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Wilhelmus Janus

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Pondering about a 4th culture-concept; Asia = shame-culture, Arab/muslim = honor-culture, West = guilt-culture, Russia = blame-culture. + 'Pathological Altruism' (Barbara Oakley, Oakland University) + Hanlon's Razor driven in Reverse, Biting you in the Ass

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · Nov 30

Sergei Pugachev: ‘I personally brought Putin to power’

“He told me he may not live, but that I would be a witness to how the Chekisty [members of the secret police] would destroy the country”

Catherine Belton / July 23 2015

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Sergei Pugachev: ‘I personally brought Putin to power’

The once powerful Russian oligarch and now exile claims Putin is orchestrating a campaign to ruin him

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Russia is a country of poverty, misery, booze and great literature about poverty, misery and booze."

- Karel Havlíček Borovský

Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · 1h

Don't forget his punch line....

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · Mar 5

"Russia is a country of poverty, misery, booze and great literature about poverty, misery and booze."

- Karel Havlíček Borovský

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · Jan 31

I regret to inform I gotta hand it to Zizek again

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Josef Petrák @jspetrak.name · Jan 31

Amen. I would also quote late 19th century author Karel Havlíček Borovský wrote: "Russia is a country of poverty, misery, booze and great literature about poverty, misery and booze."

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · Feb 7

Imagine, fast-forward future AI-video, face-recognition remastered, showing the missing kids with disappearing 'bleeps' on the old pictures & video's from back then.

We were their dreams.

(NB: Chelabinsk was among those cities, so some of these 5 might have become such 'bleebs')

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Amanda T @catatart473.bsky.social · 5h

This is so desperately sad. And totally unnecessary. If the gremlin hadn’t started this war just how many lives wouldn’t have been totally and viciously wasted. My heart bleeds.

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robertmcmillan.bsky.social @robertmcmillan.bsky.social · 5h

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · 1h

two muppets are sitting on a couch and saying you get it ? it 's funny cause were dying

ALT: two muppets are sitting on a couch and saying you get it ? it 's funny cause were dying

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Clotpoll @clotpoll.bsky.social · 4h

guess joni ernst’s statement that we’re all gonna die got through to him. 😬😵‍💫😈😱☠️😮

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ₚₐᵥₑₗ ₜᵣₒₗₗₒᵥᵢcₕ🇪🇺 𝓐𝓃ţƗ千Ⓐ @resistaustria.eu · 3h

If only they knew that the money is a lie. Nobody ever dies there. They all go missing. Sorry, no riches for you Snezhana.

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Wilhelmus Janus @wilhelmusjanus.bsky.social · 1h

Hitler-Jugend undercover saboteurs were summonly executed by the Western Allied Forces, for not wearing uniform, meaning no protection by Geneva Convention.
Minors, mostly.
Even after the war was officially over, IIRC.

Miss Eendira of the island of confusion @misseendura.bsky.social · 5h

Reminds me of the last days of the Third Reich where a defense force composed of elderly and very young men were organized to defend Berlin, the Volksstrum.

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Miss Eendira of the island of confusion @misseendura.bsky.social · 5h

Reminds me of the last days of the Third Reich where a defense force composed of elderly and very young men were organized to defend Berlin, the Volksstrum.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

28/ Many of the would-be recruits interviewed by Verstka expressed shock at being told the contracts are indefinite. The recruitment form they are given speaks only of a 1-year contract, but in reality they are automatically renewed under a Putin decree of September 2022.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

27/ While the volunteers say what they know what they are getting into – in particular, being aware of the army's very high casualties – they seem to be unaware of the terms of their contracts and the need to spend their salaries and bonuses on supplying themselves.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

22/ "I have to, so why am I just sitting there, an old man, while there are young people fighting who haven't even seen women yet..."

The man's son spent seven months in Ukraine, returned home and hanged himself outside his home city, leaving behind a wife and two children.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

12/ And then they ask you: 'Want to play another game?' There's a non-zero chance it won't go well. But you'll also have money, a profession, status, respect, and the attention of society. And their eyes light up."

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

11/ "They say it like that: 'I'm 35, I'm a total loser, this is my last chance.'

You can completely screw up, get drunk, be lazy, lose your shit, have failed in your relationships, have no family, have been laying around for years playing computer games.

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

10/ Younger males sign up because they are motivated, as a social worker involved in recruitment says, by "the fact that they're losers. For them, going through the war is one of the few goals in life that's realistically achievable."

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

9/ "And they understand that they will never be able to pay for three children's education.... The majority don't have a higher education. My guess is that 80% are from technical schools, 15% have a nine-grade education, 5% have a higher education."

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ChrisO_wiki @chriso-wiki.bsky.social · 6h

8/ According to the recruiter, most of the volunteers are motivated by the wish to afford a better standard of education than they themselves had. "These men think a lot about their children's higher education, for example. The number of free places is decreasing every year."

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 4h

Trump has declared a sort of war on half of us.

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 3h

Now that Trump has delegated his preposterous politicking for a Nobel Peace Prize to sycophants, he can finally get around to declaring unilateral war on Venezuela, a war crime, as he murders Colombian civilians at sea, another war crime, and endorses collective punishment in Gaza, another war crime

Trump Administration Authorizes Covert C.I.A. Action in Venezuela

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