If you’re drawn to a politician because they promise to be cruel to Muslims or Jews or immigrants or gays or transgender people etc, the least you should do - the absolute, bare bones, still morally vacuous least - is ask yourself whether they’re likely to stop at the group you want to see targeted.

I think this is the closest many of us have ever got to seeing the real Trump. The only consistent thread in his entire unhinged rant was the love & praise for Vladimir Putin. Zelensky has more courage & dignity in his little finger than every member of Trump's regime & fan club combined.

It is obvious but worth repeating that regimes built on lies survive only as long as they can suppress truth. The promotion of complicit media (alternative facts) & denigration of objective media (facts) is not just desirable but essential. This process is being turbo-charged in the USA right now.

There’s an established vocabulary for everything from honest critique to abject outrage, and Trump, like others before him, displays such utter depravity that the vocabulary just can’t cope.
(There are also, of course, plenty of quislings, traitors & apologists complicit in the depravity.)

Ukraine is not, as the Russian ambassador said, a "project."
Its statehood is older than Muscovy’s.
It has been a member of the US longer than Russia.
It has a language, an identity and its own aspirations.

youtu.be/p4JFNtlxz9k

It’s crazy that we are in a time where actual billionaires are telling people with zero savings that both the elites are the problem and the poor hard working immigrants are also the problem

Likely won't post much but would love to see more posts from people with similar interests.

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