Russia unable to give up goals of special military operation — Lavrov

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The Kiev regime’s beautiful words about the equality of people are uttered to cater to the needs of the West. Russia cannot give up the goals of the special military operation, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov told a press conference on Russian diplomacy in 2022 on Wednesday.

"In September 2021, [Ukrainian President Vladimir] Zelensky said that the east of the country was populated by 'creatures', not people, and that those citizens of Ukraine who felt they were Russian 'should for the good of their children get out to Russia'."

This was said by the same person who now argues that he dreams of everyone being equal and of all people living the way they want. It is clear that these fine words are said to cater to the needs and tastes of the West. This strongly characterizes the current regime, and it is clear why we cannot abandon the goals, the basic goals of the special military operation," Lavrov said.

He remarked that he found surprising Zelensky's interview in which the Ukrainian president argued that "if Russia is allowed to win, then other big countries will decide that they can do the same, too."

"And since there are many big countries on different continents, therefore they will ‘strangle’ small countries and divide everything among themselves. Zelensky argued that he was for a different scenario - a situation where everyone on the globe will know that no matter where people live they have the same rights and enjoy protection like any person in the world," Lavrov quoted the Ukrainian leader as saying, adding that he was surprised by this interview, which was released in October 2022.

Nazi Police state formed in Ukraine with West’s blessing — Lavrov

A Nazi police state has been formed in Ukraine with the West’s blessing, according to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov.

Addressing a press conference on the results of Russian diplomacy in 2022, he said, "Work is in full swing to establish a Nazi police state [in Ukraine]. In fact, this process is virtually over and it has been done with the West’s blessing."

Ever since the first Ukrainian protest was held in 2004, Lavrov said, the West has consistently been putting pressure on the country to choose between aligning with them or staying with Russia.

"Those who opted for the wrong `or’ and relied on their historical and family ties, traditions, and religious beliefs with Russia, even though he or she lives in Ukraine, were first more or less delicately, and then ruthlessly ground up, expelled from politics, and prosecuted," the Russian foreign minister said as he pointed to murders of recalcitrant reporters and politicians, and closures of mass media for failure to reflect the official point of view.

Global economic crisis was in the making long before special operation in Ukraine — Lavrov

The global economic crisis began long before the start of Russia’s special military operation in Ukraine, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said on Wednesday at a press conference

"Of course, our Western colleagues tried to make Ukraine and what is happening around it is the main political, media and economic events, accusing Russia of the fact that the so-called aggression against Ukraine caused all the problems in the global economy. The statistics of the World Bank, IMF, FAO, and other international organizations convincingly show that the crisis was in the making long before the start of the military operation," he said.

The minister noted that the current events in Ukraine are "the result of many years of preparations by the United States and its satellites for the start of a global hybrid war against Russia." "No one really hides it," he added.

The minister believes that the process of shaping a multipolar world will be lengthy. "The process of shaping a multipolar world order will be long and it will take a certain historic period. And we are in the midst of this process," the Russian top diplomat noted.

Share of Russian-Chinese trade in national currencies continues to grow, says Lavrov

The share of trade between Russia and China in national currencies has reached roughly half of turnover, Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said at a press conference on Russian diplomacy in 2022 on Wednesday, adding that he believed this share would continue to rise.

Lavrov recalled the array of sanctions imposed against Russia with the purpose of harming the country’s economy. China understands that at some point the West may turn its attention on them, the minister said. It has already been announced that Western countries need to avoid any kind of dependence on the People’s Republic of China, he stated.

"That is why we, together with the People’s Republic of China, are moving gradually towards a reduction of dependence on those Western instruments and Western unreliable partners. Half of our trade turnover is already settled in yuan and rubles. And this share is rising fast and will grow even higher," Lavrov said.

Kemenag segera cairkan bantuan BOS madrasah swasta sebesar Rp4 triliun

Siswa madrasah belajar di lantai.
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Kementerian Agama segera mencairkan Bantuan Operasional Sekolah (BOS) Madrasah Swasta pada 2023 sebesar Rp4 triliun yang saat ini anggarannya sudah berada di rekening bank penyalur (RPL).

"Beberapa waktu lalu saya telah menyetujui pencairan tersebut dan sesuai prosedur per hari ini dana tersebut sudah cair dari Ditjen Perbendaharaan (DJPb) ke rekening bank penyalur BOS milik Pendis Kemenag RI," ujar Dirjen Pendidikan Islam Kemenag M. Ali Ramdhani di Jakarta, Rabu.

