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

[–] YurkshireLad@lemmy.ca 107 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 37 points 8 months ago

Let this fucker fade away into obscurity, please.

[–] daft61lunacy@lemmy.world 30 points 8 months ago

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

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 23 points 8 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 16 points 8 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 8 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] Kraven_the_Hunter@lemmy.dbzer0.com 107 points 8 months ago

[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 61 points 8 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 8 months ago

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

[–] iturnedintoanewt@lemm.ee 11 points 8 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 68 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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[–] ThatFembyWho@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

ACAB no matter where you live.

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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

[+] lntl@lemmy.ml -9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] ALERT@sh.itjust.works 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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 8 months ago

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

[+] Thorny_Insight@lemm.ee -9 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This thread definitely will not get deleted

[–] Omega_Haxors@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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 -19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

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 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

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 2 points 8 months ago

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

Opinions on this?

[–] quantumfoam@lemmy.world 10 points 8 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 9 points 8 months ago

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

[–] SeaJ@lemm.ee 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] UmeU@lemmy.world 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 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.

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