live love laugh Wednesday #9
October 13th, when Pluto finally went Direct. slightlv Wednesday #10
We DO live in interesting times, don't we? fierywoman Wednesday #11
I did a paper in my American Studies class on Astrology back when I was in 8th grade! slightlv Wednesday #16
How cool you are! : 8th grade? Oh, to have understood such things in 8th grade ! fierywoman Thursday #18
That shakiness of WHEN it actually starts is what drives me crazy! slightlv Thursday #27
Zero need to "read the energies" to know evil people do evil things. :eyes: . . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #20
Gods, ain't that the truth, Bernardo! slightlv Thursday #28
Pluto Dog & Pluto sub-planetoid have nothing to do w evil actions by evil people w evil followers. nt Bernardo de La Paz Thursday #19
From time immemorial, people have sought meaning in patterns... slightlv Thursday #29
I had a strong physical reaction when Pluto went direct. Clouds Passing Thursday #26
Interesting video! slightlv Thursday #33
YW 😀 Pam is interesting and knowledgeable. Kali-Yuga is one of her favorite subjects. Clouds Passing Thursday #34
This message was self-deleted by its author PeaceWave Wednesday #17
Brave souls. Joinfortmill Thursday #23
Good Luck! Kid Berwyn Thursday #30
A global initiative to get rid of ALL dictators and dictator wanna-be's would be nice! Blue Owl Thursday #31
You can't treat white people like dirt and get away with it Gum Logger Thursday #32

Skittles

(168,201 posts)
1. it's about fucking time
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:37 PM
Wednesday

although I very much understand the sheer courage it takes to protest there (exactly the environment the GOP wants here, too)

wcmagumba

(4,951 posts)
2. Putin will be adding a new Gulag to the Gulag...
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:37 PM
Wednesday

Dictators don't want no backtalk...and neither do wannabe dictators like trump in the US...

CrispyQ

(40,341 posts)
3. Let's ship them some frog costumes!! 🐸🐸🐸
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 06:39 PM
Wednesday


I'm making a frog sign for my front yard for Saturday. 🐸

usonian

(21,738 posts)
8. Let's go for a daily double, trifecta, superfecta!
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:25 PM
Wednesday

Last edited Wed Oct 15, 2025, 09:19 PM - Edit history (1)

Daily Double


He's toast -------------------He's Дерьмо.

Trifecta.


Superfecta
Image under reconstruction. Send cash to starving comouter artist.

a kennedy

(34,658 posts)
12. Ok, this last photo??? FAWKING HATE IT, This is not acceptable behavior. It's just wrong to deface one of the most
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:59 PM
Wednesday

iconic photos with a bunch of fawking assholes.

usonian

(21,738 posts)
22. Right.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 01:07 PM
Thursday

I try to get really appropriate pix off the internet from search.

Some really hit the spot.
Thanks to computer artists and photographers out there!
Others I need to tweak a little.

Great art takes time, and I've been speed-posting lately.
To hasten the demise
Of abominable guys.

usonian

(21,738 posts)
25. My Dad was an artist. Painted in oils for pleasure, and damn fine paintings!
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 03:05 PM
Thursday

I tried but hated cleaning brushes.

So computers came along to help me (though I can sketch, sorta).

Enjoy. I can't stop loving it (graphics fun and games).



And yes, I grab stuff off the internet. I'm already late for my lunch thanks to all this posting.

slightlv

(6,843 posts)
10. October 13th, when Pluto finally went Direct.
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 07:51 PM
Wednesday

The first step. Three more outer planets to stabilize, and then maybe the healing can begin.... worldwide, one could hope.

fierywoman

(8,446 posts)
11. We DO live in interesting times, don't we?
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 08:55 PM
Wednesday

I started reading astrology in 1990 and remember reading the mundane astrologers of the time talking about how the mid 2020's were going to be QUITE a ride, that the US would be in a crisis and even perhaps split. I still find myself muttering to myself: Wow -- this s--- works!

slightlv

(6,843 posts)
16. I did a paper in my American Studies class on Astrology back when I was in 8th grade!
Wed Oct 15, 2025, 10:41 PM
Wednesday

My teacher got a kick out of it... and even told me he learned quite a bit from it! I've been into it ever since. I'm in no way an astrologer, but you do this long enough you can read the energies. My biggest disappointment... and it was just my total naivety on display... was I thought when we finally crossed over into the age of Aquarius the progressive, nurturing, caring people of the world would take over the governments and things would be better all the way around for everyone. Like I said... total naivety. I'm an Aquarian... we're the Great Humanitarians, you know. But even I know it's played out on a global scale, not a personal one... which is why in my younger days people often described me as aloof, altho I was really anything but that.

