Russian opposition leader Navalny has died, prison service says
www.bbc.com
Jailed Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has died, Russian media report, citing the prison service.

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

  • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
    158·
    10 months ago

    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.

      • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
        58·
        10 months ago

        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.

        • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
          125·
          10 months ago

          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.

          • TinidrilEnglish
            66·
            10 months ago

            “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.

            • ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmy.ml
              55·
              10 months ago

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

              • TinidrilEnglish
                36·
                10 months ago

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

    • nekandro@lemmy.ml
      78·
      10 months ago

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

      • MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.mlEnglish
        51·
        10 months 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@sh.itjust.works
        42·
        10 months 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.