A Swedish billionaire who is developing a controversial luxury hotel in Aspen is suing one of the city’s newspapers for defamation, claiming The Aspen Times wrongly portrayed him as a corrupt…

Vladislav Doronin alleges The Aspen Times defamed him with incorrect portrayal as corrupt Russian

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  • doublepepperoni [none/use name]
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    2 years ago

    It is funny that they called him that just based on his ethnicity though :citations-needed:

    I'm willing to bet they wouldn't call him an oligarch if he was called Per-Olof Nilsson instead

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      2 years ago

      If you call George Soros an oligarch, I suspect liberals will call you anti-Semitic.

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    those swarthy swedes are at it again

    edit: lmao he is a literally a soviet gusano that still hates russia

      • kristina [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        rich people will literally never be satisfied and must always take more and more and more

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        2 years ago

        yeah but those damn commies still nationalised stuff after the beautiful free liberal 90s filled with checks notes.... You know what, let's not dwell on the past.

  • MF_BROOM [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Vladislav Doronin alleges The Aspen Times defamed him with incorrect portrayal as corrupt Russian

    A billionaire in Russia is an oligarch, but in freedom-loving America, a billionaire is a virtuous job creator :citations-needed:

  • MerryChristmas [any]
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    2 years ago

    Someone should start a show where rich people from all over the world have to fight each other in hand-to-hand combat: The Brawligarchs.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    That's the nicest label that he could possibly deserve. :porky-scared:

  • LeninWalksTheWorld [any]
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    2 years ago

    kinda giving up the game here right? Our innovative entrepreneurs are their corrupt oligarchs, ect ect