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    I'm really very curious to wonder at what might happen at the May 9th Victory Parade in Moscow. It strikes me as a hugely-symbolic target for... something. Propaganda-esque, I'd hope, not something brutal and nasty, as much as that might tempt some.

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    • It Would Be A Shame vibes.palimpsest
    • ?Nairn
    • "not something brutal and nasty, as much as that might tempt some."
      Sounds like you're wishing for a terrorist attack.      palimpsest
    • Absolutely Not. I'm just having a hard time envisaging something savvy and clever that could untruck things.
      I thought you figured better of me.      Nairn
    • Mind you, perhaps they could ballistically trebuchet frozen dead orcs from Kyiv to the Red Square.
      That better?      Nairn
    • My mind always takes the worst route. As things have been going I can't see a reasonable way out. The only thing that could tip the scale is more violence.palimpsest
    • Yeah, hence my bleak thoughts on this y'day, thinking the Ideal We Want is a lot farther from grasp than we'd like to believe.
      Shit all around.      Nairn
    • I think I'm more worried now than I was a month ago.Nairn
    • I wouldn't say I'm more worried but I'm more hopeless. Like the first months after COVID I'm realizing we're in it for the long run.palimpsest
    • aha, yes. Quite.

      +1?      Nairn
    • russian version of this?
      https://i.imgur.com/…
      early celebration while nothing is resolved      pango
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