The way people all around the world require Ukraine to be ideal - and if someone from our government fucks up, then it's the fault of everyone. "Okay," said Ukrainians, "but we require the same from others then. If someone from your government fucks up and you do nothing to change that - it means you're okay with it, and it means it's the fault of the whole country."
"Hold up," said the same people, "it doesn't work like this".
- yes, just a billionaire imbecile bought a billion-dollar media, does whatever he wants with it and directly forces made-up bullshit on 100 million people, but we can't do anything
- look at this bad Ukrainian who stole a shirt and bought a car, that country is drowning in corruption
- it's just that the Hungarian authorities commit a war crime and hold Ukrainian military hostages in cooperation with the Russian special services, but this is just another evidence that the Ukrainians are not ready for NATO
- the former president of the United States openly cooperated with the Russian authorities, takes money from the Russian state oligarchy, hides secret documents in his own residence, flushes secret documents down the toilet, and it’s all because of the law level of humanitarian education in Donbas
- who said that being in power for a long time is bad, it is only when done by Putin, Lukashenko or the communists in China, but not when this is also done by the very good and progressive Angela Merkel, who plunged the country into an energy mess and openly worked for the FSB, we will conduct a a torchlight procession in her name
- let's look at the tattoo of a 20-year-old Ukrainian counterculture artist and ultras, but let's not look at the Hungarian concentration camps for Roma
- we threatened you with the cancellation of statehood and the continuation of a century-long ethnocide in order to take away your weapons, and now we will tell you how expensive it is to give you these weapons so that you can protect yourself from the destruction of statehood and the continuation of another century-long ethnocide
- we have 10,000 different humanitarian educations, seven million books on empathy, the honorary title of liberal of the universe, but we cannot remember that the Ukrainian language exists, this is an extremely difficult task, so can you write another thread please, but only in Russian?
there are a lot of things that can piss me off, today it was this tweet:
and all i wanted to do was to ask this person, why the fuck do we need a racist misogynistic piece of shit as a standout author if we have Shevchenko as our prophet?
but you don’t know who he is? of course, you don’t. that is the thing with imperialism: you destroy other cultures while promoting yours as the only way to legitimise your rule. even if those territories are of higher cultural development. but there is always a way out of it: kill them all. kill anyone who poses an existential threat to your hegemony. throw them into jail. forbid them to write and paint. send them to gulag. kill them. torture them. execute them.
if you don’t know Ukrainian literature, it doesn’t mean that it‘s nonexistent. if you don’t know "a Ukrainian Tolstoy", it means there is a Ukrainian Bahrianyi, who was sent to the gulag but ran away and was the first person in the world to openly criticise USSR in his pamphlet Why I am not going back to the Soviet Union. "I don't want to go back to the USSR because a person there is worth less than an insect"
there is a Ukrainian Symonenko and a Ukrainian Stus. there is a Ukrainian Lesya Ukrainka and Olha Kobylyanska. a Ukrainian Kotsiubynskyi, Ukrainian Drach, Ukrainian Olena Pchilka and Ukrainian Lina Kostenko. and so many more of the bravest people who despite all wrote in the Ukrainian language about Ukrainian people and for Ukrainian people.
there are thousands of beautiful texts that weren’t translated because this would’ve harmed the empire. that is why you are reading Dostoevsky and not Khvyliovyi.
but there are also thousands of texts that were never written. just how many more poems would’ve Stus written if he wasn’t killed by the Soviet regime? how many more texts would have Pidmohylnyi, Semenko, Yalovyi, Yohansen, Zerov written if they weren’t shot at Sandarmokh?
just have many texts have the world missed out on because Khvyliovyi committed suicide as he couldn’t live in the world with Stalin’s repressions. "today is a beautiful sunny day. I love life - you can't even imagine how much", - he will write in his death note as he shot himself with his friends waiting for him in the next room.
or maybe there was a Ukrainian Nobel Prize in Literature waiting for Tychyna? maybe, but he submitted to Soviet authorities and started writing hails for the regime, suddenly forgetting his own literary style and living his entire life in fear. fear of what? fear of getting caught. of getting destroyed just as all of the previous Ukrainian intelligentsia.
