Okay, fellas, there is a lot of nonsense takes about language in Ukraine flying around in the foreign infospace. “Oppressed” russian speakers? Everybody speaks Ukrainian? Sometimes it’s both, yet neither at the same time? How is this possible? Let’s discuss. 1/43 First things first, a disclaimer: I’m not a linguist with a shiny degree, just a guy living his whole life in Dnipro, a highly russified city, failed to switch to Ukrainian in 2014, succeeded after full scale invasion. So it’s just my personal perspective & experience. 2/43

Okay, wanted my first context thread to be about language situation in my country, but this catched my eye
Seems like US rightoid strategy is to get out of context videos of Zelensky to try to deprive him from his "masculinity"
Let me help you understand, what's up. A thread🧵 1/

https://twitter.com/charliekirk11/status/1630305715402469376

As you know, Zelensky was a pretty succesfull comic, bot only in Ukraine, but in USSR. He had made his own company, "Квартал 95" (district 95?), named after one of the districts of his home city, Kryvyi Rih (Crooked Horn in eng, because of shape). It produced... 2/