#yes ''and what have you done to stop the war?'' nothing significant fuck off preemptively. this is my blog where i vent

[theskoomacat]

like. i get it. art is important. art that goes against authoritarian governments is important. but i've felt helpless regarding the russian political situation way before i was actually allowed to vote. and every time the news mention that yet another anti-govt singer/band has released a new anti-war album i feel the same helplessness as i did back when the only left-leaning presidential candidate we had whom i was supporting barely managed to reach 1% during the election. what is all this, why are we doing this

#i'm sure this is somehow helpful; many of them donate profits to the ukrainian army; people probably feel inspired thanks to them #still. it all sounds like the orchestra on titanic #"war is bad'' no fucking shit #wait what was that vonnegut quote #''During the Vietnam War... every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in #the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high.'' #it is more significant and dangerous to be against (or even mention) the war in russia than it was in the us and yet. same pie different #flavor #yes ''and what have you done to stop the war?'' nothing significant fuck off preemptively. this is my blog where i vent #you really don't have to care