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[uls]

when russia invaded ukraine, nakaroon ng grabeng hatred towards anything russian

In Washington, D.C., the American-owned Russia House Restaurant has had its windows smashed and front door broken in two separate instances since the war started. In New York, the Metropolitan Opera first demanded that Russian soprano Anna Netrebko denounce Vladimir Putin and then fired her when she refused the loyalty test, replacing her with a Ukrainian singer. Much the same thing happened in the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra to conductor Valery Gergiev after he, too, refused an ultimatum to denounce the Russian leader and was fired. Gergiev’s management company called him “the greatest conductor alive and an extraordinary human being with a profound sense of decency” in a statement explaining why it was now moved to drop him due to his support for Putin. In the United Kingdom, a planned tour of the Russian State Ballet of Siberia was canceled, wrote the journalist Brendan O’Neill, “as if pirouettes were propaganda, as if sublime dancing by Russian people might pollute the hearts and minds of British audiences.”

Over at the race track, America’s Haas Formula 1 racing team announced over the weekend that it had “terminated” its contract with Russian driver Nikita Mazepin. In this case, no theatrical ultimatums were necessary. “We can’t deal with all that. Our other sponsors can’t deal with all that,” Haas explained to the Associated Press.

The notion that individuals should have their employment conditioned on the actions of a foreign government, or their willingness to denounce those actions, is frankly gross and authoritarian.

And not to be outdone by race car drivers, the International Cat Federation, known as FIFe, or Fédération Internationale Féline, announced that it was banning Russian cats from its competitions. In a statement, FIFe’s board declared that “it cannot just witness these atrocities and do nothing.” No innocent Russians, indeed. Not even the cats.

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curious ako what's behind the thinking

here's an explanation

The point of all this, one suspects, is to make it easier for war spectators with no skin in the game to imagine that they are “doing something” and “contributing to the cause.” Preoccupied with their two minutes of hate, these people get to feel righteous while acting like small-minded, power-tripping chauvinists. They get all the old-fashioned thrill of picking on foreigners with none of the guilt. Maybe, condemning random Russians helps them feel better about the ways that U.S. policies have exacerbated the conflict while empowering Moscow to be a strategic negotiating partner in a new Iran deal.

Social media fosters the illusion that users are connected to distant events they experience through tweets and video clips. It becomes everyone’s responsibility to “do something,” which can globalize local conflicts, drawing them out and increasing the risks of catastrophic escalation. But if you really want to do something, start by not scapegoating innocent people for a war they did nothing to start.

since they can't (or won't) volunteer to go to ukraine to fight russians, people smash bottles of vodka and vandalize russian stores nalang

makes them feel like they're doing something

hahaha

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when russia invaded ukraine, nakaroon ng grabeng hatred towards anything russian



inisip ko ano kasalanan ng mga inosenteng tao (at pusa)?

curious ako what's behind the thinking

here's an explanation




since they can't (or won't) volunteer to go to ukraine to fight russians, people smash bottles of vodka and vandalize russian stores nalang

makes them feel like they're doing something

hahaha

Hinde naman exclusive yan sa mga Americans.


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[uls]

Hinde naman exclusive yan sa mga Americans.


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Yup

So pag China ang invader, sisirain ng mga tao mga tindahan ng mga intsik

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Kaya dangerous ang media / socmed

Pour gasoline on fire

[bloowolf]

Diba sabi mo bilib ka doon sa nag build their own wealth and nahigitan pa parents.

Siya na yata youngest billionaire na self-made.

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Self made? His father Gov. Leviste is a known landgrabber & he most likely acquired that land through devious means. Meaning, the Gov handed down the acres of land where his son set up the Calatagan Solar Farm. & where did the money to buy the panels come from? Pork ni Loren? Binigay ni Papa? I wouldn’t consider him a self made billionaire. Yung yaman ng pamilya hindi pinaghirapan.

If he were like you or me or built his fortune the old fashioned way, much like Henry Sy or Manny Villar, yun ang self made.




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Self made? His father Gov. Leviste is a known landgrabber & he most likely acquired that land through devious means. Meaning, the Gov handed down the acres of land where his son set up the Calatagan Solar Farm. & where did the money to buy the panels come from? Pork ni Loren? Binigay ni Papa? I wouldn’t consider him a self made billionaire. Yung yaman ng pamilya hindi pinaghirapan.

If he were like you or me & built his fortune the old fashioned way, much like Henry Sy or Manny Villar, yun ang self made.


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Again we have different interpretation on self-made.

As long as you made something out of whatever that was given to you, then that's self-made for me. Kung wala kang drive to do it kahit anong pang ibigay sayo na opportunity eh walang mangyayari.

He was born into priviledge then swerte siya he has a leg up while others born with nothing and was equally successful. I don't distinguish them.


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[papi smith]

Got a call from a ___ and Abbott, UK property investment firm daw sila and they guarantee 14% return daw. Tinanong kung may investment na raw ba ako na tulad nito, sabi ko wala kasi wala akong pang invest, asked again kung may any kind of investment ako locally, sabi ko wala din, ayun nag paalam na agad. [emoji38]

[_Cathy_]

Got a call from a ___ and Abbott, UK property investment firm daw sila and they guarantee 14% return daw. Tinanong kung may investment na raw ba ako na tulad nito, sabi ko wala kasi wala akong pang invest, asked again kung may any kind of investment ako locally, sabi ko wala din, ayun nag paalam na agad. [emoji38]

Ako I say I'm jobless, tapos agad ang call hahaha

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[dr. d]

Got a call from a ___ and Abbott, UK property investment firm daw sila and they guarantee 14% return daw. Tinanong kung may investment na raw ba ako na tulad nito, sabi ko wala kasi wala akong pang invest, asked again kung may any kind of investment ako locally, sabi ko wala din, ayun nag paalam na agad. [emoji38]

"mail me some hard literature."
none of them do.

[papi smith]

Self made? His father Gov. Leviste is a known landgrabber & he most likely acquired that land through devious means. Meaning, the Gov handed down the acres of land where his son set up the Calatagan Solar Farm. & where did the money to buy the panels come from? Pork ni Loren? Binigay ni Papa? I wouldn’t consider him a self made billionaire. Yung yaman ng pamilya hindi pinaghirapan.

If he were like you or me or built his fortune the old fashioned way, much like Henry Sy or Manny Villar, yun ang self made.




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Ano naman ang kwento ng buhay ni MV, was he really self made? Was he already rich when married an Aguilar?

[dr. d]

Ano naman ang kwento ng buhay ni MV, was he really self made? Was he already rich when married an Aguilar?

mv came from a poor family and lived in one of the poorer districts in manila.
cynthia was a daughter of a las pinas mayor-congressman.

however i look it,
helping each other, the couple certainly built a vast empire.