In the USSR, displaying the official national flag was the norm. I understand what the poster wants to say with his reference to a Soviet state but his carelessness with terminology is counterproductive. He won’t be able to stop what is happening because he can’t name the problem. You can’t solve an issue that you don’t understand.
Analogy is the favorite toy of an impotent mind. Not everything can be referenced back to familiar things from the past. Sometimes you must make an effort and learn new stuff because your opponents are doing it and leaving you behind.
Dude, seriously, be your age. You can’t cut off everything Parubiy said before and after these words and pretend he was a Hitler supporter.
What he actually said in a discussion of the proposed Ukrainian law on referendums was that it can be dangerous because people like Hitler (whom Parubiy never called the greatest; this is all utterly invented) have used direct democracy for nefarious purposes. Here is the actual quote that I GTed for you:
But we still have discussions about the law on the Ukrainian referendum. I am a big supporter of direct democracy. I even studied it at a scholarly level at one time. By the way, I will tell you that the person who practiced direct democracy the most was Adolf Aloizovych in the 1930s. And we should remember this, too, because in the 1930s it was one of the key methods of manipulating people, among other things. Therefore, this law should be well-thought-out.
Are you the same person who asked about Bandera? Because this is yet another instance of clumsy Russian propaganda I’m seeing on the blog in a few days. Nobody can be a successful politician in Ukraine and openly admire Hitler. Do I need to explain why, or is it obvious? Your bullshit radar should be on overdrive when you hear this kind of very obvious fabrication. Every single voter in Ukraine today lost relatives in the war against Hitler. Every single one. It’s easier to appeal to African American voters by defending slavery than to Ukrainians by praising Hitler. Because Hitler was more recent. We literally all have people in the cemetery who fought Hitler. And you honestly think that a politician would come to these voters, with their cemeteries, the country that lost the most in WW2, and go, “hey, guys, I hear that dude Hitler was pretty rad. Who’s with me?” Read a book, educate yourself, it’s sad to be this excluded from all knowledge.
Whatever source you are using, it’s lying to you. You can see yourself how it added words to the quote that were never said and removed other parts of the quote. Don’t be a Candace Owens. Be vigilant about your sources.
Of course, there will be that one reader whose only takeaway from this post will be that I said that African Americans loved slavery, so I’ll clarify that no, they didn’t. They hated it. Which is kind of my point but whatever.
I actually very sincerely care about my readers. When they disappear for a while, I worry. For those of us who participate regularly, what we’ve got here is a community. For me, it’s the most stable community I have found anywhere outside of my family. I’ve moved a lot. I’ll probably have to move again. The only place where I can witness people’s lives and have them witness mine in a continuous manner is here. This is the only place outside of my physical home where I’m completely sincere. And I deeply value people who stick around for every lap of the journey, every permutation, every new enthusiasm, of which I have an inordinate amount.
Of course, my compassion for readers who are in a bad place is sincere. Life is life. We all go through bad shit. Next week is the 12th anniversary of my son’s death. My readers help me live with the grief. I try to help them with theirs. If all this wasn’t completely sincere, people wouldn’t keep coming.
Yes, low-hanging fruit but we all deserve a quiet chuckle this morning. Candace Owens announced on her show that the etymology of the word “television” is “they are telling us a vision.”
I’m deeply curious how she explains the words telephone and teleportation.
Millions of views on her show. We are all screwed.
Yep. Yet another nationalist has been assassinated. Slowly, we are losing the most nationalistic figures in Ukraine. We all know how I feel about nationalism, so of course, I’m very unhappy about this development.
If Ukrainian nationalism loses, I wouldn’t bet on it surviving anywhere. Not in any causal way but symbolically. If even there it dies, what reason does it have to continue existing in places that don’t need it quite as desperately?
I urgently need a new job, people. We are in a hopeless situation, and it’s only getting worse. The union mishandled everything so egregiously, I’m wondering if it’s not malicious.
He’s openly saying that states with tiny black populations are superior. Ay yay yay.
I’m seeing on social media that this has become fashionable with Democrats. They gleefully list states with large black populations and explain what hell holes such states are. It’s disturbing.
🚨NEWS: Gavin Newsom just torched the GOP’s favorite crime talking point.
The most dangerous, crime-ridden states in America? All deep red. All Republican-led.
It’s quite fascinating that people who like nothing more than to accuse everybody of racism would engage in this racist behavior. “We population-replaced California blacks, and rah rah, look how much better everything is. Hitler made trains run on time.”
Who will win the next US presidential election in 2028? JD vance currently leads on polymarket with just 28 percent, Gavin Newsom coming in with 19 percent. Who do you think will win? pic.twitter.com/vbuhEhAvD4
I’m not seeing much of a difference. Both dislike America. Both are opportunists and dishonest. Both promise a neoliberal future where the state plays on the side of transnational corporations and is comically inefficient in everything except policing speech.
Both are better than AOC who is a moron but that’s a low bar to cross.
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