Navalny, 47, a prominent critic of President Vladimir Putin, spent his final years behind bars as the Russian leader reshaped the country to rally behind his war in Ukraine.
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 ’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
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
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 ’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.
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
’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
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
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
’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.