#>Russia

[voltaspistol]

In case it wasn't clear: DOGE is working with Russia, providing a backdoor for SOMEONE in Russia to login to US systems. PBS Newshour interviewed the whistleblower and yeeeeeah it's pretty damning stuff: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWpqJ8pD2Ng Basically the cybercriminal version of hiding a blood stain on the floor by ripping out the floor and leaving a gaping hole where floor used to be.... But leaving a great big bloodsmear from the hole in the floor all the way to a suspiciously stinky truck in the parking lot, that's owned by the known neighborhood hitman, which also happens to be piled high with blood-stained flooring.

[uglywitch69]

He's too heavy,,

[wistfulpoltergeist]

Just a quick update on the war in Ukraine. North Korea now officially takes part in russia-Ukraine war by sending its troops in order to kill Ukrainians. So Ukraine now must defeat 2 nuclear totalitarian states: russia and north korea. While West is just being deeply concerned.

[muscletitanlover]

Andrey Smaev, Russia IG: smaevofficial 6'2" (187cm), +265 lbs (120 kg)

more here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcZ0Y_m7tNk

[hussyknee]

Once I stopped wheezing, I went looking for what inspired this tweet. Apparently anyone consistently ripping into Biden and telling anyone why he's trash is "voter suppression". Liberals have all lost their goddamn minds.

[romatito]

did the heta dtiys meme bc unfortunately i dont think id draw some of these guys otherwise. my faves are all side characters 🫥🫥🫥

[relaxedstyles]

Kinda quiet story ...

[skull-pun]

Question for all you war vets out there who voted for Trump:

How does it feel to have one of the weakest presidents in the history of the USA?

Was all that freedom worth it?

Does it feel good to know that all the fighting you did for your country has meant nothing since you used the rights you fought for to elect a dictator?

Better start learning Chinese! You're probably gonna need it in a few years...

[jonathankai]

Three years ago I drew Tucker telling my (russian) government to go suck it. Now it's a dumpster fire here and there and, well, everywhere. So in these trying times let me share this Tucker saying 'Go suck it!' to Putin and his scoundrels, to Trump and his dogs, to whichever worthless sack of shit is next in line, you name it.

We may be test subjects in a box canyon in the middle of nowhere, but you know how our story goes.

[princesssarcastia]

aside from the fact that I think israel's stated reasons for attacking iran—liberation, lmao okay dubyah, pull the other one—are disingenuous at best; aside from the fact that the last time an outside power toppled the iranian government it went horrifically for many iranian people; aside from the fact that if it would make you uncomfortable if the u.s. government did it then you probably shouldn't be cheering on the israeli government doing it...

aside from all of that. what do you imagine the israeli armed forces starting a war with the goal of regime change in iran will do for israel? what do you imagine will happen there. because history tells us, tells me, an american, that what israel will do there is create more of their own demons, leaving them less safe in the long run than they were before.

how many iranians, if israel invades and destroys its government and military, will join extremist groups in the region targeting israel? a shit ton. hell, they might even form a whole new militant extremist group of their own. that's what pulling out "liberation" as a justification means they aim to do, by the way.

we see in gaza how effective israel is at creating or propping up ostensibly separate governments: not very. invade iran, dissolve its government and military, put a puppet government or a government incapable of governing at all in place, and you have a breeding ground for the poverty and violence that will see a new generation of hatred rise.

oddly enough, fellas, the key to ending the cycle of violence is still not, "more violence."

it's also especially stupid for israel of 2025 to be pulling this one, because boy, what do you imagine might unite a country with fractured internal politics? do you think it might be an external violent threat? because i think it might be an external violent threat.

from al jazeera's opinion section:

"What began as a calculated strike on military targets may be achieving the opposite of its intended outcome. Rather than weakening the regime’s hold on power, Israel’s actions risk reinforcing it – by rallying national unity and silencing dissent. The attempt to engineer revolution from outside may not only fail – it may backfire. "If Israel’s ultimate aim was to catalyse [sic] a regime collapse, it may have underestimated the historical resilience of Iran’s political system and the unifying power of national trauma. As bombs fall and generals die, Iran’s social fabric does not appear to be fraying. Instead, it may be stitching itself back together."

or a more journalistic piece from reuters:

"But with the Iranian opposition fragmented and no signs of divisions within the powerful Revolutionary Guard (IRGC), which has nearly 250,000 fighters including its Basij militia volunteers, there is scant prospect Iran’s ruling elite will collapse easily. "There have been no major protests on the streets of Tehran, and many Iranians profess anger towards Israel for the attacks. Without a ground invasion or domestic uprising, regime change in Iran is a distant prospect, the officials said."

