ukraine@war

ukraine@war

Day 679

Carpet bombing Ukraine

Jan 03, 2024
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Based on feedback and some peyote-fuelled epiphanies on the mountainside at dawn, let me direct your attention to Ukraine24, the official international celebrity-based fundraising platform of Ukraine. Not to be confused with another official war-related government program, Telemarathon, which almost noone watches and The New York Times writes about today1.

Z is on the opening page of Ukraine24 wearing pajamas.

I don’t have great hopes for it becoming a reliable longterm source of funding and procurement freed of the sentimental histrionics and pre-emptive ridicule of any opposing view germane to charitable foundations, many of which popped up after February 24, 2022, to taking grim pleasure responding to every atrocity carried out in the name of rucism, to forming – with a sort of shuddering inevitability – into a lockstep mosh pit in which the most cynical predictions of last fall – about those who would dare to advance a purchasing agenda on the back of inconceivable human tragedy –…

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