Seems like a run of the mill liberal whose information about “the left” comes from far right talking points:

But there is a problem with the way in which discussion about family values and having babies is split into two extreme camps – the trad-wife Right and the “abolish the family” Left. For any young couple starting out, the choices seem to be to either raise your non-binary child in defiance of the nuclear family, or to go full homestead and demand that your wife wear gingham and churn her own butter amongst a multitude of children.

Like, what the fuck is this shit?

The discussion about “family values” might seem like this if you only listen to what conservatives are claiming about what “the left” wants.

the administration has left the federal government with no way of understanding if policies are working

That’s a feature, not a bug: the entire point is to make it very hard to see the effects of the regime’s policies, so that they can just claim everything is working as intended and the rest of the world won’t be able to verify it.

Russia has been doing the same for years (well, decades really). They fixed their HIV epidemic by stopping the collection of data on infections

edit: ah, and the article says as much. That’ll teach me to comment before reading

Is there a yoga community? They might be into this sort of stuff too

Third, try to enjoy your life.

The irony

Ah, an Escherhund

And a respectable fraction of him

Mutta eihän Suomessa ole korruptiota 🤡

Yeah I assumed this is just a mistranslation or a mixup, since hexogen and hexane do sound similar. For those of you not in the know, hexogen is also known as cyclonite or RDX and it’s what makes eg. C4 or Semtex go boom, while hexane is a very boring (in comparison) organic compound that doesn’t go boom nearly as much.

And how often do you want to do that exactly?

Hey come on, Igor’s doing his best, he can’t help that he has Korsakoff’s. Plus I think they ran out of vodka and have been drinking coolant fluid

Banning the burqa is limiting agency just as much as mandating it. Yeah, I think veiling etc. is honestly a stupid and ridiculously misogynistic custom, but I don’t think the fix is just another rule to limit women’s autonomy, but in a different way than before.

“Jeff Bezos gives $1000 to keep orphan crushing machine shut off for an hour. Applause please”

Which country hasn’t committed atrocities at some point?

“Who hasn’t done a little bit of atrocity, huh?” is an extremely weak argument. Yeah, there’s skeletons in many closets, but most countries do seem to manage with only a closet and not a mausoleum.

You can’t seriously be arguing that the scale of Russian war crimes in Ukraine is comparable to what the US did in 20-odd years. Yes, lots of heinous shit happened and it was an imperialist war started under false pretenses and causes senseless loss of life, but I would like to remind you that there are absolute metric assloads of proof that Russia is committing genocide in Ukraine. This is in no way comparable to the US’s actions in Iraq and/or Afghanistan. Yeah, in my opinion Americans should have protested the wars more etc, but Russians _absolutely should be doing something about their fucked up public institutions, the corruption and the kleptocratic “governing apparatus” (ie. including the inofficial side as well; oligarchs wield factual power.)

Seeing Russians as helpless victims of the big bad Putin not only paints them like they have no agency, but also in many ways lets them off the hook a bit too easily. Putin isn’t a unique phenomenon in Russia by any means; he’s a symptom, not the cause of the problems with Russia and many parts of their governance culture (and, frankly, many parts of their general culture.)

Edit: to really hammer the point home, here’s a very recent article about three journalists that Russia recently poisoned while they were in exile. All women too, funny coincidence.

Russia has long ago slipped into the “cartoonishly evil” category, so I’m honestly not going to feel very bad about people dehumanising some of them. Doesn’t help that I’m Finnish, and I’m in the first generation in my family in 100 years who hasn’t had to either actively fight Russian invaders (yet…), or dodge Russian/Soviet agents because someone in the family stood up to them – not a lot of love lost here, exactly.

And anyone who says they’re “not into politics” is obviously OK enough with the status quo to be able to not care, they’re just trying to dodge responsibility and make themselves look like helpless victims. Which, fair enough, they sort of are as a nation, but I also don’t think it’s a coincidence that Russia has been known for centuries for being an incredibly brutal and imperialist country with a penchant for genocide, and who are seemingly almost completely unable to select leaders who aren’t – in a word – psychopaths.

There’s been some polls of Russians that have shown a fair bit of overlap between the “I don’t care about politics” set and “I support the SpEcIaL MiLiTaRy oPeRaTiOn” set. Not quite a circle of a Venn diagram, but the intersection wasn’t a sliver either.

Heh yeah and it’s not like it makes any difference; they’re effectively the same thing. :wq just updates modification time even if there were no changes – same as doing :w and :q separately – but :x doesn’t. Super intuitive interface 😅

This is literally what they wanted, of course it’s worth it.

They think they haven’t gone far enough yet, not that the price to pay is too high. Not like they’re paying the price themselves, and they’re incapable of feeling empathy for people like this girl who are affected by their psychopathic legislation. If they themselves or anyone in their immediate family needs an abortion, they’ll go get one somewhere else because they’re good people and they have a good reason for it, unlike all those woke socialist Nazi sluts

Eiköhän joku kokkare kohta keksi, että ampumatarvikkeetkin voisi olla maksullisia varusmiehille ja PV:n työntekijöille. Köyhyys ei tietenkään ole tekosyy olla maksamatta esim sitä jokusen kymmenen tonnin panssarintorjuntaohjusta jonka juuri ammuit, mutta velan voi maksaa takaisin sopimussotilaskaudella, niin että palkastasi pidätetään puolet. Toki käytät työssä ollessasi luultavasti lisää ampumatarvikkeita, mikä pidentää sopimuskauden pituutta, mutta mitäs olet köyhä loinen etkä ymmärtänyt syntyä rikkaaseen perheeseen

But don’t you understand that furries are different, and that means they deserve to be murdered

Use :x you pleb