healthkick [he/him]

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Cake day: June 12th, 2024

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  • ISW aren’t talking about war at all now, just focusing in on “ethnic tensions”, walking a tightrope between

    • russia is full of migrants doing crime
    • Russia is “cracking down on migrant crime”
    • but also issuing passports to migrants and regularizing their status
    • which makes “ultranationalists” very unhappy
    • and reminds those ultranationalists how much crime migrants do
    • and reassures western audiences this “passportization” (not “regularizing legal status” but a cynical ploy to “weaponize” migrants via “passportization”) isn’t due to sound and reasonable migrant policy but because Russia is desperate for more manpower

    They’re speaking to so many audiences with this one. Desperately “reminding” the “ultranationalists” about how much “migrant crime” there is while condemning Russia for “cracking down on migrant crime” while dismissing the significant reductions in “migrant crime” as akshually a cynical ploy to “weaponize” migrants and that “mass passportization” of migrants (did you just whistle?) is yet more proof they’re an evil nation losing a war.

    https://www.understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-july-1-2024















  • There were multiple Cato’s and every one of them was a self righteous patrician traditionalist.

    I’m referring to Cato the younger, contemporary of Julius Caesar who is probably the more famous one but there’s also Cato the elder who was basically the same figure a century beforehand.

    But it doesn’t matter which. Misogynistic patriarchal patricians who believed that their position atop the socio-economic hierarchy was a law of nature.