Same Narrative

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Clarissa

March 20, 2022

https://twitter.com/antoniogm/status/1505542292832088067?t=_aRa4bBu3zyl8W5l9tRpBg&s=19

Completely true. If you don’t remember, Antonio was recently hounded out of a job by leftist bullies.

It’s become impossible to talk to the MAGA friends because it’s like being at a faculty meeting with the most out there leftist activists. “Yes, but it’s the fault of the US. The US caused it. The US invaded XYZ, so how can we blame anybody else for anything? But the NATO, but the ‘color revolutions,’ but slavery.” I moved to the Right to avoid all this, and now it has caught up with me.

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9 responses to “Same Narrative”

cliff arroyo

March 20, 2022

OT: Okay, this actaully made me laugh….

https://twitter.com/TocquevilleJnr/status/1504522715293798403

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cliff arroyo

March 20, 2022

New thread by Galeev, in which he talks some about age and ethnicity in Putin’s Russia and their relationship to the war.

https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1505576153804800000

Shorter version: Ethnic minorities (despised by ‘real’ Russians) are doing a disproportionate amount of fighting/dying and the biggest supporters of the war are old and disproportionately women cause… not a lot of older men around… “Babushka fascism” is my new favorite expression.

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Demotrash

March 20, 2022

Communists and “new righters” sounding exactly the same rn (same goes for the Bernie-to-Trump pipeline.) There’s no escape from this on twitter; apparently muting words doesn’t work, and this nonsense shows up in my DMs and group chats regardless.

You can never avoid this stuff. One comfort here is that a majority of normal Republicans (not just neocons, everybody) still hate Russia and support Ukraine.

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 20, 2022
  
  I have two close friends. One from the Baltics even, but married to a right-wing politician here. They’ve been completely taken over by Lin Wood who’s promising that Putin is coming over to install Trump as president again. I’m hoping to wait it out. Surely, they’ve got to come to their senses eventually.
  
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Dreidel

March 20, 2022

General officers getting killed in combat situations is VERY rare, because the generals are supposed to be the brains and not the muscle of an army, so they appropriately do their planning and give the orders safely, well out of harm’s way.

(One U.S. general was killed while we were in Afghanistan, and that was by assassination back at headquarters.)

The Russian army doesn’t have competent combat-level leaders (junior-ranking officers and NCOs) to keep the front-line troops fighting, so Russia’s generals have to get dangerously close to the action.

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1. cliff arroyo
  
  March 21, 2022
  
  Dreidel, I don’t know if you saw this thread, but it explains in depth why the Russian army is so inept
  
  https://twitter.com/kamilkazani/status/1502673952572854278
  
  In an easier to read format here:
  
  https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1502673952572854278.html
  
  shorter story: The government fears the military and sabotages it in lots of ways and corrupt forces in and out of the military rob it blind at every stage.
  
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  1. Dreidel
    
    March 21, 2022
    
    Excellent, very detailed link! Thanks, cliff.
    
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methylethyl

March 21, 2022

Not much, but here’s a thing that crossed my local newsfeed this morning:

https://www.mypanhandle.com/news/florida/florida-news/owner-of-florida-gun-manufacturer-sends-200g-worth-of-rifles-to-ukraine/

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1. Clarissa
  
  March 21, 2022
  
  That’s beautiful. All of the good people are on our side.
  
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