kookaburra

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"My faith is tested daily by God allowing America to exist. " 🤣 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

Fair point, fixed that.

"My faith is tested daily by God allowing America to exist. " 🤣 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Fact check:

  1. "Someone" is Andrey Shasherin from Barnaul, who was charged with extremism in 2018.
  2. Shasherin was charged with extremism not "after sharing a meme about him having €30k watches" but after sharing memes promoting hatred towards people from the Caucasus and Central Asia. According to the SOVA human rights center, one of those pictures "carried an unambiguous aggressive racist message".
  3. In fact, Shasherin was charged with violating the blasphemy law for publishing a meme with Patriarch Kirill. Unlike extremism charges, this is not punishable by imprisonment (Part 1 of Article 148 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).
  4. Anyway in 2019 Shasherin was fully cleared of his charges and received the right to rehabilitation.

Sources: https://tvrain.tv/teleshow/here_and_now/otdel_mem_barnaulskij_tsentr_e-468908/

https://www.sova-center.ru/misuse/news/persecution/2019/01/d40498/

https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/3850588

https://memohrc.org/ru/news_old/v-altayskom-krae-sledstvie-zakrylo-ugolovnye-dela-marii-motuznoy-i-andreya-shasherina

Could you please bring back the clown avatar? It suits your posts much better.