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I knew outsourcing all of our banana factories would come back to bite us in the potassium.

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we fight for at least one generation of Ukrainians of the last several centuries to be free from russia

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literally cannot stand anyone who sympathises with russians while they're doing THIS to us and have been doing it for centuries to multiple nations

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Surgeon Elisabeth Potter films herself discussing her patient's denial with United Healthcare. this is the same surgeon who was sued by UHC for “defamation” back in February after she revealed that UHC interrupted her in the middle of an active surgery.

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MAGA: Ukraine has no cards

Ukraine: fights back, targeting russian war capabilities and credibility, demonstrating that it can deal damage if russia doesn't want peace

MAGA: that's escalation!!! You shouldn't anger russia!!!

Then how the fuck is Ukraine supposed to obtain any "cards" (i.e. leverage at the negotiation table)?

By giving russians everything they want? Well, that's simply impossible because all they want is for Ukraine to cease to exist entirely. It's not about any particular regions - they demand dismantling of the Ukrainian armed forces so that they can swallow Ukraine whole. No amount of seizing territory is going to satisfy russia while Ukraine exists as an independent state.

So if you hear this "escalation bad!! russia must be appeased to achieve peace" rhetoric from anyone - know that they're lying to you. Because there are no concessions from Ukraine that would make russia leave Ukraine alone.

Now trump says that poor kindhearted putin, who previously wasn't giving orders to bomb Ukrainian cities day and night, will be forced to retaliate. Now killing of civilians and destroying purely civilian infrustructure will be completely justified and understandable. I mean, have you seen those little innocent warplanes? Violated like that by barbaric Ukraine for no reason at all.

But that same trump was quacking about "no cards" in Ukrainian hands. How on earth is Ukraine supposed to get these cards, huh? If not by showing force and hitting russia where it hurts? Oh, that's right, Ukraine is supposed to roll over and take it like a good victim.

No matter how russia takes "revenge", you just know these dumb fucks will say that Ukraine deserves it. Fucking rapist logic.

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Delightful things sent to me by my brother 😌

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In the city of Pryluky a local firefighter had to extinguish a fire in his own house, where a russian drone killed his entire family - his wife, daughter and her one-year-old son.

Tonight, russia struck Pryluky (Chernihiv oblast) with six drones. In total, during this night, the russians attacked Ukraine with 103 drones and a ballistic missile. This is a "normal" night in Ukraine.

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oh yes, hitting military objects is definitely the exact same thing as launching almost 500 missiles on civilians in one night or hitting my city with 60 of them the night before, yes i see how people think that

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i want. a cicada on one arm and a crayfish on the other

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hi fish

today is my birthday but my family doesnt really care. im kind of sad and you are my favourite internet person ever

just wanted to say it, thank u for reading<3

57 cakes

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two years ago on june 6th russia blew up the Kahovka dam, causing a flood that killed and displaced a lot of ukrainians, and destroyed the environment, causing an ecological catastrophe.

i still remember how i felt when i saw these news that day. i tried to find places where i could donate to help, but the very pressing fact was the silence from the western countries on this event. either silence or outright doubt of how it happened. i remember it scaring me and sending me into shock; would they not care if something worse than this happened?

please be the voice for ukrainian people when the media goes silent like this. it is important.

today remember those who were lost someone or died in this act of terrorism.

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I naïvely thought this was the one building in Ukraine that was safe.

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you guys are so annoying. why do i have to see discourse every year that's like "was tolkien really a woke king or was he your conservative uncle?" the guy was a devout catholic and a genteel misogynist who maintained lifelong friendships with queer people and women, and this isn't even paradoxical because that was part of the upper-class oxford culture he was immersed in. tolkien told the nazis to fuck off (and in doing so demonstrated a real understanding of what racism is and why it's harmful, beyond simply "these guys are bad news because they're who my country is at war with right now") but his inner life was marked by internalized racism that is deeply and inextricably woven into the art that he made. he foolishly described himself as an anarcho-monarchist, and it's kind of crazy to see people on this website passionately arguing that he likely never meaningfully engaged with anarchist theory, because...yeah, no shit, of course he didn't. tolkien didn't have to engage with most sociopolitical theory because as an upper-class englishman of his position, he was never affected by any of the issues that this theory is concerned with. what is plainly obvious from reading both his fiction and letters is that tolkien's ideal political system was that the divinely ordained god-king would rise up and rule in perfect justice and humility; he didn't want a government, he wanted a king arthur, even though (obviously) he was aware that outcome was impossible. why is it so hard for people to accept that he was just some guy! his letters aren't a code you have to crack. no amount of arguing or tumblr-level analysis is going to one day reveal a rhetorically airtight internally consistent worldview spanning jrrt's fiction, academic work, and personal writings, thereby "solving" the question of whether he was a woke king or your conservative uncle. his ideology was extremely inconsistent because, at the end of the day, he was just some guy.

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i'm in kyiv for the week for the first time in 4 years.

russia launched 300+ drones at ukraine last night over the course of 5 hours; one of the biggest attacks of the war so far. the explosions were constant, some of them so close that our building was shaking from the impact. i could hear the buzzing of the shaheds overhead; normally, russia sends around 5-7 of these drones to kyiv every night, but last night, it was around 40. by the time the sun came up, the cloud of smoke that hung over kyiv was so dark that you couldn't see the sky.

but being pulled out of bed at 2 am under threat of ballistics and drone attacks has been an average experience for ukrainians for over 3 years now. they're used to it, they say "I'm from sumy/zaporozhzhia/kramatorsk, this is nothing". it doesn't matter if they're tired or they've been bombed out of their homes, they still have to get up and go to work or school or run errands and do all the things that make their country function while russia tries to grind it down by turning their peaceful skies into fire.

don't forget about them. don't forget about what's happening here in ukraine.

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Today is Pulse Remembrance Day

Take the time and space today to remember and honor the 49 people whose lives were lost and the many more who were injured in the horrific attack on June 12th, 2016. 🕯️🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈

Pulse was more than just a nightclub.

It represented community, family, and belonging for so many queer, trans, and gender diverse people.

No matter what, we are stronger together, trans forever! Our community is here to stay!