• @BennyHill500
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    4 months ago

    Can't wait for western intelligence officials, who were always a 100% reliable source to libs and chuds when saying Russia bad, to suddenly be wrong about something in their minds

    • @NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml
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      You're tripping if you think that:

      a. the media will cover this beyond an article or two b. libs would integrate this information, even if covered c. libs would ever question info from US intelligence officials

      I still get libs citing the "Chinese spy balloon" even though the military put out a press release that the balloon transmitted no data. Media never boosted it, so they never saw it. Would be curious to see how they react if they did. I'd still bet on mental gymnastics like "only because cheap Chinese junk lololol"

  • _NoName_@lemmy.ml
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    4 months ago

    Why is this news being given by Ukraine's intelligence chief? I would assume we'd get it from another vector.

    • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      Because if anyone has incentive to say he was assassinated, it's Ukraine, so we can be pretty sure they're telling the truth.

      • @vonbaronhans@midwest.social
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        If a clot was formed due to a poison or something, is that detectable? Or is this one of those things that will always be shrouded in suspicion because we'll never know if the clot was 'natural' or part of a more intentional plot?

        • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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          I mean, you can always posit another hypothesis because it is very difficult to prove a negative, but if a coagulant or something was administered to him, it should turn up on an autopsy. Ultimately, given the position of Ukrainian intelligence here, the more reasonable conclusion is that people die eventually and that's the extent of the meaning of what happened (or perhaps you could add that the stress of his situation hastened his demise, which is probably true).

    • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      You're saying Ukraine's intelligence chief is wrong? Smdh just what a Russian bot would say

      • @jobby@lemmy.today
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        LOL. I’m not a Russian bot. I didn’t really see the ‘Ukrainian spy chief’ part.

        • Galli [comrade/them]
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          4 months ago

          here I am feeling guilty sometimes making a comment halfway through a 200 comment thread before scrolling on to find someone else already made the same joke while this mf making smug comments when they've not even read half the headline.

          • @jobby@lemmy.today
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            Ah hey. The point is the guy should not have been killed. It’s criminal and a horrific act.

            • @robinn_IV
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              He was a hitlerite fascist who called Muslims cockroaches that must be exterminated. He absolutely should have been killed. The fact God caused his blood to clot proves this.

            • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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              4 months ago

              It's wild how up in arms liberals always get for the human rights of fascists. Eight years of kids in Donbas getting shelled: I sleep. Leader of an ethnonationalist faction gets assassinated: criminal and horrific act.

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              4 months ago

              So you didn't read the first half of the headline, either!

              He wasn't killed, he died from a blood clot. Even Ukraine isn't entertaining speculation that Russia killed him.

            • @robinn_IV
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              I totally support what the guy stood for.

              Navalny was a driving force in the annual anti-Muslim, antisemitic, anti-immigrant “Russian March” in Moscow. Its central themes are “Take Back Russia,” “Russia for Russians” and “Stop Feeding the Caucasus” — the latter a demand to end federal subsidies to poorer, less-developed, largely Muslim regions of Russia. He has a video ad calling Central Asian and Muslim peoples of the Caucasus in Russia “cockroaches that must be exterminated” while implying people should go out and shoot them.

              • @jobby@lemmy.today
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                4 months ago

                Interesting. I guess I, and most other people in the West just assumed he was anti-Putin and therefore good.

                • @BovineUniversity
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                  4 months ago

                  Really says something about uou and most other people in the west

                • Adkml [he/him]
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                  Huh that's weird that's exactly what we've been saying the entire time and we've been called every fucking name in the book by you smug dipshit liberals.

                  Now take this sudden realization that you had no idea about the person until the media told you about him 6 months ago and the media intentionally propped him up as a hero despite all that and apply it to the entire war.

                • zkrzsz [he/him]
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                  This is the time when you should self-reflect about how the West propaganda you into this state. Governments, media lie all the time, why should you trust them when they report about their enemy's countries?

                • Kuori [she/her]
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                  4 months ago

                  yeah it's almost like you and most people in the west know nothing at all

            • Alaskaball [comrade/them]
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              4 months ago

              And here you are undermining the ukraine war effort by spreading russian propaganda

                • @robinn_IV
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                  How is that spreading Russian propaganda?!