Dia mengatakan proses yang saat ini tengah berjalan merupakan pencairan BOS Madrasah tahap pertama. Anggaran tersebut akan diperuntukkan bagi 49.074 madrasah swasta.

Seiring dengan telah disalurkan ke RPL, pihak madrasah swasta sudah bisa mulai memproses pencairan sesuai juknis yang diterbitkan Direktorat Jenderal Pendidikan Islam.

Direktur Kurikulum, Sarana, Kelembagaan, dan Kesiswaan (KSKK) Madrasah M. Isom Yusqi merinci anggaran yang tersedia akan dicairkan untuk 24.034 Madrasah Ibtidaiah (MI) dengan anggaran sebesar Rp1,7 triliun.

Selain itu, 16.667 Madrasah Tsanawiah (MTs) dengan total anggaran Rp1,4 triliun dan 8.373 Madrasah Aliah (MA) dengan anggaran sebesar Rp801 miliar.

Berbeda dengan sebelumnya, kata Isom, tahun ini mulai diterapkan kebijakan BOS Majemuk untuk madrasah. BOS Majemuk merupakan kebijakan pendanaan BOS dengan variatif nilai sesuai tingkat kemahalan di daerah tempat madrasah itu berada.

Anggaran BOS setiap daerah nilainya tidak lagi sama rata, tapi variatif sesuai tingkat kemahalan di daerah tempat madrasah itu berada.

Ia mencontohkan besaran BOS MI, MTs, dan MA di Jawa tidak sama dengan madrasah di Papua.

"Dengan dana BOS Majemuk diharapkan madrasah bisa lebih memenuhi kebutuhan operasionalnya dan tentu saja akan meningkatkan mutu pendidikan di madrasah. Manfaatkan anggaran ini sesuai peruntukkannya dan secara akuntabel," kata dia.

Ia menambahkan Kemenag telah mempersiapkan aplikasi EDM ERKAM V.2 yang siap digunakan untuk proses penyaluran dana BOS dari RPL Pendis hingga rekening madrasah.

"Tahun ini tidak ada pembaharuan rekening, sehingga madrasah bisa menggunakan rekening yang dipakai untuk menerima BOS tahun sebelumnya," kata Isom.

Sore Ini, Airlangga Umumkan Ridwan Kamil Masuk Golkar

Ketua Umum Partai Golkar, Airlangga Hartarto dan Gubernur Jawa Barat Ridwan Kamil/Net

Ketua Umum Partai Golkar Airlangga Hartarto dijadwalkan akan menggelar pertemuan dengan Gubernur Jawa Barat, Ridwan Kamil di Kantor DPP Partai Golkar Jl. Anggrek Neli Murni, Jakarta, hari Selasa, 18/01/2023.

Santer diinformasikan bahwa pertemuan tersebut terkait dengan akan bergabungnya orang nomor satu di Jawa Barat itu ke Partai Golkar.

Menanggapi hal itu, Ketua DPP Partai Golkar, Dave Laksono irit bicara. Ia hanya memberikan kisi-kisi bahwa pertemuan digelar sore ini di markas beringin.

“Sore nanti jam 17.00 WIB di Kantor DPP Partai Golkar,” kata Dave saat dikonfirmasi.

Ridwan Kamil sendiri telah resmi menjadi bagian dari salah satu organisasi pendiri Partai Golkar. Di Kosgoro, Kang Emil, sapaan Gubernur Jawa Barat ini menduduki posisi Majelis Pembina Kosgoro 1957.

Adapun, mengenai posisioning orang nomor satu di Jawa Barat itu di Golkar akan diumumkan langsung oleh Ketua Umum Partai Golkar Airlangga Hartarto sekaligus memberikan Kartu Tanda Anggota (KTA) kader Golkar.

Hal tersebut juga disampaikan olehKetua DPD Golkar Jawa Barat Ace Hasan Syadzily, bahwa pengumuman disampaikan pada sore hari.

"Insyaallah. Sudah ada pembicaraan khusus antara Ketua Umum Pak Airlangga Hartarto, dengan Pak Ridwan Kamil. Jika tidak ada aral melintang, Insyaallah di Jakarta," kata Ace, Selasa malam, 18/01/2023.

Sebelumnya, Ridwan Kamil juga sudah mengamini bahwa dirinya semakin dekat menjadi kader Golkar.

Orang yang akrab disapa Emil itu belum mau bicara banyak soal kans menjadi capres atau cawapres usai menjadi kader Golkar. Meski demikian, ia tidak menutup kemungkinan untuk maju di Pilpres 2024.

