If someone pisses me off instead of letting it ruin my day I tell myself they are a djinn trying to sap my vital energies. I am not Arab and I do not know if that’s what djinn do, but it steels my resolve every time.
Turkey v USA is the World Cup’s only group-stage match where both countries’ biggest city is divided by a saltwater strait.
Istanbul straddles the Bosporus. New York is split by the East River which, despite the name, is a tidal strait, not a river.
Stay tuned for more cutting-edge, geography-based World Cup analysis.
@Mark_D_Sampson@SeanMcCarthyCom What are you talking about? The USSR never had as many people in prison as we do, and the gulags weren’t segregated by race, run by gangs, filled with drugs, and plagued by sexual violence. I’ve read Solzhenitsyn, gulag is literally cakewalk compared to US prisons.
@thechosenberg@MissPavIichenko Extremely off-putting to behave like that as a middle aged man at an event with his elderly mother (his children, as usual, nowhere in sight).
@SleepRebellion@EugeniaGurevich@clashreport It’s not the same thing, if for no other reason than laying a basis for greater future sovereignty. And if the Bolsheviks hadn’t won it would’ve been the SRs and they killed a German negotiator at Brest-Litovsk bc they didn’t want to cede any territory!
I think about how if you went back in time and told the Black Panthers, “It gets so much worse, America is basically fascist in the future,” they’d look at you like the dumb fuck that you are.
@SleepRebellion@EugeniaGurevich@clashreport Is being independent in name only worse than not being independent at all? The Bolsheviks were the only ones who had any shot of winning the civil war who even offered nominal sovereignty! That’s why the Bolsheviks were popular with ethnic minorities in the empire!
@SleepRebellion@EugeniaGurevich@clashreport Oh yeah it’s really terrible Russian and Ukrainian communists defeated Petilura and the UNA who massacred tens of thousands of Jewish people during the civil war. I’m sure they would’ve led Ukraine to democratic freedom and economic prosperity!