Alexei Navalny has died in prison

And now BBC is spamming articles about "opposition leader dying in arctic prison"

If he had opened Russian markets to exploitation by Wall Street they wouldn't have cared.

Western libs still look back fondly on the Yeltsin years...

I still can't believe he's gone, he was such an inspiration for western media

As so was his irrelevancy in the general landscape of Russian politics.

Libs framed him as a russian MLK 😅

In the minds of western libs, nations in what the west calls "the jungle" doesn't have a fully-fledged political system with differing ideologies and interests based in material conditions. Instead they just have a simple pro-democracy/pro-western Vs. pro-BadCountry/authoritarian divide.

Racist US backed stooge who got dooped into ending up in a Russian prison lol. IIRC he was advised to return to Russia to be sone kinda martyr by his handlers (he had no real mass appeal in Russia and he was being propped up as the 2nd runner up in power lol)

Uhm, this is one of em

I understand why the liberals disingenuously label live Nazis as freedom fighters, like, they do it so often that at this point I wonder if it's an involuntary reflex for them to cheer when they see a swastika.

I don't understand why they're still doing it now he's dead and therefore no longer any use to them.

Definitely and im sure it was intended.

The way i see it, the plan was to keep building the war capabilities of Ukraine while trying to destabilize Russia with fascists like Navalny, fascists are very easy to manipulate and predict. Having fascists factions in Russia would've inevitably led to an internal conflict because of the huge cultural diversity in Russia. A more armed Ukraine wouldve seized the chance with the backing of NATO.

Needless to say, the SMO caught the west by surprise and, with how its going, will end up ruining whatever they had planned in the region.

Can we even say the one and only ukrain w?

Ivan Guyadov elected as interim president of Russia

I think the simplest explanation is that Russian prisons, like most other prisons, are simply bad for your health in general, especially if it is weakened by an OD/poisoning/whatever. It would make more sense for the yanks to kill him than it would for Putin (who would have gained more from people simply forgetting about him), although it seems lightly implausible (but not impossible) that they infiltrated a Siberian penal colony just to kill a guy so he could be used as a martyr.

I don't really think this is valid reasoning tbh. Governments can kill people at a whim, but frequently do not because they would rather they die over time through conditions such as prisons. There are other factors they consider apart from simply wanting him dead. They don't need to have killed his directly. It could simply be the result of mental and physical health issues due to his imprisonment. Life expectancy in prisons is markedly lower for a reason.

I've seen takes that he was killed by the West to blame Putin, but I haven't really seen any actual hard evidence for this

Western governments want Assange dead. So by that logic he'd be dead long before now. He's not, but I'm not about to conclude that the US gov doesn't want Assange in an anonymous ditch. There are plenty of revolutionaries being let to rot in US prisons from the previous decades. It's just killing them in slow motion.

At the end of the day we don't have objective info to allow us to conclude one way or another as to exactly why he's dead, and both the West and Russia are obviously deeply biased sources.

Yeah it's also crazy when you realize how instinctual it is. Like I don't think all the dolts at the Guardian pumping out ink for the ink god really reflectively think 'we have to craft this Manichean narrative for the sake of liberalism' given that's not actually how ideology generally works. I have no doubt (actually, I know from personal experience) that it you push narrative which don't conform you will sometimes get responses which straight-up make no reference to the truth of the matter but explicitly reject what you're saying because it's politically inconvenient. That being said, it is fascinating and disturbing how reflexive and instinctual these kinds of responses are in general liberal culture, and how little most people in liberal societies are either unwilling or incapable of critically analyzing and evaluating this kind of stuff. Like they could just read what Putin says to get a more accurate account of the Russian state's motivations for their actions.

Obviously the Biden administration and supporting fascism lmao

We only take him seriously because he’s the leader of this country, nothing else. If he lacked executive powers people would probably care less. Then again, our local MPs are tweeting about Navalny too and stirring up trouble so…. Our entire government is a circus.

Aren't the sources for machine learning and ai things that already exist? If you feed liberal drivel into an AI, won't it give you more liberal drivel?

A lot of his tweets are written this way, at least in my opinion. Maybe that’s just how he is or he really does use ChatGPT.

That was my immediate thought too. The English signs threw me off the most, it’s not like they need to reach a wider audience so what gives? It’s very fishy…

So a small group going feral for Western propaganda? Very cool…