People really do be saying stupid shit like, “There can’t be any resistance movement in Ukraine because it’s mostly flat.”
HAVE YOU SEEN IRAQ? The resistance there was pretty damn successful. Also very flat (mostly) with far less vegetation. In Ian Welsh’s case, as in most cases, ideology makes you extremely stupid.
Many women insist this isn’t true, but it really is:
Funny how much less of a “creep” you become when you get way hotter even though your behavior has not changed in the fucking least. And women will swear up and down they aren’t doing this while obviously and repeatedly being guilty of it. To be fair, I think most don’t realize it. But is being an oblivious hypocrite better than being a deliberate one?
Five years ago, I could get branded “creepy” for accidentally standing too near a woman in public. Now the way some of them look at me and my physique so thirstily, I suspect I could probably fairly crudely proposition them* right there in public and they’d just be like, “Oh, you silly goose! I’ll meet you at 7!”
*Note I would never do this. But now I could if I wanted to with far less consequences.
RussIA jUSt wAnTs cRiMEa anD tHE DOnbAs https://t.co/NOp0LQznhR
— Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇦 (@Noahpinion) March 31, 2023
I saw some article yesterday arguing that isolationism is the right approach to Russia. Ha. As if Russia destroying the EU (or attempting to do so) would not have colossally terrible economic and social consequences to and for the US.
It’s been clear that destroying the EU and retaking “lost” territories (Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Ukraine, etc.) has been the Russian ambition for years now. As if US isolationism would be the right answer to that one.