Is there something like a national collection in the US or Canada? In the Netherlands the national donation charity is at 16 million euro at the moment.
In the US, there is no one national organization collecting. Obviously, the US government has sent millions and millions of dollars of supplies and humanitarian aid, as have many other governments.
There wouldn't be a national collection but rather various charity organizations you can donate to. I don't know if it's just a cultural thing, political, or practicality measure (due to the undertaking of donations on a national level like this) or a combination. I couldn't tell you about Canada though but one of the Canadians on this thread might be able to. That's quite nice to hear about the Netherlands and that amount impressive in my mind.
I don’t think it’s ever virtue signaling for Ryan & Blake. They are almost always the first celebrities to offer financial support in these situations.
Yeah Ryan and Blake never came across that way. I was just thinking of comments people make when celebrities or well known people do things like this as in brushing it aside as some sort of virtue signaling and to me at least many times it's not that. With this war in particular I def. believe celebrities and well known people are doing this in a full on genuine way.
I get where you're coming from. Keanu Reeves is someone who comes to mind. He's private, chill and down to earth and does so much you just sorta hear about it every so often and not because he's publicly announcing it. In other ways I can see though how publicly announcing you're donating $X amount to this cause may spread the word on others to do it too. But I get what you're saying about SAG awards and others. I think for many of these well-known people with this war most often money is what they actually can offer. Elon is offering what he can offer with his tech company. Sean Penn went in with what he could offer (trying to do a documentary of what was really going on). I can see however how a statement of support can look in lieu of that and something else (money, resources, etc).
That's the same we hear here. Although here it says 80% was state controlled television, not media in general.
None of us like to see heavy-handed stuff like this, but it's a helpful reminder of the differences between a free society and a totalitarian one.
It's always interesting when hackers get involved. It weighs in on our right/wrong ideology towards hacking especially when oftentimes our lives are exposed and harmed due to hacking but then you get situations where hackers do things that you find yourself agreeing with such as this.
Gonna have to build some bigger prisons out in Siberia.
Or reactivate the old ones.
I quote the Wikipedia:
I hope that's true, but I have 2 issues with it. 1) You may be right about the convoy in the north, but the troops coming in from Crimea are trained and effective. They took Kherson, destryed the Vinnitza airport and are about to attack Odessa, both in the air and potentially amphibious assault from the sea. 2) If Putin feels cornered, all nuclear bets are off. We in the west must give him some sort of face saving off ramp.
