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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

Dec 12, 2023

The other day, I saw a video of a Palestinian girl in Gaza, about 8 years old. She's wearing a pink top and gold earrings; her dark, braided hair is covered in dust. The person behind the camera asks her about the neighboring building; she says, Yes, my best friend lives there.

The camera pans to the building, which is just pancaked and turned to rubble. The camera pans back to the girl, who is asked what happened to her best friend. She's dead, the girl says. I saw them bring her out of there. She's martyred.

Her face is expressionless, blank.

The person behind the camera offers his condolences and asks if she knows where her dead friend will go. Paradise, she says, as if by rote. Good girl, the person behind the camera says, before the girl interrupts him and says, She's dead. Dead.

She is completely blank.

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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

Oct 12, 2023

Until the last few days, the phenomenon of Western lefties defending barbarism in the name of a desired utopian, egalitarian ideal was a historical abstraction to me.

I had read about Westerners defending Stalin's purges and collectivization campaigns and thought, well, their ideological fervor was probably just amplified by the difficulty of getting good information out of the USSR.

But now I see that's not it.

Then, as now, there was plenty of information to understand what was really going on. It's just that the ideology IS about this, it IS that ends justify the means. It's how we got the Red Terror, the Great Terror and this—Western leftists cheering all the while.

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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

Sep 1, 2023

A story:

I've had an online stalker since 2019. He is a former Army Ranger that did time for assaulting a federal officer, who told me "they should put your ass to sleep." In 2020, he won early release bc Covid, at which point he started emailing me about "a Covid 19 date." 1/

I didn't respond but I called the police. They investigated and a male detective called me back and said, essentially, "well, if you never said 'no' to this guy, how is he supposed to know that you don't want him to contacting you?" Apparently, not responding wasn't enough. 2/

The detective's advice: next time he gets in touch, tell him not to contact you again. "But do it nicely and don't tell him you contacted the police," he said. "You don't want to make him mad."

I did that and didn't hear from him again. 3/

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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

Feb 28, 2023

A 6th grader in Russia drew an anti-war drawing in art class. Her father was detained and beaten by the FSB, who also had "a discussion" with the girl. She was taken to an orphanage, the single father is facing criminal charges and loss of custody.

meduza.io/feature/2023/0…

Their home was searched, their savings seized. During his time at FSB offices, they hit the father's head against the floor and the wall, then left him alone in a room with the Russian national anthem at full volume for two hours, at which point an ambulance had to be called.

This is, sadly, not the first criminal case involving a minor accused of anti-war agitation in Russia.

Old habits die hard.

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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

Nov 22, 2022

https://twitter.com/bgrueskin/status/1594815252339646464

Part 1:

https://twitter.com/bgrueskin/status/1594815252339646464

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1594863646244745216

Part 2:

https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1594863646244745216

https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status/1594818655044395010

Part 3:

https://twitter.com/BGrueskin/status/1594818655044395010

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Julia Ioffe

@juliaioffe

Oct 12, 2022

@TuckerCarlson

Hmmmmm, I wonder why @TuckerCarlson left all this batshit anti-Semitism out of what he aired on @FoxNews ? 🧐

vice.com/en/article/3ad…

@TuckerCarlson

@TuckerCarlson @FoxNews At another point, when complaining that his children are going to a school that celebrates Kwanzaa, Ye added, “I prefer my kids knew Hanukkah than Kwanzaa. At least it will come with some financial engineering.”