quoms:

When they don’t or can’t move people, demonstrations, marches and “occupy” movements are insufficient. It’s not enough just to be there: The movement has to join or become a political party, the street leaders have to become politicians.

anyone else ever think about how much anne applebaum just sucks

wasn’t there a day’s fluff last year when Julia Ioffe or Masha Gessen or one of The Atlantic’s post-Soviet R2P types was described as “a Russian (Polish?) Jew” somewhere?

cause that tag did read as coming out of nowhere, but on thinking there is something, along the lines of

“born into overlapping narratives of Eastern European betrayal and abandonment that none of the nationalist projects fully address, ended up with an emotional investment in post-Cold War NATO unlike basically anyone else in the world”