[photo] Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny in St. Petersburg : worldnews

[-] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 108 points 9 months ago

Wait but Tucker Carlson told us Russia was an amazing place, better than America!

[-] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 38 points 9 months ago

Let this fucker fade away into obscurity, please.

[-] daft61lunacy@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago

That guy can stay there if he likes it so much.

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 23 points 9 months ago

Go to jail if you speak out against the president, BUT, there is a nice chandelier in a subway station.

[-] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 14 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] wesker@lemmy.sdf.org 73 points 9 months ago

Why even have a memorial if you can't visit it and pay respects?

[-] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 9 months ago

[-] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 59 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] Neato@ttrpg.network 16 points 9 months ago

As a honeypot to arrest dissenters just like they're doing.

[-] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 11 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] 3volver@lemmy.world 67 points 9 months ago

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[-] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 22 points 9 months ago

It's nice to see that despite our many differences, some thing unite all of us.

ACAB no matter where you live.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Life-improving protip for us all (probably them too): Settings -> Blocks -> Block instance -> lemmygrad.ml.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi -1 points 9 months ago

This dude believes it: https://www.rightsinrussia.org/aleksandr-verkhovsky/

Or is he a nazi as well?

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago

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?

[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

He called Muslims cockroaches and performed a commercial shooting a man in brownface wearing a cockroach costume with a gun. I don't know what can convince you how much of a depraved and fucked up man he is. I don't know if this link is going to work but here's footage of him being interviewed at a nazi march. it'll probably try to get you to download the video.

I do not know how you can sit here and try to convince me that this is a good man worth mourning. He was a sick man.

Edit: also here's the cockroach video, actually up on YouTube still https://youtu.be/hT0tCSaWZ9Q?si=h0jC4oe4XiT4yZ_B

[-] Catfish@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] mellowheat@suppo.fi -1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Ya booiiiisss we reddit now!!!!! EDIT: nevermind it's just a repost of a reddit thread. Please don't pollute lemmy with reddit reposts. I quit that shithole site because of crappy posts like this. If it feels like it belongs on the front page of reddit, just post it on reddit instead. (or lemmy world)

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They’ve arrested like 400 ppl across 30 cities, so far

[+] lntl@lemmy.ml -9 points 9 months ago

i can't imagine she didn't think she wasn't going to jail for this

[-] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 20 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] lntl@lemmy.ml 3 points 9 months ago

at least she got a great photo to share on the pipes

[+] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee -10 points 9 months ago

This thread definitely will not get deleted

[-] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Though it absolutely should. If I wanted to see low quality content designed to ragebait, I would go to reddit.

[+] nekandro@lemmy.ml -11 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

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.

[-] P00P_L0LE@lemmy.ml 5 points 9 months ago

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=hT0tCSaWZ9Q

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[-] nekandro@lemmy.ml -4 points 9 months ago

Oh great, so he's a covert Russian white nationalist who only wants to exterminate Muslims in secret.

Wait...

[-] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

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?

[-] Tinidril@midwest.social 7 points 9 months ago

If Biden sent Seal Team 6 after Trump, that would be a serious problem, and not because I revere Trump.

[-] UmeU@lemmy.world 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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.

[-] SeaJ@lemm.ee -3 points 9 months ago

He had recognized how wrong he was quite a while ago.

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