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Why the Russians did it | The Weekly Sift

what clinches the case for me is not anything from Ukrainian or NATO sources, or from the western press. It’s an article called “What should Russia do with Ukraine?” by Russian political scientist Timofey Sergeytsev, published a week ago by the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. (Alternate translation here.)

Sergeytsev is not a soldier, not in Ukraine, and as far as I know has killed no one. But he has documented, and state media has published, an argument that would justify (and perhaps even welcome) all the actions Russia has been accused of.

The article revolves around “de-Nazifiying” Ukraine, a phrase that has been the centerpiece of Russian war propaganda. To Sergeytsev, this term means much more than simply deposing the current “Nazi” government led by President Zelensky, a Jewish Ukrainian whose grandfather’s brothers were killed in the Holocaust. The deeper problem, you see, is that the Ukrainian people support Zelensky and don’t want to be dominated by Russia.

De-Nazifying is necessary when a significant part of the people – most likely, the majority – have been sucked into the Nazi regime politically. That is, when the “people are good – the government is bad” hypothesis no longer works.

In other words: the Ukrainian people are not just misled, they are bad and deserve to be punished.

[1] I hate that people like Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan have poisoned the phrase “just asking questions”. Questions should be asked, but as part of a process of seeking answers.

The problem with Carlson and Rogan isn’t that they’re asking questions, but that they’re not seeking answers. Instead, they ask questions simply to blow smoke and create paralyzing doubt. They imply that the questions they ask have no good answers, invent repressive forces that are trying to stop people from asking them, and cast themselves as brave rebels against those imagined forces.

I remember, early in Covid vaccination campaign, hearing Carlson do this same routine about vaccine safety. It took me less than a minute to google one of his “courageous” questions and discover that it had been asked and answered on the CDC web site. If Carlson didn’t want to accept the CDC’s answer, fine; but to pretend that the authorities had no answer and were trying to suppress the question was just dishonest.

Source: Why the Russians did it | The Weekly Sift

My job- Meu trabalho

Coisas da SIL

Meu trabalho exige. Como todo outro exige. Atenção e cuidado de sempre. A cada dia prendo mais. Aprendo a ser várias coisas ao mesmo tempo. Eu manobro meus sentimentos a todo tempo. As vezes ele extravasa sem que eu mereço ou perceba. Percebo que ainda tem coisas melhor, outras a anotar, outras a avaliar. A cada passo um sim, a cada sim uma escolha, cada não um novo chão… Eles ou elas me ensinam sem saber, me viram sem perceber. Trabalho e espero uma educação de qualidade. Coisas da SiL

My job

My job demands. As everyone else demands. Attention and care as always. Every day I take more. I learn to be several things at the same time. I manipulate my feelings all the time. Sometimes he spills out without me deserving or realizing it. I realize that there are still better things, others to note, others to evaluate…

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Once the World Was Perfect, a Poem by Joy Harjo 🌎

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Image Credit: Los Muertos Crew

Once the World Was Perfect

By Joy Harjo

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Once the world was perfect, and we were happy in that world.

Then we took it for granted.

Discontent began a small rumble in the earthly mind.

Then Doubt pushed through with its spiked head.

And once Doubt ruptured the web,

All manner of demon thoughts

Jumped through—

We destroyed the world we had been given

For inspiration, for life—

Each stone of jealousy, each stone

Of fear, greed, envy, and hatred, put out the light.

No one was without a stone in his or her hand.

There we were,

Right back where we had started.

We were bumping into each other

In the dark.

And now we had no place to live, since we didn’t know

How to live with each other.

Then one of the stumbling ones took pity on another

And shared a…

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On Self-Care Tips

Blind Injustice

Some time ago, I wrote a post on how self-care is not selfish. I still believe that to be the case.

However, one major thing I’ve noticed is that some of the commonly offered tips are ones that some people cannot follow/carry out because of life circumstances. In other words, some (Many?) of the tips I see are not accessible to many, if not most, of us.

For example, here are a few common self-care tips and how they may not be practical for certain groups of people:

  1. Mental health days. Some self-care calls for mental health days, or days that people take off from certain things in order to care for themselves. A “mental health day” is something that many aren’t able to do because work schedules don’t allow for that.
  2. Bubble baths. Some self-care tips call for bubble baths in order to help relax oneself. However, some…

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Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser | openDemocracy

Boris Johnson is attacking transgender people because he believes it appeals to Tory voters, a former LGBTQ government adviser has claimed.

The government has been condemned by LGBTQ rights groups for excluding transgender people from its ban on so-called conversion therapy.

Speaking to openDemocracy, Jayne Ozanne – a conversion therapy survivor and chair of the #BanConversionTherapy coalition – accused the government of making decisions on LGBTQ policy by what it believes appeals to its base.

Source: Tories attacking trans rights to court transphobic voters, says ex-adviser | openDemocracy

Nitazoxanide: what it is, what it is for and what are the side effects – Magic Mixture を

This substance does not have the same effectiveness against viruses that they cause respiratory diseases, like the Sars-Cov 2 and the influenza. Studies have been carried out in the past. in an attempt to use the medicine against Covid, however, its effectiveness has not been proven. The maximum effect produced was a slight reduction in viral load in a Brazilian study , but with no difference in the evolution of the disease. In other words, the medicine did not accelerate people’s recovery or was able to prevent the condition from getting worse.  Source: Nitazoxanide: what it is, what it is for and what are the side effects – Magic Mixture を

Rebel fără cauză

Paul Klee

ore de drum

Paris, 2016

Teama că va fi prea lesne înțeles, izvorâtă din rezervă și timiditate, îl împiedică să se exprime așa cum visează.

Încă nu se simte pregătit sau poate nu îndrăznește.

Mai întâi, o așteaptă pe fata visurilor sale, se îndrăgostește, rămâne cu ea pentru totdeauna.

Când traiul părea să intre pe un făgaș previzibil, Paul Klee își dă seama că forma în care lumea i se înfățișează e doar aparență deșartă si aspiră să ajungă la esența ei.

Așa că pornește la drum.

Abia după prima călătorie în Africa de nord, în Tunisia, are curajul să nu-i mai pese de reputație, să dea frâu liber impulsului și inspirației și să înfrunte, învățând, provocarea culorilor.

Mesajul de pe dosul ilustratei trimise sufletului său pereche, Nina Kandinky,

și desenul pe care l-a executat în carnețelul ei de schițe semnifică un nou început.

În încercările de până atunci, educația sa elvețiană strictă…

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When Religion Promotes Hatred & Violence

Filosofa's Word

There are those who would say that since I am not a Christian, I have no right to comment on the religion or its adherents.  In most cases, I would agree with them, but … it seems I just cannot keep my nose out of this one.  In no way am I criticizing Christianity or its followers as a whole, but rather certain elements that are doing more harm than good to this entire nation, and that are giving Christianity overall a bad image, a reputation that Christians won’t find easy to live down.

While I find ‘evangelicals’ to be particularly narrow-minded and offputting, my current target is two specific evangelical pastors, men of the cloth who are supposed to be preaching peace, love, and all that sort of stuff, but instead are promoting hatred and violence.  I might not care if they were one-offs, if nobody much was listening…

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José Saramago

Vivaldi translation: “Within us there is something that has no name, that thing is what we are”.

José Saramago

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” Dentro de nós há uma coisa que não tem nome, essa coisa é o que somos”.

José Saramago

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