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Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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Sounds like you're taking about Trump and his lawyers, though I'm sure other cases exist in other nations. Has the thought crossed your mind that one group might have done crimes and the other might not have?

Very little seems to cross their minds. This thread is full of some really "hot takes I've absolutely never heard before".

I'm disappointed as hell with the level of discourse on this site.

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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Sounds like you're taking about Trump and his lawyers, though I'm sure other cases exist in other nations. Has the thought crossed your mind that one group might have done crimes and the other might not have?

How will you be able to tell which is which? Take it step by step

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What has allowed the Russian state to treat him with such a degree of cruelty is the war with Ukraine. News of his arrest, imprisonment, and treatment in jail were overshadowed by those of another airstrike on a civilian population. Not to mention, it sent a clear message to internal opposition that those willing to act against the state would face not just legal hurdles but also tyranny and physical violence.

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Neither side has air superiority in Ukraine.

Israel can do what they're doing, because their enemy has no air defence whatsoever.

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> it was not Navalny who sent them to jail It was their breaking the law that sent them to jail. > And speaking about manipulation devices this is still Russian regime taking down opponents rather then the organization or layers doing anything illegal or bad. And your evidence is?

> It was their breaking the law that sent them to jail. Nah. Highly political and corrupt system did. Lets not lie about this. Nothing to do with breaking the law. Everything to do with being vocal opposition.

Again, your evidence?

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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Sounds like you're taking about Trump and his lawyers, though I'm sure other cases exist in other nations. Has the thought crossed your mind that one group might have done crimes and the other might not have?

How will you be able to tell which is which? Take it step by step

With extreme difficulty.

The only real step 1 — unless you want to get into a philosophical argument about the foundation of knowledge and the Münchhausen trilemma — is "get a law degree", which for most people is much too hard.

The closest that nerds like me can do is to watch another lawyer explain what Trump's lawyers did wrong, and hope that YouTube isn't just one giant conspiracy by The Man (and while I have reasons for trusting this channel specifically, I do not trust YouTube collectively): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lhy5Y8xVHS0

(This is, I think, further from a law degree than "watching a 25 minute video about Excel" is from "senior software engineer").

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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He is largely irrelevant now. He was significantly popular, but there is a combination of: 1. Many of his most fervent followers fleeing the country in February or September 2022. 2. His team being useless and consisting of people of very questionable loyalty (the question remains why he let them all in), and in many cases under their own brands. 3. Overall switch from the anti-corruption discourse towards different…

On top of that, the guy is literally a racist, if anyone cares to explore his past. But he’s all hero these days, because he wants to be in charge of Russian regime instead of Putin. He’s portrayed as a fighter for freedom, while actually right now, any Ukrainian soldier does more to protect the values of democracy. By literally fighting tooth and nail for it. But nobody seems to care about a Ukrainian soldier as muc…

>But nobody seems to care about a Ukrainian soldier as much as they care about just one person from Russia, isn’t it?

Ukrainians should be grateful for support they get and dramatically reduce sense of entitlement. US provided more material support to Ukraine in the last year than to any other country in history. Constant whining becomes tedious and defense of the democracy argument is questionable.

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I have a huge respect for Navalny. They tried to murder him and after spending time in a German hospital he decided to go back knowing that they'll imprison him or try to kill him again.

You do know his political stance, right? https://twitter.com/krides/status/1509841011295592450 Do you also have huge respect for Prigozhin for flying back to Moscow after agreeing to stop the revolt? Same energy.

My downstairs neighbour believes in crystals. Which is fine because she's not in a position to force me to use crystals, or the teaching of crystals as a healing method in schools (etc).

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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Because this website bypasses paywalls and loginwalls - it has accounts for a lot of the social media websites, so you don't see a generic "Login to see this page" but the actual contents.

You can’t use it if you are using CloudFlare DNS.

Just because it doesn't work for the minority, doesn't mean the shouldn't do something nice for the masses

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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There are plenty of photos of russians bombing civilians, hospitals, Mariupol drama theater had "children" written in letters so big that they can be seen from space. Still bombed. Just few weeks ago a funeral was hit with a rocket, 50+ civilians dead. Let alone the constant attacks on civilian power and port infrastructure trying to freeze and famine not only Ukraine. This is just a completely ignorant take that the…

Why do you write Israeli, when it was Gaza’s who bombed their hospital themselves. Like other autocracies tend to do to their citizens, by not valuing their lives.

Bombed with what?

With a rocket made of water pipe and ammonia fertilizer? Obviously it would not do that kind of damage. We've seen impacts of stuff Hamas has and it can't do that.

The angle from which Israel doing this damage control reciprocity blaming is laughable.

Re: Alexei Navalny's lawyers are arrested

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There are plenty of photos of russians bombing civilians, hospitals, Mariupol drama theater had "children" written in letters so big that they can be seen from space. Still bombed. Just few weeks ago a funeral was hit with a rocket, 50+ civilians dead. Let alone the constant attacks on civilian power and port infrastructure trying to freeze and famine not only Ukraine. This is just a completely ignorant take that the…

I'm just saying exactly that - anybody may now take two sets of photos and compare the amount of rampage over the time period to approximate the "DPS" done to civilian infrastructure.

Of course, I cannot prevent that person from being in denial due to cognitive dissonance.

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