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Feb 17 18 tweets 6 min read
A novel by Dostoevsky. Part II

As you know, a significant part of Dostoevsky's stories is murder and a court. In a novel written by 𝗰𝗼𝗿𝗲-𝗷𝘀 maintainer Denis Pushkarev this section is also presented. Let's look into it:

2/17 The good news is that we have a court decision! Oh, post-modernism, we can read the same story from a different perspective. Dostoevsky would like that!

We have a court ruling on Denis' case with some details I would like to share

web.archive.org/web/2020032516…
3/17 But before we start I'm adding a disclaimer. It's not a personal attack on Denis. I just want to show the twisted mindset Russians have due to the social and cultural environment they live in.

And that's what this story is about:
4/17 In 2020 Denis had an 'accident', as he named it.

Denis was driving a motorbike at 60 km/h In the night when he has hit two young women. One of them died. He summarized it as "shit happens". Image
5/17 Denis blames the victim (they were drunk, had dark clothes, it's russia, etc), while court didn't take his arguments as reasonable: ImageImage
6/17 But did he have a chance to prevent this tragedy? According to court - yes. The road was straight, the observability was good, as well as the weather conditions.

Yes, it's russia if you can be killed on pedestrian crossing and you get blamed for that! Image
7/17 Denis states that he could not see them as they were lying on the ground. If they were standing he would see them. Image
8/17 A strange argument, as there could be a road hole anywhere. His lights should be able to detect something on the ground. Russian roads are not that good to not to take that into account.
9/17 Denis tried to blame the victims, as (we remember that from part I) the only victim in this story is himself!

That crazy drunk girl unexpectedly died causing a disturbance in core-js maintaining process.

While Denis accepts his guilt he doesn't feel regret Image
10/17 Moreover, Denis blames the mother of the victim for bad upbringing.

That's sounds insane to me. Really. I don't know what to add. Image
11/17 Denis regrets the fact that he is not a privileged person and can't escape the prosecution.

That's how that society works. "Oh, I wish I could bribe the policemen and the court". Those are his thoughts that he thinks are acceptable. Image
12/17 Did you notice how he marked the victims? In quotes. Why?

Correct, he is one TRUE victim of that story.

What a plot, what a character, Mr. Dostoevsky, wake up, you are missing so much here! Image
13/17 So instead of Crime & Punishment that could be a story of Crime & Bribe but because evil corporations didn't pay him for opensource, that story didn't happen.

But thanks to the tech community who donated to him, now he has enough money for such cases.
14/17 That was a fantastic novel.

But I must say to all people who admire russian literature: you would prefer not to live inside their novels.

This is not fiction, though. And I'm sorry about the victims.
15/17 The final hypocrisy is Denis posting photo of his son trying to manipulate reader's emotion. And asks for money. Somehow, he didn't post photo of a girl he killed. But she was someone's daughter too.

Yet, you donated to him and not to his victims
16/17 That happened as he turned his library into a personal blog. #Opensource should stay out of politics. I agree with that statement.

Opensource should stay out of personal life. As you are not your opensource product. And sometimes a persona can harm the product.
17/17 How can russians kill so many people in Ukraine? Why don't they count other's lives?

That's why

🤔 Don't they have empathy?

🤮 No, it is you who must feel empathy to them

🤔 Why don't they sympathize the victims?

🤮 Because they are the only victims here

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@kovaleeeva туц, я тут продовження про автора core-js написав. Воно виявилось ще епічнішим.

Буду вдячний за ретвіт ) бубласонька

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