                  Putin wants to undermine everything Ukraine does and everything their officials say. He wants us to think he killed Navalny in order to boost this message to opponents of Russia, and when a Ukrainian official breaks the truth here you are clinging to Putler's fantasies. Don't bother KGB bot, I have personally read every word Anne Applebaum has ever written and would never fall for your underhanded slavic tricks.

                • Sasuke [comrade/them]
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                  How is that spreading Russian propaganda?!?!

                  wow, you can tell it's an election year... don't even bother, i know you and your kremlin bot army are just here to convince me not to vote for hillary again. for the record, it won't work. i'm voting for her twice this year.

                • GarbageShoot [he/him]
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                  I think it's unfair to someone this credulous, so I will let you in on the fact that they are fucking with you when they call you a Russian bot or whatever. People are just really sick of dealing with ignorant neoliberals who treat Navalny like Tank Man. The other things they said, about him being a fascist, etc., were sincere and have even been covered in overly-sympathetic sources like Atlantic.

            • brainw0rms [they/them]
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              I'm curious what you think Navalny stood for, which you claim to totally support? Spoilers, he was an ultra far-right nationalist piece of human garbage.

              • @jobby@lemmy.today
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                4 months ago

                I recently understood that he ‘flirted’ with the rightwing many years ago, but didn’t know he still was.

                • @NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml
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                  I know you're getting roasted in the replies, but this is absolutely what most reasonable people would assume given the media atmosphere in the west right now.

                  It's just that western media is generally an unquestioning megaphone for the desires of the US national security apparatus because they'll lose access to information sources if they don't.

                  It's always worth exploring information from other sources, especially when it's about foreign affairs.

                  A good strategy for this is:

                  1. Pick one country opposed to the West on a given issue
                  2. Pick one country that is neither allied or opposed
                  3. Search "<country> top news sites"
                  4. Search the topic on a few of those sites. Translate pages if necessary.

                  I use an RSS feed reader, so when I find a source with English-language version of the site & an RSS feed, I add those to my geopolitics feed, tagging them by country and continent.

          • @jobby@lemmy.today
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            It was late. I was tired. The guy was executed. Slow or fast, he was killed for being a political opponent, and likely tortured in the process.

            • Rom [he/him]
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              4 months ago

              Okay good, you read the title, now try reading the article.

              • @jobby@lemmy.today
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                Yeah I did. It may have ultimately been a blood clot, but that was almost certainly the result of all the abuse he suffered.

                Putin is personally responsible for his death.

                • SoyViking [he/him]
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                  4 months ago

                  Is genocide Joe responsible for every prison death in America as well?

                • Rom [he/him]
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                  Putin personally walked into his cell and shot him in the head with the blood clot gun.

            • 420blazeit69 [he/him]
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              What you're doing here is interpreting any evidence as supportive of the conclusion you chose at the beginning. You're making that conclusion unfalsifiable.

              If Russia said he died of natural causes, you'd say they're lying. Ukraine says the same thing, well this blood clot must be evidence of torture. Why Ukraine wouldn't jump on that interpretation if it was at all plausible is left unanswered. If he was struck by lightning you'd say Putin used him to test a new superweapon.

              • @NuclearDolphin@lemmy.ml
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                This situation is interesting and IMO very revealing about Western media.

                1. Russia hates this guy because he's a fascist and collaborates with the West against the ruling order.
                2. Ukraine hates this guy because he's a Russian nationalist and supports the war and annexation of Russian-speaking Ukrainian territories.

                So what does Western media do when those interests are at odds? Across the board, they put an enormous effort into supporting him.

                What this reveals is that the interests of Ukraine are much less important to the US & its media apparatus than bludgeoning Russia. All the huffing and puffing about lives lost in Ukraine was not because they are mourning the loss of human life, but because it makes Russia look bad. This became a lot more obvious when they refuse to cover a far larger number of Gazan deaths with the same vigor.

  • NuraShiny [any]
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    4 months ago

    What is a blood clot if not red?! The commies got him!