"In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes."

These are very dangerous conversations -- saying that Europe has nothing to fear and that, in the event of an invasion of Western countries, Russia would not win, since Putin couldn’t "even" defeat Ukraine.

When you log on Steam and see Chinese Communist clone of Unity of Command 2 which promises Ukrainian localization on release:

⚡️ German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius: We cannot afford another paper tiger like the Budapest Memorandum.

One step away from Führer Oath.

HORRIFYING - Dismantling USAID & cancelling >80% of aid caused ~750,000 deaths by mid-2025 🧸Most were children ⌛️ Many died within the first year 😰 Preventable deaths were mainly from: - HIV, TB, malaria - Maternal & fetal deaths - Malnutrition news.westernu.ca/2026/01/u-s-...

This is just unconscionable man

medIOCrity

Yegor Letov, the cult Russian poet and singer, once sang "There are only two ways for honest guys - to take an assault rifle and kill everyone in sight or kill themselves, themselves, themselves". He also founded a National-Bolshevik party together with Alexander Dugin. Fascism is a death cult.

"Washington Post, a newspaper from newly colonised Russian oblast of District Columbia..."

Cartoon by Dave Danziger

"A bowl is most useful when it's empty"

Was browsing Steam and suddenly discovered that "Behind Enemy Lines" or, for the Western audiences, "Soldiers: Heroes of World War II" was remastered. This is the game that birthed mega-popular "Men of War" series of RTS. Holy shit, I still remember buying a jewel LICENSED CD of that game in 2004.

>"Not a single white person at the Super Bowl" Super Bowl:

bad bunny halftime show

And there is a version of traditional conservatism that encourages this: volunteerism, sports, church, family, ways of being something in the world. One of the poisonous things about MAGA is how it chokes off this stuff in favor of an inchoate sense of rage and worship of the mighty.

Am I alone in this or do others also see some upcoming game, think "Looks cool" and then notice "made on Unreal Engine 5" and just go

Ukraine is a typical, developed democracy. Elections take place in an environment where the general public have a range of political parties to choose from, operating in a pluralistic media landscape, with totally free, secret ballots, after which the current President's party wins.

i forget who made it but it cracks me up lol

British values

"Leave multibillion owning person alone!"

kind of funny that an olympian said they are here to represent "compassion, respect, and love for others" and some people automatically knew that was a statement against them

"Detonation=DETERRENCE" is a thing you normally expect to hear from a guy being stuffed into a psychiatric ambulance after blowing up his neighbour's mailbox.

HAIL TO THE THIEF!!! Thank you for your attention to this matter!

Kyiv, 21st century. The center of Europe. In hundreds of buildings, there is no heating due to russian attacks. A mother warms her child with hot water poured into plastic bottles. This is a reality no baby deserves. Help protect Ukrainians from russian attacks: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

One thing I find very irritating in modern movies is faking things that don't need to be faked. I get very frustrated when I see characters drinking someting from cups and understanding from their body language, or just plain seeing, that cups are empty.

Trump's assistance to the Russian attack on Ukrainian power and heating last night was so egregious that I put together this short, free piece on it. He helped Putin kill Ukrainians. If the USA does not do something soon, the US should be seen as a Putin ally. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

President Trump says “Negotiations between russia and Ukraine are going very successfully.” Kyiv, right now. A residential building burning after a russian attack. This is the reality of Trump’s “success.”

Dunwall City Clean Hands Festival 2: Whale Oil Boogaloo

⚡️Update: 15 killed, 15 injured in Russian attack on bus carrying Ukrainian miners. Most of the injured miners have been hospitalized, with six in serious condition, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast Governor Oleksandr Hanzha said.

So there’s currently a nation-wide blackout in Ukraine, no heating, no water, no nothing, while this is the weather

Average Ukrainian soldier whose killed dozens of people in largest war since WW2: *Wears a Pikachu patch and another that says "ZSUHub," never issued a unit patch* ICE Agent: *Patch has a dagger through a skull dripping blood on an ace of spades with crossed M4s behind it*

This is an important, credible, and damning article about the IDF in Gaza by Andy Milburn, a retired US Marine Raider colonel with combat experience from Fallujah and Mosul who maintained close contact with IDF officers during the war (while keeping a low public profile). Read the whole thing.

Kyiv’s deep freeze is turning homes into a sewage nightmare. “We have no heat, no electricity, no water, no sewer — nothing!" says one resident of a building in the capital's Holosiyivskyi district.

This screenshot, even if a joke, perfectly demonstrates why I hate condescending, patronising, arrogant, narcissistic people who love the word "problematic".

We do this not because it is easy, but because we thought it would be easy.

Good piece by a friend: www.commonwealmagazine.org/champions-ap...

The government of USA is killing this child because of his skin colour.

Chat, my good friends Dzygas Paw and my other good friend Monokate launched a fundraiser together, it’s incredibly urgent and ambitious, so I’m once again asking for ur money!!! dzygaspaw.com/monokate-and...

If you look at this from Ukrainian POV, it will be the word "FUCK" from Reagan to Trump II. Maaaaybe with an exception for Clinton.

it will never not be darkly funny that the ideology of the greatest political-economy nerds in history is now mostly an aesthetic adapted to explain how studying politics or economics is bad

English literature: "I will die for honour" French literature: "I will die for love" U.S. literature: "I will die for freedom" Russian literature: "I will die" No wonder right-wingers love Russian culture so much. It's the biggest death cult in the modern world.

Visual metaphors are my passion

🙏 Zelensky: Russia attacked a passenger train in the Kharkiv region. In any country, a drone strike on a civilian train would be viewed as terrorism. In particular, there were more than 200 people on that train. And there were 18 people in the car that was hit. 4 people died…

🤔🤔🤔 www.liberalcurrents.com/yes-its-fasc...