Carmakazi

It’s my opinion that every Russian ambassador, consul, and staffer thereof is most likely a spy of one variety or another, doing harm to their host countries. They seem incapable of good faith diplomatic relations.

Because a plurality of Americans are equally crass, ignorant, selfish, and evil.

this fascist thinking he can go anywhere he wants and feel safe

He can, with good reason. People filming them with their phones and taunting them with shrill voices are not threatening his safety. Only a couple people out of over 300 million have truly threatened their safety, and they were completely impotent and were immediately killed for doing so.

That’s what any demographic shift does. Wealthy republicans carpetbag on occasion too, though not as often. The problems of red states can largely be overcome with personal wealth, so they tend to stay where they’re politically comfortable.

Another thing is that blue-staters tend to have more buying power than red-staters, so they get butthurt about being priced out of real estate instead of realizing that their relative poverty is the direct consequence of republican policy. 20 states still have a $7.25 minimum wage, guess which ones.

Vibes-based policy. Republicans hate when people from blue states move to red states, even if they are republicans. They think they bring the liberal stink with them and fuck things up for everyone else.

They’ll eat this up, regardless of how little sense it makes.

They know that there is no precedent for such violence against them specifically. But they are also extrapolating, correctly I think, that people will want to kill them for what they are planning to do, above even what they are currently doing.

Still very very rare compared to the 8,000,000,000 people on the planet, or whatever the number is at now.

Of course one is too many yadda yadda

Maybe they’ll encourage plunder like the good old days (the 1300s).

The Russian state has stirred up a strong and very irrational national-ethnic hatred of Ukrainians from what I’ve seen. Their continued resilience is an insult to Russian pride and chauvinism, so the nationalist will pay heavy costs to try to make them kneel. If there’s criticism, it’s that the leadership is not killing Ukrainians competently enough, not that killing Ukrainians or going to war is wrong.

Like that racket they tried of getting teenagers to firebomb the Ukrainian diaspora in Europe. Completely strategically irrelevant, and could only be motivated by hatred.

She lived in exile because she shot a New Jersey state trooper dead during a traffic stop, not because she was an “activist.”