In our house, we don't usually think of him, so he's mostly "that guy, whatshisname, y'know?"

Zelenskyy also denied the possibility of the full-scale russian invasion days before it happened.

The most fucked unit of measurement I've seen is your mom.

Nah, the bootleg merch we got in the post-Soviet countries had the black tail tip long before Pichu was a thing.

Be careful, made by russians, if you care about it.

Be careful, made by russians, if you care about it.

How does this change the fact that China attacking Taiwan would be bad? Whataboutism?

Why is that even a question? Why aren't more people doing it?

As a Ukrainian, it's hard to be certain, unfortunately

Come on, no one is saying that. But they need to at least acknowledge the mistake and apologize for it. Again, what's not okay is treating it as a normal occurrence, it's just a gift for russian propaganda then, "see, even leftist Americans know that Crimea belongs to russia" etc.

I hope you realize that that's even worse. Normalizing the acceptance of annexation is not OK, and when even the progressive crowd does it - that's just sad.

It's hard to take Rodnyansky seriously on this topic, when he was the one behind multiple pieces of russian propaganda, even pre-2014, often showing Ukrainians as quirky simpletons and/or drunkards, or just less-than. And I agree that people's opinions can change, and it's good that he has come to his senses, but it's hypocritical of him to pass judgements on this topic.