Pavel Khazanov
khazanov.bsky.social
Pavel Khazanov
@khazanov.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Russian, Rutgers University. Cultural history; ideologies of the late/post-Soviet Russian middle class. Author of "The Russia That We Have Lost: Pre-Soviet Past as Anti-Soviet Discourse" (University of Wisconsin Press, 2023)
They would have to be holocrons though. It’s illegal to use paper in SW, as I’ve recently learned.
May 27, 2025 at 11:37 PM
...Because if it weren't unsustainable, then the universe would be teeming with Gray Jedi and Yoda, the supposedly wisest being in the Order and possibly the Galaxy, would also be a Gray Jedi, because it isn't fucking rocket science to believe in its code, if it actually worked. Ok, I'm done! (9/9)
May 23, 2025 at 3:08 PM
And yes, it generates occasional Sith/rogue/dark fallout, but clearly 10,000+ years is enough to suggest that this fallout is the cost of doing business and that the alternative has to be totally unsustainable... (8/x)
May 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
So no, I don't accept this shit. The Jedi are the Jedi because they're the Jedi. They can't marry and have kids because the Force is a really dangerous fucking thing. 7/x
May 23, 2025 at 3:06 PM
And now we are being told constantly by the handlers of the Force theology, that this one event, which led to a total of 15 yrs of Sith rule (by TWO GUYS who can't even make an apprentice), is enough to upend tens of thousands of generations of lived practice of safely wielding the force?! 6/x
May 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
First, Lucas asks us to accept the fundamentally idiotic exigency that the whole thing, which has existed for longer than all of Earth's human culture, has been upended by one Jedi (Anakin) who wanted babies with Natalie Portman (and who can blame him). But that's never occurred previously?! 5/x
May 23, 2025 at 3:00 PM
But here's the thing– Star Wars is telling us this WHILE ALSO telling us that the Jedi have sustained themselves for 10,000 years? 30,000 years? 4/x
May 23, 2025 at 2:59 PM
The "right answer" is obvious. We must all be Gray, we must find balance between light and dark, etc. Very quaint and obvious enough in our universe since when? The Greeks? 3/x
May 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
For example, there's this graphic, just posted by some bot on my FB: 2/x
May 23, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Yeah, I realized that after I posted! You have to admit tho!
April 4, 2025 at 3:39 PM
i rly like that gif, where did you get it.
April 4, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Russian liberals like to talk a lot about a proverbial battle between the TV and the fridge, but so far the TV hasn't lost a round. Above all, Putin runs a kleptocracy because rich people like being rich and not asking questions. And btw, they also like the Confederacy, but prob. Nixon over Reagan.
March 28, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Comrade Stalin, there’s been a big mistake!
February 20, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Ok, sorry if this is a totally obtuse question, but when it comes to $hitcoin, is there a point where it crashes from near $100K, where it's been hovering for a while now, to the, what was it, $1? where it started? Like, is this a pure ponzi scheme, or is it too big to fail in some sense?
February 3, 2025 at 2:27 PM
Yeah, kinda like in Russia "liberalism" is a foreign, "Anglo-Saxon" import, meant to steal Russia's juices, while in the US it is the doing of the dastardly "globalist elites," meant to steal American juices by turning "us" into France.
January 31, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Good to know! We worked hard on it, and Maya Vinokour most of all! Do let us know if and when you run into any kinks, which are surely there, as this is still a very fresh site.
January 24, 2025 at 6:54 PM