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Wookhooves t1_j28xsdi wrote

Reply to comment by barrinmw in Zelensky signs media law criticized by journalist groups as authoritarian by heimos

He jailed his political opponents

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barrinmw t1_j28y9qh wrote

By political opponents, you mean people who were actively working with the occupying Russian forces.

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react_dev t1_j2cpbic wrote

Traitors can be a label that’s easily applied to… guess who, your political opponents.

I mean who knows the truth. Not me. I’m not gonna guess what I don’t know

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Wookhooves t1_j28zdg7 wrote

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/19/world/europe/ukraine-poroshenko-zelensky.html

It’s completely normal to free “traitors” during war time, no?

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barrinmw t1_j2907y0 wrote

He made a deal with separatist forces to fund them, if that is illegal, he will have his day in court. Are you going to claim that Zelensky is despotic because he acquiesced to the courts letting the former president go on his own recognizance?

Next you are going to tell me that if the DOJ goes after Trump, that is the US locking up political rivals too.

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Wookhooves t1_j292xv1 wrote

I’m saying the charges he’s claiming don’t seem to be true. It was the courts decision not to pursue charges at this time… the accusations don’t have substance behind them.

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TraditionalGap1 t1_j29nzg6 wrote

If that was true, the court would have dropped the case. Notice that it didn't.

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code_archeologist t1_j28ywbf wrote

TIL: Invaders and Collaborators == "political opponents"

Obviously La Résistance was being hyperbolic and reactionary by refusing to engage the Vichy government in peaceful political protests.

/s

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SuperstitiousPigeon5 t1_j2d6c8n wrote

They can, and probably are both.

Look at Trump, he’s a traitor and a political opponent, and he deserves to be in prison.

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