Dessa [she/her]

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Cake day: August 11th, 2023

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  • They’ll say that Putin is abducting thousands of Ukrainian children as evidence of pure malice, then turn around and say he’s forcibly deporting them. It doesnt make any sense. They’ll say its a genocide but can’t articulate the grievances that would motivate a genocide like this.

    People committing genocides devise moral frameworks to justify them. Netanyahu claims religious supremacy and ancestral lands bs, Hitler based it all on race, colonizers claim to bring genteel civilization to native peoples. Russia doesn’t do any of this. Most likely the kids that are being moved around are just being moved away from active warfronts and destroyed cities. Even if it’s just a raw land capture for wealth and power, there’s no point in chasing out all the future farmers and factory workers.



  • Yeah. The difference between the genteel Republicans of my grandfather’s generation and those today is that Democrats refuse to express power to oppose conservatives today.

    The Republicans weren’t kinder, they were just forced to negotiate with their opponents out of necessity, and as a result, followed the norms and decorums that Democrats lament the loss of today.

    Trump is trying to treat China like he treats Democrats or poor people. Eventually he will either be forced to realize that China’s ability to punch back means he has to respect them, or China’s punch is going to knock him out cold.