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Tankies, be gone

[swamp-cats-den]

If you would like to help the Ukrainian army fight back against the russian attacks so that we all can sleep a bit better at night, you can donate to the local NGO Gromads'ka Initsiatyva Halychyna (you can check their Facebook webpage here). Their primary focus is buying and delivering cars to be used on the frontline, something the army needs badly as, unfortunately, the vehicles often get burnt to the ground by russians, like the one in the picture above was. My good friends-volunteers who help the organization work hard to deliver those cars from abroad, waiting at the customs control for days and days just to get them into Ukraine. The organization is local to my relatively small city, it doesn't get huge donations, so every euro or dollar would be greatly appreciated!

Here is the payment information

PayPal: [email protected]

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ГО ГРОМАДСЬКА ІНІЦІАТИВА ГАЛИЧИНИ

Код отримувача 39320241

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IВАНО-ФРАНКIВ.ФIЛIЯ АТ КБ "ПРИВАТБАНК"

картка № 5169330518077182

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Euro

ГРОМАДСЬКА IНIЦIАТИВА ГАЛИЧИНИ ГО

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Name of the bank: JSC CB "PRIVATBANK", 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE

Bank SWIFT Code: PBANUA2X

Company address :UA 76004 м IВАНО-ФРАНКIВСЬК вул ГРУШЕВСЬКОГО д.21 / Hrushevskoho street 21, Ivano-Frankivsk

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Dollar

ГРОМАДСЬКА IНIЦIАТИВА ГАЛИЧИНИ ГО

UA403366770000026000052513030

Name of the bank : JSC CB "PRIVATBANK", 1D HRUSHEVSKOHO STR., KYIV, 01001, UKRAINE

Bank SWIFT Code: PBANUA2X

Company address :UA 76004 м IВАНО-ФРАНКIВСЬК вул ГРУШЕВСЬКОГО д.21 / Hrushevskoho street 21, Ivano-Frankivsk

[merrymorningofmay]

mrs rice shows me visions of a beautiful world

[julibernardo]

[will-ruadh]

doctor who also

[alicent-florent]

[canadiandogteeth-deactivated202]

Ice Storm ~ Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1998

[maidthings]

happy winter solstice

[maidthings]

Southern Hemisphere - Wikipedia

[im-mender]

#reality #information

[alucardsinep]

kui see on see kuidas sa sellest teada said palun vabandust :(

[folklorespring]

Dmytro Pavelko who performed as a drag queen Mystique Grimes. Was killed by russian missile on May 14.

[vampirefabio]

i think one of the worst things the left wing internet ever did was push the idea that oppression is basically a virtue, and being oppressed is a sign of your morality. it has made it like…impossible for some of you to hold the idea that most people are privileged in some ways and oppressed in others. AND a lot of you seem to have it in your mind that terrible people cannot be oppressed, and that oppressed people cannot do terrible things, which is a dangerous rhetoric to hold imo.

[gracefelldownaflightofstairs]

I love showing my non-Doctor Who friends the clip from the five doctors where everybody gets abducted by the weird triangles without context and refusing to elaborate

[polarity-disturbed]

I love this show

[what-even-is-thiss]

Yes.

[wintersmitth]

Mak-naasfalti is so obsessed with me it makes him look stupid.

[wintersmitth]

The guy went on a reblog spree of like half of Ukrainian or Ukraine-supporters blogs, reblogged our posts about the most recent bombing (in my case, a post about my ptsd) with a cheap manipulation spiel. In another thread agrued that kidnapping of Ukrainian children is good, actually. This guy is a malicious bastard who thrives on being contrarian and causing others pain.

[swamp-cats-den]

This guy reblogged my post about how blind pacifism in the west is hurting Ukrainians and argued that Ukraine 'choosing to respond to the military confrontation with a military confrontation' is the real problem (because sure, us sending doves of peace would definitely stop russian missiles launched at civilians daily) and offered a 'genius' solution for all Ukrainians suffering from the war to just leave the country (somehow forgetting that plenty of people free to go wherever don't even wanna leave the frontline cities cause it's their home, I'm not even talking about Europe's capacity to host). I first thought he was just a very misguided naive anarchist, but have just checked his blog, and wow, what a vile piece of shit.

To my non-Ukrainian followers, if you ever see mak-naasfalti's posts and think that his perspective is different simply because he's an anarchist - no, it's not. There are plenty of anarchists in the Ukrainian military, and the anarchist founder of one of Ukraine's biggest left media Nihilist took arms right at the beginning of the full-scale invasion and has been on the frontline ever since. So that user's perspective is different in a way that it's actually, likely intentionally, harmful to Ukrainians.

