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Soviet-raised math teacher in Baltimore, formerly a sports writer. Atheist AF. Zionist AF. Slava Ukraïni.

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Societies can collectively lose their minds. They can reject everything they once loved and cherished and lavish all their affections on utterly unworthy, completely immoral individuals who lead them into ruination through the intoxicating power of hatred.
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@SlavaMalamud
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I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO . My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media...
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Outside of the hockey rink, this is the maddest any Canadian is capable of being. Nuclear-level mad. Livid. This is how Canucks absolutely fucking lose it. Murderous Canadian rage.
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This Canadian kid's response to not being able to go to Disneyland this weekend is the best thing I've seen today. 😂
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9 months ago, I was expecting Zelensky to be dead any minute. He is now on his third British Prime Minister.
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Zelensky walked through Kyiv together with Rishi Sunak 🇬🇧🇺🇦❄️🌨️🤶☃️⛄
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Think about this. The phrase "The Bills are in the playoffs" has never been tweeted, posted on Facebook, or uttered by an Uber driver. It has never been told over satellite radio. It has never been streamed. It has never been blogged or vlogged. It has been faxed, though.
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Wow, this is like Benghazi, only real.
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Breaking News: President Trump was given a written briefing in February on suspected Russian bounties to kill U.S. troops in Afghanistan, officials said.
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The Russian TV announcer at the end of the game: "The Finns are grabbing gold medals with their little rats' paws." In case anyone out there is wondering what it's like when a country loses its goddamn mind.
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If tomorrow Russia is still a member of the world community, able to do business, participate in international organizations and kick fucking soccer balls around in World Cup qualifiers as if nothing happened, humanity has failed.
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1/ So, here is what's happening in the KHL, for those who still can't quite grasp the banality of evil, Russian style... The entire league has been set up this year to allow SKA to win. It's Putin's team, this is Putin's election year, it's chock full of OAR Olympians...
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A Russian from St. Peterburg: "Came to Mariupol with the family for vacation. Will probably buy an apartment here while the prices are still not too high. Great climate, the sea, and of course no Ukrainians. Only positives." Genocide tours, you know. As one does.
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Fun fact. In 2014, Ovechkin called Ukrainians fascists, promoting the Putin's narrative to legitimize his initial invasion of Donbas. When I called him out, @CapitalsPR wrote me a nastygram, calling me "a smug fan and not a journalist" and threatening to yank my credentials.
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Also, my 17 year old son watched with me, and his first reaction was to immediately dive into the Google rabbit holes trying to research as much as possible about Chernobyl. I don't know about you, but to me this is as good a testimony of the shows greatness as anything
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So let me put this into perspective a little bit. I don't think a lot of folks truly understand what it means that a team from Moldova has made it to the Champions' League. I grew up a 15-minute drive from Tiraspol and I can give you a tiny bit of an idea...
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History is made! 🇲🇩 Sheriff Tiraspol become the first Moldovan side to EVER qualify for the Champions League group stage! 👏 #UCL
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The fact that #RecallRomney is trending thanks to Patriotic Real Americans, while I, an immigrant, know that a US Senator cannot be recalled, is perfect. It is an absolutely perfect, flawless illustration of today's America. You sad dumbasses. Sad, sad dumbasses.
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Since we are on the topic of Russian sports, here is a nice cautionary tale on the not-really-post-COVID world. So, the Russian Premier League has restarted today. And, holy crap, did it restart with an enormous, and an enormously stupid scandal. An entire team got infected...
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And this is really the key to its magic, for me at least. Not only is Chernobyl more realistic than any Western show/film about Russia, it's more realistic than anything Russians would have ever made about themselves, at least on this topic. I am not hyperbolizing. Not at all.
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In conclusion, yes, the nit-picky Russian viewer in me was utterly satisfied. The initial "Wait a minute, why are kids going to school on a Saturday?" response quickly gave way to "Shit, that's right! We didn't switch to the 5-day week until 1989!" Pure delight, I tell ya...
