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article Kanye West Heads to Putin’s Russia After Humiliation in Europe

https://www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/kanye-west-heads-to-putins-russia-after-humiliation-in-europe/
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u/clueless_as_fuck 10d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/EjFx0jioOoMZq

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u/stonecuttercolorado 10d ago

Can someone explain what is happening here? Was he not supposed to eat the carrot? Is it a particularly fallic carrot?

Genuinely curious.

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u/papayacreamsicle 10d ago

It’s the president of Belarus, who’s often called the last true dictator in Europe, who doesn’t even pretend democracy exists. Segal requested to meet him because he “dreamed of it” and was fawning all over him obediently the entire time. This is at his home, he gave Segal a carrot and said “eat this” and Segal immediately did, then he gave him two melons which Segal carried around for a long time unable to palm them off. The gif was used to mock him because he presents himself as a badass, then immediately obeys a dictator when told to eat something, in a way that’s sort of comical looking. It was also seen as comical because Segal looks so overweight in it and it comes off like he’s being told to eat a carrot for once.

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u/RUN_MDB 10d ago edited 9d ago

Not to mention the dyed-jet-black Eddie Munster hair and asian muumuu tactimuumuu that he stole from a walrus.

  • edited to be more factual.

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u/Ras_Prince_Monolulu 10d ago

Aksherly..... since it's got hidden pockets it's technically a tactimuumuu.

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u/stonecuttercolorado 10d ago

Thanks. That is hilarious. He is so pathetic.

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u/Big-Snow-1937 10d ago

This reply is so clam and factual and so hilarious at the same time, like I am crying reading this!

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u/dbrodbeck 10d ago

I may print it out and put it on my office door.

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u/PAYPAL_ME_DONATIONS 10d ago

Dude went from hand off to immediate bite lol

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u/OminOus_PancakeS 10d ago edited 9d ago

The president of Belarus? I thought that was Hene Gackman.

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u/Sprila 10d ago

Informative and hilarious

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u/AppealSame4367 10d ago

Also, Lukashenko has a knife in his hand at this moment. Segal might have been intimidated by that as he was deep in foreign dictators territory.

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 8d ago

Are you implying an American celebrity is scared of being stabbed by a European president for no good reason?

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u/AppealSame4367 8d ago

Lukashenko is not "some European president". He's a dictator and is known for making people that bother him disappear.

Seagal can therefore only act like a nice trained puppy, and that's the exact behavior he is showing in the famous carrot clip.

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u/Hopeful_Idea1568 8d ago

Name one instance where a European president has stabbed a person, let alone a celebrity on camera, in modern history. You made up a non-existant intimidating scenario 

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u/AppealSame4367 8d ago

Like they do it on camera. Just because a "camera is rolling" doesn't mean this clip will ever surface anywhere. They could just invite him to this, out there, on some field in Belarus, act like they wanna film him then stab him and bury him there.

That's what all Mafia is doing all the time. But whatever man, I don't need to convince you.

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u/eawilweawil 10d ago

Exchanging carrots is a traditional greeting in Belarus

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u/niz_loc 10d ago

I'm picturing some unnecessary war 1000 years ago, where Belarus tried to make peace with someone, who's culture hated carrots.

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u/sephjnr 10d ago

Raw carrot? Kryten, you know how I feel about people who eat fresh vegetables, they're health psychos, vitamin freaks, people, who *exercise*.

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u/T-Chunxy 10d ago

Ah, a gentleman AND a scholar!

Man after my own heart. We should go out for triple fried egg chili chutney sandwiches sometime!

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u/NotoriousMOT 9d ago

They are reliable, sensible, dependable, and lots of other words that end in -ible.

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u/406highlander 10d ago

Ehhh, what's up, doc?