Someone, not mentioning who (Legion), brought this up.
Wondering about avatars indicates a person that doesn't have much going on in their life.
1) It's my heritage
2) The tricolor does not belong to Putin, anymore than the stars and stripes belonged to Trump
3) The most genuine and blistering opposition to this war I am reading comes not from JPP posters; it's coming from Russian citizens I am acquainted with.
Cypress (02-24-2022), Guno צְבִי (02-24-2022), Jarod (02-24-2022)
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Darla (02-24-2022)
Interesting. My grandfather (the one that adopted my half Native American father) was the first of that side of my family born in the US after migrating from Russia just 10 short years before the revolution. We were among the Germans that Catherine the Great brought over that lived near the Volga. While it isn't my genetic heritage, that was all hosed up and lost with the adoption (until DNA tests brought some light to that), it is part of the cultural heritage that made me. One of the reasons I learned to speak Russian.
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
- -- Aristotle
Believe nothing on the faith of traditions, even though they have been held in honor for many generations and in diverse places. Do not believe a thing because many people speak of it. Do not believe on the faith of the sages of the past. Do not believe what you yourself have imagined, persuading yourself that a God inspires you. Believe nothing on the sole authority of your masters and priests. After examination, believe what you yourself have tested and found to be reasonable, and conform your conduct thereto.
- -- The Buddha
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- -- Aristotle
Cypress (02-24-2022)
Putin is kept in power by the criminal oligarchy, the state security apparatus, and the bandits of the State Security Council.
Elections are rigged, and opposition candidates are thrown in prison.
Democratic activists I know are hauled before court and forced to pay fines.
Nobody I personally know in Russia is a genuine Putin supporter, and none that I know of support this war.
This morning, a large fraction of my FB Russian acquaintances are sporting Ukrainian flags on their profile pictures.
Eagle_Eye (02-24-2022)
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