[rjcity1]

Leyla Hirsch | Hey!(EW)

[groffiction]

DMBJ Memes - HeiHua Flavor 1

I was making so many of these that the reblogging thread idea wasn't working too well, so we will just have them separated by longer posts with more memes to a post. Let's start with HeiHua. I love them so much. These are all from Reunion 2 - Mystery of the Abyss.

[evil-hetalia-hot-takes]

While the anons are arguing about who Ivan should be with I'll tell you as a Russian Ivan should be with Japan. I love Japanese culture and most Russians adore it. Both of us are tired of the arrogant European and West colonizers Kiku and Ivan should unite and create high quality Russo-Japanese anime in history 💖

we don't need the Chinese or Americans :)

-Mod Gilbird

[beltway-insider-komeradlurkr]

They don't give up, we should not either. I wrote those two things after reading a substack about why all those people didn't turn up in november, long story short despair and disheartenment. In addition to that I've heard of and myself been one of those people that disengaged in frustration and sadness after the orange bastard won.

But we cannot do that as a movement, as a party, as people, and as a society. The way the Republicans got to holding the Supreme Court, the Senate and the presidency in addition to having a vast propaganda machine was through determination, tactics , and work over decades. To take our country back and make a world better than the one we entered we must use those three things. It won't be easy, and it won't be without defeats and set backs but it is an effort we need to wage if for nothing else than to be looked upon favorably by history. Do not submit to them, it achieves their goals and makes the fascists feel great. Organize locally, teach others critical thinking, expand the membership of unions and of the party in addition to other organizations for us, and most importantly Resist and Persist.

We did beat people like this before , and I know it is within bare minimum possibility that we can beat them again.

To people like minded to me, see this and reblog it. There is a lot of dooming and despair going around and before we can reclaim our society we must reclaim our spirits!

[liusia-piu]

Here is a Ukrainian woman, Olha Kharlan, an incredible woman and multiple fencing champion, and her prototype Barbie doll. Now she is under pressure and bouts of aggression from the russians for not shaking hands with the russian athlete she defeated, for which she was disqualified.

russians caused genocide - they are allowed to compete

Ukrainian woman whose home was destroyed defeats russian 15:7 - she is disqualified because she did not shake hands with a man who supports the destruction of her people

[ninellecantpaint]

LISTEN. Listen.

I was born in Russia, a country whose democracy was virtually eliminated, not in 4 years, not in 5, but by gradually, slowly stripping people of their rights to speak out and leaving every institution rotten and corrupted. The entire time I've been alive, Putin has been in power. 24 years. I'm 18. Me and my mother wouldn't be able to escape now if she didn't have enough foresight to leave the country before things went to shit completely. Many times I've wondered what would I be had we stayed. "I'd probably kill myself, haha", that's what I often said. But now, I'm thinking of all the young people, of all the queer people, of all the good people who have to wake up to a hopeless landscape of fascism in front of them. How they still live. Live, though they can't speak out, not even on internet. Live, even though they can go to jail for wearing a rainbow bracelet. How I never thought about them enough, because "oh, it's not my country anymore!".Please. Promise me to be loud. Promise you'll fight like your life depends on this. Russians allowed this to happen because they had zero political consciousness after almost a century spent under soviet oppression. But you are supposed to be a country of freedom. Try to live up to the title. Bite and scratch if you have to in order to defend it. Because maybe one of these days some transgender kid from Novosibirsk will look at you and feel hope. Hope that some things in this world can be saved after all.