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@0x815 Navalny is Dead, Kaput, Gone. Arguing about whether he was a saint or a sinner is a waste of perfectly good pixels.
He was a person, so probably neither.
I’m not interested in debating his legacy. I’m interested in using this moment as a teachable lesson about what kind of person Putin is and what kind of state he runs.
Yes that's the only point in this debate, but what kind of person Putin is and what kind of state he runs has been well known for quite some time. Navalny's death is just another data point in a long history of awfully convenient and totally natural deaths of Putin critics and/or other dissidents and defectors.
His fate was sealed the moment he returned to Russia, I am honestly surprised that they let him live for so long.