What I find really interesting is a few of the tarot readers I follow, as well as reading my own Thoth deck, tracks with what's happening in the skies almost to a "T". It's scary as hell. Right now, I'm hanging on 'til my birthday... Feb 4th. By then everybody should be settled into the elements they'll occupy for this current generation. And I love the fact that the Tower card keeps creeping closer and closer to trump's personal card. Add to that he's surrounded by the suit of Swords and the Death card, and it gives one pause to hope! I'm ready for at least some of this anxiety I feel to dissipate!

fierywoman

(8,446 posts)
18. How cool you are! : 8th grade? Oh, to have understood such things in 8th grade !
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 12:34 AM
Thursday

Do you know of a British astrologer named Nick Campion? (One of my favorite things that he said was, "Astrology is not a belief system, it's a phenomenon." ) He wrote a book (in the 90's I think, re when the Age of Aquarius starts -- let's just say he makes a compelling argument that one can't really, in good faith, give it a reliable start date.) (He's a wildly, madly crazy smart man.)
... So what I'm trying to say is: don't give up hope.

slightlv

(6,843 posts)
27. That shakiness of WHEN it actually starts is what drives me crazy!
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 05:29 PM
Thursday

I mean, I thought when Pluto hit Aquarius we were going to be there. Nope! Too much going on with the other outer planets. Now, I'm just hoping for a nice birthday present, because by then everything will be going direct... a radical change, in itself. I've heard of Campion, back in the 90's when I was really wanting info on Age of Aquarius. There are a lot of good books out there; but there are a lots of trash, too. That's why I try to back things up by studying it myself. I'm not always right, but when it connects it feels so good!

slightlv

(6,843 posts)
28. Gods, ain't that the truth, Bernardo!
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 05:32 PM
Thursday

Different kind of energy we're talking about here, but you are absolutely correct in what you say. If the Xtianists (my name for their bastardization of the religion) could think and reason, they'd see that *they* are the evil New World Order they've been screaming about since the 1960's. It wasn't the hippies that did them in... they did it themselves by welcoming the false prophets and Evil right into the front door of their churches. I will say that those of us who feel the static of different energies around us are jumping out of our skins right now. Not only the Evil that pervades us, but the unsettledness of everything.

Bernardo de La Paz

(59,738 posts)
19. Pluto Dog & Pluto sub-planetoid have nothing to do w evil actions by evil people w evil followers. nt
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 11:25 AM
Thursday

slightlv

(6,843 posts)
29. From time immemorial, people have sought meaning in patterns...
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 05:38 PM
Thursday

to try to understand... to explain... the manifestations around them. Evil is just one of the manifestations. How it manifests can be understood through where it's manifesting... at least, that's what we've been taught for decades. Do I believe it's all true? Nah... I'm too much of a skeptic for that. But there's enough correspondence out there to make one go "hmmm" too many times. Pluto doesn't do anything. But pluto as a representation of death, the underworld, shows that when the energies of these signs land there, the neutral energy gets shaped. And even you have to admit America is on a death spiral right now. I mean, come on... raining missiles down on his own country? On a state he hates? How much more deathy evil can it get.

Clouds Passing

(6,224 posts)
26. I had a strong physical reaction when Pluto went direct.
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 03:09 PM
Thursday

April 2026, if I remember correctly, is the time when they all go direct to stay.

I have a stellium of planets in the 11th house, always been a a utopian.

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slightlv

(6,843 posts)
33. Interesting video!
Thu Oct 16, 2025, 06:03 PM
Thursday

I really got into what she was talking about with the Kali-Yuga, and especially the interstellar comet. Thanks for posting!

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