• DankZedong OPA
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    4 months ago

    The only thing the Western media portrayed him as was as an opponent of Putin. His nationalist tendencies were unknown to Western libs.

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      As so was his irrelevancy in the general landscape of Russian politics.

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        Never fails to take me out when I hear know-nothing burgers talking about “if there were an election he’d have beat putler 2:1” and I’m just fighting the urge to start smirking like “oh, so the same margins that clinton was supposed to beat trump by right?”

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          Wonders of fake news. I had to explain to my gf today that he was in fact not the only opposition to Putin.

    • SoyViking [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      In the minds of western libs, nations in what the west calls “the jungle” doesn’t have a fully-fledged political system with differing ideologies and interests based in material conditions. Instead they just have a simple pro-democracy/pro-western Vs. pro-BadCountry/authoritarian divide.