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[-] DankZedong@lemmygrad.ml 79 points 8 months ago

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 8 months ago

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

[-] frauddogg@lemmygrad.ml 35 points 8 months ago

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 8 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 8 months ago

Libs framed him as a russian MLK ๐Ÿ˜…

[-] Nakoichi@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago
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[-] TankieReplyBot@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 8 months ago

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[-] SoyViking@hexbear.net 14 points 8 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.

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