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Why, Hector?
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I saw a video by some left-leaning western guy, where he spoke in the manner of a food review blogger about “why it is hard for him to support Ukraine”. The title alone already sounded absurd, as if Ukraine were some kind of football club or TV show. And yet, all of his points were about Palestine and Israel.
I wanted to talk about this, because posts like this are not new or rare. They have existed for a long time and have already turned into real political views that affect Ukraine, cause this type of leftist tends to see any genocide or war happening in the world right now only through this lens.
Comparing tragedies
Beyond that, such people often try to prevent Ukrainians from calling Russia’s actions genocide. For them, forced russification as the destruction of identity, the kidnapping of children, mass graves, and torture of both civilians and soldiers do not qualify as genocide, because, as they say:
Ukrainians and Russians are one people, or at least very similar — so what value does Ukrainian identity even have?
There is genocide in Palestine, so Russians probably cannot be committing one as well — as if there were some quota for genocides in the world, and all genocidal actions must be interpreted through the Israel–Palestine framework.
The first point can partly be explained by the fact that many such leftists have a soft spot for Russia as the “successor” of the Soviet Union (the fact that there were 14 other republics is treated as a detail), which they see as opposing the main evil of the world — the United States.
For them, the Holodomor was not a planned genocide either, which makes it even easier to frame Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as a conflict between two empires on the territory of a colony (Ukraine), where “underdeveloped” Ukrainians are not educated enough to understand this.
This perspective not only reveals imperial thinking — just shifting depending on which “great power” one supports — but also a complete lack of knowledge about Ukrainian history. Moreover, similar imperial views existed among Russian communists themselves, so for Ukrainians this “coincidence” is not surprising.
Returning to the obsession with counting victims, these people fail to understand that what is happening in Ukraine is a different type of genocide—one taking place against a modern European state with its own army, statehood, and economy.
Ukraine is also the largest country fully located in Europe (Russia is larger, but partly in Asia).
I understand that for those who only heard about Ukraine after 2022, the country comes as something of a surprise—that it even exists—and based on this, instead of understanding that Ukraine’s attempts to represent itself internationally and to decolonize have long been perceived by Russia as a direct threat, to which we can already see how it responds (not to mention that Russia has continuously influenced Ukraine politically and through propaganda even after the collapse of the USSR), they simply assume that Ukraine is a “third world” country (a term that is problematic and, in general, awful in itself) and that this is precisely why they had heard so little about it before, or only in a negative light.
Therefore, in their view, genocide there must look like what they imagine in such countries.
And if it does not, then it is not genocide. Sometimes this even leads to claims that Russia is “careful”, “kind” and only strikes military targets while following the rules of war.
Because of this, under posts by English-language Ukrainian media or international news about deaths in Ukraine, you can often see comments like: “It’s worse in Palestine”, “What about Palestine?”, and so on. At the same time, Ukraine is blamed for choosing the “wrong path”.
Antisemitism in a new form
I would never have believed that antisemitism could affect not only Ukrainian Jews but Ukrainians in general. But just as the Soviet Union portrayed Ukrainian nationalists (which often meant anyone who wanted to preserve Ukrainian identity and statehood) and Jews as enemies working together, history seems to be rhyming again.
Under posts about Ukraine on social media, one can often see comments like these:
Where the main line of reasoning is that jews have taken power in Ukraine.
At the same time, Ukrainian jews are not even seen as existing—there are only “those same” jews, who supposedly have no real connection to Ukraine, yet somehow appeared there.
This may seem like a right-wing narrative, but it is also adopted by some leftists, who combine it with older views that Ukraine is a colony controlled from the outside.
At the same time, Ukrainians are portrayed as nazis who, without resistance, cooperate with these same jews and fight against “other whites” reducing it to a war of whites against whites.
War against colonization
Continuing this idea, many leftists of this type fail to see Ukraine’s struggle against Russia as a form of anti-colonial resistance, despite the fact that it clearly has all the characteristics of one and is not limited to the current invasion alone.
In reality, much of Ukraine’s history with Russia revolves around this dynamic.
Beyond what has already been mentioned, there are also facts such as Russia resettling its own citizens into the homes of Ukrainians in occupied territories, while those who remained could not even bury their relatives without obtaining Russian passports. Russian soldiers went door to door pressuring people to accept Russian citizenship, so that later it could be claimed that there is no Ukrainian population left—that these are “historically” Russian lands.
For many of these leftists, all white European nations are seen as having a colonial past.
Therefore, in the case of Israel–Palestine, where they believe it is easier to apply a framework that also includes race, Ukraine–Russia becomes harder to interpret and is reduced to a conflict between two equally privileged groups.
Because of this, I have heard multiple stories from Ukrainians who attended international discussions on decolonization and related topics, where activists would openly argue that Ukraine does not belong there, or say similar things in private conversations—effectively pushing Ukrainians out of such spaces.
As a result, Ukrainians often find understanding mainly among those who have had direct historical experience with Russia, while at the same time not being active participants in Western decolonial movements (with the exception of active support for the Iranian people against the Iranian government, but this is still a different case).
This leads to misunderstandings between Ukrainians and this type of leftist movement.
Many Ukrainians have noticed that even numerous left-leaning organizations either failed to take a pro-Ukrainian stance, or shifted to calls for “immediate peace” where no one is to blame except politicians, or simply stopped talking about Ukraine once it was no longer a trend.
