he… was
Which is why he can say it now instead of having to suck it up and smile for the cameras
The magas keep betraying, it’s their thing, and even Bush said don’t get fooled so many times. I really want putin to leave and stay in existing lands, has plenty so stop killing all these people and all the suffering. Stop the dictator bs and could have had a much better economy and quality of life for people there if he did the right things, followed the Nordic models. Estonia and others have advanced with their freedom from the unhealthy controlling ways and putin could have done all that too, but no, doubled down on toxic systems and scapegoat minorities. Same horrible policies always bring horrible results for the majority, but the wealthy benefit. The wealthy and powerful protect their benefits and privileges at the expense of the many as we can see over and over in history.
Betrayed now? Not after they openly mocked you for not wearing a suit?
People died because of this. Why would mocking his clothing even be a blip in comparison?
Because they were withholding approved military funding solely because he didn’t wear a suit…and all in attendance were mocking him because of it.
They were withholding funding because they are Russian compromised fascists who support Hitlerian invasions of neighboring countries. The complaint about his attire was just the lie of the day.
He ate shit and humiliated himself in front of the whole world on the off chance he could still get some benefit for Ukraine. This means he’s given up on them.
Politics
Exactly. This is a point he can push a lot harder as it’s a solid example of how the US cannot be trusted as an ally.
Trump betrays everyone but himself. Only someone delusional would think otherwise.
Only someone delusional would think otherwise.
Explains why Trump thinks he’s loyal.
In an un-fucking-believable move, the Americans stopped sharing intelligence and disabled Starlink’s military services, rendering Ukraine completely defenseless against Russian ballistic missiles just prior to a major attack.
This coming shortly after the US essentially negated its economic sanctions on Russian diesel and once again pressured Kyiv to unilaterally cease its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, even as Russia ramps up their own attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Trump is now publically aiding the Russians in their aggression against Ukraine and Europe
produced by Musk’s SpaceX but managed by the US government, was no longer working at speeds greater than 100mph.
That effectively rendered most of the drones used by Ukraine to strike behind the frontlines inoperable
Such a specific way to sabotage Ukraine. They didn’t shut down access, just made it so their weapons didn’t work.
They didn’t shut down access, just made it so their weapons didn’t work.
Those are the same thing. Ukraine wasn’t using it to shit post on X.
No, that’s a totally believable move. The American government are terrotists that have the American people held hostage. They will now do whatever they want regardless- and oftentimes to spite what the American people want.
And no one is doing shit about it.
Thank you for not seeing an entire nation as the worst of their parts. I’m trapped in the basement, but I’m trying the best I can. Many people far better than I are doing the same.
If the flame of love & peace dies, all is lost.
Blaming all the people in a nation on the acts of a runaway government is ignorance on display. Just like how all of the Russian citizens don’t support Putin, just like all of Germany didn’t support hitler.
People nowadays seem to have very little time for nuanced thought, and it’s just easier to all-or-nothing a situation because thinking can be hard sometimes.
I’m with ya.
Bro, every time I try to mention nuance on the internet, I’m immediately the bad guy.
Like I’m autistic as fuck, so I can be pretty rigid in the way I think, so I get, like, why people can be that way.
But like on the internet its like half of everyone is just borderline personality about everything. Like it’s fun to split people or some shit. Which hurts me to say, because BPD is… complex shit itself.
High highs become the lowest of lows. Bpd ain’t no joke. One day, you’ll wake up after dreaming about pulling glass shards from your feet and just suddenly be too tired to ramp up. It’s not a great feeling, but it’s much easier maybe. Then you just use whatever energy you have left to try. Because you have to. Sometimes it’s easy, sometimes it isn’t. You won’t have those soaring moments of clarity and hope, or the valley of despair. It’ll just be questions and trying, so learn how to remember or make something that reminds you that you once had the other sides.
The middle isn’t pretty, but it works. Or not. I recommend occasionally feeding the beast when you reach the middle.
Same. And while my ASD can also make me pretty rigid, I also know that the world we live in exists almost entirely within the grey area that lies between the polarizing black and white that everyone cannot see past.
And what bothers me the most about it is how rapidly it seems to be getting worse.
I had high hopes that nuance would be easier to maintain on Lemmy for years. But… no.
If I was a secret world ruling oligarch i’d want nations against each other
otherwise they might notice me and all my bunkers
Just wait 'till they dash down into their holes like the vermin that they are, only to find out many of us bribed the staff not to tell them about the toilets we upperdecked and the 200000000000 pillows we be-farted and left mints upon.
Pink eye for eternity
Imagine this if you will:
An entire society of elites, forced underground only to find out the Virtual Reality they invested in can’t be seen due to permanent pink eye.
