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I'm perpetually amazed how smoothly 'western' political discourse slides along the near-friction-less continuum between liberalism and fascism.

:LIB: :galaxy-brain: :brainworms:

:agony-consuming: :agony-deep:

To quote Kurt Vonnegut, even if wars didn’t keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death. But encounters with death could be very different. We want to believe that we and our beloved ones, the modern people of the 21st century, no longer have to die from medieval barbaric torture, epidemics or detention in concentration camps. That’s part of what we’re fighting for, the right not only to a dignified life but also to a dignified death.

  • EndOfHerstory [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    Not that it really matters or changes anything, but in this specific case the grave markers are more Russian orthodox cross-style than wolfsangel-style.

  • TC_209 [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    Also to quote Kurt Vonnegut: "One of the great American tragedies is to have participated in a just war. It's been possible for politicians and movie-makers to encourage us we're always good guys. The Second World War absolutely had to be fought. I wouldn't have missed it for the world. But we never talk about the people we kill. This is never spoken of."

  • kristina [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    I used to think I had seen enough deaths in my life. I served on the front line in the Donbas for almost a year in 2015-16, and I witnessed numerous tragedies. But in those days the scale of losses was completely different, at least where I was. Each death was carefully fixed, investigations were conducted, we knew most of the names of the killed soldiers, and their portraits were published on social networks.

    you, slaughtering civilians, sowing

    This is another kind of war, and the losses are, without exaggeration, catastrophic. We no longer know the names of all the dead: There are dozens of them every day. Ukrainians constantly mourn those lost; there are rows of closed coffins in the central squares of relatively calm cities across the country. Closed coffins are the terrible reality of this cruel, bloody and seemingly endless war.

    you, being slaughtered, reaping