“When you start to lose your temper, remember: There's nothing manly about rage. It's courtesy and kindness that define a human being- and a man. That's who possesses strength and nerves and guts, not the angry whiners.”
― Marcus Aurelius
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This is weird. My most popular post is this one. People apparently google for it specifically.
Blacks "are welcome as long as they understand this is our community," said Adam Light, a leader in the Caucasian Coalition, a group formed eight months ago to address the shifts in the neighborhood in recent years. I changed two words. See if changing them back changes your perspective. Bigotry in action.
Its very strange to me to see some sort of weird binary set up where you have to be either Pro Ukraine or Pro Russia. You are perceived as either Pro Nazi or Pro Putin/Pro Invasion depending on what your detractors think of you. Frankly, I'm not sure where I land on this one. The Nazi thing is more complicated than people realize. I've read something online (which means it must be true?) that the Nazi imagery goes back to WWII era when the Soviets were very enthusiastically killing Ukrainians and the Nazis were actually stopping them from doing so. Ukrainians decided to join the Nazis to stop the slaughter. So it may be this is not really about racial purity or Nazism per se but about countering Soviet aggression. Is this true? I don't know but it's possible. On the other side you have Russians who think the Ukrainians are indeed Nazis and therefore dangerous and need clearing out or this is a convenient fig leaf for re-establishing Greater Russia. You decid
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Hmmmmm, I wonder exactly what people are googling these days.