"Insya Allah, mau masuk Golkar sebentar lagi," kata Emil.

Emil, sapaan akrab Ridwan Kamil mengaku sudah memantapkan diri sebagai kader Partai Golkar.

"Iya, sudah (yakin)," ujar Emil.

"Mau jadi tidak jadi, takdir Allah SWT, mau dengan siapa, takdir Allah SWT," kata dia.

Ketua DPP Golkar Dave Laksono mengatakan Ridwan Kamil sudah lebih dulu menjadi kader Kosgoro 1957, organisasi tulang punggung Golkar.

Dengan demikian, Dave mengatakan Ridwan Kamil sudah otomatis menjadi kader Golkar dan hanya tinggal menunggu waktu untuk diumumkan.

Ridwan Kamil juga sempat menjadi rebutan antara Golkar dan PAN. Kedua partai pernah saling mengklaim bakal mendapatkan Gubernur Jawa Barat tersebut.

Live Updates - Chechen fighters storm and seize Ukrainian fortified post near Maryinka

Head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov
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Fighters of a special Chechen military unit stormed and seized a fortified post of the Ukrainian armed forces near the city of Maryinka and captured a large number of Ukrainian servicemen, Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov has said on his Telegram channel.

"Fighters of the Sever-Akhmat special purpose regiment named after Hero of Russia Akhmad-Khadzhi Kadyrov have stormed a defended post, including fortifications. A major part of the adversary’s personnel has been killed, a significant number of Ukrainian servicemen have been captured," Kadyrov wrote late on Tuesday.

In his words, the defended post was set up in an advantageous position and included a line of trenchworks and defended firing positions.

"The seizure of this fortified post is a brilliant result achieved by our fighters. This fortified position was strategically important, and its seizure is a serious success on the Maryinka front," he added.

Contrary to Kiev’s claims, Ukrainian Orthodox Church not subordinate to Russia — diplomat

The canonic Ukrainian Orthodox Church is not subordinate to Russia, no matter how hard the Kiev government is trying to prove the opposite, Russian Permanent Representative to the United Nations Vasily Nebenzya said.

"In these circumstances, we do understand the statement made on social media, where the UOC claims that they never asked Russia to convene this meeting and never authorized us to speak on their behalf at the United Nations. This is true.

No one from Ukraine of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church has approached us with such a request, which however proves again that that the UOC is not subordinate to Russia, no matter how hard the Kiev regime would try to assert the opposite," he told Tuesday’s session of the UN Security Council, initiated by Russia to discuss human rights in Ukraine.

Special operation, January 17th. The main thing:

large-scale changes in the Russian army, in particular, an increase in its number to 1.5 million people, will be carried out in the period from 2023 to 2026, the Russian Defense Ministry said

Shoigu said that in order to ensure an increase in the number of the RF Armed Forces, special attention will be paid to the recruitment of contract soldiers, ensuring the supply of timely equipment, as well as increasing the ranges in existing military districts and new territories of the Russian Federation

Peskov, commenting on the message of the Defense Ministry, said that this was caused by the actions of the West, and stressed that the country's security must be unconditionally ensured

according to the RF Ministry of Defense, in the Kupyansk and Krasnolimansky directions, Kyiv lost more than 120 people killed and wounded in a day

Units of the RF Armed Forces of the Southern Military District, together with paratroopers, in the course of offensive operations in the Donetsk direction, destroyed more than 60 Ukrainian military personnel, as well as 10 pieces of equipment in a day

Units of the Eastern Military District and marines of the Pacific Fleet in the South Donetsk direction destroyed up to 40 Ukrainian military personnel, including two sabotage and reconnaissance groups, and five pieces of equipment per day

Russian air defense systems over the past day shot down six Ukrainian drones, 14 HIMARS and Vilkha MLRS shells, Tochka-U operational-tactical missile and HARM anti-radar missile

Acting head of the DPR Pushilin announced significant successes of the Russian military in the village of Maryinka: all skyscrapers in the city have been cleared, the village will soon come under full control

Pushilin added that the communication and supply of Ukrainian troops between Seversk and Artemivsk was cut off after the liberation of Soledar, and the Sol railway station in the area of ​​this settlement came under the full control of the Russian military

The head of the British Foreign Office announced that the UK will continue to cooperate with the United States to train Ukrainian soldiers and supply weapons to Kyiv

The Netherlands wants to join the US and Germany, which supply Patriot air defense systems to Ukraine, the country's prime minister said

❗️ The Russian MoD’s latest statements on the Ukraine crisis:

Russia’s artillery has launched strikes at Ukrainian units in the Kharkov region and the LPR.

