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Police don’t suspect foul play killed Dan Rapoport. Some friends aren’t so sure.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin Critic

I can take a guess why.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Ukrainians should stop fighting and start building tall floors with windows and let mother nature do its thing.

[–] NatakuNox 49 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Right, "we don't know why" and I don't know why I'm 15lbs over weight

[–] TheGiantKorean 20 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wait. Are you saying that I'm overweight because of Putin? That bastard!

[–] NatakuNox 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thought of this joke last night

"No, I said Poutine was making you over weight!"

[–] TheGiantKorean 3 points 1 year ago
[–] NatakuNox 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

These damn commies won't rest until we're too fat to fight back.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Mission accomplished!

[–] gornar 1 points 1 year ago

The REAL Foundations of Geopolitics

[–] reagansrottencorpse 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Me neither, it's suspicious we should have the same problem like this.

[–] NatakuNox 6 points 1 year ago

I knew those vaccines and boosters were a plot to destroy my body!

[–] Ace0fBlades 41 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Putin the gravity wizard strikes again!

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Must be low on mana because he hasn't cast a polonium spell in a while

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There’s an excellent podcast called Sad Oligarch with a 3-part series on Dan Rapoport, I can’t recommend it highly enough. Apple podcast link here for those who are as lazy as I am

[–] Ameripol 5 points 1 year ago

I was just about to recommend this podcast. I tend to like most things Jake Hanrahan puts out, as they're usually well researched and interesting.

[–] Jumper775 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The title and everyone here suggests that Putin had a critic of his killed while in the capitol of his largest competing nation, a nation full of Putin critics. The police putting out that they don’t suspect foul play had to alarm people, yet it stands. It seems like this may actually be an accident, otherwise a master assassin or a lot of money regardless is at play for marginal returns. Seems unlikely.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People like this don't fall out of a window by accident. They are not stupid or careless. I read the article and it's really light on details too. It says he had fall damage and that's it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm not saying you're totally wrong, but also yes sometimes people actually do just fall out of windows or whatever else. That's why there are regulations to try to make them safer. Accidents do sometimes just happen. This one is suspicious, but it is totally possible that, in this case, someone did just fuck up.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sure but it's extreamly unlikely that this particular person would fall out of a window. There are people in the world that are very often involved in accidents, due to their personality and risk taking behavior. But people like this guy is not one of those.

It's not impossible of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Being a Putin critic sounds like risk taking behavior...

I don't know how you can judge this guy's risk profile from this. Again, I don't disagree that it's weird, but also I don't know anything about the person and sometimes things just happen.

[–] Duamerthrax 9 points 1 year ago

a lot of money regardless is at play for marginal returns.

That sounds on brand for Putin.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In the motherland lmao its very common to fall off of windows if you speak against the mafia like regime, so this is totally on brand so other would be challengers take notice

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

There has been quite a few poisonings of Putin’s critics here in the UK, with good evidence of Russian state involvement. Poison leaves a distinctive trace. Pushing someone out of a window appears to be more in favour now, as there is less forensic evidence, depending on how much force is required for the involuntary defenestration.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Police don't suspect foul play....

Their integrity is surely without question here right guys?

[–] TruTollTroll 12 points 1 year ago

Cause police never lie, always give the facts right away, don't hide the cameras and police videos and totally protect and serve the community..... I totally trust them saying "nothing to see here, move along, just a tragedy that he did to himself"....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"We still don't know why?" I dunno, seems pretty obviously orchestrated by Putin. Connect the dot, people.

[–] jeffw 8 points 1 year ago

As the article seems to imply, he had plenty of enemies who could’ve done it. Not quite so straightforward.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

To the mystery van!!

[–] TomMasz 8 points 1 year ago

The first three words of the headline are why.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

damn slippery balconies

[–] Duamerthrax 5 points 1 year ago

Police don’t suspect foul play killed Dan Rapoport.

Police don't want to fall out their own windows. They knows this is above their pay grade and would rather the feds take this case over.

[–] FlyingSquid 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We've explored every possible avenue and come up with nothing.

[–] AA5B 4 points 1 year ago

Let me just open this window to get done fresh air in here. Huh … it’s already open. I wonder why

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

A Putin critic

Such a unique quality these days.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ikidd 4 points 1 year ago

Oh, there goes gravity.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent 2 points 1 year ago

Putin for Defenestration: 2024