Uh-oh... Are they calling it normal again?

[byslantedlight]

I've just had an email from lj about renewing my subscription, after several years when they emailed to say that they were extending paid ljs for free, what with the whole leaders-of-their-country-having-attacked-another-country, and clearly deciding that they really couldn't ask us to try and pay them money

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[byslantedlight]

Yes, I remember that there's been fighting since 2014, when there were protests against the then-Ukrainian-leader Yanukovych trying to take the country back towards Russia and away from trade agreements etc with the EU. The fighting certainly didn't start in 2022, but Russia certainly did escalate it then.

And quite right about the USA and it's long history of attacking other countries - it's by no means the "good guy" that it claims to be, and hasn't been for a very long time. I will yet again point out that people are still being held without trial at Guantanamo Bay, and were tortured there - for all we know they are still being tortured there. That is not the act of a truly civilised country.

As I've said before, I don't actually want to give the US my money any more than I want to give Russia my money, from a political and human rights perspective at the moment. They both need to sort their shit out as countries, and stop thinking that other countries can be bombed or threatened into submission. And of course they're not the only ones by a long shot.

But just because someone else does it as well, doesn't make an act okay or right.

[cloudless_9193]

I'm with you. As to the LJ payment, I think the sanctions against Russia are still in place, at least for us ordinary people, so it isn't even possible for us to send payments to Russia. Remember that using credit cards or Paypal means also giving the US your money, as I'm sure there are a thousand other ways, as Blackrock and Vanguard have control over a lot of the world's businesses. ;-)