Ah, the best show! Can’t wait for it to get back to the russian TV!
Well.... we are fuked.
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lemmysmash@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
altphoto@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
That’s Fox News.
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 weeks ago
I long for the US Swan Lake moment
Rubisco@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago What are we having in place of free borscht, free tacos?
rockSlayer@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 weeks ago
Nonsense, this is ‘Merica god dammit! Free burgers and hotdogs!!
PugJesus@piefed.social 4 weeks ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swan_Lake#Symbolism
In the 2020s, Swan Lake became a symbol of protest in Russia.[65] The symbolism dates to the failed Soviet coup of 1991. On August 19 of that year, as tanks rolled into Moscow, state television aired the entire ballet on loop. Communist hardliners then announced that they had seized control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, whom they had arrested. Boris Yeltsin responded by climbing on a tank in central Moscow and urging citizens to turn out in protest. For three days, thousands of protesters stood off the army, after which the coup leaders relented. Within four months, the Soviet Union was gone.[65][66]
In 1991, there was a tradition of interrupting regular programming by airing the ballet on loop when the government was in crisis: it happened with the death of Leonid Brezhnev in 1982, while a successor was selected, and again with the deaths of Yuri Andropov in 1984 and Konstantin Chernenko in 1985. Swan Lake thus became “a sign of political instability and upheaval."[66]
LodeMike@lemmy.today 3 weeks ago
Even adds context to other people’s posts
twinnie@feddit.uk 4 weeks ago
Is there an explanation?
- Rubisco@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
How Swan Lake Became a Symbol of Protest [shasha not sasha, 30 min]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hl7YXivMaHs 
Skullgrid@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago it’s grumpy_Cat, there’s never any fucking explaination. PugJesus has got us covered tho : https://lemmy.world/post/48684568/24458021
also the guy that replied to you.
SGforce@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Wonder what the American equivalent will be, Wrestlemania?
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Reruns, I guess? Trying to think of what aired in the weeks after 9/11, when a bunch of new stuff got delayed, and the studio techs were as fried as everyone else. Marathons of evergreen daytime programming. So then as now, probably Star Trek: The Next Generation.
America’s closest real comparison might be radio DJs putting on a long song so they can go take a shit. “November Rain?” Buddy, ease off the nachos.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Probably switching to 100% slop, while media figures and heads of state try to quietly flee before the chaos hits genpop
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Fox News talking about democrats.
farmgineer@nord.pub 4 weeks ago
Probably the national anthem. Back in the days when TV stations stopped for the day, that was one of the things they might play before the test pattern (or static) began.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 4 weeks ago SGforce@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
hypeerror@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
chain link fence and a tarp.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Stunt bikes on the White House lawn.
ZC3rr0r@piefed.ca 4 weeks ago
Swan lake, the classic harbinger of doom and unplanned government “restructuring”.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
Briefly represented in the music video for Wolf Parade’s “Yulia.”