[KingOfCoders]

Assange is in Guantanamo Bay? Since when?

You keep shifting your arguments around.

"Save the Children"

So it's no longer about political prisoners (I assume you think Assange is one), but about children?

"we happily send billions of dollars to a country"

Who is we? You have sent billions of dollars to the US? I haven't.

I thought the article was about Russia, why exactly are we talking about the US prison system now? What is the goal? Making the Russian Gulag look good? Improving the US prison system?

I've campaigned against the US prison system with AI. Did you? If you didn't, it's simply Whataboutism.

Whataboutism has one goal, and one goal alone: Deflect criticism.

"I'm not pro-Russia"

You're words tell a different story.

"morally superior."

Straw man argument.

[pearjuice]

They were cherry picked examples such as your "$10 fine" example to demonstrate that how in multiple places in the world people (and even children) are imprisoned under horrible circumstances, spend their entire lives behind bars and some simply die or get murdered within their prison cell before completing their sentences.

I or you don't have to prove any alliance here. I could be burning a Russian flag in front of your eyes and you would probably still find a reason why I cannot have criticism on one side doing exactly the same injustices and (criminal) acts as the regime of the flag I just burned. Let me be clear that Navalny should not have been treated and died the way he did and in a fair justice system people would be held accountable.

That doesn't mean I cannot state an opinion that it is repulsive things like this happen everywhere yet somehow one side doing it is worse than the other and claims the moral high ground. They are both bad.