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Alexei Navalny has died in prison (www.reuters.com)
submitted 9 months ago by DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml to c/worldnews@lemmygrad.ml
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[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 62 points 9 months ago (3 children)

He will not be missed RIP BOZO

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 79 points 9 months ago (3 children)

The only thing the Western media portrayed him as was as an opponent of Putin. His nationalist tendencies were unknown to Western libs.

[–] Valbrandur@lemmygrad.ml 53 points 9 months ago (1 children)

As so was his irrelevancy in the general landscape of Russian politics.

[–] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Never fails to take me out when I hear know-nothing burgers talking about "if there were an election he'd have beat putler 2:1" and I'm just fighting the urge to start smirking like "oh, so the same margins that clinton was supposed to beat trump by right?"

[–] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 25 points 9 months ago

Wonders of fake news. I had to explain to my gf today that he was in fact not the only opposition to Putin.

[–] bennieandthez@lemmygrad.ml 28 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Libs framed him as a russian MLK 😅

[–] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 9 months ago (1 children)

civil whites leader

[–] areyoulessthan@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] SoyViking@hexbear.net 14 points 9 months ago

In the minds of western libs, nations in what the west calls "the jungle" doesn't have a fully-fledged political system with differing ideologies and interests based in material conditions. Instead they just have a simple pro-democracy/pro-western Vs. pro-BadCountry/authoritarian divide.

[–] Cysioland@lemmygrad.ml 46 points 9 months ago

The crabs will rave today

[–] lunlu@lemmygrad.ml 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Why though?

[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 59 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

Racist US backed stooge who got dooped into ending up in a Russian prison lol. IIRC he was advised to return to Russia to be sone kinda martyr by his handlers (he had no real mass appeal in Russia and he was being propped up as the 2nd runner up in power lol)

[–] huf@hexbear.net 37 points 9 months ago

yeah i never understood why he went back. he got out, he could've just shut up and lived in the west into old age.

[–] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How is he U.S backed, and how does he have a handler (really, no mass appeal)

Can you explain (I'm out of the loop)?

[–] Idliketothinkimsmart@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)
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