• gift_of_gab@lemmy.world
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    17 hours ago

    My grandmother fought in the Dutch resistance, helped people who were Jewish escape, and was put in a camp. She died a few years ago. This is how that happened, too. And we’re all watching. Even with americas vaunted 2nd amendment, Russian-backed fascists just walked in and took over, and everyone is just watching them. No riots, no fighting back, just passive resistance.

    I wish all of you the best of luck. I’m going to go hug my kids.

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      2 minutes ago

      Russian-backed

      USians try not to blame other countries for their own fascism challenge: impossible version

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        She really was. The war changed her forever, though. On her death bed she disavowed her lifelong Roman Catholicism, saying “No God would allow what I have seen and lived.”

        Before that she was an absolute badass and had many dalliances with a man of the clergy, causing his expulsion form the order.

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      10 hours ago

      Don’t blame the Russian for what the US is doing. A country that spent years of committing war crimes and establishing laws that invade privacy, haunting down journalist and humanitarian, is destined to use that power to abuse their own people sooner or later regardless of foreign intervention.

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        31 minutes ago

        Don’t blame the Russian for what the US is doing

        Я сделаю все, что захочу, товарищ.