'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
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This is the lefty-ist space I’m in anywhere I am on the internet.
I interacted with plenty here who claimed they would not be voting for Kamala due to Israel despite knowing all the horrible shit Trump was going to do.
Now we all get to live it.
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yea, I was clumsy comparing the german communist and socialist party to those groups in the present-day US, especially given how vague the words left and liberal have become...but the lesson stands. Unity.
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I'm fairly left as well, and whenever I brought up strategic voting I was swatted down with "genocide" like the other person. I was event told by multiple "lefty" users that they hoped Trump won just so it would hurt the democratic party and "teach them a lesson". No matter that we'd be pouring gas on the fire and bringing shit home, they still had to TeAcH tHeM a LeSsOn. Ugh.
The only people who hate leftists more than rightoids are other leftists, and its for shit like that. Moral purity over pragmatism is no different than fanaticism in my eyes. As much as we may hate electoralism, its the only way to work within the system and not let fascists take over. But here we are.
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Reading your post I am reminded of the contempt I felt for the priority police.
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Agreed, we must all hang together.....
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it was just a show of good faith from trump to PUTIN.
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Indeed. Some Ukranians collaborated with Russia and presumably some still do..
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theres alot of ukrainians that collaborated with russia, or were part of the immigrated from the USSR era. we had one ukrainian math prof once, but she was nice and did not like russia, judging by the reaction when someone said russia and ukraine or the same.
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oh lol. I'm a bit thick sometimes
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yup. but putin was young. trump is old and aging fast so the direct applicability to the US is limited.
at this point that's the only nice thing. putin's old, trump's old, xi jinping is old. At least twp of them go out of commission in the next 5 years. -
44 months is simultaneously optimistic and pessimistic.
He'll either extend his tenure to a 3rd term or get himself and/or the entire U.S. killed.
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Putin also did red flag bombing on an apartment complex so he could justify going to war in Chechnya again.
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MAGA was never your friend. They are in it for themselves only and think Putin is THEIR friend.
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Imo, the problem with Trump isn't Trump himself becoming dictator. His years are numbered, thankfully. Him possibly irrevocably consolidating power in the executive and installing sycophants throughout branches will really fuck our government up, however.
That said, you can definitely see where Trump gets his inspiration, and it sounds like Putin had direct inspiration from Hitler's rise. Nifty!
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Notice how 90% of them disappeared after the election?
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While China's military power is still growing and not yet on par with the U.S., its ability to shape global affairs through economic and infrastructural investments is undeniable. This raises the question: Is China the world's only superpower now?
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Russia was fucked from the collapse of the Sovjet Union. Imagine if most of the US would be like Detroit in the late 90s.
Meanwhile Russians didn't have "experience" with Democracy and the institutions were not designed yet for it.
The FSB, ex-KGB and other intelligence/military started to organize the oligarchy as a mafia.
Saying Russians in 2025 wanted Putin becauae he rose to power back then and manipulated all elections since, is a bit unfair imo.
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You can protest, and you have access to weapons thanks to 2A. Americans can do much more than people in other countries.
The richest liars want you to think that you can only vote and then present you with the choices they have vetted to maintain the oligarchy.
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