• Mihies@programming.dev
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    26 days ago

    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.

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      26 days ago

      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”

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        26 days ago

        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…

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      26 days ago

      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

    • BillCheddar@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago

      Why does Ukraine need to do something for the US in order for the US to help Ukraine defend itself from the goddamn Russians?

      Do you only help people with the expectation of personal gain?

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      26 days ago

      Keeps the russians at bay and fights for democratic values. Which then leads to people buying american products and oil. This was well understood decades ago, you need to catch up with the times

      • jumping redditor [they/them]@sh.itjust.works
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        26 days ago

        the current orangatang clearly does not want the russians at bay, nor does it care about democratic values. I just dislike the term “betrayed” when it should have been obvious to everyone that the US was eventually going to stop helping them.

    • Buffalox@lemmy.world
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      26 days ago
      1. They abandoned their nukes on a promise that USA would protect them.
      2. They are defending democracy against a totalitarian regime. Something USA claims to support.
      3. They are fighting against Russia that is undermining USA and allies.
      4. They are buying weapons through the coalition of the willing at a 10% surcharge from USA. All weapons to Ukraine are taxed an extra 10! by Trump, so USA is making huge profits from Ukraine!!!
      5. They have supported most of Trumps peace proposals, it is Putin that refuse to negotiate anything but complete surrender.
      6. Ukraine supported Trumps idea of NOT bombing energy infrastructure and actually stopped. Except it was only within hours that Russia attacked another Ukrainian power plant!

      If I was moderator here, you would be insta perma banned from all subs I moderated!

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      26 days ago

      They produce beautiful kids, which then get trafficked via Lolita Express to Epstein Island.

  • switcheroo@lemmy.world
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    26 days ago

    Ofc the Orange Plague is mad. The Russian propaganda machine is down and not spewing bullshit into MAGAt ears.

    Keep it up Ukraine.

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        26 days ago

        Not sure why you’re being downvoted.

        Russian web crawlers went down, propaganda bots did not. At best the propaganda bots depended on the crawlers to find new content to comment on, but afaik there’s not much data indicating that the social media botnets went down.

        • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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          26 days ago

          Probably downvoted because they tried to disguise their statement as a question that they didn’t want answering.
          Which I personally feel is just a way to diminish OP’s credibility but not look like they are trying to argue.

          They could’ve shaped their comment in any number of positive ways, such as posting links of it being disproven. Or asking for such links and proof.
          However they went with an elaborate “NUH UH, parrot, lol” instead.

  • metermatic26@lemmy.worldOP
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    26 days ago

    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

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      26 days ago

      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.

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        26 days ago

        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.

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          26 days ago

          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…

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          26 days ago

          idk at this point, those data centers going out sure makes it seem like there are a lot less maga than what appeared

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            26 days ago

            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…

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        26 days ago

        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.

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          26 days ago

          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.

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          26 days ago

          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.

      • brem@lemmy.world
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        26 days ago

        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.

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          26 days ago

          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.

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            26 days ago

            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.

            • brem@lemmy.world
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              26 days ago

              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.

            • Pratai@piefed.ca
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              26 days ago

              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.

          • bobjones1665@lemmy.world
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            26 days ago

            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.

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              26 days ago

              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.

              • bobjones1665@lemmy.world
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                26 days ago

                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.

            • brem@lemmy.world
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              26 days ago

              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.

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                  26 days ago

                  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.

            • Darkmoon_AU@lemmy.zip
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              26 days ago

              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.

          • brem@lemmy.world
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            26 days ago

            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.

              • brem@lemmy.world
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                26 days ago

                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.

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                  26 days ago

                  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.

          • Cheebus@lemmy.world
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            26 days ago

            If I was a secret world ruling oligarch i’d want nations against each other

            otherwise they might notice me and all my bunkers

            • brem@lemmy.world
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              26 days ago

              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.

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                  26 days ago

                  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.

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      26 days ago

      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.

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      26 days ago

      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.

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        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.

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    26 days ago

    Days after they warned of Russia’s growing satellite capabilities. Donald Trump should be tried and hanged for this shit.

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    26 days ago

    I think Zelensky has done a really good job overall in a really bad situation, but you don’t have to read much news to know both Trump and Musk and terrible people and nor to be trusted.

    Be happy it lasted this long when dealing with these two billionaire psychopaths.

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        26 days ago

        Well, for what its worth - the amount of blood on Trump’s hands is nowhere near Putin’s BY A LOT. That doesn’t make it any better though. both cant go to hell soon enough.