[folklorespring]

I bet it feels nice to be carried in a swarm of bees

[maureen2musings]

California’s wildflower superbloom

ryanresatka

[jackkdaniels]

when i was a kid i decided that killing people was bad therefore war was bad therefore the military was evil. and adults would tell me it's more nuanced than that and i would understand when i grew up. well i'm a grown up now and idk i still think that killing people is bad and war is bad and the military is evil

[lilietsblog]

so, sometimee, other militaries start a war with you

(sincerely, a Ukrainian)

[dykepuffs]

It always goes like:

"There is an evil empire next door to you, and they keep trying to invade"

"Well, just let them? Borders aren't real, silly!"

"When they invade they want to stop you from passing down your culture, ban your language, stop you from celebrating your holidays, kidnap your kids and scatter them to the four winds."

"Well, I would just stop them, I would say no! I'd hashtag RESIST!"

"Then, they will kill you, and everyone who tries to resist."

"Well then I would fight back, I'd form a resistance movement against them, we'd train with weapons and learn to make bombs and..."

"Wouldn't it be easier if you had already trained that resistance before people were dying? Maybe, get them to learn how to hold a rifle or pilot a drone before they have to do it in secret?"

"Yeah, probably."

"Congratulations, that's an army."

[swamp-cats-den]

You see, one could argue that the OP probably meant to say the mere existence of an institution whose purpose is to hone the skill of killing/destruction to maximum efficiency is a horrifying thing (hard to disagree), and it doesn't necessarily interfere with a people's right to defend themselves against an agressor in reality.

But the thing is, it absolutely does. People from the countries that haven't known war for decades or have always been the aggressor are equating any military with evil. Even if they say they discern between the perpetrator and the victim fighting back, there's still this underlying feeling of contempt and mistrust. And it is very much interfering with Ukraine's ability to defend itself.

At the beginning of the full-scale invasion, plenty of the so-called 'progressive' westerners were opposing arming Ukraine because 'weapon bad', berating queer Ukrainians posting about taking up arms to fight russia, asking others to disregard charities related to the military needs. People were willing to donate to foodbanks etc, but not to charities collecting money for the frontline needs. Which is fine as a personal preference, and we are grateful for any help, but when it turns into a stance where supporting the military is considered bad, it's equals holding a person's hands back while they're being attacked with a knife so that they can't defend themselves, and then nobly tending to their wounds.

And what's worse, it leads to complete disregard of the victims in the military. While the civilian deaths can draw at least some attention, the deaths in the army are met with indifference. And no, not in all instances it's by design of the military as a system made to kill, so the argument 'if it wasn't for the military, they'd be alive' doesn't work in Ukraine's case. In Ukraine's case, if it wasn't for the military, they'd be just as dead, and many more people would be dead as well.

And still, I remember a post of a female Ukrainian war medic interacting with the foreigners, and realizing that her fellow figters and veterans do not even make it to the list of those deserving sympathy in their eyes despite defending the others (with the adult Ukrainian civilians being far at the bottom of the list way below animals and 'great russian culture', but that's a different conversation). And the military are one of the most vulnerable groups in the Ukrainian society at the moment due to constant danger, exhausting 24/7 work and life-changing injuries. The only way they could become even more vulnerable would be if none of us were given weapons and trained in defense at all, an entire society becoming a target with zero chance of fighting back. So, you know, if there was no military.

So yeah, maybe sometimes it's a good thing to get your head out of your own ass and understand that the countries likely to become a victim of aggression have to train their military, because surprisingly, being able to defend yourself from being genocided is a good thing, and not, in fact, evil.

[folklorespring]

Years of my life spent on listening to drones and missiles and jumping from every sound and thinking I might die daily and asking my friends if they're alive. And nobody will give me those years back.

[jackietaylorsghost]

“I could see no reason why my pet didn’t deserve an attractive mate. At least, I was determined to do my best. Of course, dogs are a pretty poor judge of human beauty. But I had a rough idea of what to look for.” 101 Dalmatians (1961)

[redjaybathood]

I've seen a version of this regarding English high school literature, but the options there were, like, milketoasty (i have no mouth and i must scream; the king in yellow; etc). So I wanted to check with my UA moots (and other people who might have read UA lit),

Which Ukrainian middle/high school lit story fucked you up the most?

I (Romance) / Я (романтика)

The Yellow Prince (Жовтий Князь)

The Horsemen (Вершники)

Anything by Marko Vovchok

Fedko the Rascal (Федько-халамидник)

Your option (comment or add to tags/in reblog)

Voting ended onMay 4

[laurenbaleigh]