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For example, this potter:
"I've found temporary shelter, but need to find new housing. I'm dealing with health issues, don't have funds to move. I'm attaching what I have in pottery. Please share... I'd appreciate any help, however small. I can't make ends meet."
And there's more awful footage.
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Yes, we all understood this language. πββ¬
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Russia is a perversion. They should have been stopped and denazified after Stalin partnered with Hitler. Instead their Nazi regime perfected fascism and sadism. Industrialized it. It's the same with the series of Kims in North Korea. It infected Iran and Israel who use their religion, pervert that.
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I completely agree. Part of the reason Stalin got away with so much evil was that russia was already built on lies to excuse its empire. It's an 18th century settler-colonizer empire unreformed, and a Nazi state unpunished, all rolled into one.
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I cut my political teeth opposing W. Bush's war in Iraq; had I not valued going to the source and talking to people who live where things happen, I might have gone astray thinking of imperialism as a US-centric issue.
I've never seen a society so doubled down on history's worst deeds as russia.
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Time was, I believed rational diplomacy could fix things with everyone.
Some groups are clearly lost to that; you can't negotiate with those determined to kill and enslave others. Realizing russia's whole empire is incorrigibly on that path has been a wild ride, but it was clear in 2022.
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The standards for drones in Ukraine is very high. Getting good reviews there is impressive!
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I think we need to go to paper ballots. The public needs human-verifiable records. If officials don't understand that a device w/ a USB port running Windows is unfit for task, it's over.
We went down this road over the hanging chads in 2000. We should have just fixed the chads.
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He has fought very bravely and said so much about his people's particular plight. The world is overlooking what russia's done. I hate how people like him are made to feel by that.
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This guy. I really want my American friends' heads around this reality. He just wrote:
- "Are all of you safe?"
- "Yes. We are all safe."
"We are all targets."
The way he put that is *dark*. He's been seeing people around him crushed by russia all his life.
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I think too much gets made of the megatons when the devastation already looks like this.
Ukrainians are the first in line for the consequences, and they also know what russian occupation means. That's why they're fighting to the death.
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Thank you, BTW - I get what you meant, @giantphoton.bsky.social. I'd been meaning to post more about what Cheka had to say, because this is a subject that russian spin sneaks into around here.
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For the record - "support" meant hope for peaceful ties with russia, not losing independence. Prigozhin admitted, the "separatists" weren't really a thing; they were russian soldiers in plainclothes.
Cheka had lot to say about how well Ukrainians in Donbas know themselves (linked to time index)
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This is why I'm wearing "ΠΠΎΡΡΡΠ΅ΡΡ - ΠΏΠΎΠ±ΠΎΡΠ΅ΡΠ΅" when I march with others to defeat fascism. Of the unsung heroes and cultures whose inspirations have co-mingled with ours, Ukraine's may be valorized, but it's still too unknown.
The test of our freedom and their lives, it's all happening right now.
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"There are also remarkable biographical parallels between Taras Shevchenko and Frederick Douglass... both used language and art as tools of emancipation"
"Ukrainian anti-serfdom literature parallels the abolitionist traditions of other societies..."
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If it looks like he's been to somewhere akin to Auschwitz, it's because he has.
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russia absolutely can be defeated. Its recent nuclear ICBM tests are an embarrassment. Iran's russian-supplied hardware has done jack against a modern airforce.
The escalation managers have been scared of a mostly-paper tiger.
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20 Days in Mariupol is freely available on YouTube.
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I want us to do better.
No pearl-clutching is okay when our country's failed a long list of people.
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Catch up before you attack people who've been betrayed and left to this. Please.
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Speaking as a progressive:
Do not attack Ukrainians, period. They face WW2-level genocide because America hasn't lived up to its promises. They laid down the world's 3rd largest arsenal for our security guarantees, and got this.
We've failed them, hard. Demand better of our country.
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When you have clearly proven motive and method for mass election manipulation by ballot purges - which we do, thanks to US Elections Assistance Data and a team that reviewed it with over 1800 data points...
...The other methods add up easily.
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Karma will not be kind to anyone who lets the canaries in this coal mine die.
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Everyone who doesn't want a world carved up by imperialists needs to support Ukraine - not only the USA, which made promises for which Ukraine laid down its nukes.
Ukrainians are fighting for their lives close to the hydra's heart.
Their fight is our fight.
euromaidanpress.com/2023/11/20/u...
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This is why the most pro-russian influencers in the USA are also promoting lethal sadism. They twist discontent and grievance into stochastic violence.
Their deadly malice can't be denied anymore, nor can their backing by hostile powers like russia.
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US civil war is openly promoted to russians their state propagandists, and covertly promoted to Americans by bots and influencers who wrap the deathwishes in the American flag.
Trump is their trojan horse. Flynn helped pave his way.
(Caution: flagrant ru disinfo in video)
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Along with adoptees and others! The SAVE Act is evil. We need to lean on our senators to reject it. Remember, it's H.R. 22, and S. 128:
www.govtrack.us/congress/bil...
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He seems to miss his spine. The puppet stick must be pinching some nerves.
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Many other people's critical posts there aren't being censored, but mine is. Documenting this. x.com/threadreader...
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A military parade while news of political assassinations is hot and Marines are violating Posse Comitatus *has* to have hit morale. I think the performance was deliberately underwhelming.
Compare that to the showing for π«π. Oof, right in the crowd sizes!