• CluckN@lemmy.world
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    Friends say he passed away at home after eating mushrooms he found in the yard of his home.

    Though he was a mushroom expert, the mushrooms he collected turned out to be poisonous.

    When I become a political speaker I’m going to make my hobbies piano moving, snake catching, deep sea fishing, and free climbing.

  • tirateimas@lemmy.pt
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    So many “coincidences” over the years. These “accidents” always happen to his dear oppositors. Nobody knows why.

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      I wonder how many Putin allies have died similarly, and if there’s any reporting bias about it.

      Not doubting the “coincidences,” but it would be interesting to validate statistically.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayBanned
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      lets recap: falling out of windows right after series of losses, asking for covid assistance, falling out or exploding planes, poisonous underwear, falling off of boats, bombs.

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        Don’t forget the other poisonings, and shooting. From radioactive polonium, to nerve toxins, to we would even count pumping that concert hall full of fentanyl gas when it was taken by chechens and killing a good share if not most of the hostages, considered a great success in Russia I’m sure.

        There was another with some kind of tree frog in a sweat lodge too just a few years back.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayBanned
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          russia sure likes to try anything that has poison in it. ricin and polonium was too obvious, so its novichik for dissidents, windows for oligarches.

  • the_flying_pig@lemmy.world
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    At first I read “Putin died” and I cannot even begin to describe the emotions going through me while I checked the sub name, before realizing I missed a word.

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    Friends say he passed away at home after eating mushrooms he found in the yard of his home.

    Though he was a mushroom expert, the mushrooms he collected turned out to be poisonous.

    This is such a "wink, wink " to readers if I ever see one

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      If an Amanita, they are universally known amongst mushroom experts and even just foragers, never trust any white mushrooms with their look. There is a very low chance he wasn’t poisoned.

    • meco03211@lemmy.world
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      “Let’s see them throw me out a window now! I’ll never set foot inside a building with a window ever again. I’m just going to live a simple life outdoors with my mushrooms. They’re the only thing that brings me joy anymore.”

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    He had some mushrooms and instantly shot himself in the back a couple of times before he threw himself out of the window. Totally normal, nothing to see here.

  • Cad@lemmy.world
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    He’s not the first Putin enemy to die from accidental mushroom poisoning. Look up the scientist Vitaly Melnikov.

    There is an interesting podcast called Sad Oligarchs that document alot of these sort of deaths in Russia.

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    I’m conflicted.

    As an “enemy” of Putin, I have to assume assignation, but no windows? Russia has lots its way, are the classics no longer respected.

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      Maybe he died of the mushroom before or during a defenstration. it does seem out of pattern.

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    We had a case of death cap mushrooms in a Beef Wellington in Australia. The cook was convicted of killing her ex in-laws. Sounds familiar.

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    His enemies have started to avoid Windows and BUM, a new method. Putin is an inventive killer. Unlike Netanyahu who just kills en masse.