"[We] tried to mollify the restrictionists, but nothing was ever enough ... for immigration restrictionists. They wanted mass, indiscriminate deportations. They wanted to impose a specific demographic configuration by force. All justified by the ideological framework of 'border security.'"
It’s because Democrats fighting back is still seen as new and garish. The answer is to keep doing it until it becomes as priced-in as when Republicans do it.
It's the NYT. Their whole job is to launder far-right BS to make it palatable to a moderate liberal in a suburb between Boston and DC.
Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.
Families being murdered, cars burned down, houses erased to the ground... As the Ukrainian Armed Forces surgically target russia's war machine, the russian invaders continue to inflict as much pain at the Ukrainian society as possible, widely flouting international law on all occasions.
Literal shithole country
They should give him permission to fly out and not let him back in for being a traitor to Europe, lol.
horseshoe theory is real. leftists almost got kat abughazaleh elected into congress and now it comes out that her boyfriend owns infowars…
Alright the cognitive dissonance of government funded hockey yaoi has gotten so loud that I’m doing a 🧵.
Dear queer community, I know Heated Rivalry has become one of the few “good things” left in your life, but please consume responsibly. It is not a totally innocent piece of media…
Set in Sochi 2014, and focusing a gay Russian character, a lot of people are lionizing it for being “anti-Russia”, but Ukrainians are deeply uncomfortable with it.
Do you know what else happened in 2014? Do you know the political backdrop of what was going on during the Sochi Olympics?
Sochi was used as political theatre and blackmail to foreign governments, to smooth over the invasion of Ukraine.
Yes Ukraine was invaded in 2014 DURING the Olympics. Yes, the whole world did nothing, even countries who signed the Budapest Memorandum, promising to protect it from Russian invasion.
If Heated Rivalry is supposedly shining a light on how bad Russia is, why is it ignored completely?
Sure maybe some of you may be able to ignore this history, but if you’re going to highlight Russians during their ongoing genocide, CHOOSING to whitewash them is a serious and offensive choice.
2014 is seared into Ukrainians’ minds as the start of the horrors and the start of the world abandoning us. Why should you in the west care though, right?
If you are unfamiliar with the Budapest Memorandum, it was jointly signed by the US, the UK, Ukraine, and Russia, to protect Ukrainian borders.
After the collapse of the USSR, Russia, oopsie!, left nuclear warheads in Ukraine.
Ukraine was the third largest nuclear power at the time, but as a free nation again, we realized we needed to earn the trust of the free world and being armed with hundreds of nukes wasn’t exactly doing that.
However, Ukraine as a nation did not trust Russia, for good reason.
We negotiated a deal with the US, the UK, and Russia, that if we gave up the nukes to Russia, that our sovereignty would be protected, and if for our sovereign borders were invaded USA and the UK would be fight with us.
Russia used Sochi as blackmail. It had foreign citizens on its soil (actually Circassian soil but that’s a story for another time), and used the hosting of the Olympic Games as cover to invade Ukraine.
A horrific act that should’ve mobilized the world, was virtually ignored.
Now it’s being ignored again, in favor of telling a story about a Russian man.
Naturally Ukrainians are not happy. And you cannot blame them.
People are wanting to learn Russian and go to Russia because of this media, I’ve seen it. If the show is so anti-Russia, why is it creating new tankies?
Yes, Heated Rivalry hired a non-Russian to play the Russian lead. But that does not mean he’s anti-Russia.
The amount of ignorance and Russia oggling that is going on during the media circuit is abhorrent.
Connor Storie called Odesa, “As names go, the most Russian part of Texas”. He is calling the city name Odesa, RUSSIAN.
A UKRAINIAN city, which is being bombed every day, fighting for its sovereignty, seeing its Ukrainian civilians stand strong in the face of genocide.
But calling Odesa a RUSSIAN name is also no slip of the tongue because its origins, if we want to get specific, are GREEK.
This ignorance of the current state of affairs, is actively violent to Ukrainians, who are fighting for existence.
Yes, it was one actor, making a geopolitical oopsie.
But it shows that Heated Rivalry is even ignoring the context of its own show behind the scenes too. No one on that production is talking about Ukraine. There is no sensitivity training going on.
They do not think it necessary.
So no, I do not think the show is anti-Russia at all. Yes, Ukrainians notice how you all are eager to ogle Russians while ignoring the genocide of their people.
And no, it won’t fix the homophobia in the NHL, either. Bestie that organization is so deeply fucked up, Heated Rivalry cannot save it.
I forgot to mention, the show also features licensed music by famous Russian Propaganda artists. If the show is so anti-Russian and critical of Russia, why is it helping fund the Russian war on Ukraine?
Yes, I’m talking about T.a.T.u. No, they aren’t queer. They give money to the Russian army.
"Ah, I see a cute innocent thing and my first instinct is to want to exploit, abuse, and fuck it. What? Other men say they aren't like that? Well they must all either be brainwashed soyboy cucks or are lying. I will do no introspection on this matter"
I swear I’m going to open an Etsy shop selling only potted grass so these people can finally — likely for the first time in their lives — touch fucking grass!
The Aperture Science Weighted Companion Cube
gamer men were given a box with pink hearts on it and they bonded with it so much that it became a pop culture fixture
Conservatives have a perception of men completely more demented and sexist than any strawman feminist grifters could ever think off
For real! "All men don't care about kids unless they are pedos" is such a bleak ass view of half the population.
"Every accusation a confession". The first time I read that I thought it was kinda cute, but whatever. But as the years go by it just keeps getting proved true again and again.
OOOF