Interesting thread, also interesting for GCHQ and NSA to identify russian sympathisers and anti-vaxxers. I'm sure a couple on here just went on the watchlists.
Me personally I hope someone puts a gun to Putin's head and does the world a favour. I have friends in Ukraine that i haven't heard from for several days.
All I know folks, is that it IS now time to protest or propose.
We just went to the nuclear alertness level known as Defcon 2 AKA "Fast Pace".
If this goes on, they will be coming to intern me, just like in the film "Threads". How exciting!
*Edit* we are back to DEFCON 3 now. Which is a bit more reassuring.
And I do hope your friends in Ukraine are safe. as far as I can tell from my perspective, which is drawn from several sources, The Russians are making an awful lot of effort to preserve the civilian infrastructure and lives. They didn't for example: shut off the water and electricity(like we do, first thing, in desert countries!) The videos I've been avidly watching, show a mixed reaction amongst the locals politically, but they all would rather there was not a war. I'll be honest I tear up when I see a bunch of civilians walking along to an uncertain future with their suitcase and cat basket. I'm personally really, really, sick of watching wars and crises erupting. I hated what was done in my name in the middle east to real people, using cluster bombs and depleted uranium.
And as for "being on a list", if that's the cost of speaking ones mind or exploring all the available information in a "liberal democracy" (or whatever this system currently calls itself) then that's how it is.
I know I have a file, and was briefly assigned a "handler" at one point, due to something I blundered into. I'm quite sure they have enough information to accurately evaluate me. Some of it however shows both good natured military service, and a minor "favour" that I did back in the nineties. (for which my country thanked me and told me not to do it again!) They also know how good I am (or otherwise!) at processing information and drawing the correct conclusions.
If we have to be afraid of being placed on a list isn't that a bit middle twentieth century soviet thinking?