A Ukrainian sabotage and reconnaissance group has been eliminated in Kharkov region. The Ukrainians have lost over 50 personnel, 1 tank, 2 infantry fighting vehicles, and 2 pickup trucks.

Russia’s units, supported by units of Airborne Troops, continued their offensive operations in the DPR.

Russia’s artillery units and the Pacific Fleet's marines have neutralized the concentrations of manpower and hardware of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in the DPR.

Operational-Tactical Aviation, Missile Troops and the Artillery of the Armed Forces of Russia have neutralized an artillery ordnance depot in the Kharkov region, as well as 82 artillery units at their firing positions, manpower and hardware in 98 areas.

Air defense units have shot down 6 Ukrainian unmanned aerial vehicles in the LPR and the DPR.

14 rocket-propelled projectiles launched by HIMARS and Olkha MLRS have been intercepted in the Kharkov region, in the LPR and the DPR.

1 US-manufactured anti-radiation missile has been shot down in the Kherson region.

1 Ukrainian Tochka-U ballistic missile has been shot down in the Zaporozhye region.

Some 372 airplanes and 200 helicopters, 2,891 unmanned aerial vehicles, 401 air defense missile systems, 7,549 tanks and other armored fighting vehicles, 984 fighting vehicles equipped with MLRS, 3,853 field artillery cannons and mortars, as well as 8,081 units of special military equipment have been destroyed during the special military operation.

Silicon Valley Lay-Offs Underline US Tech Sector Woes

Silicon Valley layoffs go from bad to worse

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Dozens of big and small US tech firms are laying off staff just two years after they embarked on a hiring spree. We take a look at where the jobs axe is falling the hardest.

The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns it brought saw a sharp rise in demand for software and tech solutions, as millions switched to working from home or just sat glued to online streaming and gaming services.

The ensuing boom saw firms across the San Francisco bay area's 'Silicon Valley' tech hub hiring on tens of thousands of new staff to cope.

But with the return to more-or-less normal life — barring the economic crisis driven by sanctions on Russia — the market has slumped and many techies are facing redundancy.

The big one is Facebook owner Meta*, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced he was shedding 11,000 jobs out of a total 87,000 in November.

A week later Cisco Systems, the firm named after its home city, decided to part ways with 4,100 workers, five per cent of its staff.

Then this January, Business software giant Salesforce said it was cutting its workforce by 10 per cent — around 8,000 redundancies — on top of 1,000 anno8nced in November.

Salesforce to Lay Off 10% of Staff and Cut Office Space

Salesforce, the business software giant, said Wednesday that it planned to lay off 10% of its workforce, or about 8,000 employees, and scale back office space because of concerns about the economy.

Salesforce is laying off about 8,000 employees and cutting back on office space.Credit...Jim Wilson/The New York Times

“The environment remains challenging and our customers are taking a more measured approach to their purchasing decisions,” Marc Benioff, the company’s co-chief executive, said in a note to employees announcing the cuts.

Salesforce’s revenue, like that of many other technology companies, boomed during the pandemic when more people around the world worked from home and relied more heavily on technology to collaborate with colleagues remotely. In his letter, Benioff suggested that the company had hired too aggressively during that period.

Salesforce employed just under 80,000 people at the end of October, up from about 48,000 three years earlier.

“We hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing, and I take responsibility for that,” Benioff said.

A Salesforce spokesperson said the company had no further comment on the cuts.

The layoffs cast the tech industry’s slowdown into even sharper relief. In recent months, tech giants like Amazon have slowed down hiring and cut jobs, while smaller companies like Lyft and Stripe have also announced layoffs. Many of the industry’s largest firms have reported financial results suggesting they were feeling the effects of stubbornly high inflation and rising interest rates.

The company estimated that the changes would cost up to $2.1 billion. Salesforce is offering U.S. employees a minimum of five months of pay, as well as health insurance and career resources, Benioff said. Most of the cuts will be made “over the coming weeks,” he wrote.

A Salesforce spokesperson said the company had no further comment on the cuts.

Salesforce’s sales grew by 14% in its latest quarter, the slowest pace in years; it projected even slower growth in its current quarter. Other tech chiefs, such as Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, have recently admitted to hiring too many people as they rushed to make cuts. More than 150,000 tech workers were laid off last year, according to Layoffs.fyi, a site that tracks job cuts.

