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Darth Vader, Yoda, Chewbacca Aim To Invade Ukraine's Govt. In Upcoming Elections
An anonymous reader writes The BBC and RT report that 16 men named after the Star Wars character "Darth Vader" are running for parliamentary elections in Ukraine later this month. In addition, a Chewbacca, Palpatin, Padme Amidala and Grand Jedi Master Yoda will stand in the snap October 26 polls. All of them have been nominated for parliament by the Internet Party of Ukraine. "This is not the first time Darth Vader has stood for election in Ukraine. In April, a man going by that name tried running for presidency, but his application was rejected by the Central Electoral Commission. One official suggested that his campaign could be an attempt to make a mockery of elections in Ukraine - possibly by Russia."
Han Solo votes first.
I didn't think Putin was interested in running in the Ukraine, just running it.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Founded and led by Dmytro (or Dmitry) Golubov the party claims to be the first Internet party in the world, its slogan is "electronic government against bureaucracy" and it wants to "create an electronic government in Ukraine".
The party was formed between 2006 and 2007, by the alleged Ukrainian hacker, Dmytro Golubov. The founding congress was held on October 1, 2007. On March 1, 2009 in a hotel complex "Magnolia" in Odessa, was held the first official congress of the party.
The vice-president of the Union of Advocates of Ukraine Petro Boyko and Denys Grigorev, world champion from Thai boxing in super-heavyweight are also founding members.
Sounds like a good group of folks...
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I voted for Skywalker.
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Thank god we didn't allow to make a mockery of the elections in the Ukraine and instead allowed them to make a mockery of democracy altogether...
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
If you really think BBC is as bad as RT, maybe you should turn on your brain. Just saying...
I'm all for fun, but in a country that just overthrew a dictator and is fighting a war against separatists nutjobs, spending all this money for this, it's hard to think they are just doing that for fun. And as a star wars fan, using star wars characters for evil is really despicable. Fuck Putin.
Only a small section of the country is actively at war, outside of that region the conflict is a major issue, but it's not really going to affect their daily lives too much. They're still hugely concerned with the war, but they're still going to live their lives.
If anything this is a great idea, Putin's spent months selling the idea that Ukraine is overflowing with Nazi's. There's not much better way to counteract that narrative than to run Star Wars characters in the elections.
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What? No Jar-Jar Binks?
Ironically, those Star Wars character candidates are more adequate than most of Ukrainian mainstream politicians...
Look, here are Gaffi sticks, bantha tracks, its just that I've never heard of Sandpeople voting for anything this big before.
He's already ran in the States
Svoboda and Pravy Sektor are not Putin's inventions...
Svoboda and Pravy Sektor are not Putin's inventions...
Neither are the UK Independence party, Golden Dawn in Greece, the National Front in France, or the various Tea Party groups in the US, and in elections they all did about as well as Svoboda or better.
Do you think Britain, Greece, France, and the US are overrun by Nazis?
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in elections they all did about as well as Svoboda or better
Pfff elections schmelections. Svoboda got the defense posts in government without playing that stupid game.
Idiot.
*Wonders how many people would rather vote for Emperor Palpatine than for our current politicians.*
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
or who anyone votes for, as one thing's certain: Putin's cronies will be doing the counting.
No, but then again neither Britain, nor Greece nor France and so on arm their neo-nazis and give them right to kill people. Ukraine does, though.
"It's such a fine line between stupid and clever" -- David St. Hubbins, Spinal Tap
He's the incumbent.
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Ukranian Darth Vader will solve the seperatist rebel problem by incinerating the planet that shelters them. Incidentally that will also solve Ukraine's debt problem, crime, and energy dependence on Russia.
The fuck mate. They are fucking at war. Of course they are living their lives. But it's not like all fun and games. I mean fuck, just imagine they were just right there in California being invaded by some group of jerks or something the like, it's not fucking normal.
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For your own good: Stop immediately eating the mushrooms from your basement,
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Not much different, both are full of shit
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They are fucking at war.
They'd be winning if they fought instead.
The information that we get here is that there's a pretty lot going on. Just as in Syria there are foreign fighters on both sides:
Right wing and Left wing ... on BOTH sides. I mean right wing guys in the pro-Russian and pro-Ukrainian side and left wing guys also on the pro-Russian and the Pro-Ukrainian side. I thus assume that the involvement is far greater than what is may seem.
Last time our (Dutch) researchers tried to get to the MH117 crash site there was heavy shelling going on. It now seems to be somewhat quieter but even we who live relatively close to the country have no real idea on what's going on.
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I recall that many countries have a large number of write-in votes for these characters. I think I remember Australia having so many they were considering making it a civil offense to write in a fictional character. Could running under these names be an attempt to take advantage of these write-ins?