I have been lucky enough to see it in person a few times (stationary as well as during landing/takeoff) over the years, as it occasionally passed through PANC during international flights. It’s difficult to explain how massive it is. With photographs, it just kind of looks like a really big aircraft, but in person you…

It doesn’t matter any more than the Louvre, except this was a useful tool used to help people. It was of no military use to have it or to destroy it - except destroying it as a FU to the people of Ukraine.

Besides the whole national pride thing everyone’s mentioned, this jet has a long history of helping with large humanitarian relief efforts. It potentially helped saved millions of lives moving around covid PPE. It’s arguably a symbol of peace and world betterment, and its destruction through such a callous, selfish…

I appreciate his sense of patriotism, but I’d think the last thing you’d want to do is piss off a Russian arms dealer.

All the money in the world to buy a yacht, and the interior still looks like my grandma’s kitchen with a “everything must be brown and wood” color scheme befitting the 1970s era in which it was last renovated. 

I love that he’s out on bail, letting everybody know he’s heading home.

Watched a documentary about this recently. Such a fascinating aircraft!

Given most people aren’t actually anti-mask, your sweeping generations don’t really hold up. Most people are also vaccinated, with the COVID vaccine having the highest adoption in history.

If you’re familiar with international travel, you’re familiar with showing up somewhere and catching a mild cold or similar. Probably going to the UK this summer (family), and I’ll be masked. It's just one more way to mitigate another mild inconvenience, covid notwithstanding. I like to take a shit before I leave the…

Any possibility that we could get Russia to grant Santino Ferrucci citizenship?

I think companies trying to find loopholes for selling carcinogen sticks aren’t quite as bad as a totalitarian regime that oppresses free speech and decided to invade their neighbor just to stick it to “The West”. But to each his own.

That was never in question. Everybody knows how & why Mazepin got his seat.

his dads gonna start using ground up Ukrainians for his fertilizer business.

We have strong laws against hate crimes and groups up here, to the point of freezing bank accounts.

Man, if only we had clear cut case studies of emergency authorizations being used to take civil liberties away permanently...

I’m sure you’ll be crucified for saying this, but it’s true.

Oh so protesting is a crime now? Are you only allowed to protest when the government says it’s okay?

You have two options:

Parliamentary approval is the literal definition of the whims of the party in power.

Nothing like “emergency powers” being used to take people’s private property without recourse.