In November, Bret Taylor, Salesforce’s co-chief executive, announced he would resign from his post and leave at the end of this month. In December, Stewart Butterfield, the chief executive of Slack, a workplace communication platform owned by Salesforce, also said he would leave his position by the end of this month. Salesforce bought Slack for $27.7 billion in 2020.

Salesforce is the largest private employer in San Francisco, and its flagship office building is the city’s tallest.

Silicon Valley layoffs go from bad to worse

Shortly before Thanksgiving, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy confirmed rumors that layoffs had begun in multiple departments at the e-commerce giant and said it would review staffing needs into the new year.

On Wednesday, Jassy provided a sobering update on that review: Amazon is cutting more than 18,000 jobs, nearly double the 10,000 that had previously been reported and marking the highest absolute number of layoffs of any tech company in the recent downturn.

Social media companies have struggled with a pullback in digital advertising in particular. Meta, which owns Facebook and Instagram, cut 13% of its employees in November and said its head count would remain “roughly flat” through the end of this year. Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, laid off 20% of its employees in August, blaming challenging macroeconomic conditions. Elon Musk, who purchased Twitter for $44 billion in October, has slashed the company’s workforce by more than half.

Mengapa 'FAFO' yang menakutkan, lucu, dan tidak senonoh menjadi kata terbaik tahun 2022 di USA

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Amanda Katz Washington, D.C. Amanda Katz adalah editor tugas senior untuk Opini, tempat dia bekerja sejak 2022. Dia sebelumnya adalah editor di CNN, Boston Globe dan Bloomsbury Publishing, dan telah menulis untuk New York Times, Boston Globe, Slate, dan publikasi lainnya.

Pekan lalu, American Dialect Society mengumumkan hasil pemungutan suara untuk Word of the Year 2022. Kali ini, menurut saya, masyarakat menjadi gaul-esoteris, "Covid" tahun 2020 dan "pemberontakan" tahun 2021 yang terlalu diperlukan digantikan oleh akhiran "ussy", yang belum pernah saya dengar di alam liar dan, eh, akan menolak untuk menjelaskan di kolom koran keluarga.

Tetapi dengan segala hormat kepada kru ahli bahasa masyarakat yang terkemuka, menurut saya itu adalah pusat penulisan perguruan tinggi dari Sioux Falls, S.D., yang memakukan kata tahun ini dengan pilihannya: FAFO. Jika Anda belum tahu, FAFO adalah singkatan dari "eff around and find out. ( masa bodoh dan rasakan )", Ini adalah cara yang kurang ajar untuk memberi tahu orang-orang bahwa jika mereka bermain api, mereka mungkin akan terbakar — atau untuk mengumumkan bahwa mereka sudah terbakar.

Geng Sioux Falls memberikan pandangan positif pada FAFO, mengutipnya sebagai mewakili "keberanian" sesama siswa mereka "ketika menghadapi tantangan baru" dan mencatat bahwa Urban Dictionary menyebut frasa tersebut sebagai "seruan percaya diri". tapi itu juga jauh maknanya lebih dari itu.

Tahun 2022 adalah tahun dimana FAFO, yang meningkat sejak 2020, mencapai zeitgeist budaya pop. Jesse Sheidlower, seorang leksikografer dan editor buku "The F-Word," mengatakan kepada saya bahwa dia telah menelusuri frasa tersebut sejak tahun 2007, yang berasal dari bahasa gaul Afrika-Amerika, tetapi dia baru benar-benar menyadarinya beberapa tahun yang lalu.

Di Google Trends, Anda dapat melihat FAFO secara bertahap meningkat dan kemudian melonjak pada Desember lalu. Saat itulah Kanye West di-boot dari Twitter karena men-tweet foto yang tidak menarik dari memelord platform yang berubah menjadi tuan, Elon Musk.

Bagaimana Musk menjelaskan keputusan eksekutifnya? Dalam tweet empat huruf yang memaksa orang dewasa sebenarnya yang mengikuti pertengkaran ini untuk mencari tahu apa yang dimaksud FAFO. Maaf, semuanya.

FAFO

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) December 2, 2022

Singkatnya, FAFO mengenang YOLO ("Anda hanya hidup sekali"), akronim serupa yang meledak dari ketidakjelasan menjadi di mana-mana setelah lagu Drake menempatkannya di peta pada tahun 2011. Tetapi jika YOLO sebagian besar adalah istilah yang ceria dan berhati besar, FAFO memiliki efek yang lebih keras. Itu percaya diri, pasti. Tapi itu juga peringatan, dan ekspresi kegembiraan pada seseorang yang mendapatkan pembalasan mereka, memang getaran tahun 2022, keduanya sama - sama mengocok perut juga membuat mual.

