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> The court did not explain why the trial would be held in prison and failed to explain how witnesses, journalists or Navalny’s defence team could attend the heavily restricted facility.
> Navalny is currently serving a two-and-a-half-year sentence on trumped-up, politically-motivated charges, which the European Court of Human Rights has described as “arbitrary and manifestly unreasonable”
https://www.amnesty.org.uk/press-releases/russia-navalny-fac...
Hardly the symbol of democracy that western liberals are struggling to make him to be.
BTW don't you find it curious how his "wife" was already at the munich security conference, ready to give a speech to the world just few hours after his death?
Why would they kill him? Who knows, there's spite, posturing, all the other mafia shit.
Also why did you put Navalnys wife in quotations?
Note: I'm not giving any judgement on whether Navalny was a good or bad person, liberal or nationalist. Just that he was a political prisoner killed by a brutal autocrat.
It is never irrelevant. I feel it's actually damaging for putin to have killed him now, so I still wonder why would have he done it?
Mafia shit is a naive answer and only shows your bias, Putin is not a mafia boss but the leader of a great power.
> Also why did you put Navalnys wife in quotations?
Shes known to have had other companions while he was in jail. All pretty rich. I strongly believe her appearance at the Munich security conference was just a carefully planned show.
Using your own favorite trope, a bit hypocritical, ain't it?
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No actual moderator has ever complained of it with me, so that means it's just groups of highly biased users who can't stand what I have to say.
I've been on HN for far less than you have but I still have more karma than you do, it means your contributions add less to the discussion than mine do, somehow.
Anyway I reposted it because it got flagged. It just had 2 downvotes, that's pretty normal and I'm used to my opinion not being popular here. After all there's lots of privileged americans and westerners in HN userbase.
But maybe you'd prefer to hear only one side?
Perhaps we should have only "discussions" where everyone agrees that the Western liberal point of view is the best and there are no downvotes at all. Oh that would be so enriching and stimulating!
False balance fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance
In the case of Navalny, there are mountains of evidence implicating Putin, including audio recording of a Russian agent admitting to a previous poisoning attempt [1].
> After all there's lots of privileged americans and westerners in HN userbase.
Ad hominem fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
> I still have more karma than you do, it means your contributions add less to the discussion than mine do, somehow
Obviously karma per comment is the more relevant metric here. Off-hand, I'd estimate you're in the lowest decile.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisoning_of_Alexei_Navalny#Te...
Like I don't know what an ad hominem is or I care at all for the approval of a bunch of privileged shielded liberals...get a life. This isn't a high school debate contest and I couldn't care less about your rules when I know I'm right.
No matter who killed him or if he was killed at all, I'm glad Navalny is gone. One less fascist on this planet, and it's definitely helping expose hypocritical liberals like you.
And anyway you still have no hard proof that he was killed by the government. A previous poisoning is not proof of his assassination now, although it makes it likely. In any court, it wouldn't still be enough to warrant an arrest.
But who needs evidence when all you care about is discrediting the enemy and mounting a case to escalate a war?
Few days and we're supposed to know everything about Navalny's death. 5 years after Epstein's death and we still have no idea how did he die.
Perhaps you'd be happier engaging with some local political groups that share your views?
Sounds a bit more productive than spamming a Californian VC firm's website with your hourly angry, poorly-informed political rants against "rich woke Western liberals" ;)