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19 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
"They wanted selfies, they’re going to get mugshots."—@Kasparov63
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As Garry's thread there says, and his subsequent CNN article details, don't politicize it either way: "The correct response is the dispassionate application of the law. Not political persecution, but nor politically motivated leniency." cnn.com/2021/01/12/opi…
If there are "political" charges eventually, e.g. if organized violent action against the state is proven, that's another matter. For now, smashing into the Capitol, breaking and stealing stuff, and assaulting police is quite criminal enough.

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18 Jan
The quick op-eds were good, but we're already back at the Western news media analyzing the legal details and flaws in the Russian treatment of Navalny. Guys, it's a fucking dictatorship. The judiciary is a scripted sideshow. Start with that.
Like others before him, and as with the entire "election" process in Putin's Russia, Navalny throws himself into the teeth of it to expose what a charade Russian justice is. They make up the rules and then just break them anyway.
He has nothing else, as refusing to play the game loses too. But Western leaders and media don't have to play. Putin is in charge. Any big case, from Khodorkovsky to Navalny, is a Kremlin phone call, not evidence and witnesses and the law.
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18 Jan
God this guy is insufferable. Every sentence is worse than the last, and "mistakes made in the Soviet era" is the stupidest thing I’ve seen on here since Trump was banned.
Carrying so much Kremlin water with the false equivalence. Navalny was kidnapped today by the dictatorship that tried to assassinate him. Snowden stole intel and is taking refuge in that same dictatorship. Which Assange works for, oh by the way.
And now they’re all in on getting a pardon from Putin’s puppet in the White House, along with what is sure to be a long list of other horrible people. "Let him go" indeed. Keep Navalny's name out of your traitor mouth.
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10 Nov 20
Not happy to see so many people acting like all the "stolen election" stuff is *only* about Trump's ego. That's part of it, as I've said myself, but they don't see any reason not to continue, which means doubling down until they get to the dark place.
They will keep making things up and shoveling it out to their media sycophants in the same cycle of bullshit they've used since it was Breitbart, Russia Today, and Fox News plus the big social media pushes. Then all the denials and debunking spread it further.
They only need a handful of loyalists in the right posts, whether judges or AGs, to give just enough lip service, even take some action, to cause real damage. Fortunes to be made or lost are in play behind the scenes.
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1 May 20
Moment of Zen: May 1, 2021 of the Biden presidency. He's not in the news much. His qualified appointees have been confirmed and are doing their jobs, not looting the country. His ignorant family isn't running the government. Disinfectant is for cleaning. Ommm
Trump and his corrupt clownshow are still trying to make noise as criminal investigations churn through their ranks. They assumed, as such people always do, that they would be in power forever, controlling the hounds who now pursue them. Woof.
Biden and the WH stay out of it and Pelosi and Schumer never had a taste for blood. But there are too many blatant abuses coming out every day in the media to ignore. The line of whistleblowers is long and it turns out the FBI has Twitter. Oommmm
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24 Feb 20
Sanders' old praise for brutal Communist regimes isn't canceled out by Trump's adoration of various dictators. It's about how each plays to relevant swing voters. Trump is boastful and it plays to the wannabe authoritarian nativists fine. An abashed Sanders, very different.
Trump can say, "Those are some pretty bad guys, but they get things done and maybe we need more of that here," and his crowds will cheer. Sanders can apologize for praising Castro's Cuba and the USSR (& look smooshy), but his real base wants him to double down, say he was right.
It's not like Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn weren't popular. Michael Moore was popular! Lots of Bernie's base would be delighted for him to say "Castro was a freedom fighter and Cuba had good healthcare and literacy despite US interference." That's a mainstream US left position!
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16 Sep 19
Once again, from country to country, the so-called nationalists turn out to be grifters and thieves. Just because they have followers who believe what they sell doesn't mean it's not a scam from top to bottom.
Not to say they aren't racists, fascists, and the rest of the trash ideology of they market. But once they realize they have power over people, usually stupid people, they immediately start fleecing them, abusing power, robbing the system, etc.
Scratch a nationalist, find a Panamanian bank account. For some it's a scam from the start, tho it's not like it's hard to find an honest racist anymore. But it must be like being handed a list of people who want to buy a bridge.
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