Day 766
Amusing, though, were the inevitable snarls from the online Tesla-patriot camp after the letter was published, from those who daily chat on Twitter Spaces via anecdotal, decontextualized evidence that Ukraine should surrender and that America is the Greatest Country in the World, from those who glibly claim victory (for the women and children!) for fights in which they took no part, from those who’ve mined a massive vein of ‘content’ from under the Maidan, Mariupol, and the Borodyanka countryside, from those who, in the face of extremism, take comfort drawing extremists close to their side, from the ‘recovering liberals,’ from those so fully infused with the language and gestures of ChatGPT that it no longer matters what the zeitgeist is, only that it is tapped.
Silence, and respect. Anything else is grave-robbing.
Wut? This is unsettling. David found himself in a mood to write something moving and once again has the unmitigated fucking gall to repurpose a greasy clown into content for readers of The Washington Post (words only: he had no luck, hold steady now, ‘Googling around for a picture’), flattering himself as one who cares while movingly reminding the audience that it’s okay now to feel good about Z and his confused ambitions for survival1.
Didn’t ask about Chervinsky.
CNN ran the above pic to illustrate an op-ed about Ukraine2. I don’t know Amelia or Marci and my eyes glazed over after they mentioned Mylovanov. The photo, however, is interesting, because it shows where I live, right up the street from the Zircon missile strike on Monday. Or was it Tuesday? Look closely and you will see part of the white tennis court bubble decorating Novopecherskie Lipki, the Kyiv equivalent of NYC’s StuyTown, except the rents are lower. The missile, travelling north along the mighty Dnipro River from Crimea at supersonic speed, pooped out at the last split second. If the trajectory had been just a little higher, it could have wiped out one of the buildings of the apartment complex.
Zelensky: We are trying to find some way not to retreat (The Washington Post, March 29, 2024)
The heroism of Ukraine and the nihilism of Mike Johnson (CNN, March 27, 2024)