Authorities in Moscow have banned billboards containing QR codes after allies of jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny used the matrix barcodes to conceal their newly launched anti-Putin campaign ahead of the 2024 presidential election. Navalny on Thursday urged supporters to vote for any candidate besides Vladimir Putin during the race, which is scheduled to take place on March 15-17. On Friday, the 71-year-old Putin officially announced his bid to run for a fifth term.
I have a confession: I might actually be a leftist and not just a mere crunchy liberal, but I have no fucking idea because we no longer live in a world where nuance in the face of oncoming fascism has any real place for expression. I can read books and articles about it, but I’m far more about the practical realities of it: where is it in practice?
Right now, there’s no place for that level of distinction. We are quickly distilling ourselves into Team Humanity vs. Team Ovens, with no real idea of who will win, or how long the fight will go on as we slip father and farther away from democracy as a society.
It is, exactly as you said, a matter of simply keeping your beliefs for now, if not outwardly realized, just because of what the relatively sane majority is facing from the rabid, corrupt, and completely off-their-fucking-meds minority.
It is my sincere hope that I live long enough to see what an actual leftist government stands for. Who knows, I might even like it. But for now, it’s just all hands against fascism, and whatever the fuck I am, am NOT on Team Ovens.
I have a confession: I might actually be a leftist and not just a mere crunchy liberal, but I have no fucking idea because we no longer live in a world where nuance in the face of oncoming fascism has any real place for expression. I can read books and articles about it, but I’m far more about the practical realities of it: where is it in practice?
Right now, there’s no place for that level of distinction. We are quickly distilling ourselves into Team Humanity vs. Team Ovens, with no real idea of who will win, or how long the fight will go on as we slip father and farther away from democracy as a society.
It is, exactly as you said, a matter of simply keeping your beliefs for now, if not outwardly realized, just because of what the relatively sane majority is facing from the rabid, corrupt, and completely off-their-fucking-meds minority.
It is my sincere hope that I live long enough to see what an actual leftist government stands for. Who knows, I might even like it. But for now, it’s just all hands against fascism, and whatever the fuck I am, am NOT on Team Ovens.
Well said. I fight for the post-scarcity utopia I know we can create.