Nice Snark
… From a very unexpected source.
Comrade Misfit has a picture of a Russian campaign billboard, which says “Вы же всё равно не заметите разницы.” Her translation, “It doesn’t matter anyway, you won’t notice the difference.” isn’t as emphatic as it could be, but then “всё равно” has no direct single meaning in English, usually “It’s all the same to me” is close, but the “же” is kind of similar to adding 4 or 5 exclamation points.
The sign was put up in advance of the 4 December election for the Russian parliament, and the red block in the lower right-hand corner indicates it was paid for by the Коммунистическая партия Российской Федерации КПРФ, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which corresponds to the check mark in the number 6 box.
It looks like a standard Единая Россия, United Russia, sign, and the UR logo is prominently featured, but Putin’s Party would never have included the flock of sheep with two identical rams on one of their signs. The sheep/ram analogy works the same way in Russia as it does in the US.
The Commies doing snark … will wonders never cease.
