It looks very flammable.
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That is by design, of course. Even the term “underwater basket weaving” originates from slurs against all liberal arts degrees. Prejudices that were old when they were slung against baby boomers in the 1970s, hippies in the 1960s, or even beatniks in the 1950s.
There is nothing fascists hate more than people who can think for themselves. And a large part of why Putin worked so hard for 30 years to lull Russians into complacency. The apathy was carefully cultivated, but now even that is crumbling and revealing just how brittle it is.
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Or, as a close second, people who work at and get paid for doing something that they enjoy and are passionate about. Unless those people are sociopaths who delight in making life miserable for others.
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I have to say this smacks of desperation. It resembles small time looters trying to grab whatever they can because they hear the sirens in the distance, getting closer. The boss told them they can’t return empty handed, so they grab what they can and hope he doesn’t beat them later.
Really, I don’t want to generalize, but it does seem that everyone in the Russian government has a hoodlum mentality.
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Putin could declare mission accomplished, reiterate that Russian territory can never be bargained away, offer peace talks and then complain that Ukraine refuses to negotiate.
ETA:
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A nihilistic regime can convince its people to believe in Nothing, even to worship Nothing, but it may have trouble getting every male between 17 and 70 to sign up, ship out, and die for Nothing
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They’re shipping out with Nothing.
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A true patriot needs nothing but Blood and Soil /s
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Jawohl! /s
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… oh wait, no, that’s vampires 
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Call it what it is and feel free to generalise. The Russian government and Russian civil institutions are currently designed to give power to kleptocrats and gangsters.
Now they’ve just stolen large swathes of a neighbouring nation-state’s land and the humans who live there. They’re brazen criminals, the kind who’ll declare that the thing they just stole was always theirs and that anyone trying to take it back is the real criminal (this will be the substance of Putin’s speech today).
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