ZeroCool@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agoBallet star Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin’s Ukraine invasion dies in fall from building in St Petersburgwww.lbc.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1710arrow-down15
arrow-up1705arrow-down1external-linkBallet star Vladimir Shklyarov who criticised Putin’s Ukraine invasion dies in fall from building in St Petersburgwww.lbc.co.ukZeroCool@slrpnk.net to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 20 hours agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-squareSupervisor194@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up94arrow-down7·17 hours agoThis isn’t funny.
minus-squareGreenKnight23@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·14 hours agomake sure you check your railings in America before January. Everyone else is stocking up on food and drugs. I’m stocking up on steel railings and evacuation air pads.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up28arrow-down2·edit-214 hours agoYou’re just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We’re actually jealous of you.
minus-squaretechnocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down99·16 hours agoUnfortunately anti-russian racism is acceptable here. When you see a headline like this, just be ready for the comments.
minus-squareEtherWhack@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·14 hours agoI’d more call it politicism, as it’s more criticizing the political state and not someones origin/heritage.
minus-squareLightor@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26arrow-down2·14 hours agoWhat exactly was racist?
minus-squareBruceTwarzen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·14 hours agoAnd who said it’s funny. I’m confused
minus-squareWrenFeathers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15arrow-down1·11 hours agoDo you seriously think Russian is a race?
minus-squarekarobeccary@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up86arrow-down1·15 hours agoGallows humor about the suspicious deaths of people critical of an oligarchy is not racism. Unless you are a wilfully credulous root vegetable of a person.
minus-squarejordanlund@lemmy.worldMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoIt’s not racism to point out that a surprising number of Putin critics have died from falling from tall buildings. Vladimir Shklyarov: https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/vladimir-shklyarov-death-st-petersburg-ballet-star-fall/ Dan Rapoport: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/26/dan-rapoport-putin-critic-was-it-suicide-00053836 Pavel Antov: https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-critic-pavel-antov-dies-falling-out-hotel-window-2022-12 Ravil Maganov: https://news.sky.com/story/poisoned-jailed-and-mysterious-fall-from-window-whats-happened-to-vladimir-putins-most-vocal-critics-13066825
minus-squarecapital@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·edit-213 hours agoPro-Russian comment meant to wield the left’s propensity to over-diagnose racism to redirect and distract.
minus-squarepearsaltchocolatebar@discuss.onlinelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10arrow-down2·14 hours agoTIL Russian is a race
minus-squareJarix@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 hours agoYou need to update your vocabulary comrade. There may be new definitions of the word racism. Remember literally no longer only literally means literally. What a time we live in.
minus-squareWiz@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up30arrow-down2·14 hours agoRussia isn’t a race. It’s a failed state, ruled by a corrupt dictator.
minus-squareCaptainvaqina@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14arrow-down3·14 hours agoJust like America in a couple months.
This isn’t funny.
make sure you check your railings in America before January.
Everyone else is stocking up on food and drugs.
I’m stocking up on steel railings and evacuation air pads.
You’re just blessed enough not to recognize gallows humor. We’re actually jealous of you.
Unfortunately anti-russian racism is acceptable here. When you see a headline like this, just be ready for the comments.
I’d more call it politicism, as it’s more criticizing the political state and not someones origin/heritage.
What exactly was racist?
And who said it’s funny. I’m confused
Do you seriously think Russian is a race?
Gallows humor about the suspicious deaths of people critical of an oligarchy is not racism.
Unless you are a wilfully credulous root vegetable of a person.
It’s not racism to point out that a surprising number of Putin critics have died from falling from tall buildings.
Vladimir Shklyarov:
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/vladimir-shklyarov-death-st-petersburg-ballet-star-fall/
Dan Rapoport:
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/08/26/dan-rapoport-putin-critic-was-it-suicide-00053836
Pavel Antov:
https://www.businessinsider.com/putin-critic-pavel-antov-dies-falling-out-hotel-window-2022-12
Ravil Maganov:
https://news.sky.com/story/poisoned-jailed-and-mysterious-fall-from-window-whats-happened-to-vladimir-putins-most-vocal-critics-13066825
Pro-Russian comment meant to wield the left’s propensity to over-diagnose racism to redirect and distract.
TIL Russian is a race
You need to update your vocabulary comrade. There may be new definitions of the word racism. Remember literally no longer only literally means literally. What a time we live in.
Russia isn’t a race.
It’s a failed state, ruled by a corrupt dictator.
Just like America in a couple months.