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i fucking love tumblr on new years i scroll past a glittertext gif wishing me a happy 2002 i scroll past my mutual wishing me a happy 2018 i scroll past a gifset wishing me a happy 2013 i scroll p
happy 1915 everyone!
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Do we have a franz kafka diary entry for july 1st, i want to know what he thinks!!!
rehearsing
happy too tired July everyone
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“Hypocrisy on Palestine doesn’t determine my support for other struggles. The goal isn’t to diminish the plight of others in our quest for liberation, but rather uplift them in solidarity” — Palestinian poet Remi Kanazi tweeting in response to the invasion of Ukraine
Went looking for the source of the quote, found this, and still can't believe how little the rhetoric has changed.
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Russians have zero problems with posthumously executing of our poets, with destroying our museums and landmarks. You have problem with someone thinking Dostoyevsky is not a good reading subject anymore?
It is actually part of the russian culture to do that. This is the kind of stuff Dostoevsky himself advocated for. The rotting west and russia's sacred mission of saving the world from itself and from everything that is not russian.
This is literally the chauvinism current russia is built on. And Dostoevsky was one of its key ideologists.
Among many other things.
#here's a hot take#Great Russian Literature does not contribute anything of value to humanity#there is no great wisdom to be gained and no Mysterious Russian Soul#it's not even well written#if you want to feel smart because a book made you miserable just read Cormac McCarthy who can at least string coherent sentences together#signed someone who tried a dozen different books and authors years ago before this started#dostoyevsky is a chauvinist corpse and doesnt need americans defending his honor
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Russian state TV out of context
Russia is that thing that if you saw it in a movie you'd think it looks too cartoony and unrealistic.
friendly reminder for american leftists that this what those poor oppressed russians think of you
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I know it’s not going to sound like a very high bar to all of you in the west but I would like you to consider:
- that after 5 years of Yuschenko’s increasingly far-right rhetoric and collaborator apologism
- and the brief power vacuum that formed after the 2014 Maidan Revolution
- and decades of economic struggle
- and 8 years of Russian terrorism and occupation
... Ukraine has continued to move further and further to the left, defying the historically known triggers of popular fascism... while many western countries have moved further and further to the right.
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An analysis of satellite images by The New York Times rebuts claims by Russia that the killing of civilians in Bucha, a suburb of Kyiv, occurred after its soldiers had left the town.
When images emerged over the weekend of the bodies of dead civilians lying on the streets of Bucha — some with their hands bound, some with gunshot wounds to the head — Russia’s Ministry of Defense denied responsibility. In a Telegram post on Sunday, the ministry suggested that the bodies had been recently placed on the streets after “all Russian units withdrew completely from Bucha” around March 30.
Russia claimed that the images were “another hoax” and called for an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting on what it called “provocations of Ukrainian radicals” in Bucha.
But a review of videos and satellite imagery by The Times shows that many of the civilians were killed more than three weeks ago, when Russia’s military was in control of the town.
One video filmed by a local council member on April 1 shows multiple bodies scattered along Yablonska Street in Bucha. Satellite images provided to The Times by Maxar Technologies show that at least 11 of those had been on the street since March 11, when Russia, by its own account, occupied the town.
To confirm when the bodies appeared, and when the civilians were likely killed, the Visual Investigations team at The Times conducted a before-and-after analysis of satellite imagery. The images show dark objects of similar size to a human body appearing on Yablonska Street between March 9 and March 11. The objects appear in the precise positions in which the bodies were found after Ukrainian forces reclaimed Bucha, as the footage from April 1 shows. Further analysis shows that the objects remained in those position for over three weeks.
The causes of death are unclear. Some of the bodies were beside what appears to be an impact crater. Others were near abandoned cars. Three of the bodies lay beside bicycles. Some have their hands bound behind their backs with white cloth. The bodies were scattered over more than half a mile of Yablonska Street.
A second video taken on Yablonska Street shows three more bodies. One lies beside a bicycle, another near an abandoned car. Satellite imagery shows that the abandoned cars and the nearby body appear between March 20 and 21.
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"Why so many Ukrainians speak Russian though?"
Because Russia has been destroying the Ukrainian language and culture for over the last 350 years (long before putin). Check this new series made with Viktoriia Lemiakina out.
From Центр Досліджень Визвольного Руху (Liberation Movement Research Center)
This is a good post and hopefully will clarify things for people who do not know much about my country. I was baffled when the war started in 2014 and I watched talking heads on the BBC and CNN try to "explain" Ukraine's "east/west cultural divide" to each other. As if there was some kind of ethnic powder keg waiting to blow- as if everyone east of Kyiv considered themselves a separate people or something. Then I realized well shit, they don't even know they bought the Kremlin's story huh.
My parents re-learned Ukrainian by choice, many people were bilingual, but we spoke Russian at home in Dnipro and after we left simply because that was the default at the time. Russian-speaking does not mean ethnically Russian, or culturally identifying as Russian, or wishing to be part of Russia. Even the actual Russian immigrants my parents grew up with have volunteered to take up arms against Russia.