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People ask me who I have in Ukraine. Nobody. Not a soul, except for the graves of my ancestors. This isn't personal for me, the existential, crippling horror of what's happening. It's just the enormity of the tragedy. The unmistakeabke, pounding sound of evil on the march.
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Zelensky with a roll call of Ukrainian leaders: "Prime Minister is here, the party leader is here, the head of the President's administration is here... We are all here. Our troops are here. Our citizens are here. Defending our independence. Glory to Ukraine!"
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Zelensky shares new video showing that he and Ukraine's leadership are still in Kyiv. "Glory to Ukraine," he and his team repeat, as Russian invaders close in.
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Yes, Macron, Russians and Ukrainians are "brothers", because they live near each other and sound alike to foreigners. Like, you know, Spaniards and Catalans. Or Serbs and Croats. Or that famous brotherhood of Jews and Arabs. Good call, Macron. As they say in French, muy bueno.
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First of all, it is almost inconceivable that a Western TV show would go to this amount of detail authentically portraying Soviet life in that era, knowing full well that its target audience (Western viewers) would never appreciate the effort or indeed even understand it...
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"The President is working with documents!" was the stock phrase Yeltsin's staff used whenever he was at his dacha in Barvikha unconscious from drinking or feeling the aftereffects of a binge. It was such a commonly used, thinly veiled excuse, it became a running joke in Russia.
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Reuters: WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF SAYS "THE PRESIDENT IS DOING VERY WELL. HE IS UP AND ABOUT AND ASKING FOR DOCUMENTS TO REVIEW. THE DOCTORS ARE VERY PLEASED WITH HIS VITAL SIGNS"
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The fact that Trumpers are clamoring for "Marshall Law" is extremely unsurprising in every possible way. It simply confirms that we are not dealing with a "liberal vs conservative" divide here. The divides are: 1) democracy vs. authoritarianism 2) cognition vs. dumbassery
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Everything, and I mean everything so far has been incredibly authentic. The typical provincial babushkas talking outside, the kitchen supplies and utensils, the white "celebratory" uniforms of school children (the tragedy occurred just before May Day), the shoes, the hair...
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Just floored by this document, though I shouldn't be. This is an instruction for 🇷🇺 soldiers on how to talk to Ukrainians. A chart of propaganda talking points. It's an exhaustive display of how far gone the Russian minds are. This cavalcade of madness deserves a full translation
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Chuck Schumer walking into the august halls of the Senate tomorrow.
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Even the little buckets used by Soviet citizens to take out the trash. They even found that crap somewhere! But I'm impressed by much more than the mere minutiae of Soviet everyday life. Yes, in this regard, Chernobyl is much more true to life than any Western show about Russia..
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For those under a rock, the @navalny poisoning story has developed in an absolutely bonkers way. The Russian opposition leader didn't only successfully identify the entire Putin assassin squad, he managed to contact one of his would-be killers, interview him and make him confess!
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Here is the new most popular song in Russia, by the country's number 1 singer of all time, Shaman. It's called... wait for it... nah, I better give the name in German translation... yeah, it's "Mein Kampf."
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But, what is more impressive, is the characters, their actions, their thoughts, their motivation. The deep, ruthless drilling of the Soviet mind, what governed us, drove us and shackled us. Chernobyl pulls no punches and lays it all bare....
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Is this a good time to remind America that the only actual victim of an actual cancel culture is still Mr. Colin Rand Kaepernick?
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Trust me, I try very hard to find inaccuracies, however minor. The Americans, a show with similar fetish-like obsession with authenticity, had plenty of small and big Soviet errata to be entertained with. Improperly fastened military shoulder bars, that sort of thing... Not here.
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As an aside, I am particularly happy about the decision to have the characters speak normal British English, not mangled Russian or English with a corny "Russian" accent. Poor Matthew Rhys and Kerry Russel... Their tortured attempts to speak Russian almost ruined The Americans...
