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[–] [email protected] 95 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Please note that the official title of the article is:

Yevgeny Prigozhin: Wagner chief presumed dead after Russia plane crash.

Decided not to delete this post due to the many comments and discussions.

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[–] [email protected] 716 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Wow, I’ve been browsing Twitter, Reddit and Lemmy for the past few hours. I’m surprised to see such breaking news first in Lemmy instead of Twitter or Reddit.

Awesome! Hope the Fidiverse keeps on growing to become bigger than Reddit and Twitter.

[–] [email protected] 235 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Look at me

Lemmy is the frontpage of the internet now

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 1 year ago

Good point. Really good sign for users if we can get breaking news stories here like this.

[–] [email protected] 64 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (11 children)

Reddit hot sorts more by popular, so things take a long time to rise up.

Lemmy hot seems to be (too much) biased to new. Can be a bad thing because it looks like things don't get popular. They do but you don't see it by hot, you see it by top 12 hour.

[–] brockpriv 67 points 1 year ago

Early 2010s Reddit was so addicting, if there was something in the world it was on the front page in 15 minutes. I remember being excited to check on Reddit after waking up to see that was the event of the day.

After 2016 the algo was screwed up and it became a cesspool of reposts and news were late to show up.

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[–] [email protected] 325 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

Who would have expected this? Surprised pikachu

But the only one who opposed Putin (with any military power) being dead isn't necessary a good thing (imho)

[–] [email protected] 203 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yeah, but he was stripped of all of his power. Wagner group is being rolled into the state military. The opportunity for Wagner to push back and or give Putin the boot has passed.

And, this dude was also an evil corrupt piece of shit. If he overthrew Putin, Russia would’ve still been an authoritarian disinformation state.

[–] [email protected] 83 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He was a straight-up Neo-Nazi and named the group after Hitler's favorite composer. So yeah, he would have been infinitely worse than Putin... and that's saying something.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But the only one who opposed Putin (with any military power) being dead isn’t necessary a good thing (imho)

Replacing one dictator with another who has the support of something like the Wagner group would not have been good for anyone but the Wagner group.

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[–] [email protected] 184 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Lotta windows in airplanes.

[–] [email protected] 187 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Tragically the plane crashed into a surface to air missile.

Edit: yeah, this is actually what happened, no subtlety here, damn.

[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Like, fucking literally.

"Crash" my ass, BBC, you say it got shot down in the article, how is that not a more accurate and sensational headline?

"Prigozhin got blown the fuck up, like everyone knew he would the moment he pussed out, the Nazi coward."

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[–] [email protected] 171 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm honestly surprised that he lasted this long

[–] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I feel like when the attempted coup fizzled out there was a Russia expert who predicted he's be dead within 90 days. Sounds like that guy was right.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Honestly didn't need to be a expert on Russia to predict that

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[–] [email protected] 148 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn I was hoping he would be able to cause more chaos inside Russia before Putin had him killed.

[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 year ago (3 children)

That window of opportunity closed. Wagner got folded into the state military.

[–] [email protected] 126 points 1 year ago (6 children)

No window is ever closed in russia

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[–] [email protected] 137 points 1 year ago (9 children)

One of the cardinal rules of power struggles is "If you're gonna shoot for the king, don't miss."

[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Man didn't even miss, he just got scared halfway through

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

From what I gather, he backed down because all his top men's families were being threatened. Prigozhin's family was kept safe, of course, but I don't think they expected Russia to threaten the families of those further down the ladder.

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[–] [email protected] 120 points 1 year ago (7 children)

The guy wasn't stupid. He knew going against Putin meant death if he failed. At some point during his attempted coup, he realised it wasn't going to work and was faced with a choice: die now, or "back down" to scheme his way out of an almost certain death later. Turns out he couldn't. ¯⁠\⁠_⁠༼⁠ ⁠•́⁠ ͜⁠ʖ⁠ ⁠•̀⁠ ⁠༽⁠_⁠/⁠¯ Oh well, nothing of value was lost.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I have nothing to add to your comment other than the fact that your text person clearly has a large nose and I think that's a stylistic choice and I appreciate that as someone who also has a large nose.

Oh, and fuck Putin.

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[–] [email protected] 110 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey Putin! I heard Trump talking shit about you.

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[–] gonzo0815 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I wonder if there is a correlation between drop height and importance of the persons he's killing.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Oh that's why I fell over my kids' toys. I'm unimportant but it WAS Putin!

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 1 year ago (6 children)

To think he avoided drinking polonium tea and falling out of a window and self inflicted gunshot wound to the head for all this time just to die in a freak tragic accident.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reports are that Moscow's anti-air fired on the jet..... "accidentally."

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (6 children)

World’s most expected accident victim.

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[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Plane must have accidentally ran into a surface-to-air missile. Y'know, as you do.

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[–] [email protected] 81 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I’m so shocked right now. He didn’t fall out of a window?

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

I mean it's pretty similar to a really high window

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[–] [email protected] 76 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Kind of interesting to note how the United States deals with an attempted coup versus Russia.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I think we all saw this coming.

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[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (2 children)

He should have gone all the way when he started the mutiny against Putin. He would be dead either way but at least he had the chance to take Hitler's disciple with him to hell.

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (8 children)

His fate was sealed when he (very briefly) went up against Putin. Right then and there he had a target on his head.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Prigozhin allegedly had a massive influence on 2016 USA elections with his troll farms.

I don't think Kremlin gave up on the 2024 elections, it's just now they have Musk.

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[–] ElBarto 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A blind man could have seen that coming.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The airplane itself mysteriously fell out of a window.

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Selenskyj was right: Prigozhin will be dead after two months. And he isn't the only hardliner. I think within the last month six out of ten of the hardest hardliners fell out of the window. Or out of the sky.

Seems like Putin is currently liquidating the hardliners so there will be no negative feed back when he ends his "special operation" in a couple of weeks. Message at home will be: Wow, we did great, nobody objects and the world is in awe! And who disagrees will find an open window to jump through...

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Buried the lede a bit with that title, considering the plane was actually shot down

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So he releases a video of himself in Africa. Then a plane with his name on the roster flies from Belarus to Moscow gets shot down. Anyone know if any planes belonging to Wagner flew from Africa to Belarus recently? This might be trick.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Checklist to become an accident in Russia.

  • Windows: checked✅
  • Heights: checked✅
  • Back: checked✅
  • Crony: checked✅
  • Potential adversary: checked✅
[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Good.

He was a fucking dumbass piece of shit who deserves this for not following through on his coup.

This is not surprising at all lmao.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Took longer than I expected. Hopefully the same thing happens to Putin next.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"What could have possibly caused this crash killing a totally insignificant and unimportant person?!" -RT

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