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Navalny's widow vows to continue husband's opposition to Putin
(abcnews.go.com)
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Good. We need more people like her husband.
Dead people?
Though I agree with the intent. We need more people willing to stand up for what is right, even if it kills them.
Oh I agree. I don't think I'd be able to do what he did, but it's inspiring to see. And in the end if you want to have a positive impact on the world you have to do what you believe is right no matter what. And we can be 100% certain now that his motivations were selfless.
Rabid nationalists who call people from other races cockroaches?
Haha ok bud.
Seriously, have you watched anything this man says in Russian? His English PR team is great, you’d never know he frequently called for the murder of minorities.
The only PR team you listen to is Roskomnadzor.
More radical assholes than even Putin? I'm all about Putin's shit getting kicked in, but Navalny and folks like him are not a solution we should explore. I'm sick of people glorifying both of those assholes. Defending Navalny is like defending solving your wasp problem with rabid badgers. I don't want either in my home, and though the latter may solve the first, it's going to create some much bigger problems
Please explain why you say what you say
They fell for the Russian disinformation campaign trying to paint Navalny as a far right nationalist and proponent of the Ukraine invasion, even though he repeatedly voiced his disapproval in recent years.
RT propaganda works it seems
If that had been true, he'd have LOVED Putin ffs 🤦
it is true. he thought putin was not fascist enough.
Yeah right 🙄
In one of the videos, in which he advocates for gun rights, he compares militants from the Caucasus to cockroaches and mimics shooting one who attempts to "attack" him.
you don't need to believe me but i hope you look into it.
And killing journalist in the middle of Moscow is ok? Or another journalist and human rights activist? Or killed later Boris Nemtsov? To be fair Kadirov killed even his own bodyguard. Also mentioned gun laws are copy of ukrainian gun laws. Speaking of ukrainians: apparently in 2022 he grown tired of killing only russians and chechens, so he kills ukrainians since then too.
Speaking of cockroaches and other animals: is it now how western media calls russians now? And by extent call chechens too. So russians can't talk about domestic problems, but foreign media can talk about russians' problems?
I already can see your mental gymnastics coming.
>Speaking of ukrainians: apparently in 2022 he grown tired of killing only russians and chechens, so he kills ukrainians since then too.
you're not going to catch me saying putin does good things. i don't know if he's ever done a single good thing.
I'm talking about Kadirov
... what makes you think i had anything to say about him at all?
Because he is one of mentioned Caucasus militants
I don't call people vermin. I think the dehumanization is a pretty clear line that we shouldn't cross. I suppose I could make an exception for fascists, as I think turnabout is fair play. in this case, a nationalist calling the leader of a militant ethnic group vermin, I think that's pretty fucking gross.
>Speaking of cockroaches and other animals: is it now how western media calls russians now?
i haven't heard that, but i'd condemn it if i did.
Please don't follow me around. This is harassment.
I am not following you at all but it won't hurt my feelings if you block me.
Nah I'm just kidding.
I remember
Russian disinformation? Can you name a single policy that would have made Navalny a desirable outcome? You think he'd pull out of Ukraine?
Navalny would've been the preferable candidate in every regard. The list of reasons is literally too long to be summarized by a single comment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexei_Navalny#Foreign_policy
He also had good internal policy
Because the man is a racist, imperialist, fash piece of shit. It's an unfortunate mentality when you figure there's only two options here. There are a million better outcomes possible. Forgive me for not rooting for Pinochet to replace Pol Pot.
Please provide the proof, you’re just saying stuff, I’m asking you to support your position.
I’m curious and I’m not against you, but I can’t take what you’re saying as serious if you are only saying “feelings.”
I already can guess he will try to frame Navalny's video from 16 years ago about Basaev's militants and Kadirov's personal army as "racism towards muslims".