Navalny, 47, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, spent his final years behind bars as the Russian leader reshaped the country to rally behind his war in Ukraine.

Oh shit they’ve got him.

  • HexbearGPT [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    imagine this being your life: sitting in prisons waiting for the CIA to help install you as the president. then you just die. lmao couldn’t be me. what a dumbass.

    • fanbois [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Feels like this is the only lesson from this.

      The motherfucker was a real believer in… whatever variation of a liberal-fash ego trip he made up for himself. The russian state and judicial system fucked with him at every point of his attempt to stir the public or participate in politics and for some fucking reason he kept pushing his luck.

      Then they poisoned him with chemical weapon grade poison and almost killed him, then he got offered one last possible exit from ANGELA MERKEL herself. And he just went back. Commited to the bit till the end.

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    9 months ago

    Can someone explain to me why we have 🦀’s out for this one? It’s not like he’s a hero or anything, I certainly am not going to miss him, but I thought he was basically just a somewhat more anti corruption, anti-immigration, and in other ways more socially progressive version of Putin who just got pika-pickaxe’d for trying to organize an equally shitty party to most of the other parties, including United Russia and Putin’s All-Russian People’s Front

    e: good discussion below, tl;dr he has earned his crabs

    • Amerihay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      He’s a fascist of the neo Nazi variety. Constantly dehumanized Caucasians (of the Caucasus mountains like chechens dagastanis Georgians Armenians etc). He’s basically the zelenskiyiyiyiyi of Russia

      • aaro [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        9 months ago

        I can’t find anything on the neo-nazi thing in particular (I don’t doubt it), but he’s certainly fash, no doubt. I’m just suggesting that he’s anti-immigration fash standing in opposition to pro-assimilation fash. The only reason anti-immigration seems to be such an anti-state position in Russia is because Putin has correctly read that Russia has a population crisis and is seeking to remedy that by turning foreigners into Russians. Navalny doesn’t seem more or less fascist than Putin, he just seems to have a different idea as to what to do with the Other. Which is I guess a reason to bring the 🦀s out, but no more or less so than when Putin kicks it, besides that Putin is a very expedient thorn in international-community-1international-community-2’s side.

        The one biggest reason I could imagine celebrating Navalny’s death is that he is the enemy of our enemy’s enemy (Navalny/The West/Putin). Besides that, he’s just as fash as a lot of folks who we critically support due to their relation to the West, like Lukashenko and Assad.

        • Lemmygradwontallowme [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          9 months ago

          he’s just as fash as a lot of folks who we critically support due to their relation to the West, like Lukashenko and Assad.

          Dayum, why you roastin’ them like that? I understand why Putin’s fash, but why them too?

          • aaro [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
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            9 months ago

            “The Jews managed to force the world to remember the Holocaust,” Lukashenko declared. “The entire world grovels before them and gives in to them. They are afraid to say a single word out of place.”

            “The history of Germany is a copy of the history of Belarus. Germany was raised from ruins thanks to firm authority and not everything connected with that well-known figure Hitler was bad. German order evolved over the centuries and attained its peak under Hitler. This corresponds with our understanding of a presidential republic and the role of a president in it,” Lukashenko said in 1995, perhaps anticipating that he would still be in power more than a quarter of century later.

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            I might actually be flat-out wrong about Assad tho, maybe Erdogan is a better example

            • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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              9 months ago

              Nah assad recently decided to do “was it really 6 millions” shit. Luka is just an idiot, i always see this quote from the 90s, but not something weird after, idk why (did he get better or just start masking)