The person in the picture is u/spez (fastest and the goofiest picture I could find).

Also, please don’t take it seriously. It’s a shitpost. Thanks.

    • db0
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      113 months ago

      Did you hear what happened to Alexei Navalny? How anyone can think that Russia is not a kleptocratic dictatorship is beyond me.

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          Ok so even assuming all this is true, (which is a big assumption, but whatever), does that deserve a summarily death sentence?

          Please drop the immediate whataboutism for once

          • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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            First, what I said about Navalny is true since everything I mentioned is on video. Just like the Azov nazis he was later made to clean up his image to be pallatable for the west as ‘good warriors of democracy’.
            Not one article mentioning any of this about the ‘saint and citizen activist’ in any MSM. Keep repeating: we have free, independent and neutral press!
            And his ‘death sentence’ was more than likely also caused by western jail visits.
            He was rotting in jail, out of the news and he had outlived his propaganda use for the west.
            The only thing they could do was make him a martyr.
            The Skripal farce is more difficult to prove but it stinks like hell.
            As if they couldn’t let them or Navalny have an accident or have him shot in a robbery went wrong.
            Nooo, let’s smuggle some Novishok, the autograph of the Russian state to kill people that have no importance.
            And how remarkable that this evil dedliest poison on earth killed NONE of the intended targets, stupid Russians!
            I bet you never heard about the first Poison Dagger exercise, where they practiced just that, an attack with biological weapons.
            That lasted 3 weeks, and was held in Canterbury, the home of the Skripals. And wouldn’t you know it, 1 day after the end of these exercises the real thing happened.
            And who ‘found’ the victims? Her identity was first kept a secret but months later when it was out of the news they decided to give her an award for her ‘performance’ she just happened to be the daughter of the highest medical authority in the English army.
            She and her parents do not live anywhere near Canterbury.
            As other key 'witnesses’they had a couple, Mr and Mss something.
            When you saw their pictures they looked a bit shabby at best. Turns out they were crack junkies living in a halfway house. Very credible.
            Like many of the official narrative their stories turned out to be inconsistent with reality.
            Even the Skripals themselves have denied they were poisoned in the place the Brits claim.
            But how could they be poisoned with Novishok, the trademark of evil Russia then?
            By another coincidence Canterbury happens to be only 10km from Porton Down, where they have a military biological warfare research center.
            Together with Fort Detrick in the US it’s the only place in the west know to have Novishok.

            Maybe you should read more verifiable stuff and not uniquely swallow western ‘news’.
            That is, if you have the possibility since they ban everything and decide what we can and can’t see bcs ‘Russian disinfo’ and us plebs can’t make up our own mind or discern what is true.

            Whataboutism is a term used by the west that makes it impossible to call out hypocricy or double standards.
            West: “we are better than X country bcs this or that!”
            Reply: “no actually you do this or that so you’re even worse”
            West: “whataboutism!”
            And let’s indeed stick to the subject, there is no objective reasoning to call Putin or Xi dictators.
            You will have to do better than “but Navalny” or simply admit the truth that it’s western framing.

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              103 months ago

              You sound like an unhinged conspiracy theorist, mate.

              • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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                Yes cheap slander really is a credible retort to verifiable facts.
                Give it up if you have nothing to offer, mate.

                And LOL at calling yourself a “socialist”.
                You must be one of those Starmer/Blair kind of genocide, and NATO imperialist wars supporting English kind of ‘socialists’

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                  Wrong, but you must be one of those larouchite conspiracists. Sorry but I don’t interact with nonsense like this.

                  • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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                    You don’t interact? LOL
                    Who TF asked for your 2 cents anyway?
                    It’s invariably you who interferes in my conversations like the pretentious prick you are.
                    And again, you have nothing but weak cowardly and empty personal attacks due to lack of facts.
                    Like a frustrated toddler putting his fingers in his ears and screaming when he’s lost an argument.
                    At least your hero and fellow fake ‘socialist’ Blair crawled under a rock for some decades after being known as a warcriminal and imperialist mass murderer.
                    No chance that will happen with you unfortunately.
                    At least try to stay away from me with your NATO fash supporting garbage.
                    Again, kindly fuck off and go be a nasty powertripping fuhrer on one of the many subs your gigantic ego feels the need to moderate.

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      Putin and Xi are dictators in the same way that Trump is trying to be. They consolidated power under their office, removing term limits and checks, and manipulate the democratic process in their favor (often with blatant ballot stuffing and crushing opposition, in the case of Putin).

      The US political system, as corrupt as it is, isn’t quite to that point yet, though unfortunately that might be changing soon.

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        I’m sure you have proof of your fantasy tales.
        I’ll wait for it (and never hear from you again)
        Is crushing opposition the removing of 3rd partuy candidates by the US dems what you mean?
        Or doesn’t that count in your hypocrite world?

        • @Schmoo@slrpnk.net
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          I started to make a long effort post detailing Putin’s rise to - and subsequent consolidation of - power, but then I came to my senses and realized it would be pointless. If I went through with it, you would just do what you’ve been doing already, dismiss all sources I provide as false and biased propaganda while engaging in ridiculous whataboutism. I decided it would be a poor use of my time, is this really how you want to be spending yours?

          • @Bloomcole@lemmy.world
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            LOL
            Where did I “dismiss all sources”.
            You have offered exactly ZERO sources, only claims that ironically parrot the equally unfunded biased propaganda you baselessly accuse me of.
            How hard could it be when they’re supposed to be obvious dictators?

            Check all my convo’s and you will see the same pattern.
            I offer verifiable facts and NONE of the others can return the favor.
            At best an infantile “I’m not talking to you anymore”, but usually with added cheap personal attacks like ‘biased propaganda’ ‘Vlad’ ‘Russian bot’ ‘Xi bucks’ or ‘+100 social credit’. Sad really.

            Maybe don’t start throwing BS claims you can’t back up when you have no intention of having a genuine discussion and cowardly chicken out when I call you out on them.
            Or is that the best way to spend your time?