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"it calls itself murderbot" / "that was private"

Westerners: BUT NOT ALL RUSSIANS

But have you checked? Have you checked none of their relatives were actively participating in killing Ukrainians? Be it serving in the army or building drones and missiles? Or even consuming the propaganda and calling Ukrainians nazis, when they are the nazis, like the literal definition of the word? Have you checked where they donate their money? Have you traced where their taxes go? Ukrainians did. Ukrainians, me in particular, check every post, every artist, in case they are russian or support them. We do the work for you, we tell you - stop paying ruzzians to kill our children - and you ignore it.

Honestly, I had a community I played online games with, but I left them because they started protecting russians who LITERALLY SAID IN PUBLIC CHAT derogatory things (in ruzzian of course, never in English), and everyone ignored me. Or, rather, they got defensive with NOT ALL RUSSIANS.

And we are called xenophobic. We. People who live through active war. Refugees, people who live days without electricity, water, and warmth. Children who are unable to go to school, because ruzzians destroyed it the evening before. People are scared to visit a hospital, because ruzzians target them constantly. Even a fucking mall - if there are a lot of people, and ruzzians send a missile - there will be a lot of casualties, it happened multiple times. Or when people are killed in their own homes, in beds, because ruzzians shelled the still sleeping city.

Even outside of Ukraine, I still get very nervous in crowds. I flinch when the helicopter passes by. Any loud noise? I'm jumping from fright, and my heart is racing. Fireworks? I want to be a small kid to cover my ears and scream (I'm preparing myself very hard for the holidays, because here they start fireworks like 25th of December and stop at 2nd of January, last year I went to hospital because I was pressing the earplugs so hard into my ear, they damaged the nerves there, and I was throwing up for three days straight. Yes, there is a law against fireworks. No, police gives no fucks, as per usual)

I wonder if those snarky "misandrists" would be just as excited and happy if their country were invaded by hundreds of thousands of troops, and if war criminals were torturing and assaulting them and their children. But I guess it’s not a big deal when it’s not their home, and when it’s only Ukraine.

starting with gifsets of "anastasia" at christmas. dark academia posts talking about dostoyevski for some reason. pictures of snow somewhere in russia. next it is films about "russian perspective" on the war getting prizes over ukrainian films at modern film festivals. and all of it ending with either denial of the crimes of the ussr and modern russia or outright support for them.

and if you dare criticise any of it you are chastised, of course, because "not all russians". except that, of course, you too wish you could sing "once upon a december" with no complicated feelings attached. or enjoy tolstoy's prose. or empathise with the russian "opposition" or something. but another disctrict in the city you were born in is on fire from shahed drones. and chornobyl is leaking radiation again after a russian strike. and there are mass graves everywhere. and there is people you are afraid to reach out to after a long time because you are scared to find out they are no longer alive. and the world's "most powerful nation" is pressuring ukraine into giving into all of russian demands.

THEY ARE CHILDREN STOLEN FROM UKRAINE. THEY ARE CHILDREN TAKEN FROM ORPHANAGES, THEY ARE CHILDREN STOLEN FROM THEIR FAMILIES, STOLEN FROM EVERYTHING THEY KNOW.

THEY ARE NOT BEING ADOPTED, THEY ARE KIDNAPPED. WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU. THESE KIDS ARE FORCEFULLY TAKEN FROM HOME.

AND EVEN IF THOSE SITES ARE IDENTICAL TO ADOPTION SITES OF RUSSIAN CHILDREN, MAYBE, JUST MAYBE, RUSSIAN ORPHANS DON'T DESERVE TO BE DESCRIBED LIKE THEY ARE DOGS EITHER???

(I'm sure it's going to be addressed again eventually, but I found it so interesting that in a way, Jax was right again: his actions don't have consequences, because they're in a circus.)

Part 49 my beloved. Fragment of a comic for a friend.

Translation:

Barnabas: Here’s to you! Prince…