Some sources suggest he was taking a walk and suddenly fell to the ground. Very mysterious. Guess they ran out of windows.

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    Oh right, this instance’s hot takes are going to be complete nonsense. ‘The tortured opposition leader wasn’t perfect, you guys!’ No kidding. He still gets partial credit for sticking his neck out against a dictator-for-life who routinely murders opposition leaders. Everyone you’d prefer is already fucking dead.

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        But telling you where to shove it would be uncivil.

        The funniest thing I’ve seen on Lemmy was someone insisting socialism is pragmatic and liberals are idealists, because it comes to mind every single god-dang time one of y’all shits all over opposition to outright dictatorship. So long as the dictator is from a country you insist was actually state-capitalist - the real evil is anyone fighting brutal profiteering autocracy, unless they’re ideologically pure.

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      I used to not understand how Hitler was able to rise to power. Now I do. It just requires more people like you.

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        Oh…was Alexia the Russian leader who, like Hitler, is invading sovereign countries to expand their territory, refuses to tolerate dissent, murders or disappears those who speak out against him, cancels fair elections and then murders his political opponent, and relies on outrageously fake state propaganda and secret police to ensure loyalty?

        Because all of that sounds very Vlad, very Vlad indeed.

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        Everyone who’s not ideologically pure is literally Hitler. You figured out politics and it’s super simple, good job.

        Any liberals in the resistance movements against Hitler were literally Hitler.

        Nobody but your special favorite friends are allowed to oppose a warmongering autocrat currently in power over an invading army.