• Troy@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    It’s barely even funny at this point.

    Although I’d quibble about Newsweek defining this guy as an oligarch. He was vice president at a company that was disbanded due the company president’s opposition to Putin. It’s very possible this guy is just a former executive that refused to bend or hand over some dirt or something. It doesn’t appear he fits the definition of oligarch at all.

    Unless we’re just using the word to refer to all Russians above peasant.

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      1 month ago

      It’s the wholesale murder of political enemies to consolidate power by an autocrat.

      I don’t think it was ever “funny”.