I actually admire your audacity: you've made two straw man arguments * in a row (#1: "you're not into serious talk", #2: "you're angry") , and then pre-emptively accused me of doing it. That's the spirit!
However, you motivated me to do a more thorough evaluation of your claims. You cite Levada's poll as some kind of evidence, and draw your conclusions from their data. However, we all know for a fact that all independent organization have been either squeezed out of country, or banned, or destroyed/closed. TV Rain, FBK, Ekho, Novaya Gazeta have all ceased operations in the country. Facebook and Twitter are outright banned. So the only reason Levada continues operating it that its reports are acceptable for Putin's administration. No, they don't use it as bluntly as their other instruments, but it's foolish to think of it as anything else but of yet another propaganda tool at Putin's disposal.
So no, just as we can't trust the election results numbers produced by elections officials, we can't trust Levada polls either.
The rest of your argument that 'if people don't rebel against Putin, they support him' is not only flawed, but also deeply immoral. Never having lifted anything heavier than a computer mouse, you, sitting on a comfortable sofa, have no moral right to accuse people for refusing to perish in an unarmed suicide attack vs a military force. Unlike you, I do have an experience of confronting Putin's police, being beaten and detained by them, but I too do not consider myself in position to ask anyone to rise in a doomed rebellion. The regime will fall only when it'll run out of money to pay for its security - when even the riot police and rosgvardya thugs will be hungry, only then there will be a window of opportunity for the regime change. No sooner.
* - or was it 'ad hominem' attacks? You have to forgive me, I'm relatively inexperienced confronting demagogues.
However, you motivated me to do a more thorough evaluation of your claims. You cite Levada's poll as some kind of evidence, and draw your conclusions from their data. However, we all know for a fact that all independent organization have been either squeezed out of country, or banned, or destroyed/closed. TV Rain, FBK, Ekho, Novaya Gazeta have all ceased operations in the country. Facebook and Twitter are outright banned. So the only reason Levada continues operating it that its reports are acceptable for Putin's administration. No, they don't use it as bluntly as their other instruments, but it's foolish to think of it as anything else but of yet another propaganda tool at Putin's disposal.
So no, just as we can't trust the election results numbers produced by elections officials, we can't trust Levada polls either.
The rest of your argument that 'if people don't rebel against Putin, they support him' is not only flawed, but also deeply immoral. Never having lifted anything heavier than a computer mouse, you, sitting on a comfortable sofa, have no moral right to accuse people for refusing to perish in an unarmed suicide attack vs a military force. Unlike you, I do have an experience of confronting Putin's police, being beaten and detained by them, but I too do not consider myself in position to ask anyone to rise in a doomed rebellion. The regime will fall only when it'll run out of money to pay for its security - when even the riot police and rosgvardya thugs will be hungry, only then there will be a window of opportunity for the regime change. No sooner.
* - or was it 'ad hominem' attacks? You have to forgive me, I'm relatively inexperienced confronting demagogues.