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Ruth Mottram Jul 4, 2023

@randahl was chatting to a Ukrainian partner in EU project meeting today. I think it's the sheer waste of *everything* - blood, time, ecosystems, fuel, energy, ingenuity - that enrages me.

She told me that when the Ukrainian Antarctic ship left the Dardanelles straits on its maiden voyage south in January 2022 (much earlier than planned, and luckily it turned out), they sailed past the Russian ship Moskva entering the straits. And that's when they all knew the invasion was coming.

PernilleMsarup Jul 5, 2023

@randahl @Ruth_Mottram utter senseless needless waste and pain. And so bloody stupid, no matter what a worse ending status for anyone compared to 2021 statues. It’s “if I lift my leg up I might shoot you in the face through my own foot”. 🤯. with a bit of luck and a ton of effort especially from Ukraine it might end more like they shot us in the foot through their own head. But this was never going to be good news for Russia.

Ruth Mottram Jul 5, 2023

@pms @randahl *Netop*

Braw ☕🏳️‍🌈Jul 5, 2023

@randahl had the fascist back then nuclear weapons and permanent membership in UN security council?

GulfofMexico Jul 5, 2023

@randahl Historical monuments should teach a significant truth. So many monuments are designed to teach propaganda. The remnants of those German fortifications qualify as a teaching monument. I hope every Dane has the opportunity to learn from them, not just the fact of their existence, but the truth about a brutal occupation. We historians teach so much about the WWII holocaust, but we often skip through the horrific occupation many Europeans endured. It is part of the story

Nicole Parsons Jul 5, 2023

@randahl

Putin's genocidal war on Ukraine is being funded by petrodollars.

Want to help Ukraine win?

1. Buy less Russian oil
2. Don't buy products from countries using Russian oil

Bonus
Using less oil might save democracy & the planet

Petrodollars fund Tory & Republican fascism

Petrodollars fund troll farms

Petrodollars fund anti-vaxxer disinformation, misogynistic civil rights rollbacks, voter suppression, unneeded austerity measures, stop gun safety legislation, & thwart climate action

Jürgen Hubert Jul 5, 2023

@Npars01 @randahl I remember the last German federal elections of 2021.

The Green Party were the only ones who saw Putin for what he was. All the other parties portrayed him as someone Germany could do business with, for all those fossil fuels.

It is not surprising that the Putin-sponsored fascists see the #Greens as their main enemy.

Cassandrich Jul 5, 2023

@juergen_hubert @Npars01 @randahl Oh at first I missed the word German and was like WTF. Our (US) "Green Party" were the ones dining with Putin.

Jürgen Hubert Jul 5, 2023

@dalias @Npars01 @randahl "Divide and Conquer" is how he has always done things.

And the US election system offers some great opportunities for that.

James P. McQuoid Jul 5, 2023

@dalias @juergen_hubert @Npars01 @randahl Russian activists were clear on Putin asset Jill Stein. https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-environmentalists-criticize-us-green-party-stein-putin-support/27970782.html

Russian Environmentalists Slam U.S. Green Party Candidate For Putin Comments

Two prominent Russian environmental activists have criticized the presidential candidate for the U.S. Green Party, saying her positions on President Vladimir Putin and his policies are “deeply shocking.”

Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty

James P. McQuoid Jul 5, 2023

@dalias @juergen_hubert @Npars01 @randahl https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/russians-launched-pro-jill-stein-social-media-blitz-help-trump-n951166

Russians launched pro-Jill Stein social media blitz to help Trump win election, reports say

The Russian effort to interfere with the 2016 presidential election focused in part on boosting Green Party candidate Jill Stein to aid Trump, reports say.

NBC News

Peter Paaske Juul Jul 6, 2023

@Npars01 @randahl pretty much every democratic country has a way of producing electricity without fossil fuel. If not, they probably can buy electricity from a democratic country that can.

Switching from fossil to green electric is a necessary move to limit the climate change. It's an added bonus that it's also a way to limit Russian and Middle East dictatorships' political and economic power over those of us who nominally oppose them.

Nick Jul 5, 2023

@randahl Rascism is 1000 times worse than fascism.

Rai Aren 🖖✨📚🇺🇦Jul 5, 2023

@randahl 🙌 💪
🇺🇦#UkraineWillWin 🇺🇦
#SlavaUkraïni
#StandUpForUkraine
#CrimeaIsUkraine
#UkraineNATO
#ArmUkraineNow
#russianinvasionofukraine
🆘 #StopRussianAggression 🆘

Dan Berky "דן" ℞ MS 🇺🇲 🇩🇪 🇮🇱Jul 5, 2023

@randahl My parents were holocaust survivors from Berlin. So maybe because of that, I ALWAYS KNEW THIS.

