Did you notice that the segment of tankies who pretend to give a damn about "ukrainian working class" instruct us to "stop fighting the capitalistic war instigated by the usa" and "overthrow the real opressors - the ukrainian government"; but at the same time they never demand russians overthrow their fascist government???
Only these kind of people from Russia can be called "good Russians" without sarcasm.
Listen to what he says.
Most Russians, even liberal ones, even those you see rallying for Navalny, would skin this guy for the things he says - like not agreeing with the occupation of Crimea in 2014, or Russia choosing the fascist road, or that both nations - Ukraine and Russia - will win in this ONLY if the war ends on Ukraine's terms.
PS: a surgeon from Moscow disagreed with Russian occupation of parts of Ukraine in 2014, and in 2022, when Russia started a full scale war, he left to live in Estonia and now comes to Kyiv frequently to do surgeries for Ukrainian soldiers wounded in battles.
"This is 1938 but Czechoslovakia has chosen to fight. If Ukrainians give up or if we give up Ukraine, then we are in 1939" - said Timothy Snyder
What a wise and beautiful man. There will never be enough words to Ukrainian thank you.
Don't be indifferent. Make Russia pay. Please hear our cry out to the world, keep spreading our voices, and donate to our army and combat medics (savelife.in.ua, prytulafoundation.org, Serhii Sternenko, hospitallers.life, ptahy.vidchui.org, and u24.gov.ua).
For those looking to donate to help Ukraine, here is a list of highly recommended Charities/Organizations:
I also recommend Save Ukraine. They work to rescue Ukrainian children who have been kidnapped and deported to Russia since the start of the war. This video, Stealing Ukraine's Children: Inside Russia's Camps, gives more insight into that particular situation:
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On a final note, U.S. Congress needs to pass the $60 billion in aid to Ukraine. Shame on Republicans for holding this up! That is unacceptable and reprehensible on so many levels.
wait I haven't noticed this before, but the next world mural is in line with Noid's ideology
"True love is only possible only in the next world - for new people it is too late for us. Wreak havoc on the middle class"
Noid - "In the true life of tomorrow, every woman will be an innocence.
Noid - "A life is true if it's free from fear and internal division among oneself. And others -- mankind has seeds of greatness in it. A germinal will come, a return to trueness. It will be hard core."
Noid - "Have you been listening to what Egg's been saying? Love is *hard core* man, and a mother's love is the hardest core of all..."
Noid - "Well, they *loved* her. They put all their love in her and forgot all about the rest of us."
Which reminds me:
Fuck the World - "I can answer that. Many men keep searching for *the one*. For so-called true love, which is actually just obsession masquerading as kinship. The thrill of the chase, the hollowness that fills your chest cavity after catching it." (...) one must think of a way to fuck the whole world -- and not get caught up in fucking some *one*."
(The church quest is full of Scooter references and Fuck here sounds like he's quoting the first line of How much is the fish?: The chase is better than the catch - it's all connected lol)
True love is only possible in the next world/ true life of tomorrow where all women are innocences!
And I think this is all in line with Chernyshevsky's views about nihilism which has been discussed in this post
The line about fucking the whole world instead of putting all your love into one person also makes me think of a love that is not about thinking that you own your monogamous partner, but a more free kind of love that is present in Chernysevsky's book
Also, I feel like there are different versions of nihilism in Elysium, for example Zigi's father in Sacred and Terrible Air is a nihilist, but he says St Miro's nihilism isn't real nihilism, and it's a disappointment. So I'm not saying Noid is the same as Zigi, who wants the whole world to just disappear. Piss and Fuck seem to be also more into what Noid is talking about. Then there is Esteban and Hulio from Full Core State Nihilist (story on Martin Luiga's Medium set in Elysium) who are edgelords just fucking around (? I'm still not sure what their deal is)
The world has overslept and continues to fail to respond to the threat to humanity from Russia
That's horrifying to watch...
Important read. Quotes that I pick:
"Russia can lose. And it should lose, for the sake of the world — and for its own sake."
❗"The last six months bear this out: Russia’s minor battlefield victories came at a time when the United States was delaying Ukraine aid, rather than supplying it."
"If Russia wins, the consequences are horrifying: a risk of a larger war in Europe, more likelihood of a Chinese adventure in the Pacific, the weakening of international legal order generally, the likely spread of nuclear weapons, the loss of faith in democracy."
Don't be indifferent. Please hear our cry out to the world, keep spreading our voices, and donate to our army and combat medics (savelife.in.ua, prytulafoundation.org, Serhii Sternenko, hospitallers.life, ptahy.vidchui.org, and u24.gov.ua).
URGENT: Russia accuses Ukrainian children of sabotage. They face 10 to 20 years in prison - MIHR
'Tihran was abducted from his home, where he lives with his grandmother. For five days, the family knew nothing about the child’s whereabouts. At the same time, Tihran was brutally interrogated by the “investigative authorities” and subjected to beatings and electric shocks. The investigators demanded that the boy confess that he was preparing a sabotage at the “Melitopol Railway”, which was supposed to prevent units of the Russian Armed Forces from obtaining the material and technical base for their military operations in Ukraine. After five days, following media coverage of the child’s disappearance, Tihran was released on the condition that he would report to local “law enforcement agencies” on a daily basis.
Mykyta Khanhanov miraculously managed to avoid arrest, but later he was also obliged to report to investigators daily and participate in so-called investigative actions – interrogations, investigative experiments, etc.
An attempt by Tihran’s parents to return from Germany for him to take him out of the occupied territory was unsuccessful. The entire family was detained in Taganrog (Russian Federation).'