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Wtf dude isn’t it illegal to shoot these? I’m telling!

Not everybody on the right is a narcissist, and it helps nobody to flatten the personhood of millions of people in that way if the actual goal is positive change. It implies that there is no way to communicate or come to an understanding with any of them, which is just not how the world works and only undermines and ignores the potential many of them have to learn better. It takes types more patient than myself to reach them, but I’ve seen firsthand that it is entirely possible to change minds on these things. If Bernie Sanders was able to get fox news viewers to cheer for socialist ideas, then they (or at least some of them) are not so lost as to never be found.

I agree that many of them will not reconsider their siding until trouble kicks down their own doors, but I don’t think giving up on people who have been fooled is actually a path toward true betterment.

Your definition of this is almost 1 to 1 an explanation of a fiction suit, actually. The only major difference is word choice; specifically choosing reality over fiction. Very interesting that you came to basically the same idea on your own, and I’ve got a strong feeling that you’ll really dig Invisibles if you ever make the time.

And thank you for the long response! You could have just said “nah” and left it at that, so I appreciate knowing you put a little of yourself on it instead. Hope you’re having a good one, stranger :)

Off-topic, but is your sn a reference to the “fiction suits” in The Invisibles? Great taste if so!

This is a genocide, not a war.

So very true. I wish…I could hug…EVERY CAT IN THE WORLD 😭😭😭

Why is it always the cute ones with the strongest will to destroy? 😞

So incredibly fucked up. How many of these now dead children never knew any other life than this hell?

Fuck this mockery we’ve made of this beautiful, lucky planet. Idk if our species is really nearing it’s end-times like many seem to think, but I hope that when we finally do, we do not crawl back in any way or on any level. We took our chances and wasted every one of them. It’s well past time to let nature sort it back out and try again. Fuck.

He only sharpens his claws on things I don’t buy for him to sharpen his claws on. He is otherwise very well behaved, good with people, and extremely cuddly. He’s the sweetest and I love him…but I wish he would stop ruining my fucking furniture.

So extremely real

Likewise with Kate Bush. She filled her bag and fucked right off and I couldn’t be happier for her

Give it time and there will be more than 9. Dude is a known problem.

I think the possible motivations/reasons behind this prolonged effort could be read in a number of ways tbh.

Scenario 1: they simply haven’t played all their cards yet.

This is, in my opinion, the least likely on its own because it was made clear early on that Putin intended for this to be a quick operation. It only undermines his perceived power to say this and then choose to feign weakness. Compound it with either or both of the following, though, and it does start to seem like a picture is coming together…

Scenario 2: putin is not acting on reason.

There are rumors that he is terminally ill and acting on a desire to shore up his legacy before dying, leading to frantic miscalculations. Who knows if the rumor is true, but, given his age and the commonality of mortality, I could be convinced. He’s clearly got the ego necessary to fall into this sort of thought if circumstances gave a little nudge and securing Ukraine as a Russian territory would probably do wonders for a fragile pride like his.

Scenario 3: the invasion of Ukraine is not the actual point of this operation.

With the Kremlin’s well known affinity for espionage and psyop tactics, this one seems the most likely to me. I won’t pretend to know what the actual goal beyond control would be here, but it would never surprise me to learn that they have done one thing 100% in order to set up or hide another. From wars, to negotiations, to tactical games; controlling where the opposition looks, or further, what they think of when they see it, is often a key aspect of securing a win condition.

Their wheels have been turning toward toppling their fellow contenders for the title of #1 world power for a long time now, and Putin seems real ready for something to budge. Either he is a mad fool, lashing out at the world to appease his ego, or he is playing a devious long game and aiming for something bigger than he is letting on. Whatever the cause and whatever else he’s still got up his sleeve, it seems very likely that he is confident in the cards he has yet to play. If he doesn’t secure that legacy and he’s on his way out anyway, why would he care if he permanently blacks the skies with nuclear war? I wouldn’t put it past him to hold his confidence up on this final “fuck every fucking one of you” to the world.

But at the same time, I’m a legitimate dumdum so idk whatever. Just like people obsess over ww2 these days, people are gonna go nuts over this era someday soon tho. I’d bet on that

“Changes aren’t permanent, though change is”

I’ll check out the link when I have downtime. Thanks for sharing and stay strong, friend!

If there even is an “after this administration”, that is. I have my doubts tbh…

It’s looking more and more like China will be filling a certain obvious power void in the near future. I wish our era would get less interesting already 😕

The “the” of it was actually a product of Russia laying claim to Ukraine. The idea was that it implies Ukraine is just one region within a larger body iirc.

I appreciate you saying so, but I’ve been doing relatively fine over here. Unless faced with a life of literal torture, I have no intention of leaving this world any time soon!

It kind of blows my mind that suicide seemed so outlandish to you back then tbh. It’s always seemed like a reasonable and, in some unfortunate cases, necessary final escape plan to me. But maybe that’s a product of having not-so-great parents, depression, and growing up in sometimes middling/sometimes severe poverty?