Sisi baiknya: 2022 adalah tahun ketika mungkin, mungkin saja, orang-orang yang melakukan hal-hal bodoh atau mengerikan (penipuan pajak, menyerang negara-negara kecil, membuat penawaran meme gulma yang berlebihan untuk situs media sosial) akhirnya akan menghadapi beberapa konsekuensi. Bisakah Anda melakukan itu? banyak yang bertanya selama era Trump. Bisakah Anda berbohong, menipu, menipu, menyalurkan dolar pembayar pajak ke bisnis Anda, merebut alat kelamin orang tanpa mendapat hukuman? Nah, tahun 2022 menyarankan agar Anda tidak bisa, atau setidaknya tidak sepenuhnya. "segera, cari tahu" adalah cara yang nakal dan memuaskan untuk merebut kembali tempat tinggi

Paul Waldman: Kebenaran dapat mengalahkan 'gaslighting'*), kata tahun ini. Tapi tidak selalu.

Namun itu juga merupakan tahun peringatan yang menakutkan bahwa apa pun yang kamilakukan mungkin akan terjadi, di mata seseorang — dan itu tidak akan berakhir dengan baik. FAFO, lucu dan mengganggu, adalah ejekan bermata dua yang menutupi kedua skenario: senjata untuk kita, senjata untuk mereka.

Bukan kebetulan bahwa untuk melawan lagu YOLO Drake, "The Motto," saya dapat menemukan setidaknya tiga lagu berbeda berjudul FAFO, semuanya melibatkan paduan suara yang mengancam di mana para pemuda dari berbagai demografi (seorang komedian, seorang "rapper MAGA" - ya, memang - dan Southern-fried White rap-rock dude) melantunkan kalimat itu pada musuh mereka, dan pada Anda. Saya mendengarkan lagu-lagu ini dan berpikir untuk tidak menulis tentang FAFO sama sekali.

Tetap saja, orang-orang muda yang pemarah, dan saya kira bahkan Musk, menyukai sesuatu: FAFO tidak dapat disangkal menyenangkan untuk dikatakan. Ada aliterasi itu, keharusan yang tampak sebenarnya adalah ejekan (seperti "datang dan dapatkan"), dan rasa balas dendam yang benar. Atau, benar jika itu adalah tujuan Anda, apalagi jika tidak.

Anda dapat melihat daya tariknya yang luas dalam cara penerapannya di seluruh spektrum politik: oleh Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) paling kiri berbicara tentang Donald Trump; sebagai meme pro-Demokrat 2020, terkadang dipasangkan dengan maskot Philadelphia Flyers bermata liar, Gritty; sebagai slogan anti-antifa, pro-kekerasan oleh Proud Boys.

Anda bahkan dapat menonton seorang profesor memplot frasa sebagai dua variabel pada grafik, di TikTok yang menjadi viral karena absurditasnya. Katakan apa yang Anda mau tentang FAFO, tetapi itu pasti memiliki jangkauan.

When I asked Sheidlower why he thinks FAFO is so popular, he acknowledged that it’s a “punchy phrase” suited for these extremely online times. The FAFO shortening, which he dates to at least 2012, is “easier to type on a phone,” he wrote in an email. “It's not obscene so you can use it in more contexts.”

Saat fajar tahun 2023, saya tidak melihat tanda-tanda bahwa semangat FAFO yang keras, lucu, kesukuan, dan menghukum akan ketinggalan zaman. Tetapi saya mencoba untuk merangkul kualitas terbaik dari frasa tersebut - yaitu, bahwa berusaha dapat dilakukan dalam semangat kreativitas, dan bahwa mencari tahu bukan hanya sebuah pratfall tetapi juga sebuah wahyu. Saya berharap FAFO yang lebih sehat tahun ini - sebagai berkah, bukan kutukan.

Note :

*) Gaslighting adalah sesuatu yang membuat seseorang tampak atau merasa tidak stabil, tidak rasional dan tidak kredibel, membuat mereka merasa apa yang mereka lihat atau alami tidak nyata, bahwa mereka mengada-ada, bahwa tidak ada orang lain yang akan mempercayai mereka. Gaslighting melibatkan ketidakseimbangan kekuatan antara pelaku dan orang yang mereka gaslighting.