f* politics *k

Found a clip of Putin's speech today. What Putin is actually saying, in Russian, subtitled. I can only understand a few words here and there. Khorosho, ochen, seyches, neonatsistov...

NATO, the US government, and their corporate media stenographers are all so full of shit.

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What kind of responses would I get on Facebook?

- focus entirely on the Nazi reference, because that's what's in the thumbnail. I chose that line for being eye-catching, but it's only one issue of many he raises.

- indicating that you didn't even watch the speech. No one does. Ok, then I have no interest in what you want to say about it.

- call it propaganda, as if I'm simply believing Putin, when in reality, Putin is saying things I already know to be true. I'm just surprised to hear it coming directly from him, instead of Aaron Maté or Anya Parampil. I was surprised to find it so easily on YouTube. 

It's ridiculous to call a president's speech propaganda. Like it or not, what he's saying is a critical part of the story, but Americans can't even be bothered to listen to it, before comparing him to Hitler. The Azov Battalion are literally Nazis, and they've been murdering people in Ukraine for years. Putin is stepping more fully into an ongoing conflict, not starting one. Meanwhile, Biden bombs Somalia in the midst of all this, and barely a peep about it. MSNBC is propaganda.

Couldn't give up the news for long, but at least now I'm not getting into arguments with randos on YouTube until getting back from the gym. 

BJJ, three days in a row. Had to wander all over Winooski in the heavy snow earlier today. Still hit the gym afterwards. Holy shit. It's got to be the anemia. I don't know what else could be making such a dramatic difference, but I'm suddenly in really good shape, even compared to many of the 20-somethings there. I had to pause to let my grappling prodigy partner take a minute, for the first time ever.

Almost got a choke. Almost got an armbar. Got tapped out six times. The two people I rolled with are both really good, but I never would have had the stamina to lose that much before. I feel like I've developed a superpower. I'm terrified that it will turn out to be brief and inexplicable. 

I don't want to go back to feeling like I have this tiny reserve of energy to expend each day, that I have to conserve and use as efficiently as possible, because it's never enough, and I always ended up feeling terrible. Plus the nausea. I haven't even been getting the hiccups anymore. I don't understand this, but it's awesome.