fraudian demonstrating their weirdly fluctuating counting skills, Navalny's funeral
Posted by RaskolnikovX on March 2, 2024, 6:02 am
Funny how the Palestinian freedom marches where at least tens of thousands, if not hundreds, marched were reported as "thousands" or "many" or in equally vague, undercounting ways a couple of hundred people turn up to Navalny's funeral and it's "thousands".
The accompanying video tries all the tricks to make the small crowd look bigger, filming the same people from one side then the other, close, low angle shots to make it look like the camera is surrounded and the crowd stretches much further than it actually does.
It's also fairly amusing that they contradict themselves almost immediately as the video is headed "Hundreds gather for Navalny funeral"
Mentioned more times than I could count was the "heavy police presence". What? You mean like when the Queen was buried? When they were dragging people off for shouting anti-royal slogans or holding up blank pieces of paper? That kind of heavy police presence?
A rough estimate would be a couple of thousand at the most in this queue and parade. This in a city with 13 million inhabitants. No doubt it would be true that even supporters might not be comfortable attending though.