Police officers detain a woman who laid flowers for Alexei Navalny at the Memorial to Victims of Political Repression in St. Petersburg, Russia on Friday, Feb. 16, 2024.

Russian authorities say that Alexei Navalny, the fiercest foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin who crusaded against official corruption and staged massive anti-Kremlin protests, died in prison. He was 47. (AP Photo)

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    • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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      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
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        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

          • mellowheat@suppo.fi
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            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.

        • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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          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.

            • Catfish [she/her]@lemmygrad.ml
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              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
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                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.