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But, far more importantly, the intellectual honesty in how the show treats an extremely traumatic event is more than impressive. It's important. Knowing how many fans HBO has in Russia, my hope is that it will elicit more than just knee-jerk defensive responses.
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This is extremely, mind-blowingly ludicrous and insane, but also important. It may blow your Western minds, but millions upon millions of Russians have internalized this worldview. In fact, this requires a 🧵 to explain what exactly many Russians feel they need to fight for...
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Russian Orthodox Patriarch Kirill unsurprisingly endorsing Putin’s narrative on Ukraine in a sermon today. According to him the West essentially organises genocide campaigns against countries that refuse to stage gay parades 🤯
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And now, Trump has lost in Pennsylvania so many times he can change his name to Alexander Ovechkin.
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21/21 "For the glory of the Motherland"... All I have to say is this, guys. If you learn nothing else from Russia, please, learn to always, always run as fast as you can from the motherfuckers who say they want to bring glory to your country. I am done for tonight.
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I have translated Panarin's interview to a Russian Youtube channel, where he rips Putin to shreds. It's absolutely magnificent. Nothing like this has ever been said by a Russian athlete, ever. Please, read this. The Breadman is an absolute monster.
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If Joe Biden wins, Black Lives Matter will terrorize Chick-fil-a.
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In fact, there have been several Russian films about Chernobyl, and only one, made in 1990, during final stages of Perestroika, does justice to the sheer brutality of this deplorable event. And even this one is more about a hero struggling against the odds, a melodramatic trope.
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Thanks to the Russian warship, we now have the precise geographical location of the Khui.
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This is an amazing argument. Hopefully, it will also lead the Supreme Court to overthrow the result of Super Bowl XXVIII on the grounds that nobody before the Buffalo Bills had ever made it to four consecutive Super Bowls and lost.
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No candidate has ever won both Florida and Ohio and lost. I won them both, by a lot! #SupremeCourt
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This is how it will work. Trump will interrupt everything and throw insults at every turn. And the voters will say: "Wow, he is so strong and decisive. Totally killin' Sleepy Joe." The stupidity of this country is insane.
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A brief history of Russian euphemisms for foreign invasions and colonial wars of conquest. - 1939 invasion/annexation of Poland: "The Liberation March of the Red Army" (later renamed "military action for reunification of USSR, Western Ukraine and Western Byelorussia)...
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As for the more modern product, there is a film about heroic KGB agents trying to stop a CIA saboteur, for example. Modern Russian cinema, unable to unshackle itself from political expediencies and the "glory of the Motherland", could never make a drama like this one.
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On the subject of "good Russians", hopefully once and for all... And, trust me, I am not speaking as a dispassionate outsider. I am married to a Russian citizen, after all. So, here is my take on what should be the minimally acceptable position taken by anyone with a 🇷🇺 passport
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Ruscist Olympic champion skier Veronika Stepanova: "IOC's conditions are humiliating and stupid. To ban me for supporting Putin? I am proud of it!" Just another reminder that ALL ruscist athletes are propaganda warriors. There are no exceptions.
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Putin signs a decree awarding Mariupol and Melitopol titles of "Russian City of Military Glory." This is Mariupol in March. All 3 little girls in the picture died soon thereafter. They are buried in a playground next to their bombed-out building. This is Russia's military glory.
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Hamas' PR people aren't what you'd call subtle.
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Never let anyone tell you not to dream big, kids. There is nothing, NOTHING, that positivity, hard work, a secret nation-building KGB plot and an international gun-trafficking ring can't accomplish.
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My grandma lived most of her life in the USSR. She survived Stalin's Ukraine famine, the purges and the Holocaust. She lived in a horribly repressive system, witnessed many atrocities and died at 98. I am just happy she is not alive to see Josh Hawley's book deal being cancelled.
