Gonzalo Lira is a Chilean-American journalist who was recently arrested in Ukraine over a series of YouTube videos he’d published critical of the Ukraine gov...

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A Chilean journalist, Gonzalo Lira, who had been living in Ukraine, was arrested by the Security Service of Ukraine on suspicion of pro-Russian sympathies and criticizing the government. He had been detained before in April, released, and then rearrested for voicing views critical of the West and Ukraine’s government. He faced torture while imprisoned, then managed to post bail but decided to flee to Hungary for political asylum. He believed the Ukrainian government was setting him up to be arrested again. He went missing after attempting to cross the Ukrainian-Hungarian border. The situation highlighted concerns about free speech and the treatment of dissenters in Ukraine.

        • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
          3·
          1 year ago

          Grow up, tankie

          — @FranklinsBeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com

          I thought of this hearing you use the word tankie to describe someone sharing their opinion. Everyone you don’t agree with is a tankie am I right?

          I think you might want to make sure you don’t follow me.

          Because your “woke communist propaganda” comment makes me think you’re a moron of the first order.

          I strongly suspect I am one of those “woke communists” you worry about. But you probably couldn’t actually explain what either of those words actually mean, could you?

          I’m a card-carrying atheist, I think a woman’s right to choose is very important, I think that “well regulated militia” means that guns should be carefully licensed and not just randomly given to any moron with a pulse, and I couldn’t care less if you decided to dress up in the “wrong” clothes or decided you’d rather live your life without feeling tied to whatever plumbing you were born with.

          And dammit, if that all makes me “woke”, then I think anybody who uses that word as a pejorative is a f*cking disgrace to the human race. So please just unfollow me right now.

          — Linus Torvalds

          • Stench5692@artemis.camp
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            1 year ago

            You’re probably being called a tankie because you’re posing Russian propaganda and acting like daddy vladdy’s media is somehow better than western media. It’s hilarious that you think you’re more informed when your video is using media from unapologetic liars (and that’s also a good description of Dore himself).

            You can call Western media liars and propagandists, but if you’re posing Russian media unironically while doing so, no one is going to pay attention to your opinion because it’s clearly uninformed and entirely pants on head.

            • Veritas@lemmy.mlOP
              5·
              1 year ago

              acting like Daddy Vladdy’s media is somehow better than Western media

              I’ve mentioned in a previous comment that both Russian and US media can be seen as propaganda. I value them equally and believe they hold similar importance. It’s essential for people to consider various perspectives before forming conclusions. I label US media as propaganda because it’s predominantly consumed, but the same applies to media from any other country.

      • IRQBreaker@lemmy.kozow.com
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        1 year ago

        I think you are on the wrong Lemmy instance. I (we) are not interrested in reading about Putins version of the truth here. I think Lemmygrad has users that shares your worldview.