'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
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But I got the opportunity to make a dumb joke about math that you seemingly got mildly butthurt about, so really it all works out.
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You criticized people for "not lifting a finger" and get mad when someone asks which finger you personally lifted? You are only allowed to criticize people for living their life if you are not a hypocrite. It sounds like of the items you listed I'd describe 60% as barely lifting a finger (phone canvas, minimal value; "vocal" online, zero value) and 40% as definitely lifting a finger (volunteering at unspecified org) which makes you not a hypocrite by my personal math.
I personally have no intention at all of answering your question because I didn't make any statements as generally attacking as your own to start with, and feel no need to justify asking you to show your stripes.
I am not sure where guns came into play. However, I don't think you should be owning guns: you don't seem 100% stable given the disproportionate response, and I would worry that disproportionate response would come out while driving or other stressful activities.
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Not lifting a finger means the literal bare minimum: voting. In the face of evil shitstains like Trump, a third of the country couldn't even be bothered to color in a quarter-inch rectangle in opposition, they just shrugged and let it happen.
...and that first half of this comment is more directed any onlookers who happen to wander into this conversation: As for you, your sea-lioning is glaring as all hell. Take that shit somewhere else.
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You really don't seem ok.
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Fuck I am naively hoping elections in Germany […] go well...
They won't. Source: am German
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Plenty of examples in my country (France) as in any of my neighbouring countries.
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Good point. Would LOL if it was not so terrifying.
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I hate Illinois Nazis.....
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I read my reply a few times now, and I'm not seeing what makes you think my feeling was hurt? I was by no means offended, thought we were just talking?
If I had been offended, believe you me, you would know.
Regardless, wasn't offended before, and certainly not offended now. I work construction, have my whole adult life, being delicate doesn't do one any favours.
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Because democracy and freedom are hindrances to his grifting. In authoritarian kleptocracies like Putin's Russia, they let you grift as much as you want.
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I reject the mainstream argument from the liberals that trump is somehow getting played by putin or that putin has a video of him doing Epstein things.
I think he knows exactly what he’s doing. I don’t think putin has anything on him. I think he has identified that Putin is who he wants to be like and if anything, I think he has dirt on Putin to force him to help trump.
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Cut the manipulative bullshit, it's fucked up seeing how you're behaving in this exchange.
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He already allowed putin to play him like a fiddle and needs to lean into it now. I liken it to the saying, " You can't unlick a butthole"
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Since you asked the part that stood out was very small
I guess I could have easily said that in the first comment.
Feels a little: ugh sure I guessss I could have explained more, so tedious
Clearly this was a misinterpretation.
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What's your retirement age now?
But genuinely, I'll accept that as generally true. One issue we have that you don't is you can get to the actual capital of power in like 5 hours from anywhere in the country. A very large swath of the more liberal population of this country lives 50 expensive driving hours or a very expensive flight away and there are very few labor protections. Most businesses are run by people who are on the side of the government, meaning you are asking folks to lose their job, fly or drive ~5000km, all to stand outside a place with armed riot police with signs. That doesn't sound appealing, nor does it sound effective based on the violent and blatantly illegal actions undertaken by the us government in DC and Portland during the previous trump administration.
So then the question becomes: is it time for an actual armed protest. Is that the right step?
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Are you really comparing a country quickly becoming a nazi dictatorship with a democratic change to align with demographic considerations?
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No, very clearly not.
I'm commenting on the effectiveness of a course of action.
Are we not in the same thread?
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The electoral college was actually intended to prevent this exact scenario. Of course, it failed spectacularly.
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As much as it pains me, same. Lots of Americans are going to die, but at this point we deserve it. We've been sleepwalking into fascism for over 40 years, and have ignored every single warning we were given. I used to care about us being united, because I know what the fate of red states will be if Balkanization happens, but now? Fuck 'em. Let's just split apart so we no longer have to support all these MAGA welfare queens in Alabama and Mississippi. Let corporate interests swoop in and go full classical colonialism on their weak economies. If they really want to work in sweatshops for nickels, fuckin let them. My blue state is strong enough to stand alone, I know most other blue states are, so what's the point in defending the people a collapse will hurt the most when they voted for it?
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Please, Reagan would be fucking thrilled. After the Republicans installed their dream government style in Russia after the Soviet Union collapse, it's been their goal to bring it to America. The only thing that would make Reagan disappointed is that he didn't get to be king.