I cannot stress enough how manufactured Putin's entire story is. His "genocide of Russian speakers" consists of people being rude to Russian speakers sometimes, and of the language being downgraded from Official to Recognized by the government.
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Today on the morning news — some casual thoughts Russian state TV and newspapers dropped on us recently:
„The history taught Poles nothing, they apparently want a fourth partition.”
„It’s time to carry out the de-nazification of Poland as an accomplice to the Bandera regime.”
„The corridor to Kaliningrad would only take a very small military operation, much smaller than what we have going on in Ukraine right now.”
„You cocky Poles, 30 seconds and there will be nothing left of your Warsaw.”
… my dudes we have so many tractors, you’d be opening a supply line for Polish military.
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a little more time and нахуй will be a child-friendly swear word in ukraine
Quote my father's friend in Kyiv - "while we were sleeping our older grandkids started teaching the 8 month old how to say Путин хуйло" so I would not be surprised
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Anonymous asked:
No but why do people act like Ukrainians demanding Russia as a nation be held accountable is the exact same as wanting all Russians genocided?? Honestly if everytime an imperial power waged violent war was met with global boycotts, there might just be less of those wars because they can't get away with them.
So true bestie. It's not like anyone's asking to wipe them out of the face of Earth, I would be happy to see democratic Russia even though I have very little hope for that. But, like, you can't just politely ask them to not be imperialist, this is not how it works. We shouldn't give money to imperialist powers and authoritarian regimes, it's better to not have the most comfortable lives but to know you ain't sponsoring someone's death
And honestly, democracies going so weak on imperialist, like, no one boycotts China like they ain't hell on Earth with concentration camps
Like idk I saw Russians make tags like #RussiaLivesMatter and I'm like??? So you are the one getting murdered, I see. Might as well start posting #NotAllRussians for the full picture
How people can understand oppression stuctures between black people and white people or cis people and trans people but not between Russians and Ukrainians, it's really annoying.
Also, from a black man currently reporting from Ukraine:
The parallel is not perfect but please perceive it in a good faith because for the love of god it's really hard to explain to foreigners our way of thinking when half of them can't see an obvious Russian propaganda
Ukrainian approach is also very rooted in the idea that freedom and democracy is something you fight for and if you are not fighting then you don't actually care for it. Everything that Russians bring up about suppressing opposition happened in Ukraine too, like murder of journalists and activists (Gongadze, Handzyuk, attempted Sternenko), persecution of activists on fake charges (Riff, Sternenko etc), police brutality (stuff happened even this winter I think) and killing of protestors (107 people died during the Revolution of Dignity) so any time Russians use those as excuses to why they can't protest it feels like they are spitting in our faces. They appear weak-willed and not ready to sacrifice everything for their freedom. Like, during the Revolution of Dignity people literally wrote they are going "To the death", no one acted like uwu owo we are going on a walk, no, people seriously were ready to die because Yanukovych decided he wants to be a dictator and now Russians cry their eyes out explaining to us that they might be imprisoned for protesting. Like, of course??? Do you think Jesus will walk out of the sky and make your country heaven or what??? YOU work for it yourself
They don't take responsibility for their own country and now when sanctions hit them they blame everyone but themselves. It's never Russians who are at fault, no, it's the evil West or nazi Ukrainians or everyone who doesn't treat them like kings. Some people were privileged for so long they can't even grasp what is accountability and perceive any time they ain't paid special attention to as oppression (and this is why you need to double-check when Russians say they are being oppressed. Believe it or not, it's totally normal to doubt people, just don't be an asshole about that and try to dig deeper into all and any situations to understand all nuances)
If I see #RussianLivesMatter tag.... if I so much as see that shit. I will fucking run over it with a tank.
every fucking day is just this
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'ukraine is not a perfect country, no better or worse than other countries, with its problems that should be fixed and its crimes that cant be forgiven' and 'russia has no right to invade, bomb museums and kill civilians of an independant and autonomous country with as reason 'the protection of those ukraine wronged'' are coexisting statements
tugoslav
ukraine has a lot of issues and all of them can be resolved in peacetime and none of them can be resolved through war
By the way, for anyone who might be concerned: the people Russia claims to be “protecting” are not the actual marginalized communities of Ukraine. If you thought for one minute that Putin’s regime gives two fuck about BIPOC, Romani, Jewish or LGBT people, you are sadly mistaken. No, Putin’s stated goal is to “liberate” white Russian speakers from a “genocide” that literally did not happen... in a country where more than half the population is actively fluent in Russian. Yes, my Eastern Ukrainian family and their entire circle of friends are so excited for Russian liberation that they’ve started barricading their city and making homemade incendiaries to welcome the troops.
If you as a leftist don’t care about Ukraine, then that’s your prerogative. Don’t make a fucking clown out of yourself by then turning around and embracing an actively authoritarian regime. Condemn Ukraine and Russia for their respective historical crimes against humanity, and for their current societal failings, but don’t kid yourself about Russia having even a shred of moral superiority or caring about human rights. You can't claim to de-Nazify a country while actively having Nazis on your presidential payroll.
