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trying to come up with a decent bio as if my life depends on it tbh

[balkanica]

I swear to god this is the funniest description of eastern europe I've ever seen:

[propalitet]

We’re all Dracula 

[chaoschurros]

I'm healing my religious trauma one devil horned piccrew at a time

[swamp-cats-den]

I’ve seen many people on this site condemning Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine and, at the same, time calling the West almost as bad for ‘stirring the pot’. I choose to believe that they are simply misinformed, but what they are saying is part of the narrative Russia’s pushing according to which they are not being the aggressor but just ‘protecting their own interests’ from the US trying to ‘expand its sphere of influence’. They use it to excuse the occupation of Crimea and some areas in the East, and if you’re spreading such beliefs, you are unknowingly contributing to the information war against Ukraine.

A lot of people with otherwise progressive views say that the West ‘is provoking Putin’s aggression in Ukraine’. This is not what’s happening. What’s happening is the US and the UK doing fuck-all to actually help Ukraine despite having committed to guarantee its safety with the Budapest memorandum, and the European countries turning the blind eye to the war, letting it continue for such a long time. You can’t call yourself progressive and anti-imperialist while also trying to appease Russia just so that ‘there is no war’, because there IS war, there’s been war for years, and ignoring it means treating the Ukrainian people as disposable.

[swamp-cats-den]

I’m the OP, and in the reblogs I’ve found this typical piece of textbook Russian propaganda.

You know what? All Ukrainian people with the views considered progressive, me included, do gravitate towards the EU. And you know why? Because the pro-european policy here means fighting for more LGBTQ rights, gender equality and freedom of speech. If you are denying us that for the ‘woke anti-western’ points, you are a piece of shit. And do you know what the pro-russian policy mean? Ban of the 'homosexual propaganda’, laws that justify domestic violence and silencing anyone with different views.

And Russia IS evil. Russia is shelling our cities, shooting at hospitals, kindergartens, there is no limit for them. If, instead of supporting Ukraine however you can or just minding your own business (which is fine, honestly), you are spreading the information about 'both sides being bad ’, you are fucking complicit.

[fthgurdy]

Ukraine. Is. An. Independent. Country.

Ukraine can do whatever the fuck it wants even if Russia doesn’t like it. 

Ukraine doesn’t have to be ‘neutral’ and stay away from the EU to appease Russia because, see above:

UKRAINE IS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY.

Russia’s invasion is not justified in any way because, again UKRAINE IS AN INDEPENDENT COUNTRY AND RUSSIA DOESN’T GET TO PUNISH IT FOR LIKING THE EU TOO MUCH

[cardassiangoodreads]

Being genuinely anti-imperialism, anti-colonialism, etc. means that you're that way across the board, no matter who is doing it. You don't whitewash the Ottoman Empire or Japanese imperialism just because they weren't "white" in an American sense (and in Japan's case, buy into their own propaganda, as they used the specter of Western imperialism to justify what they did to other East Asian/Pacific countries). You don't make excuses for modern Russia trying to take over Ukraine or other sovereign natures in Eastern Europe. If you truly believe in self-determination then it doesn't matter who is trying to prevent that. This shouldn't be hard, right?

[kurganfilledwithbearbones]

Putin went on Russian television today saying that Ukraine belongs to Russia because it was Russian territory during the days of the empire. There's absolutely no anti-imperialist theory that would applaud him for that. None.

[theweight]

it’s caramelising absolute onion

[zvetenze]

[dykemd]

in my this cannot continue and yet it does era

[kendallspussy]

the love-hate relationship between you and your fucked-up eastern european home country is indescribable

[goofstep]

what the hell the fucking stupid serf at burger király forgot the goulash in my franz liszt meal

[sacrilegy]

“fuck you, my child is completely fine!” your child persistently daydreams about what their life would have been like if they hadn’t been indoctrinated into your religion.

[http-vxmp]

what I’d be thinking about during meetings lmao

[baltoslav-deactivated20240229]

babygirl i know folktales from places you dont even know exist

[glumshoe]

Lyft driver: “Your name, is Slavic? Me too. Bulgarian. I drive fast for you, brother.”

[glumshoe]

Now he’s waxing philosophical about the Ottoman Empire, imperialism, and human nature. “Humans? We are the most dangerous animal. Other animals, they kill when they need to. We kill when we think we need to. It is not the same.”

[glumshoe]

He just monologued about climate change and the military industrial complex, and the difficulty of having a Balkan identity when every Balkan country changes hands “every twenty years”. “Our history is getting swallowed by the biggest fish, and that fish getting swallowed by the next biggest fish, and so on.”

[glumshoe]

He had so many more gems. We compared family names, realized that his daughter shares my grandfather’s name (the feminine version), and then he started talking about The Old Country. The city where he grew up had a population of 300, and the population of his whole country could fit inside Chicago. He came here twenty years ago seeking a better life, but “everything in America is too big, the cars, the problems, the inequality”. He pointed to his phone and called it “stupid little computer” that’s meant to control his life, not to improve it, and how the world is getting steadily worse and the little people can’t do anything about it. He told me to continue my studies so that I don’t grow up to work in the service industry and can instead try to stop the concentration of power into the hands of corrupt people. Then he shrugged and said, “But who knows? Can anyone do it? I don’t know if it’s possible.”

I tipped him 25%.

[mockwa]

[blackwoolncrown]

congrats lil buddy that’s the worst anyone’s ever done it

[senritsu]

last night I literally shot awake in the middle of the night with the thought “if we add another term to ‘gaslight gatekeep girlboss’ we can make a harder better faster stronger parody”

[senritsu]

@airsighs GAYBAIT......

[analvelocity]

[woodrider]

gaslight harder, gatekeep better, girboss faster, gaybait stronger, more than ever hour after hour work is never over

[exjwcrimethinker]

sign of the times by harry styles hits different when you've been raised in a doomsday cult

[screenshotsofdespair]

[howglorygoes]

Alexa just outed me to my family on Christmas

[howglorygoes]

I used the amazon-suggested tutorial command “Alexa, play happy music” and she had the nerve to say “playing Gay Pride Party Playlist”

[unyanizedcatboys]

jeff bezos homophobic moments