SadArtemis🏳️‍⚧️

Looking it up- holy shit, you’re right. And naturally the author was a slave-owner, an anti-abolitionist lawyer, and noted racist, which isn’t particularly surprising when one reads the third verse onwards

Honestly as a (ethnic only, sadly, or I’d have solid plans to leave by now) Chinese-Canadian raised in this cursed country, the anti Asian (particularly Chinese and Indian/South Asian) hate has spiraled in recent years into increasing vitriol and mainstream acceptance. This country was always racist, but the way things are headed at this point, it wouldn’t be too surprising to see internment camps return (if slightly more selectively so, or so I’d hope as a minimum) in the near future.

Yeah, I hate it here. And it will only get worse still, don’t think there’s anyone aside from the most sheltered/brainwashed at this point who thinks otherwise.

I have human empathy for the common Brits… but I don’t think there’s anyone who can honestly say there isn’t also some deep karmic irony in all this, from the Genocide Island which at its peak, exported famines to all corners of the earth.

Russia’s nationalism in the face of NATO besieging is not bullshit, and neither is their “misinformation.” Those pushing a limp-dick “both sides” argument fail to fully understand the nuances IMO…

Is Russia perfect, or an AES? Hell no. But it actively stands for anti-imperialism not merely within its own borders and Ukraine, but across the MENA region, Africa, Asia, and Latin America. There’s a reason why all AES states have such good relations with Russia today, and a reason why masses fly Russian flags unprompted across west Africa as they boot out their neo-imperialist EU masters… and their resistance in this case is not merely preventing the expansion of NATO and further destruction and desecration of the corpse of the Soviet Union (and the hundreds of millions of innocent civilians living within it still), but it is even rolling back a fair bit of the worst of it- a recovery from the prior plagues of true oligarchy and neoliberalism (because capitalism, while the issue, is also not a monolith- though no doubt the necessity for revolution shall show itself yet again in due time if not now).

I don’t hate Russia, because hating Russia for defending itself from the horrors the west had prepared for it, and already waged to such an extent against it, would be wrong in my books- Iran is not perfect, and decidedly not communist, but do I hate Iran? Or Afghanistan, Syria, or the vast majority of countries on earth? No. There is a clear side which is right here, and a clear side which leads to the betterment of humankind, while the other side represents an ideology of unparalleled death and destruction (and I’m not merely talking about the blatantly fascist Banderites, but neo-imperialism, neoliberalism, white supremacy and western hegemony, all of these things of which I would call deeply interwoven and not quite separable).

I would call this a conflict more clear, more black and white, than WW2 with its Nazis on one side, and all the Anglo-European imperialists whose actions inspired the Nazis on the other- Putin is not even a Churchill, de Gaulle, or Eisenhower; his legacy (despite the fact that he’s a boomer chud) is infinitely less questionable, infinitely more agreeable than any of the above. Hell, he’s not even a Chiang Kai-shek.

If the ICJ rules “not guilty,” it should lose all legitimacy from here on out- BRICS, or other multinational blocs/forums like the African Union, ASEAN, UNASUR, SCO, Arab League, etc. should then work to create the foundations of a new court, independent of all western imperialist influence.

TIL I’m a Hoxhaist…

While I’d not add a moral judgement to it, it also was just really pathetic how they handled Nordstream. If there was a more shameful display of thoroughly compromised, outright vassal behavior in the past decade, it doesn’t come to mind.

Anglos near-exterminated the native population of pretty much two continents (most of North America, and Australia) with their various diseases, and genocidal tendencies. Can never be too cautious.

HOWEVER ONLY RUSSIAN INVADE OTHER COUNTRIES.

Do you even listen to yourself?

And if you want to know who are the greatest traitors, genocidaires, warmongerers, invaders, exploiters, and dirty thieves and extortionists- it’s the west, that “defensive alliance” you probably love so much. As soon as your military might declines- likely due to the financial might shriveling away beneath it- you will see firsthand who is going to be rightfully and deservedly boycotted…