as Russia indiscriminately bombs majors cities in Ukraine amidst rush hour again today, here is your unfriendly reminder that if you’re a tankie, support Russia, support Putin, think that Ukraine defending itself is “terrorism”, or support people who hold pro-Russia and/or Russian imperialist views, you’re not welcome on my blog. unfollow me right now. if you come arguing i will block on sight.

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10n

19 Jul 2023

the way barry simultaneously seems to think his relationship with sally is Good and Functional and Real Love

yet he knows!! he knows intuitively that it's not good and it's not fulfilling for him

he knows what hank and cristobal have is different

sally figures out the relationship is bad and breaks up with him

but i don't think barry ever really realizes it

but in this scene it's like. in his heart he knows he isn't actually experiencing a loving relationship with sally

but in his head he still thinks his relationship with sally is worth holding onto

whether it's bc he figures that it's the best he'll ever get or genuinely doesn't realize it's dysfunctional

probably a combination of the two

either way

it fucks me up

<- prev tags YEAH. YEAH YOU'RE SO RIGHT

just heard bill hader on the prestige tv podcast say this is barry wishing for what hank and cristobal have

"Our recent exhibitions abroad are just a powerful cultural offensive. A kind of special operation, if you will. Which many people don't like. But we are advancing. And no one can be allowed to prevent our offensive… Before the "special operation" in Ukraine, exhibitions of Russian museums were everywhere… This was our special operation, if you will, a great cultural offensive."

Mikhail Piotrovsky, director of the Hermitage Museum, the biggest and most influential museum in russia.

@ To all lovers of "culture outside politics" and "tolstaevsky is not to blame"

87n

19 Jul 2023

war in ukraine

Anonymous sent an ask

Saw your post talking about why the west is giving Ukraine weapons, and as an American can I complain about Americans who bitch about how expensive it is or whatever

Cause to be clear, I want Ukraine to have those weapons to be able to defend themselves, but speaking pragmatically there's really only benefits to this

For instance, a lot of the weapons we're giving are old and were going to need to be disposed of soon. Ukraine disposes of them while we get to write a big money number as to how much aid we've given. Like people complain about how we're running out of stingers... if I'm not mistaken we gave stingers to the mujahideen to fight the soviet union... they're not new, we don't need more, we need to get rid of them

Then there's the fact that when we are making something new, either to give to Ukraine or to replace what we're giving to Ukraine... a lot of those are being made by US companies in US factories. We're basically instantly getting to tax a portion of that money right back while putting a lot of the rest of it back into the economy

Like, it's not just morally the right thing to do, there's just so few downsides for us. I'm so sick of (particularly right leaning) people complaining about this

Then they're be like "oh but China is the real problem", and it's like the number one way to keep Taiwan safe is for Ukraine to win. That'll send a real clear message how bad invading your neighbors is. In fact it was a huge mistake not to pump military aid harder and quicker to serve as a better deterrent so that countries like China understood the west wasn't going to mess around with this

(Not to mention Ukraine is a strong ally who are very sadly becoming very veteran on the modern battle field and can give us good insight in to things like drone warfare)

I don't know... it's just win win win win win for us, we get rid of old weapons, we get to test weapons, we get have Ukraine secure out geo political ambitions; and it's Ukrainians who actually pay the price for all of it

Like I don't need Ukraine thanking us for weapons. In fact, over here you always here people saying "God bless our troops", well how about we say that about the troops fighting on the front line for the free world. Like I'm not kidding when I say Ukraine is holding the line for all of the west

Just send the damn weapons, send the damn planes, we're getting our money's worth (I mean fuck, when it's all said and done we probably also get another market to sell weapons to if Ukraine gets admitted to NATO like they damn well should)

Sorry for the super long ask here, just really grinds my gears when people here complain about the military aid. It ain't costing us shit, and when it is, we're almost always paying our own industries with that money. Not to mention, I can kind of forgive the naive peaceniks, but the people who are always crowing about freedom, but then don't want to support a country fighting for their freedom?

Well that really pisses me off

ykp-chk

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Thanks for the feedback. Good to hear at least some people get it.

I agree, if there would be any gratitude owed, it would be theWest who has to be grateful to Ukraine, which is single handedly (in terms of people and sacrifices) fighting an enemy, of which theWest, and especially America, thought it needs a whole global alliance of armies to control or defeat it. And they are, in a way, right!

Ukraine lost 161,000 km2 (62,000 sq mi) of its territory, that’s almost 27% of the country, to Russia, and more troops at this point already, 1.5 years into the war, than America lost in the Vietnam war over 20 years (Ukrainian losses are secret but that much is obvious that this mark must’ve been passed at this point). Thousands of Ukrainian civilians are detained in concentration camps (see following reblog), thousands of children have been deported to Russia, whole cities have been turned to dust. This all happened and is happening exactly because Ukraine is mostly on its own against a superior enemy. One that was the very reason for theWest to decide to bond together in defense matters, so that this wouldn’t happen to any of them.

Now we are fighting this enemy alone, for an enormous price, because *shrug* rules… and theWest expects gratitude from us?! I don’t even have any words for how disrespectful and morally degraded that is and feels to us.

When getting from point A to point B (so not leisure walking), what’s the longest you can walk before you start using a vehicle?

5 minutes or less

6-10 minutes

11-20 minutes

21-30 minutes

More than 30 minutes

“Asking people to support a military is always sus” okay but you do realise there’s a difference between the military of an imperialist power and the military of a country that’s been independent for barely over 30 years and is currently being invaded by a genocidal empire that doesn’t want them to exist. you do realise that, right?

Consequences of the Russian missile attack on Odesa

tom "you are not making a Digital Tom, there is no Digital Tom, I'm climbing the whole tower and I'm in every shot" cruise is not gonna be on the side of "lets scan everyone's faces and make AI versions of actors", i'm just saying, if Paramount even tried it he'd fly a jet through a board meeting

131n

18 Jul 2023

PLEASE WATCH TRUTH SEEKERS

werewolf-cuddles

Instead of bitching and moaning about shows and movies being delayed, how about instead we compile and pass around recommendation lists of older or lesser-appreciated shows and movies to binge watch during the strike?

Like, this isn't the first time this decade we've had shows and movies delayed. We already did this shit in the early days of the pandemic, why don't we do it again?