Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.
Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)
Via: https://www.reddit.com/r/pics/comments/1avnej3/police_officers_detain_a_woman_who_laid_flowers/
Wait but Tucker Carlson told us Russia was an amazing place, better than America!
Let this fucker fade away into obscurity, please.
That guy can stay there if he likes it so much.
Go to jail if you speak out against the president, BUT, there is a nice chandelier in a subway station.
Lol, that bit where he praised their grocery store prices was insane. The average American makes over 300% what the average Russian makes in terms of salary.
That guy has dogshit for brains.
And Rachel Maddow and Hillary Clinton told us America is the greatest country in the world…
Why even have a memorial if you can’t visit it and pay respects?
The Navalny memorial at the Wall of Grief is makeshift.
People are paying tribute to him there because the wall is a monument to Stalin era political persecution and Putin is basically doing the same shit.
As a honeypot to arrest dissenters just like they’re doing.
I’m not even sure how to define how self-satirical it is that they made a monument to the political victims of repression, which is now where they authorize any kind of demonstration if one is ever allowed, and it’s also the spot where they arrest everyone. It’s straight out of a joke.
Russia is a fascist dictatorship.
And about half of American politicians are begging to suck Putin’s dick.
There’s European “leaders” and politicians that are total clinging to his dick, too.
It’s a psychological thing - they are so unsure about their validity and position in this world that they need an aggressive “father figure” to lead and to validate them. They are victims of their horrible childhoods, destined to repeat those traumatic experiences again and again. Includes trump, orban, even putin itself.
It’s nice to see that despite our many differences, some thing unite all of us.
ACAB no matter where you live.
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I’m sure the man that regularly participated in neo-nazi marches, advocated to strip non-ethnic Russians of their Russian citizenship, and called muslim Chechens cockroaches is worth celebrating.
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What the fuck is your problem? Instead of actually addressing what I said you just want to start getting transphobic? How about this: would you object to the arrest of the neo-nazis at Charlottesville? I don’t understand what you think is redeemable about this man, all nazis deserve death. We fought a war over this, probably the biggest one yet.
Edit: Oh nice, you’re just gonna edit your comment after claiming that every person with pronouns in their name has shitty opinions. If you’re gonna be a transphobic dick at least say it with your whole chest.
Edit: Oh nice, you’re just gonna edit your comment after claiming that every person with pronouns in their name has shitty opinions. If you’re gonna be a transphobic dick at least say it with your whole chest.
You think it’s a bad thing that I recognized I said something shitty and edited it away?
I don’t understand what you think is redeemable about this man, all nazis deserve death.
Perhaps this will answer your question:
Beginning in the late 2000s, Navalny used racial slurs when describing ethnic Georgians, called for the deportation of Muslim migrant workers and delivered speeches at Russian Marches, annual rallies of far-right nationalists, white supremacists and neo-Nazis.
“It was a long time ago,” Alexander Verkhovsky, head of the Moscow-based Sova hate crimes monitor, told Al Jazeera in 2021, describing Navalny as “a different man now”.
From https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/2/16/obit-navalny-putins-archenemy-and-anti-corruption-champion
You expect me to believe that the man that went to a well-known neo-nazi march for 4 consecutive years in the 2010’s just got his shit together and decided to stop being a nazi while still backing the nationalist party in Russia? He’s not even the most electable candidate against Putin which makes this whole bandwagon everyone’s on even more ridiculous, the second most popular party in Russia is the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia. But everyone keeps trying to posture this supposedly ex-nazi as the last opponent Putin has ever had. It’s ridiculous and not based in reality.
This dude believes it: https://www.rightsinrussia.org/aleksandr-verkhovsky/
Or is he a nazi as well?
I don’t know what you expect me to do here, start sucking this random dude’s dick? I don’t care about his opinion. Living in rural America I’ve seen plenty of nazis and Navalny is no different, especially when he’s made his career on advocating for the genocide of muslims in his country. Would you accept the apology of the Grand Wizard of the KKK and just believe he changed his ways because some guy vouched for him?
I get that real actual nazis are horrible and need to be put down, but I feel like you’re exaggerating both the severity of Navalny’s political positions and downplaying Verkhovsky’s position by quite a bit.
I think it’s a bad thing that you covered it up instead of owning up to it and apologizing for that fucked up thing you said.
Fair enough. I apologize for the fucked up thing I said which was to note that people with gender info in their usernames tend to have opinions that are deeply wrong to me in ways unrelated to gender identity.
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They’ve arrested like 400 ppl across 30 cities, so far
i can’t imagine she didn’t think she wasn’t going to jail for this
Maybe she had her reasons. Maybe she have had enough of all this. Their government tries to cut out the courageous and leave only spineless brainless matter that doesn’t resist.
at least she got a great photo to share on the pipes
This thread definitely will not get deleted
Though it absolutely should. If I wanted to see low quality content designed to ragebait, I would go to reddit.
In a 2007 pro-gun rights video, Navalny presents himself as a “certified nationalist” who wants to exterminate “flies and cockroaches” – while bearded Muslim men appear in cutaways. He whips out a gun and shoots an actor wearing a keffiyeh who tried to “attack” him.
Yeah maybe overt Russian white nationalists shouldn’t be revered and their supporters shouldn’t be given the right to freedom of expression.
Yeah, not like he changed his tune at all since fucking 07.
Hey tell me about how invading a soverign country is totally cool and OK to do.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hT0tCSaWZ9Q
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Oh great, so he’s a covert Russian white nationalist who only wants to exterminate Muslims in secret.
Wait…
He disavowed nationalist shit 10 years ago. This has already been litigated. Now stop throating the cock of a dictator.
Im not sure how i feel about that, and this might be an unpopular take, but does everyone need an absolutely untarnished past to be able to be recognized for something? Or can we just accept that while not a perfect person, he is a pretty decent figurehead for anti-putinism?
If Biden sent Seal Team 6 after Trump, that would be a serious problem, and not because I revere Trump.
White nationalism shouldn’t be revered, but the right to freedom of expression should be.
The right for me to swing my fist ends where your chin begins.
He had recognized how wrong he was quite a while ago.
Source?
I actually wanted to look this up. This is an interesting article - https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/the-evolution-of-alexey-navalnys-nationalism
“He has never apologized for his earliest xenophobic videos or his decision to attend the Russian March. At the same time, he has adopted increasingly left-leaning economic positions and has come out in support of the right to same-sex marriage. This strategy of adopting new positions—without ever explicitly denouncing old ones—is probably the reason the suspicion of ethno-nationalism continues to shadow Navalny.”
I personally don’t have really have opinion either way but was curious.
Thanks, that was indeed an interesting article.
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