That’s pretty much the point of banality of evil - you don’t need an extraordinary assembly of psychopaths to run a fascist regime. All it takes is a group of loud populists, generally discontent crowd and, boom, you have “make Germany great again”.
After ww2 finished, both Germanies discovered that they don’t really have enough people without Nazi past that could run the country. So most folks just went back to work to slightly renamed workplaces.
Does that mean they were not complicit? They were and the winners made sure Germans would learn about what they caused.
I guess the only excuse back the was that they didn’t know better. But we do.
Here’s some read for you: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eichmann_in_Jerusalem#Banality_of_evil
Yes, an average russian or Israeli person is not likely to have directly participated in the recent events.
The catch, though, it’s that by not opposing the actions of their governments, they DO contribute to the events indirectly. They pay taxes. They work at factories producing weapons. They make the food that the soldiers eat.
On top of that it’s not russian government who’s currently pulling the triggers and dropping bombs. Just regular folks who just follow orders.
Yes, protesting in russia is not easy, but the war keeps going on because the government sees that people aren’t worried too much about it.
And yes, in both countries there are people who actively oppose, but the majority doesn’t.
And that majority is complicit.
Lol. That was my reaction too. “Oh, shit, it’s a video - close”.
My issue with videos is that they are too slow for relaying information. I’ll be ok with it if there would be a two-sentence summary, after reading which I could decide if I want to watch it.
I suspect so that video says it’s that phone calls don’t relay the body language and that makes it more difficult to understand.
Yup. Music is my main regulation mechanism. For emotions, for concentration, you name it.
And sometimes it’s sludge metal, sometimes it’s electro swing, sometimes it’s jazz Bach.
Not exactly the same, but I’m really glad monolord released an instrumental-only version along the “normal” one. https://piped.video/watch?v=7HCUR7y8ziM&t=12
That’s cheating! Why would I want anything easier :)
I don’t know. I was making rice today and the moment I left kitchen (for a nano second, of course) it burned.
Here’s my today’s rice recipe:
Yey, we’re society’s outmost sensory system. I mean we do get to see the world for what it is. And then have the honour to tell folks on the inside how is it out there.
The worst was when it was stolen, while I was travelling, 3 hours before it was time to leave for the airport. Obviously my IDs, tickets, money, were all there.
Lol. Read the title and started giggling. Family asks why I giggle, I tell them and they start laughing.
So yes. After losing everything, including the backpack I always have it with me. It’s a hard rule - the moment I’m far from it, I need something from it.
The contents are pretty much everything I might need during an average day. Keys, vallet, medicines, a notebook and a pen, bandages, headphones, deodorant.
It would be 9 years, if only one linear factor was at play.
I believe it’s multiple factors, though.
One is that every plane taken out had its share of “work”, which is now distributed across the remaining ones. Which means they get worn out a little faster. Similar to how they have to cannibalise parts from one civilian aircraft to repair another.
Then I’m going they cannot maintain the usual production speed because if the sanctions. Add to that an increased need to repair since the plains are more heavily used. And I’d guess that repairs are fine at the same facility that produces them, this also reducing production speed.
In other words, I think it’s about snowballing and at this rate it could be way less than nine years.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-34
Since 2006 they’ve built 150 units. That’s 8 units a year. Some were sold, some got lost.
As of 20 May 2023, there have been 20 visually confirmed cases of Su-34s being lost, damaged or abandoned by Russian forces since the start of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. 23 now, apparently.
At their price, with sanctions, with wear of the remaining ones, at this rate, they might not have any left very soon.
There are other ways of passive or active resistance that is not a direct confrontation.
In the end, it’s still a choice, I’m afraid.
Forced or obeying orders? There’s a difference, you know.
The regular numbers are absolute values of what Ukraine claims to have destroyed. The +numbers is an increase since the previous day. The percentages are of what was reported to be in the regular moscovite army at the beginning of the invasion.
i speak Ukrainian (and, ugh, the moscovite too), i’ll be happy to help, but i cannot promise a consistent and dedicated commitment.
Are they suddenly feeling being “The Swiss bank” too big to fail?
I have both and I think it’s better to know, independent of the outcome.