Pablo Martini Jul 5, 2023

@randahl then we must go for the rich enablers! reading history, Hitler and his like had these in many countries! America, UK, France, Spain, South America, it was embedded, really everywhere! wannabe Hitler's or hangers on MSM, politicians, banker's, royalty! Self-seeking chancers!
You name them? Who recently took russian cash & favours?
My old man did 7 years of his prime life fighting to stop the same tossers we have enabled again! he saw France, Belgium, north africa, Italy, Austria & Greece getting pieces of bullets or bombs in him off the beaches at Dunkirk with the BEF. We owe it to his generation & the next! Fascism is everywhere!

Andrii Voitenkov Jul 5, 2023

@randahl history repeats itself again and again. good news: we will win. bad news: it will happen again.

Henry Edward Hardy Jul 5, 2023

"Put it there boys, we'll show these Fascists what a couple of hillbillies can do."

Woody Guthrie
All You Fascists Bound To Lose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwcKwGS7OSQ

#fediplay
@randahl

Woody Guthrie~ All You Fascists Bound To Lose

A short song from one of Woody's radio broadcasts. (1940's?)Featured in this performance are:*Woody of course-guitar and voc.*the great SONNY TERRY on harmon...

YouTube

Sven Heise Jul 5, 2023

@randahl
I totally agree!
But as a Danish you should also know names as Gunnar Larsen and F. L. Smith and company!
Those ugly buildings at the danish coast where build whith material assistance of danish profit makers!
A little detail!

Gsmithy Jul 5, 2023

@randahl
Even to this day we occasionally get projects which are bomb sites from the London Blitz. A hole in a row of terrace houses, a corner plot left empty. Someone's home or business just obliterated.
Putin can get in the bin.

Token Sane Person Jul 5, 2023

@randahl
I grew up in Guernsey, which is absolutely solid with Nazi fortifications.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_fortification_of_Guernsey

German fortification of Guernsey - Wikipedia

johnnyunger Jul 5, 2023

@randahl while I don’t disagree with the overall premise, it is worth examining who “we” is in the case of Denmark… despite some resistance, on the whole I don’t think it’s accurate to say that Denmark “stopped” Fascism in WW2, or even resisted it that much…

Randahl Fink Jul 5, 2023

@johnnyunger In 1940, the tiny Danish army was run over in 6 hours by the overwhelming military force of the Nazis.
10,000 Danes became part of the secret resistance army and that grew to 85,000 throughout the war, in a population of only 3.8 million.
After participating in resistance operations, 14.000 were captured by the Nazis. 102 were executed by Nazi firing squad.
The Holger Danske Resistance Group alone carried out 200 assassinations and 100 sabotage bombings of railroads, shipyards, etc.

@randahl As a Finn, I got really angry because it's not that far away in the history when Russia attacked Finland. My grandmothers' childhood homes we lost in the war. They belong to Russia now. All my sympathies go to Ukraine. Slava Ukraini!

Bill Of Earth42 Jul 5, 2023

@KissAnne @randahl Now would be a good time for Finland to take back their old lands, since the Russian army seems kinda distracted these days. I long to go to Finland and see St Petersburg 😎

@billOfEarth42 @randahl There's nothing left these days. All the buildings are gone. No infrastructure. It's almost like a wasteland. Veikko Saksi, Master of Economics, calculated that taking back Karelia and rebuilding it would cost 34.1 billion euros to Finland.

@billOfEarth42 @randahl

Bill Of Earth42 Jul 5, 2023

@KissAnne @randahl This is what the Russians want for Ukraine.

@billOfEarth42 @randahl unfortunately 🥺🥺

Andre

Jul 5, 2023

@randahl Sic Semper Evello Mortem Tyrannis

@randahl @mark I agree that nazism must be crushed. One of the stated purposes of Russia’s SMO is the denazification of ukraine. It completely ignores history to label Russia as the nazis. Millions of Russian speakers died fighting nazis. Many of those nazis called ukrainian territory home. Ukrainian troops are being asked to cover the nazi symbols on their uniforms before being photographed by MSM. Read up on the Azov brigade or Stepan Bandera then talk, or not.

Holly 🇨🇦

Jul 5, 2023

@MatthewKay @randahl @mark While Ukraine does admittedly have a neonazi problem, as does the United States, Germany, and there are a few too many in Canada for my liking, taking anything Russia says as truth is ludicrous. Putin did not invade Ukraine bc of Nazis.

Arena Cops 🇺🇦✌Jul 5, 2023

@Yup_Its_Holly @MatthewKay @randahl @mark In fact Putin supports right-wingers, Nazis & fascists all over the world.

And he wants to make Moscow their central headquarter.

https://truthout.org/articles/putin-is-attempting-to-center-russia-as-a-hub-of-the-global-right-wing/
#StandWithUkraine #StandWithFreedom #StandWithHumanity #NaziPutin #PutinsWar #WarOfAggression #WarCrimes #Genocide #CrimesAgainstHumanity

Putin Is Attempting to Center Russia as a Hub of the Global Right Wing

Putin is part of a global authoritarian movement, seeking repudiation of the right to national self-determination.

