The WH press secretary is making one embarrassing mistake after another. Recently, she referred to Russia as “the People’s Republic of Russia.”
Or who knows, maybe she meant China.
Or maybe she’s suggesting that the two countries have blended into one.
There’s also a possibility she was talking about New Zealand. Or split pea soup. It’s all equally likely.
I don’t like Karen jokes but here one is begging to be made.
Interesting thought:
// It is customary to think about conservatives that they are against change. Nothing like this. Real conservatism is a force that preserves the conditions for the necessary changes, as it forms everything necessary so that people are not afraid of changes and carry them out in a calm atmosphere.
We in Russia – with our perestroika and especially the nineties – know that it is possible to arrange such changes, after which society will be afraid of any changes, even the most urgent ones, like fire, will agree to any stagnation and reactionaryness, so long as changes are not repeated, which turned into collective psychotrauma and individual psychotrauma.
So the conservatives, slowing down on the distant approaches those who would like to change everything decisively, not realizing that by doing so they will block any changes for a long time, are those who make the changes possible.
From (in Russian):
https://langobard.livejournal.com/9544743.html
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I came across this today and thought you and readers might find it interesting. Of course I don’t know how accurate the references are, but it makes a compelling argument that makes we wonder about the psychological aspects of Americans with regard to the proxy war in Ukraine.
Chapter 6: The Childhood Origins of World War II and the Holocaust
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What I don’t get is this. Russians despise you. You personally. They think you are the plague on the face of the planet, the spawn of Satan. Yet you so pathetically and eagerly lick their boots, day after day.
Why? What makes you hate yourself so much? What makes you personally so subservient and so eager to fellate the people who think you are an insect? Could you explain that to me? Where’s your dignity?
I touched a nerve. I don’t think any of the things you think I do. Obviously the Ukrainian people are fighting a real war. But there are forces here in the US that care nothing about that and actually just what the war gains them. The military industrial complex loves this war for the money it makes, not because of concerns about sovereignty.
The exact same people rightfully concerned about Ukraine don’t care in the least about the sovereignty of themselves or their fellow citizens. There has to be an underlying. psychological reason for that.
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I touched a nerve by sharing too little of my thoughts, leaving space for projection. I don’t think any of the things you think I do. I don’t support Russia’s aggression or invasion. I am disgusted by it. and I don’t fawn over Putin for anything, including pointing out America’s wokeness.
Obviously the Ukrainian people are fighting a real war. But there are forces here in the US that care nothing about that and actually just what the war gains them. The military industrial complex loves this war for the money it makes, not because of concerns about sovereignty. We can absolutely be fighting a proxy war at the same time that the Ukrainian people really need our help. There is no doubt that some of the funds we are sending are flowing to the wrong people, and there is no accounting for it.
I posted that article because it made me consider what is under the surface of the war. This is something you talk about extensively when you describe the viciousness of the Russian invaders and their cold mothers proud to sacrifice their sons.
This made me wonder about us in the US. Because
The exact same people who are rightfully concerned about Ukraine don’t care in the least about the sovereignty of themselves or their fellow citizens. There has to be an underlying. psychological reason for that.
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“I don’t support Putin” she said and proceeded to relay Putin’s favorite propaganda points verbatim.
The Russian lie about American weapons being stolen and resold on the black market has been investigated and re-investigated. No proof has been found. But I’m sure you know better because you saw it on Tucker.
As for the “military industrial complex”, are you aware that this is the favorite expression of the far left? It’s been so since the war in Vietnam. I hoped to stop hearing it once I abandoned the left but the expression just refuses to go away. The aid of the Biden administration to Ukraine has been extremely slow and minimal. We are grateful for any assistance but there’s been no evidence that anybody in the US has rushed head-on into joining Ukraine’s war effort.
The reason why Americans aren’t too worried about their sovereignty is the same why they don’t put aside a lot of savings. People are rightfully secure in their sovereignty and economy. Fretting about something that’s not at risk is not normal.
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“The aid of the Biden administration to Ukraine has been extremely slow and minimal”
Yes, one of my worries for months has been just that and the idea that there is indeed a hidden agenda: I’m afraid the US wants Ukraine to win… but as slowly as possible in order to exhaust russia as a military power as much as possible. That second goal is one that I approve of but not at the cost of so many Ukrainian lives.
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The idea that the US has somehow provoked the Russian invasion and has been going gung-ho against Russia sounds downright insane to anybody who’s been following the events. It’s so obviously not what happened. I feel like I’m back in the “shutting down schools is crucial to stop COVID” moment. People have arrived at an easy to process slogan, and there’s nothing that will move them in any direction.
I don’t listen to Putin or read his propaganda points. I’ve heard secondhand that he talks about the US wokeness.
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“he talks about the US wokeness”
He throws buckets of shit at the wall and people then degraded stupid people try to pick through it for something valuable.
If anyone tries to paint him as some kind of defender of “traditional” values they are incredibly stupid or on the russian payroll.
There are no other options.
I dunno. If the Russians weren’t so grandiose, the US probably wouldn’t have much interest in supplying weapons in what is otherwise a fairly minor regional conflict.
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It’s a minor regional conflict where the second largest nuclear power on the planet is involved and is consistently threatening to start a global nuclear war? Really?
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They’ve been threatening for so long without doing anything that people have lost interest.
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This is what I am talking about when I call it a proxy war – Russia is both fighting to regain its so called lost lands and prop up Putin AND it is engaged in a war by proxy with the USA. Otherwise I don’t think the nuclear issue would be part of this.
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Blaming everything on Hitler and the Nazis is a total cop out. Germans conducted genocide as well as having concentration camps with medical experiments much earlier in Africa.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herero_and_Namaqua_genocide
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Shark_Island_concentration_camp
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Hi PaulS- I don’t think you read what I posted. It clearly makes claims that the entire German culture created psychological drives related to deep rooted fears of death and hunger, identifying with the aggressive mother which made the people ripe to embrace policies that included murdering German people with disabilities before any action was taken against Jews. Whether the claim is accurate, I can not say.
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I read the first paragraph, and I disagree with the blame everything on Hitler theory.
Infanticide was common before birth control was invented. Eliminating the disabled was also common in premodern societies. This may have applied to Germany 100 years ago, but I’m not sure how it applies to the modern US.
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“idea that the US has somehow provoked the Russian invasion”
Part of American solipsism is the idea that only the US has agency…. other countries are helpless playthings and no match whatsoever for the unparalleled might of minor state department employees…
So many otherwise sane americans can’t imagine any other country having an agenda or doing anything that can’t be traced directly to the US…
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I’m still hoping he’s a sincere idiot. Which is a low barrier to cross but it’s the best I can hope for in his case. There’s also the MTG-AOC brand of useful Russian idiot. Unfortunately, idiots abound.
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