Everyone should read the comments on this video
mozz
joined 2 years ago
Everyone should read the comments on this video.
I would love to have a trustworthy source for what he's actually saying, as opposed to just the he-said-she-said, but that might be hard to find.
I will be very surprised if you get an answer to this question.
Also, this article touches a little on the truth behind the claims about Navalny and the campaign by the Kremlin to amplify them, and its impacts.
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Trying to take power away from Putin: Fine
Biden is being nice to you: Window
Not sure it works that way. I mean, I do think her and her family should leave Russia, but I don't think this invitation is the reason why, and I don't think "settle down and don't do anything that might upset the powerful people" is a good remedy if it turns out that it is.
15 years ago
A spokesman for the human rights organisation in Moscow told the BBC that he believed the wave of requests to "de-list" Navalny was part of an "orchestrated campaign" to discredit Vladimir Putin's most vocal critic
"We had too many requests; we couldn't ignore them," spokesman Alexander Artemev told the BBC
quoted a Twitter thread by Katya Kazbek, a freelance columnist published by the pro-Kremlin channel RT amongst others
Ms Kazbek, a pseudonym, describes herself online as a "feminist, LGBT researcher, citizen of the world", but
other English-language Twitter accounts have regularly
the move has already been hailed by RT editor Margarita Simonyan on Twitter, who noted the success of "our columnist" Katya Kazbek
Nelson Mandela had also been stripped of the status in the 1960s
I like how it's phrased not as "this is the candidate that won, I'm so concerned about Biden's poor performance that obviously as a genuine Democrat, I'm hyping up this other guy who isn't old who I think would be better."
Or "Hey everybody you should support the Green Party instead, because I don't like the DNC I'm trying to promote them, as a genuine leftist"
Nope
I think the structure of these apps in terms of the social interactions they encourage has a ton to do with the quality of the experience.
It's fairly clear to me that the quality of the conversation on Mastodon is simply better. I think it's because the not-quite-4chan-but-almost level of anonymity and randomness to any given interaction on Lemmy makes it easy and consequence-free to be a dick. Enabling mods to deal with it once the dickishness reaches a certain threshold doesn't really seem to do anything to solve the problem, partly because there's a huge range of dickish behavior that doesn't quite rise to the level where it needs mod attention, but still degrades the conversation and dilutes anything good anyone's trying to add.
I don't really have much experience outside the Lemmy and Mastodon communities, but I think app authors spending time on particular UX features would probably be better spending their time on studying in depth the types of interactions their apps are enabling and encouraging, and trying to keep an eye on that as they're designing the system. What those answers are I don't really know, but it seems important.
Oooh
That actually makes a lot of sense and makes me sad. They've been doing other weird stuff, and if it's all of a piece and more of the same victimization to business interests that has been slowly eviscerating all of American journalism... yeah, yeah, that makes sense. 😢
And yet he did it anyway, and they killed him for it, as he certainly knew that they probably would.
What have you done?
I mean... yeah, I respect. He was an opposition candidate for a government that regularly kills its opponents. He organized for a while, he left Russia for Europe, and then he fucking went back to Russia to organize more. I barely know about any of this stuff and I still knew there was about a 90% chance he'd be killed. And look, they killed him. Because his aim was to bring an improvement to his home country's system of government.
I know one thing: If your goal is to have a comfortable life and more for yourself, and you're not that worried what happens to other people or what kind of world you leave behind when you're gone, you don't do that.
He could have had a long hug and a tongue kiss with Nick Fuentes and I'd still find a lot that's good to say about him. There's a lot I respect about Heinz Guderian even though he was a Nazi. There's a lot I respect about Martin Luther King even though he cheated on his wife. Lyndon Johnson had a ton of things wrong with him and I still like him. I have no idea if any of this about Navalny being far-right is in any way true; it's the type of thing the Putin regime likes to make up and repeat about its enemies, so maybe it's a load of horseshit, but honestly it doesn't impact my assessment of him all that much even if it's the God's honest truth. It is ok for people to support bad things and still be good people and have good things about them. Honestly, just the fact that whatever he was doing was enough for Putin to make him public enemy #1 is good enough for me.
This thing that certain segments of the Lemmy community try to do where you CANNOT support a person, full stop, if they have ever done thing X, Y, or Z, and it COMPLETELY NEGATES anything good they may have done even if there are significant qualifiers to the thing you're blowing up as X and they only were friends with people who did Y or Z, never did it themselves, and it was all twenty years ago... man, it's just a bunch of horseshit. I don't care. Navalny was clearly good, on the total balance, and you're not gonna be able to convince me otherwise unless he was secretly a serial killer and even then I would want to know how many people were involved and if they'd done anything to deserve it.
I'm not tryin to jump down your throat about it; I know the "completely negates" isn't actually what you were trying to say. I'm actually glad for the information even if I'm a little suspicious of the motives behind it. It sounds like we're more or less on the same page actually. I just thought he showed a ton of courage and commitment and I wish people on the left in the US, whatever they're going after, would have one tenth of his stones to get out and try to make it happen.
Gavin Newsom, Gretchen Whitmer, there are a handful of others.
Of course if everyone's operating under the assumption that Biden is the guy, they're gonna look a little unlikely, but that's not a foregone conclusion even at this late stage.