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Josh Hawley
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My statement on the woke mob at @simonschuster
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It really is amazing how in just two weeks the Russian propaganda went from "Ukraine is not a real country, we will take Kiev in 48 hours" to "Ukrainians have secret super labs where they've developed the bubonic plague and Navalny."
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There is only one part of this video that is worthy of our attention. At 0:21 the bull's testicles actually swing. Like, wildly, manically. Swing. Trump 2020. Swinging Nuts.
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Thank you for the support as we MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!
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Imagine being a young Ukrainian - defending your country from an invasion by a genocidal foreign dictator who's tried to conquer it for two decades - and having some idiotic tech bro with zero knowledge of your history deny your agency and amplify the dictator's propaganda.
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On a related note, how insanely fucked up is it that Panarin, who has taken immense risks to criticize Putin, is being discussed in the North American media extensively, while Ovechkin, an avowed Putin ass-kisser, is off-limits, because "we cover sports, not politics"?
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Some background on Ovechkin's pro-Putin activism 🧵 As many of you know, in 2014, when Putin annexed Crimea and invaded Donbas, waging a bloody, horrific war there (that conveniently serves as a pretext for the current invasion), Ovechkin took part in a pro-Kremlin campaign...
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Zelensky is extremely forceful in this latest message. Says Russian tanks are specifically aiming for the reactors, and it can result in a global catastrophe.
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My son is now moving to college... to Newfoundland, Canada. It's 1.5 time zones away. On an island. No direct flights from anywhere in the US. He will probably be compelled to kiss a cod. I have... feelings.
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Biden only has more Votes because there is more Counting!
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We have more Cases because we have more Testing!
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Please, take it from someone who grew up in the Soviet Union. Never, ever, ever give your children over to someone who wants to "teach them how to love the Motherland." Loving a country isn't something that can be taught. Love, just like respect, needs to be earned.
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Over the next four years, we will stop the radical indoctrination of our students, and restore PATRIOTIC EDUCATION to our schools. We will teach our children to love our Country, honor our history, and always respect our great American Flag.
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None of this would have happened if there was a good 6-year-old with a gun to stop the bad 6-year-old with a gun.
@QasimRashid
Qasim Rashid, Esq.
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“The problem is the bloody guns. I’m only here because my husband is in the military. Otherwise I would not have chosen to come to this country.” Outraged mother at Richneck Elementary School in Virginia after a 6-year-old shot a teacher
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Majority black sports vs. majority white sports... Yes, it's a united country, indeed.
@thehill
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#BREAKING : NASCAR owners threaten to fire drivers, crew members who protest national anthem
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Zelensky, in a new address dripping with disdain, proposes to exchange Medvedchuk for Ukrainian POWs. Since he was captured in a military uniform, the President says, he should be subject to military rules.
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Funny story about today's #WorldJuniors final. Lots of posts on Russian internet today celebrating victory, congratulating the Russian team with gold, very celebratory, very patriotic, all taunting hapless Canadians. Why, do you ask? Well, here is the reason...
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I have just finished a thread where I review Episode 2, scene by scene, if anyone is interested.
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Which they did. What have you to say now, @CapitalsPR ?
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How to tell a Kremlin bot: 1) "NATO promised Gorbachev..." 2) "Azov Nazis" 3) "... for 8 years Ukraine bombed Dumbass" 4) "Bandera" 5) "Odessa massacre" 6) "Kiev, Kharkov, Lugansk" 7) "2014 coup" 8) "Rights of Russian speakers" 9) "Johnson scattered the peace deal" 10) "WWIII"
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The most charitable interpretation of flag combos: 🇵🇸🇺🇦 : "I oppose injustice and support the weaker side" 🇮🇱🇺🇦 : "I support countries' right to exist" 🇮🇱🇷🇺 : "I am a Trump voter from Fentanyl, Ohio" 🇵🇸🇷🇺 : "The oppose the existence of Jews"
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The @Capitals are officially forbidding #Ukraine flags from the arena. Classy.
