Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor

Frustrated writer and poet. Wayward traveller, living in the Republic of Georgia, accused of being Australian. Investor. Spacemob.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

@ajlopezechegar @AvonandsomerRob When you watch it a third time, you will remember this convo ))

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@operativmedia This is the people who record 146% votes in elections for Putin lol.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

Jewish Muslim, Jewish Buddhist etc there are such things. Almost 2000 years ago, the Rabbis determined you couldn’t be a Christian and Jewish. You would just be a Christian. Although you would still be ethnically Jewish, that can’t change, you would be considered the equivalent of an apostate that would have to take steps to return to the fold. This doesn’t apply to other religions and reflects the hostility towards Jews of the early church fathers and forced baptisms and blood libel.

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@ajlopezechegar @AvonandsomerRob Twice? Those are rookie numbers lol. I don’t know how many times I have watched every season but it has to be more than ten.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

@AvonandsomerRob It is a show I have watched more than any other and if there was just one show I could watch till the end of time, it would be House M.D.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

1517 Hebron, right at the start of Ottoman rule, my family was ethnically cleansed during a murderous pogrom by local Arabs. This continued for 30 days in Safed and then Tiberius, with Arabs moving into the houses Jews fled from. This was repeated every century since before Zionism.

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@curiositymata @miranowhere Georgia was acting within its own territory in the same way Russia had with Chechnya and Dagestan.

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@tellesinus @miranowhere Russia accepted those borders and signed a memorandum guaranteeing Ukrainian sovereignty over Crimea.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

@johnlilburne98 @miranowhere It was Georgian territory. If Russia can do such actions in Chechnya and Dagestan, Georgia can do such actions in its own sovereign territory.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

@mrSatias Sure it did, otherwise there would not have been a West Germany

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

@AuthorGoodwin Sci fi tends to be longer than normal fiction but historically there has been a lot of very successful novellas in that genre. Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, Time Machine and war of the worlds etc. Recently, Martha Wells murderbot diaries are a huge hit and most are novellas.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

Pretty sure you guys were ruled by Mongols for centuries. And you had Tamerlane. Even the origin myth of Rus is the land being conquered by Vikings who you made Kings. It’s okay, I once had an argument with someone who said England has never been invaded and I had to tell them about the Norman’s, previous Vikings, Angles, Saxon’s, Jutes and Romans.

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@Piotr__Panasiuk Oh and 6000 Polish officers murdered in the forest, oh and half a century of occupation. Probably all nothing, right?

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

Armenia built a fortress there to fight the last war, Azerbaijan invested in the latest drone technology which made all those fortifications useless. 20th century tactics vs 21st century. The loss of Artsakh was tragic but it was the result of decades of complacency and hubris, not any one politician. My wife lost a cousin defending it.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

My family was ethnically cleansed from Hebron in a murderous pogrom by Arabs in 1517, which then went on in Safed for 30 days and also Tiberius. This was repeated every century since, long before Zionism. Jews who were not ethnically cleansed and their houses stolen, lived as second class citizens unable to defend themselves or give evidence in court. This myth that we lived in peace needs to die.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

Being married to an Armenian born in Georgia who the Armenians don’t think is Armenian enough and the Georgians don’t think is Georgian enough, the one thing we can all agree on is everyone in the Caucasus likes to disagree, I mean really likes to disagree. And everyone has a passionate opinion.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

@NebojsaMalic I lived in Russia for 7 years, former CIS for 20, and visiting Russia longer than that- they absolutely think D day was useless and not needed, deny lend lease was even much of a thing and demand Europe be grateful, even though they then occupied half of it for half a century.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

Well there are a number of differences. Ukraine is invaded, Russia isn’t invaded( although it was briefly), so most of the devastation has occurred in Ukraine and most of Russia’s population is very far from any fighting and may encounter the odd drone or never. Secondly, Europe invited in Ukrainians enmass, Russians did not receive the same invitation. It is still the largest exodus except early 1990 Soviet Jews, since 1917.

[Yaakov Lui-Hyden 🅰️uthor @LuiYaakov]

And what? My wife is Armenian from Georgia and most Georgian Armenians speak Russian as a first language. I have a Crimean Tatar daughter in Uzbekistan, her native language is Russian too. Despite tens of thousands of Crimean Tatars dying during ethnic cleansing in the Soviet Union. It isn’t the flex you think it is.