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[–] nkat2112 107 points 1 month ago

Concerning whatever this felon awaiting sentencing might say, recall that the opposite is true.

Slava Ukraini!

[–] boydster 88 points 1 month ago (1 children)

He'll say the same to Taiwan, too

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I mean, only if that's what Xi writes on the check's memo line.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I just refuse to listen to a chronically lying fat fuck who shits himself on the regular

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

He's way too deep in bed with Russia, and has been since the 90s if not earlier, to ever be taken seriously. How the fuck he wasn't disqualified and charge over election interference and acting as a foreign agent in 2016 is beyond me.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (7 children)

Guys, I’m starting to think this trump fellow is a goddamned fucking moron whose evil is not limited to sexual assault and fraud.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

he is a dumb man. he is a dumb man, i know him. i can tell you surely he is an excellent idiot. great idiot. bigly.

[–] ephrin 6 points 1 month ago

I’m shocked, I tell you, just shocked.

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[–] [email protected] 59 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's making big sense lately why tankies LOVE trump so much.

He supports their favorite dictators very well.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I hope all the tankies and "genociders" will vanish after november so we can have normal discussions.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

The worst thing about genocide is how it prevents internet liberals from shitposting in peace.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Voting trump won't stop it. Voting kamala won't stop it. Voting third party won't stop it. Widespread protests won't stop it. But go ahead and explain how we're all culpable regardless.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Trump laid blame for the conflict on President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris, his Democratic rival in November. He said Biden “egged it all on” by pledging to help Ukraine defend itself rather than pushing it to cede territory to Russia.

“Biden and Kamala allowed this to happen by feeding Zelenskyy money and munitions like no country has ever seen before,” Trump said.

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Why didn't he resolve the conflict during his presidency?

Or we also believe him that it didn't exist when he was president? His first impeachment was for blocking already approved aid.

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

It's great when his arguments only strengthen my resolve to stand with Democrats in supporting Ukraine.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

"they didn't extort ukraine for oppo research hard enough!"

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

feeding Zelenskyy money and munitions like no country has ever seen before

Except the Soviet Union during WW2. But we all know Trump is on the wrong side of that one too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Have you heard the joke?

Putin summons the ghost of Stalin. "Help me Stalin, I'm having trouble with nazis".

Stalin says "Just do what I did. Send in your best troops, the Ukrainians, and ask the US for supplies."

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 month ago (64 children)

Saw this just after reading the post about Russia knocking out Ukrainian citizens' ability to heat their homes this winter.

Any tankies wanna weigh in on why this is acceptable?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

Russia good, West bad. No further thought required.

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[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago

I am flabbergasted. Who would have thought that a man with decades long ties to Russia, who's met with and spoke highly of Putin, who had russian spies crawling all over his first presidential campaign, who's backed by russian oligarch money, would say such a silly thing about Ukraine.

They're planning an offensive that has moscow scared enough they are rattling their nuclear sabers. Seems like a poorly thought out move for a "destroyed" country and that their hegemonic buddies would advise them against rather than helping them tool up for the fight.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You know when you go to a movie and it looks amazing but turns out to be just the same fucking trope of a shitty guy with a sack of money belonging to an actual real bad guy and instead of just delivering it, the shitty guy blew it?

Now you gotta sit through two hours of him verbally fellating the guy then getting actually scared? That one?

Anyone else hate that trope?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Why do you hate No Country for Old Men?! (LOL, it's pretty close.)

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Ukraine may be in rough shape, but no real fire fighter would stop trying to put out a fire at a burning house. There is always something to save.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Not that I disagree about Ukraine but a good firefighter would probably know if a house is a lost cause and that the best course of action is to prevent the fire from spreading to others.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago

Almost as if no analogy is 100% perfect

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

They would also yell at the people holding back the water.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 month ago

Its almost like thats exactly what has happened and is still happening. Russia would be on its knees if we actually stopped holding Ukraine back

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

If Trump is elected, the USA would also be demolished, but you should not give up the entire country.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“If they made a bad deal it would’ve been much better. They would’ve given up a little bit and everybody would be living and every building would be built and every tower would be aging for another 2,000 years.”

Just a little appeasement, what would go wrong. Of course I can believe he's fully unaware that Ukraine tried that twice already in the Minsk agreements.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yeah, we should make him president...see what happens. He's angry, just a little appeasement would help. We just gave up a good century of women's rights and LGBTQ rights. We could start slavery again to hopefully have a good country again 🙏. What could go wrong. Right?

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Trump more and more desperate for those Russian funds. Probably gets $1 million for each Ukraine/Zelensky diss.

And he'll still get up in front of Americans and claim he's not taking the side of the most belligerent enemy of democracy on this planet.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

Trump always sides with himself.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I WONDER WHY ITS DEMOLISHED, MAN IF ONLY WE KNEW.

jokes aside, this is to be expected from trump, nothing less from him is expected.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

I wish someone would demolish his old fascist ass.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I wish someone would demolish his shit spewing face.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

only his deepest depraved disciples would still believe anything that ignorant ass says

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