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Amazing. All NHL teams should do this. Then, the media should take note of which players sit down.
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Today's thread about Russia's slide into fascist insanity will be dedicated to an object seemingly innocuous but actually responsible for much of what Russia is today. Behold the worst Soviet-made weapon of mass destruction, Plombir. No, this isn't Bruce Banner's sperm test.
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I have decided to troll an ultra right-wing Russian immigrants' Facebook group. Let's see how this goes.
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Nazarov's Panarin story appears to be unraveling. Multiple former Vityaz players are vehemently denying this ever happened. His motivation is rather transparent. His past history of wild, unsubstantiated claims is telling. So, let's take a look at the broader issue... (thread)
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@RexChapman Ah, Indiana. The state that never was in a Confederacy but really, really stanned.
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The Venn diagram of people who scream "Keep politics out of sports!" and people who screamed "Fuck yeah!" when Trump called Kaepernick a son of a bitch is a circle.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
I know I have said this before, but I will repeat it again and again, because Russian propaganda is powerful and pervasive. The word "Nazism" does not mean, when uttered by Russians, what you think it means. In fact, many or most Russian citizens DON'T KNOW ITS MEANING...
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
PS. Many Americans are recognizing Trump World in this. Yes. This is rather obvious, isn't it?
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@SlavaMalamud
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
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You can't be proud of Dostoyevsky or ballet or Panarin but then say you have nothing to do with Putin. You have as much to do with him as with Dostoyevsky or ballet, friend. The ability to be proud of your nation comes with the duty of being ashamed of it.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
3 years
👇 Donald Trump has never been chastised by anything in his life. Has never felt shame about anything. Has never been humbled by anything or anyone. Donald Trump's only possible reaction to chastisement, shame or humiliation is to attack, to strike back, to avenge, to destroy.
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George Conway
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Anyone who thinks @realDonaldTrump is chastened by what happened yesterday misunderstands the mind of a narcissistic psychopath. Driven by narcissistic rage, unrestrained by conscience, compelled by sadistic impulse, he may lash out at any time in increasingly destructive ways.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
5 years
Since my thread on #Chernobyl went viral for some reason, I think I will review Episode 2 as I watch it, paying particular attention to details of Soviet life. If it's interesting to anyone, I mean.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
5 years
I have just finished watching Episode 1 of Chernobyl on @HBO . My perspective is that of someone born and raised in the Soviet Union who has vivid memories of 1986, the catastrophe itself and how it was handled by the Soviet politicians and the state media...
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
5 years
I have finished watching the 3rd episode of @HBO 's #Chernobyl . The second ended on a cliffhanger, so I kept on through midnight, which, in retrospect, was a bold decision... Well, "every generation must have its sacrifice." I will review it in the thread below...
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
5 years
As promised, I will recap Episode 4 of #ChernobylHBO in the thread below. Recaps of episodes 1-3 are in the pinned thread on my feed. This one was... special. Until this morning, I didn't know it would be. Allow me to proceed in the the order I choose and see where it takes me.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
1 year
Z-Channel on Telegram: "Kherson met us with protests. Yet they meet the Ukrainian army with flowers. So what was it that our boys gave their lives for?" You know, my dude, it's probably high time you've learned about Putin's palaces and yachts, but are you sure you're ready?
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
4 years
The police in the United States surely have a funny way of proving how wrong all these people protesting against police brutality are.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
1 year
A Cameroonian player wore a Russian flag on his boots today. FIFA is silent. Supporting genocide is totally fine, as long as you don't support gays, apparently.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
Never ask... A woman her age A man his salary A Ukrainian villager where his T72 came from
@LostWeapons
Lost Weapons
2 years
Ukrainian socialism. Where every villager gets their own Russian tank or artillery piece
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
Damn it, there are so many things I need to do today. I need to jog, pay my rent, shop for groceries, go to the gym, finish a book, cook dinner for my kid. But first, I must, FUCKING MUST talk to you about how important yesterday's "Hitler was a Jew" rant by Lavrov was. 🧵
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
10 months
Fox: Crimea is Russia and Bakhmut is in Siberia.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
3 years
This is the party of Jewish space lasers and murdering their opposition now. No turning back. They have chosen who they are.
