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I'm Karno. I've been around long enough to know better, but I do this stuff anyway, because it's fun. Why hang around on this mudball if you're not having any fun? So enjoy my stuff, and show me yours. Fair trade, yes?
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The view from Ukraine. (G)
10 hours ago
Ran across another good one:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2.....ngly-shocking?
A quote:
"The writer John Baskin, who co-founded a publishing house in rural Ohio, said about his fellow inhabitants that they voted against their own interests. Workers opposed raising taxes on the rich or improving services for lower-income families, for example.
I had described my fellow citizens that way as well. By 2016, Ukrainians had already lived through more than two years of Russian aggression and intense propaganda after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. In eastern Ukraine, Kremlin-backed protesters claimed to be defending the interests of the region and its local industry, playing on nostalgia for the Soviet Union. Yet much of the region’s decline was caused by Russian or pro-Russian oligarchs who had bought up factories, bankrupted them to eliminate competition, and imposed brutal conditions on workers. Still, the local workers believed Russia’s intense propaganda and blamed Kyiv and the west for their economic troubles.
Talking to the residents of Wilmington, I was reminded of a moment from my reporting in Crimea shortly after Russia’s 2014 invasion. At a fruit market in Sevastopol, a Crimean Tatar vendor explained that prices had soared after annexation. A Russian woman insisted they hadn’t. “But I raised them,” he replied. She still didn’t believe him and argued that the prices had stayed the same. This wasn’t just misinformation – it was a collapse of shared reality."
I'm sure it's nice to live in the delusion that the Prump administration is on your side, and will Make America Great Again by restoring the economy and your health care any day now. But it seems to me you can't live in total delusion forever. Like I said before, reality is where all the food and water is.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2.....ngly-shocking?
A quote:
"The writer John Baskin, who co-founded a publishing house in rural Ohio, said about his fellow inhabitants that they voted against their own interests. Workers opposed raising taxes on the rich or improving services for lower-income families, for example.
I had described my fellow citizens that way as well. By 2016, Ukrainians had already lived through more than two years of Russian aggression and intense propaganda after Russia annexed Crimea in 2014. In eastern Ukraine, Kremlin-backed protesters claimed to be defending the interests of the region and its local industry, playing on nostalgia for the Soviet Union. Yet much of the region’s decline was caused by Russian or pro-Russian oligarchs who had bought up factories, bankrupted them to eliminate competition, and imposed brutal conditions on workers. Still, the local workers believed Russia’s intense propaganda and blamed Kyiv and the west for their economic troubles.
Talking to the residents of Wilmington, I was reminded of a moment from my reporting in Crimea shortly after Russia’s 2014 invasion. At a fruit market in Sevastopol, a Crimean Tatar vendor explained that prices had soared after annexation. A Russian woman insisted they hadn’t. “But I raised them,” he replied. She still didn’t believe him and argued that the prices had stayed the same. This wasn’t just misinformation – it was a collapse of shared reality."
I'm sure it's nice to live in the delusion that the Prump administration is on your side, and will Make America Great Again by restoring the economy and your health care any day now. But it seems to me you can't live in total delusion forever. Like I said before, reality is where all the food and water is.
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