thirdcityfeliform.bsky.social
Women belong in anti-ageing research; Ukrainians are good people; not the economic or cultural capital but a secret third thing
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Being protective, for example, isn’t a bad thing, but you have to be protective in a way that listens, that’s willing to step back at any time and get tf out of the way. It also isn’t uniquely masculine. 3/
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Regime hired private security to prevent elected MP from speaking. They have arrested Vladan Slavković (man in black shirt) afterwards.
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but then I think Zelenskyy and Macron's public appearances together mean something even if they're not 100% candid, ya know?
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...the other obvious rejoinder is to point out this was carefully planned. Thunberg and Hassan *know* they have privileges even normal European citizens would not, and they're using it for good! This is the behaviour we want in our public figures!
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Whether via a culture of forced marriage or "lol, who will believe *you* if you report it?" Which is something the worst among American Christians would actually understand *perfectly*.
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I mean e.g. India is actually misogynist as fuck internally and produces lots of online spammy creeps, but even if you don't have a plan to help "their" women you gotta be able to notice they're usually the first target.
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The flip side of course if that you can't use an asian boyfriend or family member to "protect" you from non-family men like conservatives tell you a husband is *for*. Even if he's not short *or* pretty.
... Unless he's also (passable as) Russian хахахаха
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If you're a white or black girl who likes asian guys you *will* get shit for it (not as bad as liking women of your own race, but some) but you benefit from the sheer fucking confusion normie conservatives have about it now that no one remembers the Khan
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the fucking jumpscare when I realised the bus looked *awfully* familiar
10% of Australia lives in Brisbane and today's our lucky day
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To be fair, there isn’t really basements in Australia homes. He’d be in the spare bedroom or in the granny flat in the backyard.
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Of course they also treated Churchill better than Zelenskyy
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The acceptance of the Goettinger refugees in the 40s was conditional too, and right alongside being a cunt to both established German and Japanese populations, but at least they didn't put out statements celebrating Germany Day, because they did actually try to *win* that one. Eventually.
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Shall we discuss ROCOR being bad even by major-religion standards, next?
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Russian enough to be threatened with deportation, not Russian enough to be accepted as either diaspora or opposition, huh?
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I mean I think you can come back from saying like one prejudiced thing but it would look like "I stand by my position but I apologise for being a dick about it"
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okay Chinese Australians occasionally put their domestic cats in those astronaut backpacks, and if you pick your ideology by aesthetic trying beating *that*
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the good version is using the tools nature gave you despite them not being *for* you, or noticing when your ancestor civ did a cool thing despite your strenuous disagreements with their plans
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Christianity as monotheism has the whole "some specific guy wanted you to be a landlord in his apartment complex" but the monotheism is the part that's fucking wrong lol
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one of the only things worth preserving from Catholicism is stewardship of the earth and I don't mind the root idea having a Chinese gloss
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This is why I have such a soft spot for situations that call for a referendum tbh, you can have *both*. Australia's been fucking those up lately tho.
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The fear is that an organised left-wing movement seems *inorganic*, I think, you can be competent or a legitimate voice of the people but not both
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"the first Pride was a riot" is perhaps a *necessary* ingredient, but you need some way to emphasise how important being able to produce or hire lawyers to your side is
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*deranged muttering about Terra Ignota's take on the European Union* *grudging respect for Twitter globe emojis*
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And it pricks at my autism to fly the flag of a foreign nation when it's so *contingent*, you kind of have to accept symbols don't mean *that* much to other people...
at which point you might actually consider your own national flag in the mix as well
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(Again, it's easier to have standards if you're not poor and required to swap your morals for housing)
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Also it applies to like American immigrants to other places, black or white or otherwise. I've had on net good experiences with them but they make the post-Soviets look sane
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I think there's *some* truth to "guy who leaves bad society still carries it with them and risks spreading it", but I'm a liberal about "if they're not poor and they see people getting away with blasphemy they'll probably calm down a lot".
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How do you convince the general population that these people *really like America* even if it's not their number one country? Uh, yeah, let the Ukrainians in Western Europe know if you work it out, I have *seen some shit* in comment sections and I don't think it's all coming from vatniks.
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If your main problem with your home country is "it's poor, I'd rather be less poor in the US" then you're probably just going to rally around your national flag.
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In this case, you might have an actual opposition flag, or the flag of the old regime, or the flag of your ethnic minority or breakaway state. But most outsiders won't recognise it!
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Many people from Bad Countries oppose their homeland's government and a lot of its cultural norms, but they think there's *something* worth celebrating.
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And the fascists lose again!
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I suspect this guy would *not* accept Israelis serving in a foreign legion as real...