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Some sources suggest he was taking a walk and suddenly fell to the ground. Very mysterious. Guess they ran out of windows.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Party elders were alarmed by his push for a more nationalist message. Defiantly, he recorded a pro-gun rights video in which he compared people from Russia’s mostly Muslim North Caucasus to “cockroaches” and mimicked shooting one with a pistol.

Racist fuck.

https://www.ft.com/content/c3adf28c-07d0-11ea-a984-fbbacad9e7dd

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is so sad for the world. RIP

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

Given what the west is backing in Gaza, I really get why westerners are so upset that a white nationalist is dead.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

There will be others, this was highly unlikely to not happen

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Russia's most significant opposition leader for the past decade, Alexei Navalny, has died in prison inside the Arctic Circle, the prison service said.

Seen as President Vladimir Putin's most vociferous critic, Navalny was serving a 19-year jail term for offences widely considered politically motivated.

He was moved to an Arctic penal colony, considered one of the toughest jails, late last year.

The prison service in the Yamalo-Nenets district said he had "felt unwell" after a walk on Friday.

The causes of his death were being established, Tass news agency reported.

This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly.


The original article contains 168 words, the summary contains 104 words. Saved 38%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!

[–] mindbleach 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh right, this instance's hot takes are going to be complete nonsense. 'The tortured opposition leader wasn't perfect, you guys!' No kidding. He still gets partial credit for sticking his neck out against a dictator-for-life who routinely murders opposition leaders. Everyone you'd prefer is already fucking dead.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] mindbleach -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But telling you where to shove it would be uncivil.

The funniest thing I've seen on Lemmy was someone insisting socialism is pragmatic and liberals are idealists, because it comes to mind every single god-dang time one of y'all shits all over opposition to outright dictatorship. So long as the dictator is from a country you insist was actually state-capitalist - the real evil is anyone fighting brutal profiteering autocracy, unless they're ideologically pure.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Navalny is a literal racist and far right nationalist. Even western mainstream media was forced to admit this.

In 2021, a BBC article reported even Amnesty International was forced to strip Navalny’s “prisoner of conscience” status for the violence and hate he unremorsefully promoted https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-56181084

That same month, US government-funded Radio Free Europe likewise was forced to concede Navalny’s extremist background https://www.rferl.org/a/navalny-failure-to-renounce-nationalist-past-support/31122014.html

The fact that people like you champion him as some OpPosItiOn to a DicTatoRshiP, shows just how utterly morally bankrupt you lot are.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Forced to admit"? That means they reported on him, accurately, the way free media does. I don't know what's worse, how thick the Putin propaganda is here, or how little effort is behind it.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The fact that a bunch of mouth breathers in this thread are defending a literal fascist shows that western propaganda works as intended.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good point, except that nobody is defending him at all, so dumb point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I guess that's something a person with poor reading comprehension might say.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I used to not understand how Hitler was able to rise to power. Now I do. It just requires more people like you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Oh...was Alexia the Russian leader who, like Hitler, is invading sovereign countries to expand their territory, refuses to tolerate dissent, murders or disappears those who speak out against him, cancels fair elections and then murders his political opponent, and relies on outrageously fake state propaganda and secret police to ensure loyalty?

Because all of that sounds very Vlad, very Vlad indeed.

[–] mindbleach 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everyone who's not ideologically pure is literally Hitler. You figured out politics and it's super simple, good job.

Any liberals in the resistance movements against Hitler were literally Hitler.

Nobody but your special favorite friends are allowed to oppose a warmongering autocrat currently in power over an invading army.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you misspelled piss there bud

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

He also misspelled Navalny's name, as OP also did (but the article didn't), which is even more funny since it shows how much they do know about him and are just joining the yapping chorus of western propaganda.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why do you say that? Or am I speaking to mr Putin?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I said that because Navalny is a fascist scumbag and a white supremacist. If that's the sort of people you support then you really need to check your morals.