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    A little reminder of who this fascist CIA asset was: he regularly participated in neo-nazi marches, advocated to strip non-ethnic Russians of their Russian citizenship, and called muslim Chechens “cockroaches”.

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      It was so bad that even western media was forced to report on it. 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

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      If he had really conquered power libs would have been like “oh no how could this happen, no one could’ve ever forseen that he would be even worse than Putin 😭”

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        If he had opened Russian markets to exploitation by Wall Street they wouldn’t have cared.

        Western libs still look back fondly on the Yeltsin years…

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          We have pretty conclusive proof they were trying to make him into the Russian Guaido. There’s a clip going around from 2013 claimed to be either Navalny himself or the director of his “anti-corruption” fund (either way makes no difference) that shows them asking a British MI6 agent for 10-20 million dollars in order to plan, in their own words “mass protests, civil initiatives, propaganda, establishing contacts with elites”.

          My bet is that the West decided now that he was going to serve a decades long sentence for numerous crimes he was no longer worth anything as an asset and they burned him. They did it at an opportune enough moment to create distraction from unfavorable developments and try to use this along with the fearmongering story they ran about Russian space nukes to get the US Congress to give them the money for more weapons to Ukraine.

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    World News having the expected meltdown. No early weekend for people working in Langley.

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      Shoutout to the people on reddit who ‘vividly remember the day he was poisoned’ and to those saying he would be the Russian Mandela, bringing peace and justice to Russia.

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

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          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?”

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

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        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)

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        Definitely and im sure it was intended.

        The way i see it, the plan was to keep building the war capabilities of Ukraine while trying to destabilize Russia with fascists like Navalny, fascists are very easy to manipulate and predict. Having fascists factions in Russia would’ve inevitably led to an internal conflict because of the huge cultural diversity in Russia. A more armed Ukraine wouldve seized the chance with the backing of NATO.

        Needless to say, the SMO caught the west by surprise and, with how its going, will end up ruining whatever they had planned in the region.

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    I saw the lemmy thread for this and it was full of shit-for-brains liberals mourning his loss despite the fact they have zero idea who he was. At least they stopped once the comment explaining who he was got to the top.

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      At least they stopped once the comment explaining who he was got to the top

      I’m surprised. Usually even when you do explain, it gets handwaved away with “lesser evilism”

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    Maybe Putin killed him, maybe he didn’t. But wasn’t he in jail for 2 years? Why wait so long for a hit?

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      It’s not just the ~300 days in prison. It’s not like it was hard to kill him at any point prior. Not to mention the dumb fuck did more to die himself with that “poisoning”(probably an OD).

      Honestly, I don’t see a single reason why Putin would do it. The situation was perfect for him as it was - Navalny was largely forgotten and had no bearing on anything. If anything, he won’t appreciate a minor shitstorm on the Internet a month before the elections.

      But hey, “great” people can’t just die of health issues, it’s always someone!

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      I believe he had issues throughout his captivity. Sickness, hunger strike, that kind of stuff. I don’t think he got a five star hotel treatment either and eventually your health becomes a severe risk. Or maybe Putin just killed him.

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    All of the most popular subreddits are talking about Navalny’s death as if he was some kind of hero. It is impressive how propaganda can PR this dude’s image into a fantastical hero/human that liberals can look up to. Truly disgusting how libs fall for this

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        We only take him seriously because he’s the leader of this country, nothing else. If he lacked executive powers people would probably care less. Then again, our local MPs are tweeting about Navalny too and stirring up trouble so…. Our entire government is a circus.

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        Aren’t the sources for machine learning and ai things that already exist? If you feed liberal drivel into an AI, won’t it give you more liberal drivel?

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          Both your questions are correct, but to me it’s the manner of speech above all. “reports are [two adjectives]”, “let this be an important reminder”,

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        A lot of his tweets are written this way, at least in my opinion. Maybe that’s just how he is or he really does use ChatGPT.

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    What a coincidence, just yesterday I saw some idiots in comments on r*ddit mentioning him, which was also posted here and just today we get yet another gender-neutral bathroom in Russia!

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    He just died? Wow. I didn’t know that. You are telling me now for the first time. He led an amazing life. What else can you say. Whether you agreed or not, he was an amazing man who led an amazing life. I am actually sad to hear that. I am sad to hear that.

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    The libs of mastodon are having a field day with this one, crying about how he was such a hero despite knowing fuck-all about anything.