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.
High mortality of RF senior officers is striking. Already 6 generals killed: Maj Gens Tushayev, Gerasimov, Kolesnikov, Sukhovetsky, Mityaev & Lt Gen Mordvichev. Dozens of colonels & other officers. I.e. RF army is fully unprepared & fights only with numbers & cruise missiles.
Plus, that airport near Kherson (or the little that’s left of it) remains. Russian equipment and personnel must be on their way to it for the seventh time as we speak.
A terrible night. Here is one of the many atrocities committed by the Russians against civilians:
⚡️Death toll reaches 56 in Russian tank attack at nursing home in Luhansk Oblast on March 11.
Russians moved 15 survivors to a facility on the occupied territories.
Ukrainians still can't reach the site of the attack.
Source: Serhiy Hayday, the governor of Luhansk Oblast.
— The Kyiv Independent (@KyivIndependent) March 20, 2022
In their intercepted phone calls home, Russian soldiers say openly that they are unsuccessful at capturing Ukrainian cities and the commandment gave them orders to kill and torture civilians. They giggle when they talk about it. “Try to steal some really nice stuff to send home,” their relatives say excitedly.
This is a country of 144 million people where crushing sick elderly people with tanks is considered a respectable, healthy pastime.
If you think you can’t concentrate or focus, you are fooling yourself. You are very focused. The problem is, you aren’t focusing on what you think you should. You aren’t managing to force yourself into a persona you have chosen rationally but are resisting with everything you’ve got. Find out what you are really concentrating on. In all likelihood, it will be some crude form of self-numbing. You are concentrating on it not because you are lazy, unfocused, or defective but because without it your psyche is going to blow. Berating yourself for poor focus is like telling a drowning man that he’s concentrating too hard on staying above water and not focusing as well as he should on learning Japanese.
One exercise is to spend 2 hours a day doing nothing. Really nothing. Not looking at a screen, not working out, not talking, not reading. Stare at the sky (or at a wall), and let your thoughts roam. Eventually, after doing this daily, you’ll re-learn to notice the world around you and will start figuring out what hurts, what soothes, and why.
Time and again, I feel taken aback by how poorly these highly paid journalists write. Look at the highlighted sentence. Who writes like this? “Except because” is how my 6-year-old speaks. Cute, childish, but not appropriate for a serious argument. In “so outdated,” the “so” part shouldn’t be there. Either explain “so outdated as what?” or simply say “outdated.”
Another problem – and this is probably the worst issue with this extremely tortured sentence – is the use of “therefore.” There’s absolutely no observable connection between outdated and unfair. I have outdated shoes. That doesn’t make them unfair. Unless you can prove a logical connection (e.g. the tomato is rotten and therefore inedible), you can’t use ‘therefore.’
This is a 10-word sentence, and it’s a mess. And there are many other problems in this tiny excerpt. “Involves how she” sounds tortured. Why not simply say “is that”? 70% do not constitute “almost every case.” “Latest statistics” is clumsy and vague.
Curiously, the only readable part of the excerpt is the quote from Hawley that the article tries to rebut.
Of course, this isn’t accidental. The task of the writer is to sneak by the reader inexistent logical connections and specious arguments. The author of the article has no argument to offer in response to Hawley’s charges. This uncomfortable reality has to be hidden in a mountain of fake “so” and “therefore.”
So I went to Arestovich’s website and purchased his seminars as a way of donating to the Ukrainian army. I didn’t want anything from the seminars themselves because I hate videos. And recorded Zoom lessons? I’ll be tortured with them in hell.
Still, out of curiosity, I decided to take a glance on the videos. They turned out to be so good that I watched for 5 hours straight (I can watch in one language while writing , grading, and emailing in another). As a result, I feel better than I have at any time since February 23.
Of course, now I feel guilty. The point was to donate money, not to make myself feel better. Maybe I should buy another seminar to learn how not to feel guilty.
One that I watched is about how stay focused and not let anybody distract you from what is important to you. Really good. I also started one on strategic planning.
My agenda right now is insane. I have three public appearances next week, and that’s before I leave for a conference on Thursday. After I come back, there are three more public appearances in the next two weeks. All but two of them have to do with Ukraine, even the conference talk. And the biggest public appearance I’m doing is supposed to be about the future of democracy worldwide, and what are the chances that the audience won’t want to make it about Ukraine?
Most appearances are in person but I’ll probably share a link to one of the online ones later.
The appearances are good for me because at least I feel like I’m doing something. Also, when I’m speaking, I’m not crying or freaking out, so that’s good.
Turns out that Alexei Arestovich, the Ukrainian presidential adviser I listen to daily because he calms me down, is a professional psychologist. I keep saying that this guy has a great future as a psychotherapist after we win the war, and now I discover he already is one. Arestovich can deliver the worst news in a way that makes people feel stronger.
Like Alex Berenson during COVID, Alexei Arestovich is saving my nervous system during the war. And by the way, there’s an easy way to donate to the Ukrainian Army through Arestovich’s school at apeiron.school. It takes Google Pay and Apple Pay.
The authorities say that 95 000 Russian gathered at the Luzhniki stadium in Moscow today to listen to Putin’s speech and show their support for the war in Ukraine.
Another 100 000 allegedly listened to the speech in front of the stadium.
Now let’s hear about how Russians don’t support the war but were forced to attend and jump up and down with joy because if they hadn’t shown up, the big, scary Putin would have killed them all dead.
Ah, I know. They were saving the grandma by showing up to this event.