A mole-like parasitic society haunted by ghosts stolen, trained upon the very things that hated them the most.
An artificial intelligence that would continue to exist because they couldn’t make new sequels to GTA without it.
A ghost.
All of this, beloved readers…would grow to haunt them like screams in the darkness.
We do it all the time. We hate all Russians because of Putin. We hate all Israelis because of Netanyahu. Why wouldn’t the world hate all Americans because of Trump?
Human nature.
I don’t hate Russians because of Putin. I don’t hate Isrealis because of Netanyahu.
I hate Putin. I hate Netanyahu. I hate Trump. I hate Xi Jinping. I hate Lukenshenko. I hate Kim Jong Un. Dictators.
I do hate people that believe they have superiority over anyone.
You’re a lot more optimistic about humanity than I am.
Fear and religious superiority is why the average Israelite supports Netanyahu. Apathy and a desire for racial superiority is why the average Russian tends to support Putin. Racism, sexism, and a desire to make their mediocre lives matter are why majority of American supported Trump.
Ignorance isn’t human nature.
I disagree. It very much is human nature.
Explain how fire was carried forward?
Did “Urk” walk into a cave whilst on fire and into “Groka’s” twignest?
No.
“Urk” stole “Groka” away from “Brantley” because motherfucking “Urk” had flint & steel and knew how to motherfucking use it!
“Brantley” was too busy groaning about how many trips it took him to carry twigs to the twignest.
Ive been going about this all wrong. Let’s not just dunk Trump in Boston harbor and haul him off to international criminal court. We need the whole gang. And a better form of justice. Fuck prison and fuck capital punishment.
Make them watch us make the world a better place, without them. They can be free, but never again shall they know power.
Facts.
I’m all for equivocation and nuance, but I must admit it’s really hard to get over the fact he was voted in twice. The danger signals were displayed loud and clear, and the US populace went “Yep, after the trial period, this is the guy for us”. Forgive me if that put a major dent in my trust in anything American.
I have empathy, but I’m not perfect. I’ve said fuck Ruzzia & fuck Israel myself. It’s hard not to, when you see what’s happening…but we only see what they want us to see these days, in many ways. They only allow us to feel what we do because it plays into some sick narrative … I’ve seen entire countries, cultures & religions blamed for injustices & atrocities, and now this burden has come back to haunt those who used it as a weapon. The people are simply hostages in an agenda that would drive you insane if you knew the truth of.
Well said.
Thank you. Caring in modern society is like walking through razor-wire.
I think I needed to hear your words today.
I mean it, thank you.
You’re absolutely welcome my friend! We all could use some encouraging words. Now more than ever. And I totally get the reference. It seems at every turn, there’s someone there to tell you you’ve done something wrong, or think something wrong. But remember, while in the hive, you’ve little to do but comply-
Outside the hive, bees are free.
They did the same thing last year, Ukraine and Europe has been preparing for this happening
Which I do feel is glossed over. Europe knew it was coming. Putin is cashing in his influence to make it one more day.
How much will it hurt Ukraine? We can only find out.
American conservatives hate Ukraine because their media has trained them to do so.
American conservatives have a greater affinity for Russian style domestic and foreign policy than they do with liberal democracy.
This is what American conservatives want. They want conservative chauvinism to bowl over the “leftist, globalist” world order with violence and abuse.
Most American Conservatives have no idea what Russian style policy is, or what life, even for “middle class” Russians is like.
They are passive, lazy and infantile people that just go along with whatever their peers and their media diet (Fox News, Talk Radio, Facebook, and now mass media) spoon feeds them.
The core of these people were always either racist or greedy or tolerant of racists for some other idiotic or bigoted reason.
This is what happens when you have a society of overly “soft” and spoiled people. People that have basically never experienced hardship for 2, 3 or 4 generations.
America happens to be the most powerful and most culturally dominant country right now, but this isn’t a special thing. It is human nature and America is just ahead of the curve.
2/3rds of the country endorsed this, or decided they were okay with it happening and did nothing to stop it.
And no, im not calling it Stockholm Syndrome when that’s total BS made up to cover for incompetent negotiators and hostage rescue.
Yeah, trump announced he would do this many times during the election (and his first term). The american people chose this. Twice. At least there is no war in the middle east…
Actually trump lied and said an end to all wars and no new ones. Kamala on the other hand campaigned with Liz cheny and promised to have the most lethal military on the planet.
He said he would stop supporting Ukraine, and he did. Krasnov is slow but he gets there at the end.
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idk at this point, those data centers going out sure makes it seem like there are a lot less maga than what appeared
No, it didn’t.
