The States have a new flag

"We mustn't say it's fascism, it alienates people and then they'll just call us communists and marxists, also fascism only existed in 1930's Italy, we should just call it authoritarian tendencies."
If it talks like a duck and walks in black boots and balaklava as it snatches you away to prison...

I wish more people would see it and to learn about Gareth Jones, his journalistic integrity and heroism - and about Duranty, who had neither. The difference matters.

Yeah, most Americans seem to be in denial, and your government is using the innate human normalcy bias against you. Since most things to most people are the same as always, not much could have changed, right? But from the outside, it looks absolutely dystopian.

But of course they are

Oh yes, heels both visible and hidden inside shoe. Adds about 10 cm, I'd guess.

The ridiculous thing is Trump wears the same kinds of shoes, so he can be as tall as he lies about being.

Apparently, tons of nukes and gold can't support a fragile masculinity like high heels and make-up do.

Who buys Russian debt?

I take this as a raving endorsement of Natasha Bertrand.

You know, you are my heroes. Every single person who stood there, and all of you as a whole. It doesn't matter that it didn't end in the best of all worlds. You proved that revolt is possible, that together, people are powerful. And you scared the sh*t out of every autocrat. Герої, всі ви.

There is no bottom to their chasm of nonsense, is there?

Looks like they're in practice to join the Second Pacific Squadron.

Any group of people, military or school children, could step/march mostly in tempo to a beat, even if it doesn't look perfectly synchronized. The way these guys are sauntering along seems more like malicious compliance with the order to parade.

I think: "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." - Commander Adama, Battlestar Galactica

Yes, Ukrainians are incredible. Magicians.

No I can not. This can't be true. We had no clues.

I really need to get off my sarcasm

I'm shocked. Really. No ceasefire. How could this be.