Truthout

@MatthewKay @randahl @mark Maybe read up on the history of the present war. Don’t believe the nonsense spread by dopey “anti-imperialist” tankies who cling to a fantasy of a “dictatorship of the proletariat” so hard that they’ll support any dictator. https://kyivindependent.com/illia-ponomarenko-why-some-ukrainian-soldiers-use-nazi-related-insignia/

Illia Ponomarenko: Why some Ukrainian soldiers use Nazi-related insignia

You're closely following the living history of a nation bravely resisting an imperialistic war of aggression that has inspired the world when, all of a sudden, you come across a picture of a Ukrainian soldier wearing a Totenkopf "skull and crossbones" patch or giving the Nazi salute. Rightfully so, the

The Kyiv Independent

@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark I’m an anti war, anarchist, villagist. I have no idea what a “tankie” is and don’t care. I live in the middle of a country that just finished celebrating a jingoistic holiday of flagpole deepthroating. And I’m tired of seeing propaganda that encourages sending young men and women into a meat grinder. Asking me to take a conflict out of the context of history is laughable.

@MatthewKay @randahl @mark The context is a people who were brutalized, starved and murdered by the Russians at multiple times in their history. Why shouldn’t they be free of that oppression?

@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark Yer right. One side is the devil incarnate and the other is pure as the driven snow. It just depends on which flagpole yer deepthroating.

@MatthewKay @randahl @mark A tankie is the sort of communist for whom Stalin could do no wrong - including expropriating land from the Ukrainians and subjecting them to the Holodomor, which further, they deny having happened. They also like to say they just want peace, but support Russia at every turn.

@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark I’m definitely not a tankie then and definitely no fan of russia. The article you linked REEKED of western propaganda. Do you honestly believe the Azov brigade was just absorbed into the ukrainian military and renounced their political beliefs? Really?? The whole article was nothing more than whitewashing.

@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark Zelenskyy is just as guilty of war crimes as Putin, Bush, Cheney, Blair, Obama, etc. ukraine will be left in the same mess as Afghanistan, Iraq, Vietnam, etc were left in.

@MatthewKay @randahl @mark Ponomarenko has been embedded with the Ukrainian armed forces and is clearly not neutral, but he’s in as good a place to know what’s going on with neo-Nazis and the far right inside the military of that country as anyone. I believe him when he says they’ve been limited in their influence and aren’t running the military, let alone civilian institutions. Who are you going to believe? The Grayzone? Rossiyskaya Gazeta?

@KerryMitchell @randahl @mark “Who are you going to believe?” That is the real question. If there is power, profit or politics involved then all are considered through a very skeptical lens.

KrazyKat Jul 5, 2023

@randahl T. H. I. S.

It's Just Jenn 🏳️‍⚧️Jul 10, 2023

@randahl for me it's simple: I don't like bullies.

Randahl Fink Jul 10, 2023

@Tweetfiction me neither… and bullies with thermobaric rockets even less.

PeoriaBummer Aug 27, 2023

@randahl @raymondpert Always remember: the one guy had the idea, but he only had power because others capitulated. You chose the exact right word. Defiance. Defiance is always how we stop fascism.

Martin Rundkvist Aug 28, 2023

@randahl Sadly you'll have to discuss this with Dansk Folkeparti's voters. Our Swedish crypto-fascists got 21% of the parliamentary vote less than a year ago.

Kalle Kniivilä Aug 28, 2023

@mrundkvist @randahl Isn't DF more or less erased from the political map now? To a large extent because other parties are now advocating their policies, of course.

Martin Rundkvist Aug 28, 2023

@kallekn @randahl Their voters are still around and I believe their attitudes are unchanged.

Kalle Kniivilä Aug 28, 2023

@mrundkvist @randahl They are around but they vote for other parties.
🤪

Martin Rundkvist Aug 28, 2023

@kallekn You're right. And they're far-right.

Kalle Kniivilä Aug 28, 2023

@mrundkvist Right or left, not my country...
🤪

rmquist Aug 31, 2023

@randahl From your lips....

Thijs Lucas Aug 31, 2023

@randahl for me it was an early contact with the war and German history. We used to visit friends in the North of Denmark and camp in Scandinavia and I would ask my parents for what this is for and why.

Randahl Fink Aug 31, 2023

@thijs_lucas I imagine coming up with a well-versed reply required some thought. Do you recall what they said?

Thijs Lucas Aug 31, 2023

@randahl I do not remmeber much. It was 30+ years ago.

I remeber that I was wondering why they had it and also what it was used for... the connection to the nazi terror - I beleive - I made years later in school.

Randahl Fink Aug 31, 2023

@thijs_lucas the nazi occupation was certainly part of my childhood conversations with parents as well.

A story that stuck with me, was how the nazi occupation forces had placed a gate on the road into town where my dad grew up.

One late night, a young woman came back to town, and the gate seemed unmanned. Unable to get hold of any nazis, she got off her bike and opened the gate herself, got onto her bike, and continued her ride into town.

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