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If Paris were Los Angeles, the war in Ukraine would be near Memphis (i.redd.it)
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[–] 14 points 9 months ago (25 children)

This is a good reminder to those who keep asking “why don’t people in the US do anything about this regime?” Well because people who voted against all this (including their representatives) live thousands of miles away from the asshole who did. Should I go burn down my representatives offices even though they voted aligned with my choices?

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  • [–] 12 points 9 months ago

    I think a better argument is that a lot of people ARE doing what they can, and that the regime is making it difficult to do so. Also, if being immersed in the River Styx of Online Discourse for the last ten years taught me anything, it's that trying to call someone out for (percieved or actual) inaction or mistakes does not work.

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (11 children)

    "My country is really big therefore it's not my fault if nothing gets done about the regime that's fucking up my country."

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  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    "my country is really big and I do not have the physical ability, means, or resources to travel to where the problem is to effectively impose change"

    Your comment is literally proving it's right, you're too stupid, ignorant, or stubborn to consider anything other than what allows you to continue spewing nonsense

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago*

    And your comment proves you are ok with doing nothing. Fucks sake.

    Utter utter fucking BULLSHIT. It's all just trying to justify doing pretty much fuck all about the orange paedo and his goons. Fucking embarrassing.

    At no point did I say travel to the whitehouse and punch the kiddie fiddler in the face. Which is impossible. But where's the mass protests? No fucking where.

    Where's the general strikes? {tumbleweed}

    Where's, well, any decent effort at all? "Oh well, it's a big country so I'll just wait for someone else to do it".

    FUCK OFF with your "but it's miles away" CRAP. You guys live in a world where communication is almost instant yet there's hardly any protests. And yet in decades gone by people could protest without the internet. Why haven't you guys? Because most of you are ok with a child abusing, failed reality TV star, rapist dictator running things.
    Which, as far as I'm concerned, is tantamount to you condoning what he's done.
    FUCK OFF

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Proper shitamericanssay material.

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  • [–] -4 points 9 months ago*

    Fucking bingo.
    If my grandparents (and many others) had the thought process of "Hitler, pffft. He's in a few countries away, what can I do about it?", billions of people would be speaking German today.

    They fucking voted, or enabled, the obese child raping dictator to be president (TWICE) and now most won't do fuck all about it.

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  • [–] -2 points 9 months ago* (4 children)

    This is a real problem though. Democracy is a fuck-based system. Uneducated people fuck without protection more ofthen than educated people, which gives them more voting power. Minorities (mental or otherwise) are only protected if the big-fuckers want it, since by design majority wins.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I… what?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Every person (who is not deemed invalid, criminals cannot vote haha what if they change the law right?) gets to vote + Everyone's vote counts the same = If you have one child your family has 3 votes, if your neighbor has 4 children they have 6 votes. In a democratic event, if they can come to an agreement, they choose what happens without your input.

    Maybe in the next generation your children will out-procreate their children, then you get to decide without your neighbor's input. How isn't it fuck-based?

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago

    Except the quality of education and other sources of information one receives during life by far outweighs the genetic element of intelligence (which you are confusing with education).

    People getting dumber doesn't mean Idiocracy is a documentary - especially if it's happening too fast to be genetic. It's the education system that is cooked.

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (10 children)

    Secede. Also if the dems choices align with yours you're part of the problem.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    “I declare secede!” There, I did it. Happy?

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  • [–] -1 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    seppos when their sanctions hurt foreigners: They should rise against their authoritarian government
    seppos when asked to rise against their authoritarian government: it's complicated sweaty

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    Americans are not a monolith, and I doubt a lot of people believe these two things. And those that do need to be approached with kindness and understanding if we wish to change their minds.

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Why aren’t those Russians stopping Putin? They’ve had like 20 years.

    5 hours ago

    https://lem.lemmy.blahaj.zone/post/38369249/19125521

    Like just open their user profile, they did the thing within hours of me posting about them doing the thing.

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  • [–] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Let's see how USians approach the other side with kindness and understanding:

    “Send back their citizens. Especially oligarchs kids.”

    “There's no negotiating with russians. Either submit to them or wipe them out. Wake up europe, this is not news”

    “Russian federation is dismantled and cut into individual states that should commit to fair democratic elections.”

    “6. Russian language stops being the official language in russia, replace it with english 7. Russians are permanently barred from entering any NATO country, even as tourists. The current russians are deported. 8. Russia recognizes the territorial claims of all its neighbors”

    "11. Russian astronauts are ejected from the ISS into space."

    “Wish we could just put a huge bubble over russia and never have to worry about them again”

    “If I have to hear "oh but it's not all Russians" one more time I'm gonna explode. Fuck Russians.”

    “They should force all the Russians in Europe to watch this 24/7”

    “They should be kicked back to their country.”

    “All russians should be expelled from Europe once and for all. Never ever let any russian to come in Europe ever again.”

    “The nerves, audacity and the sheer perversion to commend in this kinda threads with "russia" as your country of origin just indicates that neither you or any of your your nation comrades have any remorse of what your country is doing. It's always about you, sociopathic behavior. I rather not let sociophatic killers and perverts enter our union or live, earn and enjoy their live in our democratic societies.”

    “Moscow should not continue existing.”

    “Any adult still living in Russia approve of the war by staying and not revolting, that's my take. They're all complicit.”

    “This is all Russia is and ever was”

    “Every Russian is complicit”

    “russia can never be part of the civilized world again”

    “When was this "before shit" time? Russia was, is and always will be a shithole.”

    “A russian being a total scumbag? What a shock”

    “He’s also a Russian who if you check Ukraine are notorious for being belligerent sociopathic bullies.”

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  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago* (3 children)

    Americans are not a monolith

    Proceeds to act as if America only has one view on Russia

    Man you people are really fucking dumb

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