Some even openly repeat Russian narratives framed as resistance to a dominant West claiming—after absorbing such propaganda—that Ukraine blindly admires America, rather than recognizing that Ukrainians have no illusions about either country’s history or present actions, and cooperate with the United States largely because it once guaranteed Ukraine’s security in exchange for giving up its own means of self-defense. Even this is often interpreted through an imperial lens, where Russia is seen as having “allies” (such as North Korea, Belarus, or the Iranian government), while Ukraine is portrayed as having only “masters”.
At the same time, these movements demand that Ukrainians actively participate in pro-Palestinian activism and maintain a kind of moral “purity” in every action—despite everything described above.
In other words, there is not even a real dialogue between Ukrainians and Palestinians where shared experiences could be understood. Instead, the entire discourse takes place between Ukrainians and Europeans and Americans, who consider themselves to be speaking on behalf of Palestinians and—importantly—have the privilege of political influence over Ukrainians’ lives, a privilege that Ukrainians do not have in return over them.
These dynamics are further complicated by Russian propaganda, which is highly effective at adapting to different political audiences.
For example, it is rarely mentioned that Ukraine delivered 1,000 tons of wheat flour to Palestine as humanitarian aid while being at war itself. Instead, statements by President Zelenskyy are selectively quoted—such as “Ukraine will become like Israel”—without the full context, where he spoke about strengthening defense while preserving Ukrainian identity and style, not about literally becoming Israel, and also mentioned other countries. Most importantly, that statement was made even before October 7.
While the history of Israel and Palestine goes back much further, many of the same people only heard about Ukraine on February 24, 2022, and did not study its history, or even recall the events starting in 2014. Nor do they mention that Ukraine recognizes Palestine as a separate state.
In the end, this results in comments like one I saw under that video, where a girl wrote that Ukrainians “barely post about Palestine” and only talk about Ukraine—even those who fled as refugees. There were also remarks that countries bordering Russia care too much about Ukraine and not enough about Palestine.
So this is what I want some people to finally understand:
Ukrainians exist and are fighting for their survival outside the context of Israel–Palestine—we are not like either of those countries; we are ourselves.
Whatever the outcome of relations between those two countries may be, it will not stop Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
And please, do not demand from Ukrainians a level of moral purity where, even while dying or protecting our loved ones, we are expected to think about someone else and take on a more active role in fighting for others than even people who are not living through any war.
the fact that people prefer to read and write in english rather than their native language should actually be seen as a crisis im not joking this is not a good thing
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faktumet att folk föredrar att läsa och skriva på engelska snarare än sitt modersmål borde faktiskt ses som en kris jag skämtar inte det här är inte en bra sak
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Det faktum att jag kunde kolla på detta utan ljud och ändå veta exakt vilka ljudeffekter det var utantill
Väldigt trevligt att de har med samiska karaktärer och historier i Bamse nu. Hon var tydligen släkt med Bamse också
Var på ett museum och fick se dammsugaren som namngav bakverket
i love swedish. that's a dustsucker.
Not just a dustsucker, the dustsucker! The one that has a sweet treat named after it.
Behold, a dustsucker:
Även detta:
Det är så likt.
“Det är så härligt med modern teknik: man har så många chanser att bli besviken.”
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it's finally that time of the year again for the clinically depressed newscaster describing february with disco elysium music
what is the single best line in this video
it's a month that doesn't hold up life any better than it really is
something great happened here but it's over with and that's the way february is
like the desperate flinging off of something that's not true anymore
the expedition is getting desperate. people are throwing things aside
this looks like a place where people who are being punished are sent
nobody is tap dancing or breaking into a rogers and hammerstein song
theyre just barely able to get across the street and hunker over a bowl of chili
most of the birds who can afford it have flown to florida
it's as if there's some awful truth out there in the trees
something that's been bothering you for a long time is out there. what is it?
to hide the bleakness of feb., man invented valentine's day. also mardi gras.
what other month can host a holiday designed to remind us we're all gonna die?
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yeah,
February in St. Louis. (And in our hearts.)
One the funniest scenes to me in a Swedish kids show is in Emil i Lönneberga where the main character Emil is going to throw away some cherries his mom has used to make wine, and he eats some himself and also feeds it to all the farm animals. ALL of them get drunk.
All the hens pass out from the intoxicated cherries and thus they think they’re dead. And the funniest scene is where the maid has to go inside to tell the family the news about finding their little boy drunk with the farm animals
Translation:
”The hens are either way dead.”
”What?! The hens dead??”
”And… the rooster is drunk.”
”Drunk?”
”And… the piggy is… drunk… and what’s with Emil…”
”Yes?”
”Emil is…”
”Yes, what about Emil?!”
”… is also drunk.”
förresten, vad är det tänkt att näcken ska göra med en? dränka en? om inte så kan jag väl tänka mig att sitta med en naken man vid en bäck en stund. helt ok
Oftast dränker han en men det finns även en möjlighet att han lär sig spela fiol (så du kan stänka andra)
Måste vel se till vilken sida av gränsen man är på, för i Norge dör man bara, så inte helt ideellt. Men norska Fossegrimen kan lära dig spela fiol, om man kommer med kött på en torsdag.
My idea of a relaxing holiday: walking 14km in -15C
hi guys! discord is doing a survey on how people would like ai to be integrated into discord. take it and say fuck no to every question. when you get to "in general, how do you feel about discord inegrating ai features?", respond that you would actively get everyone you know off of discord and wouldn't pay for nitro or other shop items if they added ai features.
watch out for the trap! there's ONE QUESTION where the last option *isn't* the max 'no AI' option, read each part carefully to be sure
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That time of the year