Difference of Opinion

Do people follow the news at all, I wonder? Regular Russian troops crossed the border with Ukraine weeks ago. Has nobody heard about that?

Has nobody heard of Putin’s efforts to conceal the deaths of Russian soldiers in Ukraine?

Has nobody heard that the bodies of these soldiers are being heaped into mass graves while their families are forbidden to mourn their husbands and sons?

Has nobody heard about a Russian journalist who published an article about such grieving families and on the next day was beaten unconscious?

Has nobody heard about the mothers of these Russian soldiers who are begging the Ukrainian government to return their POW sons unharmed?

Has nobody heard any of the stories published by Russian soldiers who are never even informed where they are going and then find themselves in Ukraine and told to kill?

Has nobody heard that the Organization of Soldiers’ Mothers in Russia is waging a campaign to prevent soldiers from being sent to Ukraine to die?

Has nobody heard of an entire platoon of Russian soldiers that, according to official sources in Russia, all died on the same day while being “on vacation”?

And then people describe all these events as “difference of opinion among Ukrainians” and wonder why I call them Putinoid. Just priceless.

 

9 thoughts on “Difference of Opinion

  1. Difference of opinion = celebrate diversity. Like when I once asked a feminist for help with a difficult situation and was told, “But, Jennifer, there are different patriarchies!” Or as postmodernists would say, “There is no postmodernism. There are postmodernisms!”

    So put that in your hat and chew it.

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    1. It’s more like celebrate diversity or start dropping bombs on each other. There doesn’t seem to be an alternative to these two scenarios.

      By the way, I’m really enjoying your dialogues on gender. You website doesn’t let me post comments unless I do it through Google but I like the dialogues. And the format!

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      1. I think some people cannot understand that there is a reality beyond their hair splitting affectations. They really need to be dropped in a war zone and left to fend for themselves so they can grow a little and advance.

        🙂

        Which dialogues are you noticing? Are they in the video format between me and John?

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        1. Yes, the videos with the guy! On the multitude of reasons why the attachment to gender roles and stereotypes is so strong. Very interesting. I never watch videos because I don’t like them but these are good.

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