Russian opposition leader Navalny has died, prison service says
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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
      58·
      9 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·
        9 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·
          9 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·
            9 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·
              9 months ago

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