I’m tired of my people being silenced. I’m tired of my poets being undermined by "great” russian literature. it’s not worth a single Symonenko’s poem. it’s not worth a single paragraph of Bahrianyi‘s prose.
the greatness of russian literature lies on the bones of Ukrainian writers. to be this high, they killed hundreds and they are still doing it today.
the body of Ukrainian children’s writer Volodymyr Vakulenko was found in the mass grave in Izium in September 2022.
there will be a Ukrainian Nobel Prize in Literature, and there will be more Ukrainian books. there will be Ukrainian Zhadan and Zabuzhko, Liubka and Izdryk, Sord and Kidruk. there will be Ukrainian literature.
another funny thing is that this person is Indian and let me tell you: the fact that you stand up for one empire even when your own country has suffered from the doings of another is evidence of deep colonial trauma and I hope you will cure yourself soon
So when you reblog, it's a little like crossposting, if you imagine everyone's account as being their own personal subreddit. Except here, we make long chains of crossposts that form conversations.
While on reddit reply threads happen in the replies of posts, the replies here are actually pretty bad for having conversations imo. Replies to posts are better for saying something about a post that you wanna put there but not be as visible as a reblog comment.
Also tags! When you reblog, if you type comments you're using your outside voice. The tags are your inside voice. People use them to quietly add to a post more than they use them as actual tags. If someone reblogs that post from you, your tags won't show up on the reblog; however, if you add body text, that will get reblogged.
There's also what's commonly called "peer reviewed comments," where replies or tags on a post will be screenshotted. It's often considered more polite to add any comments you have about a post in the tags, and wait for someone else to consider them interesting/funny enough to share with the class. that said, you probably won't be executed for just adding a normal comment, especially on a post with a lot of notes. Use your judgement.
Good luck out there traveler!
Thank you kind anonymous person. tbh despite like so many people explaining how reblogs work and the proper etiquette around it, the idea is just so alien to me that I think it's gonna take awhile for me to wrap my head around it. Still, any help is much appreciated! :))
Yes, they have done it, the act of ecocide. It was predicted almost a year ago when it was first reported that the Russians had mined the dam. They've been preparing for it. Over the past few months, they have been draining the reservoir while simultaneously filling all reservoirs in Crimea, because blowing up this dam means no more fresh water supply to Crimea. So everyone who claimed that Russia invaded Ukraine to secure fresh water for Crimea can now go fuck themselves.
Of course they first claimed it was Ukraine's doing. Although some occupiers already happily admit that it was russia who blew it up, and call for blowing up more of Ukraine's infrastructure.
It's typical russian scorched earth tactics. Blowing up the dam can possibly prevent the Ukrainian army landing on the left bank of the Dnipro, and it frees russian troops from the left bank, meaning they can be sent as reinforcement to other front lines, for example, in the Donetsk region.
It is probably the greatest ecological catastrophe since Chornobyl, with thousands of people affected, left homeless, entire villages destroyed probably forever. But the russians don't give two fucks about that. They don't care about any life. Their main objective is not necessarily to claim the land for themselves, but rather to ensure it is not Ukrainian. If they cannot have it, they want to leave it uninhabitable.
Edit: not sure this is a new video, so removed it for now
Right now the UN celebrates a "russian language day", while russia just destroyed Kakhovka Hydropower plant dam. Genocide, ecocide, terrorism - all under the banners of "ru culture".
2st to 6s merpossums of MerMay 2023 (first one is just there in the previous post). Hope I'll draw some more of them cute critters, despite merMay been already over. Made with Rebelle 5.
That original picture has fallen on me from some of my feeds, unexpectedly. Its message was clear even without a caption, but I just couldn’t stop myself to take it a bit further. This is how I usually see people wherever I go - after wondering about their battles and victories.
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