Very true. Also, every single spit-flinging accusation from magas has turned out to be pretty much what they were already doing, would do, or were planning to do.
… And they were BIG on accusing their opponents of cheating and rigging elections…
Not very true, you people swallowed propaganda hook line and sinker, lol.
Yep. MAGA, non-voters, and 3rd party voters opened this door.
3rd party voters are not the problem buddy, Capitalism is.
Centrist politics are going up in smoke across the western world and liberals still refuse to see that their rigid adherence to the status quo has failed to address the issues of the day. They’ll never accept their contribution to the resurgence of fascism.
Two things can be true
ROFL! Here’s one now!!
Found the Maga enabling tankie.
Even worse that they did it not just without warning, but without even a “hey we shut you off”. Just, system switch cut off.
And as others have said, not even remotely surprising at this point.
I’ve been dumbfounded at the US since the start of the year but I think this marks the moment where they are openly on Russia’s side against the West. Dangerous times. I’m rather worried at where this is going.
America is cancer.
dipshit trump betrayed mankind. And mankind betrayed themselves by letting him.
He’s like the Undertaker, who in nineteen ninety eight threw Mankind off Hell-in-a-cell, who then plummeted down 15 feet through an announcers table.
It’s an old quote, but it checks out.
If the American government reacts like this, then it sure shows how Ukraine is winning.
Ukraine is not winning. They are steadily losing territory.
Trump is a traitor. He should be treated as such.
I really hope the Ukrainians can continue winning the war without it.
Trump is a traitor, and he is insane and a liar and corrupt and has dementia.
But other than that, everything is fine. 🤥 🤡
I for one admire Zelensky for keeping it up until now. There are not many that could be in his position dealing with the Orange corrupted paedophile.
It’s because he puts the good of the country above his personal pride and feelings. He is being a true professional with the orange moron
Whilst it could be argued he’s not fighting in the war, he’s definitely put a massive target on his own head that is bigger than most soldiers, and keeps himself at risk.
You can hear the sound of Zalensky’s massive balls clanging together from miles away.
And unlike Trump, you can tell he isn’t worried about what people think of him. He doesn’t try to pretend to be a “strong man”
True and Russia would be dumb enough to try…
But I think that he would be a terrible strategic target. Weighing the value of his leadership versus the risk of martyrdom…
That’s probably because he was?
Did you expect them to treat you differently than all its other allies when supporting it isn’t convenient anymore?
I’m pretty sure Zelenskyy expected the worst, but what choice did he have?
Days after they warned of Russia’s growing satellite capabilities. Donald Trump should be tried and hanged for this shit.
Live on YouTube perhaps? If their own ideals had a shred of consistency, that is.
I felt this was going to happen eventually, I just didn’t know how soon. It also follows suit with Trump working to create a new world hegemony where he sees himself acquiring Canada and Greenland and letting everything else fall to Russia and China. The only way it can even begin to be real is with a world war where the US deliberately ghosts Europe and NATO, and it has already begun to do that.
You forgot Cuba and Venezuela, and likely more.
Taking some solace that while there’s a lot more than just Trump at work here, he is somehow the key figurehead that when he passes (how long can a fat 80 year old who loves fast food last, even with the best health care?) wil leave the broader movement unraveling.
It won’t unravel, it will just get more extreme from now on. This is not something you just democratically vote yourself away from. The very concept of democracy is almost no longer tenable given how techno oligarchs have perfected within their social networks what Cambridge Analytica started.
I don’t know, but I think we are headed towards the modern analogue of the sort of dark ages that have left empty capitals out of ancient civilizations that had previously been thriving, with AI and robotics being prepped to fill the voids. The value of human society is rapidly becoming less of a necessity for the ultrarich, with lies and deception are part of their core values - half truths and a tailored mix rationale and dehumanization that will sadly shape the future of our timeline by appealing to society’s baser emotions. I dread for our future and bid farewell to the sort of one that seemed possible from the world that once cooperated and averted the ozone hole from becoming a catastrophe.
These are just the necessary consequences of capitalism. Workers never had a choice in the system, we can only ever express our voice through collective action, like how the Civil Rights Movement was fought. This isn’t a new development, it’s a new stage in deterioration of the imperialist stage in capitalism. The solution is socialism, and the method to establish it is revolution. This has been clear for over a century.
Trump’s international policy is so incoherent it is much more productive to compare it with type 2 jam instead of international politics.
Trump feels that what is right for Trump is right for America. And though technically there is nothing wrong from a procedural point of view, he is completely stupid and does not understand that trust is a currency on the world stage and he just blew it all.
I won’t even get into the fact that helping Russia, who is helping Iran, is directly damaging the US. Surely someone near him has connected those dots
