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$80,000 raised for de-mining Ukraine! Keep it going everyone! Keep sharing the link! #Ukraine #Misha Collins #Slava Ukraini

Now is near $90,000.

We need this to keep going on.

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my tiktok algorithm is just hundreds of videos of rescue efforts in the south of Ukraine. i am mentally ill

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All the time. There is still more sympathy to the murderer than to the victim.

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There are dead and injured - the consequences of the night shelling of Zaporizhzhia.

«As a result of the shelling, a residential building was partially destroyed, followed by a fire on an area of ​​100 square meters, neighboring houses and windows of nearby buildings were partially damaged by the blast wave.

As of 8:00 a.m., 2 people died at the scene, a 50-year-old father and an 11-year-old daughter.

Employees of the State Emergency Service rescued a 46-year-old mother from under the rubble, who was handed over to the ambulance doctors. Fortunately, the eldest daughter wasn't at home» - the emergency department of the Zaporizhzhia region.

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Man, the Russia/Ukraine war has led to a lot of terrible takes from far leftists. I have a mutual from Brazil, a self identified socialist, who is convinced that Ukraine is full of nazis. While they don't support Russia, they questioned why they have to be "pro-Ukraine" or "pro-Russia". They call Ukraine a "nazi hole" but call Russia merely "fascist". Am I wrong in thinking that they've been influenced by Russian propaganda? I know Ukraine does have a nazi/far right problem, but so does the US? And most European countries? idk they strongly hate the US/US government too, and it seems to create some kind of brainrot. at least they don't blindly support China or Russia like tankies do (nor identify with them), but it's still frustrating to take a neutral position on a pretty black and white situation.

I don't want to confront them 1) cause I'm not the type to argue over serious things like this and this may break our long friendship and 2) I'm not super educated on the nazi situation in Ukraine.

Anyway thank you for letting me rant in your inbox.

Yes, Russia has specifically focused its propaganda efforts on Latin America, Africa, and other regions that HAVE suffered from Western/European/American imperialism and are thus predisposed to take the worst view of them/believe that this situation is their fault somehow. This is similar to what the USSR did in newly postcolonial Africa in the 1960s and 1970s, positing themselves as offering the shared hand of communist brotherhood from Western oppressors. Because of more recent events like the invasion of Iraq, which was fully as unjustified as the invasion of Ukraine, Russian propagandists and their eager tankie/leftist foot soldiers have also got a lot of mileage out of "whataboutism." This is likewise an old Soviet propaganda technique designed to deflect any criticism of the actual situation by disingenuously asking "what about this other one!!!"

Likewise, the idea that Ukraine has a "Nazi problem" is itself propaganda. In the last election, far-right/Nazi-identified parties won barely 2% of the vote and AFAIK, no seats at all in the Verkhovna Rada (Ukrainian parliament). This is far lower than the nearly half of the USA voting for the far-right/Nazi-sympathetic Republican Party, and as noted, the far right elements in the UK and Europe. The idea that Ukraine is "full of Nazis" (with a Jewish president who just celebrated iftar with the Ukrainian Muslims/Crimean Tatars during Ramadan and instituted observance of Muslim holidays nationwide, very Nazi of him) is a line used by Russian propagandists to "justify" their attack and appeal to national memories of the Great Patriotic War (World War II) and the struggle against the Nazis, which is the central cultural grievance/memory in modern Russia. The Putin regime has referred to anyone they don't like, but especially the Ukrainians, as "Nazis" for a long time now, so it's supposedly their holy duty to kill them/commit ethnic cleansing/forcibly reunite the "fraternal" people of "Little Russia," as Ukraine has been called since the 17th century, with "Great Russia." And yeah, no.

Because the West and Europe has been pretty solidly on Ukraine's side, Russia has therefore cultivated countries like China, India, Brazil, etc, who have all suffered from Western interference and are looking to move into the first rank of global superpowers. This is, as noted, similar to the competing systems of influence built during the Cold War, but it also relies on much deeper Russian grievances that go back to the medieval era. Anybody who knows a thing about actual Russian history would therefore know that every single word it says about the Ukraine situation is a lie, but because that lie is useful for many other countries and fits into their own understanding of themselves, it is easy to repeat and act like it's a so-called superior moral position. This is also why US/American tankies so eagerly lap up Russian propaganda, because it plays into their moral sense of themselves as far better than the rest of the West and "righteously" discovering that the West is responsible for all the evil in the world etc etc. While non-Westerners are just helpless misunderstood puppets with no real agency or ability to make complex choices. This totally makes sense!!!

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Leaving Patreon. I tried to support some of my favorite creators there, but Patreon honestly sucks in how they treat Ukrainians. Recently they blocked one YouTuber who raised funds for his channel, due to "sponsoring military" which is both a lie (he didn't use Patreon for that) and somehow not applied for Russians who do raise funds for their military effort.

Fuck them honestly йобані залупи

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"Domivka" really needs your help! Now they have two shelters with much more animals to take care of. Food supplies are getting low, animals need tick and parasite treatment, they still have debts to clinics for treating injured animals...

Please donate and share this post!

Here's an article about them in The New York Times, btw

There is a shelter "Домівка врятованих тварин" (Domivka - Home of saved animals) in Lviv 🇺🇦. They have been doing great work rescuing all kinds of animals and birds - injured wild animals and abandoned domesticated animals, exotic animals, giving them shelter, treating injuries, vaccinating etc. Now during the war they also sort and deliver humanitarian aid, evacuate animals from more affected regions and shelter them. Sadly Domivka is situated in city park and is not very big, so there's not enough room for all the animals that need help. So now Domivka is aiming to build a new shelter not far from the city. They already have a plot thanks to the anonymous patron. Now they need funds to build it. So please donate and share this post! Even a small amount is big help!

Their PayPal : domivka_@ukr.net

Their post on Instagram with all the accounts to donate to🔻

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Their Facebook group 🔻

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Professor Timothy Snyder's briefing of The United Nations Security Council this morning, 14 March 2023, for a session called by the Russian Federation to discuss "russophobia." 

I wanted to choose a quote to put in this post as an example, but couldn't. Please read the whole thing. Please note how the russian representatives tried to deny the obvious and attack Snyder, thus only proving his point.

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my reason to hate russians number #45177282929

ask me again why we hate them so much.

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