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sure: “what a wonderfully campy villain”, “poor sean bean, again” and “guillotine your local aristo”, among other things.

it’s a delightful romp.

they watched “jupiter ascending” and took all the wrong conclusions from the film.

i’m sorry.

our agents there responded to the threads already, sharing the pain of knowledge.

oh, that they’re fully aware of. (and other weird jkr-related fandoms, like “snapewives” (don’t look)).

for an entirely inexplicable reason it reminded me of balaji srinivasan.

butbutbut she’s above the trivial politics:

hese days I’m not aligned with any of the main USA political movements, not Red Tribe and not Blue Tribe. It’s hard to place myself among named political groups, even niche ones. When I talk about the larger landscape, I generally use the phrases “Red Tribe” and “Blue Tribe,” which are common in my Bay Area social context (as opposed to words like “conservative”-“right” or “liberal”-“left”). I use those phrases because they signify the cultural boundaries differentiating these groups.

(from the “why i was part of the neoreactionary” etc. etc.)

i think you’re (you plural, not you singular) making the typical western mistake regarding both putin and ukraine:

• putin was always an angry russian imperialist, he has built his position entirely on imperialist adventures (that were ignored by the west because who cares about chechnya or abkhazia, or other impossible-to-pronounce peoples of caucasus, really)

• the russo-ukrainian war started in 2014 with the invasion of crimea and then donbas, after ukrainians decided they don’t really like the russian-friendly oligarch who used russian disinfo to get elected. and notably that was what shifted the ukrainian support for dropping neutrality in favour for joining nato; until 2014 ukrainians favoured just tightening the political and economical ties with the european union.

putin didn’t descend into the imperator madness recently, he started with it, it was what buoyed him to the top.

i kinda wonder what will destroy this cult first, the financial fraud investigations, or the multiple rape accusations, because both are going to happen.

if you only hadn’t compiled aella’s numerous interesting takes including her very idiosyncratic (and dangerous to anyone involved) ideas of consent.

plus, russian empire has a huge tradition of genocide as imperial policy (including, but not limited to, circassian genocide).

the conquest of other caucasian nations was almost as bad

entirely through forced acquisition and, with notable exception of finland until late XIX century, with very aggressive russification policy.

austro-hungary (i.e post 1848) is a better example.

bloody polish-lithuanian commonwealth for fuck’s sake.

so many temporarily embarassed millionaires there, with the clarity of mind and purpose of a precocious seven-year-old.