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Cameron Joseph
3 years
Source tells me that roughly half the House GOP conference gave Marjorie Taylor Greene a standing ovation after she rose to speak a few min ago.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
4 years
@mschlapp Better yet: murder someone, get caught, insist on a trial without a lawyer, go to prison forever. Increase the police's solved-crime stats, help out the DA's conviction rate, feed fresh meat the industrial prison complex. Win-win-win!
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
1 year
Malkin: "I think Putin's foreign policy is correct. Yes, we arm ourselves, this is right. We should protect our home. I never liked it when they said that we should be friends with the West, with US. We have no friends!" But hey, #Pens and NHL fans, no politics in hockey, huh?
@AteoBreaking
Ateo Breaking
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"Я считаю, что Путин верно ведет внешнюю политику. Да, идет вооружение, но это правильно. Мы должны защищать свой дом. Никогда не нравилось, когда говорят, что «надо дружить с Западом, дружить с Америкой». Да не бывает никаких друзей!" Евгений Малкин, хоккеист, гражданин США,…
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
I never idolize politicians. Their job is to be liked by as many people as possible, so they're doomed to disappoint. It is only in very rare, usually very dire situations that they show their true face. I am boundlessly impressed with Zelensky right now. Please, let him survive.
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@SlavaMalamud
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
3 years
Love how Trumpers have all their undies in a bunch because Tapper has called out Mast. Yeah, how dare he question the patriotism of a wounded veteran? How dare he suggest someone who risked life and limb overseas is hurting our democracy? Wait. Is @AVindman available for comment?
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Mike Hahn
3 years
This is DISGUSTING. CNN's Jake Tapper just questioned Rep. Brian Mast's commitment to American democracy. Rep. Mast is a veteran and lost both of his legs while serving this country.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
I went to work today. I knew that if I had stayed home, I'd be looking at the news and going insane with impotent rage. So I came and I talked to the kids about why I might not be my usual self. I choked up several times. It was very hard. Some gave me a hug. People are good.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
1. Until there is hard, irrefutable proof of the opposite, Marina Ovsyannikova's act was not a fake. Simply because there is no sane reason for it to be one. 2. Please, stop saying she is not a hero because she worked for them. Atonement through self-sacrifice is heroic. Period.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
Finally, how does this story end? I quit Russian media after Crimea and due to no longer being able or wanting to work at Capitals games. I am a school teacher now, a job I love. I have spent 8 years trying to tell folks who Ovechkin really is. Nobody listened. Until now.
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@SlavaMalamud
Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
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* Realize and admit that Russia is the unambiguous evil in this conflict * Realize and admit that every Russian citizen bears some responsibility in this, if only the responsibility to feel shame. This is the key point. You can't identify with a nation only when it's convenient
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
3 years
Alexei Navalny is reporting straight from his own kangaroo court, hastily assembled INSIDE THE POLICE STATION in Khimki, Moscow Region, less than 24 hours after his arrest.
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Кира Ярмыш
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Алексея из зала «суда»
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
Last year, she knocked on the door of an FSB assassin asking for a comment about his trying to kill @navalny . Then, she reported from the fallen Kabul (and was smeared by Republicans for wearing a hijab). She is an incredible badass.
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CNN
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CNN’s @clarissaward stops her live report to help elderly civilians trying to flee Kyiv evacuate as Russian forces close in on the capital city.
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Slava Malamud 🇺🇦🇮🇱
2 years
When all of this is over, there'll be a lot of pro-Putin Russians who'll try to convince you they didn't understand anything, didn't know, were cut off from reliable information, were forced or afraid for their families, weren't into politics. Don't believe them. They know it all
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