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 My takeaway from seeing the variety of political dissidents rotting and dying in prison all around the world is simple:

Don't let the motherfuckers take you alive. 
 They may take our lives, but they’ll never take our FREEDOM. 
 If that’s regarding navalny, he was very west theatre shit and not terribly relevant really. I think there’s more important people that Putin is ermmm making less important. But point is definitely correct 
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 If not more productive: fight to prevent totalitarianism from taking hold in your country? 
 Ah but that's where the hope of a a better society gets in the way. I'll be free again, the world will see what I was trying to do. Either you'll be seen as a martyr in prison or a domestic terrorist/criminal.