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Has your view of the world changed? Are you more paranoid or disillusioned? Thanks for doing the AMA and for helping those women.

Holy shit. That's discomforting news. I knew that there were people who thought that boston bomber kid was too cute to be in prison but they were mostly teenage girls.

I found a little bit of insight to this from a comment by Volsunga:

edit: I should mention as it has been pointed out that one redditor's words do not necessarily paint the opinions for every Ukrainian. This is just one voice that I found particularly interesting.

Well, the answer is a little more complicated than it first appears to Westerners. In WWII, the Nazis were viewed as liberators in Ukraine saving them from the Soviet and Polish occupations that severely persecuted Ukrainians. Today, this translates to symbols that the West views as "fascist" or "racist" being used to represent anti-Russian imperialist ideas. While, like in every country, there's a minority of extremely racist people that are part of the protests because they hate Russia, most of the people using the "fascist" symbols are using them as simply a rallying point against "soviet expansion". The radical right and racists are a small minority within the movement, but the use of their symbols as simply nationalist resistance symbols is much more common and an easy target for people trying to discredit the protests in Western eyes. The same thing happens in the Baltics, who have a similar experience of WWII to the Ukrainians. You wouldn't think of Lithuania as being a fascist state today, but if the government was bought out by Russia against the will of the people, you'd see the exact same thing there.

Especially when you first have to be honest with yourself.

Is there something like a make a wish for Foster kids? A charity that grants wishes or provides fun for kids in the system? There should be.