My avatar is a friendly monster my youngest made when she was 3 or so from this Ukrainian-made kiddie construction set gifted to her by my best friend from elementary school. We met when we were 7.
My friend who is now an IDP.
Because Russia is a war criminal state.
@secretsqrl123 Самострел is not snipers, it's self-injury. The post is saying those are easy to spot but the MPs are not looking at the signs that would give that away.
@magi_jay@aziz0nomics There's even a shorthand for the reaction of the idealistic folks who were arrested/sentenced in Stalin's purges-- "Comrade Stalin! There's been a monstrous mistake." So many letters starting with that line. It was never a mistake. It was the system.
@mbeisen This is a second generation slogan. It started in the first Trump administration with the line "no human being is illegal." The goal was to shift the terminology from "illegals" or "illegal aliens" to the more accurate "undocumented immigrants."
@RachelBitecofer I can't wait for Trump to discover Elmo had violated immigration law and tell the INS to revoke his citizenship and eminent domain his property. A couple of russian oligarchs can fill Elmo in on how that goes. With a bonus lengthy prison term. It'll be fun.
@Aurora_Noemie @Amy_Siskind@KatrinaNation That's unfair. She was/is fully onboard with the Russian propaganda herself. Leading cruises for her readers into Russia and bragging about having them meet government officials well after the illegal invasion and annexation of Crimea and invasion of Eastern Ukraine in 2014.
@zriboua Yeah, definitely. Because the US has definitely been intercepting projectiles sent towards Ukraine, just like it has been doing for Israel. And definitely sent carrier groups to Ukraine, just like for Israel. 🙄
What an absolute pile of BS.
@JacobWebsite Possibly because people who learned some history realize that an undeterred Putin will cost a heck of a lot more, both in dollars and American lives.
@jlkinok@thenerdincharge@taylorsschumann This is a bad faith argument anyway. That study actually says unvaccinated risk is 13 times higher. I posted a screenshot in a direct response to her.
@thenerdincharge@jlkinok@taylorsschumann Lol-- found it, and it wasn't even hard. Love the kind of BS that tries to say the exact opposite of what the paper says. 🙄
@thenerdincharge@jlkinok@taylorsschumann What was the denominator (group size) in each group? Vaccinated, undervaccinated, unvaccinated? Because unless they were the same, that's definitely not 5 times more likely.
@Mylovanov Deadlines for names to appear on state ballots are about to start rolling in. And the rules of the R party don't give them the runway to accomplish this. Not to mention Trump is incapable of this and the party is his cult now.
Ordinary Russia is sick. Healing will be a long and gruelling process which can only start when Russia, not just Putin, is defeated. Without a defeat in Ukraine, Russia will just keep spreading.🧵6/7