"Politics will always have its revenge on those who make light of it." - Julian Mintz, UC 801, New Reich Calendar 3
Just finished re-watching LoGH with my m8, tremendously powerful anime, an absolutely unique work the likes of which are few and far between, mature in the truest sense of the word. But this quote, which I opened the post with, it resonated with me deeply, much more so now than during my first watch all those years ago. It made me think about those "poor" russians y'all on this here site seem to pity more than us here, dying to shells and drones and missiles for the crime of shopping for groceries or sleeping in our own homes instead of huddling in a basement. I was in communication with russians before 2022, considered some of them friends even. I would go so far as to say that even now those few people may represent the best their degraded, fascistic nation has to offer. They have always maintained, fearfully, and some with a sense of misplaced pride, that they were apolitical, or, to be more precise, "outside of politics". Fool that I was, I adopted their position as well, and, fool that I was, I believed them to be the silent majority. Meanwhile the deranged fools, who sputtered racist, conspiratorial delusion as justification and encouragement to kill us, who gleefully declared that "Warsaw is a russian city" and promised to meet each other again near La-Manche, if not the coast of the Atlantic, I believed to be the loud, but ultimately non-representative minority. But politics will always have its revenge on those who make light of it. It may be too late for russia, but to anyone reading this, I have this to say: if you are truly a good person, you should care about politics, because if no good person does, only the evil ones will.
