Oh shit they’ve got him.

  • aaro [they/them, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    8 months ago

    Can someone explain to me why we have 🦀’s out for this one? It’s not like he’s a hero or anything, I certainly am not going to miss him, but I thought he was basically just a somewhat more anti corruption, anti-immigration, and in other ways more socially progressive version of Putin who just got pika-pickaxe’d for trying to organize an equally shitty party to most of the other parties, including United Russia and Putin’s All-Russian People’s Front

    e: good discussion below, tl;dr he has earned his crabs

    • Amerihay [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      8 months ago

      He’s a fascist of the neo Nazi variety. Constantly dehumanized Caucasians (of the Caucasus mountains like chechens dagastanis Georgians Armenians etc). He’s basically the zelenskiyiyiyiyi of Russia

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        8 months ago

        I can’t find anything on the neo-nazi thing in particular (I don’t doubt it), but he’s certainly fash, no doubt. I’m just suggesting that he’s anti-immigration fash standing in opposition to pro-assimilation fash. The only reason anti-immigration seems to be such an anti-state position in Russia is because Putin has correctly read that Russia has a population crisis and is seeking to remedy that by turning foreigners into Russians. Navalny doesn’t seem more or less fascist than Putin, he just seems to have a different idea as to what to do with the Other. Which is I guess a reason to bring the 🦀s out, but no more or less so than when Putin kicks it, besides that Putin is a very expedient thorn in international-community-1international-community-2’s side.

        The one biggest reason I could imagine celebrating Navalny’s death is that he is the enemy of our enemy’s enemy (Navalny/The West/Putin). Besides that, he’s just as fash as a lot of folks who we critically support due to their relation to the West, like Lukashenko and Assad.