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John Carter's avatar

Good that you can see the humor in this Kafkaesque situation. It's always amusing when bureaucrats try to figure out where to slot in outliers into one of their predetermined categories. "Nationalist hippy who speaks English fluently, hates globohomo, thinks Azov are gay, writes pro-Russian propaganda for free" ain't on the list.

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Rurik Skywalker's avatar

I wouldn't say I'm a propagandist though.

Propagandists ignore the bad and focus only on promoting the narrative.

That my views align more with the Russian version of things as opposed to NATOs just means that NATO is lying far more and Russia is lying far less as far as I can see.

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John Carter's avatar

Indeed, propaganda carries negative connotations for good reason - it immediately suggests mercenary dissimulation.

Then again, while rhetoric need not align with truth, the most effective rhetoric does. Hence why Vlad's "Empire of Lies" hit so hard.

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Karl North's avatar

I like your style of writing - very entertaining and informative. Good parallels between US, Ukraine and Russia at the street level - like, "the Jews run the world".

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TheTrumanShow's avatar

Good article. Humor works wonders. You make your own tooth paste, but mention being deprived of cigarettes. Hmm.

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Rurik Skywalker's avatar

Nicotine is good for digestion. Also I vape.

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Rexford Gibbs's avatar

A Yandex search on "nicotine and digestion" yields no support for either nicotine or smoking. Good luck.

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Rurik Skywalker's avatar

It was revealed to me in a dream.

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Rexford Gibbs's avatar

Touche. I will update Yandex immediately.

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Тоня's avatar

Amazing that they're redpilled on the JQ. Them guards. Was anyone casually mentioning Zelensky being a jew and that thats why he's ready to fight to the last Ukrainian? Does anybody in the Russian sphere touch the subject of his ethnicity and dubious loyalty to Ukraine?

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Rurik Skywalker's avatar

Yeah, sometimes even on national TV.

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Rolo I subscribed to the blog recently and was browsing through the old articles. It seems you've been harassed by glowies a couple times and I'm curious as to why you talk to them? Is there even an option to say nothing during these interviews or would that just get you red flagged and/or deported. I mean in the west the worst thing you can do is speak to them under pretty much any circumstances so is it different in the FSU?

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ЗОЖ in progress's avatar

You need to describe us your way of life now. I never heard of this story of toxic toothpaste, however I did keto too. Will you dedicate an article to conduct здоровый образ жизни ? Please it would be interesting!

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Rurik Skywalker's avatar

People get mad when you start telling them how to live.

But, basically, a good rule of thumb is that everything modern is probably bad for your health in some way and needs measures to mitigate its effects.

Everything "old" is good for you, even if you don't quite understand the why of it yet.

This is because Tradition is basically the codification of old knowledge passed down through the generations. The moment we discarded our traditions is the moment that we threw out thousands of years of learned experience and experimentation.

Now, we need to relearn how to make the wheel when it comes to our health. So much precious knowledge lost.

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Тоня's avatar

When I read about the toothpaste bit i was like - this is long lost Russian-Ukranian soulamate that I never knew I was looking for. :P

But seriously, flouride is a neurotoxin... Anyone j-wise should know that.

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