yeah. these are people who think the new president takes office election night, think the federal government does ballot measures, and haven't ever really voted in a national election that wasn't for president. it's not mental gymnastics to not know things
I've run into some trump voters who aren't worried about project 2025 because "i'm going to vote against it in 2025" and it's like… goddammit, why did the republicans get so good at propaganda so fast (hint: Russian money)
see… but… i don't think the dickhead wants the farmland in ukraine, i think he hates ukrainian people. he's mad they don't just fall in line and do what he wants. they have their own culture, and their own ideas about how the world should work, and those ideas don't involve him being in charge of them. i'm very close with some ukrainians and the one thing they share, despite very different backgrounds coming up, is a strong belief that everyone deserves to be treated with dignity, respect, and the allowance to be one's own true self.
that this idea is prevalent amongst ukrainian people even after so many centuries of russain oppression is dangerous to the russian autocrat. he rules through using terror to crush a person's spirit to resist his power, and not only does ukraine resist, they give a place for other forces to resist, too, like siberian anarchists. he is not trying to gain land, i don' think, i think he's trying to kill an idea. he wants to kill the idea that anyone other than himself can be in charge
this assumes he gives a shit
Glenn Youngkin sucks, but also, the democrats suck for not recognizing that if you're running ads saying "a vote for glenn youngkin is a vote for donald trump" and the republicans are running ads saying "a vote for glenn youngkin is a vote for donald trump" you might have a problem on their hands. so glad the dems could test their strategy in virginia, lose, and then learn NOTHING
they've been asking literally all their allies for glass. it's been a constant struggle for them to get aid, especially as the western countries they used to rely on shifted focus to helping Israel
that still doesn't explain using an icbm against a nation you share a border with. there's some message russia is sending. it's either "don't forget, we have icbms and they're operational" or it's "we are running low on standard missiles and have to fight weird"
also ukrainian winters are notably brutal
nah that's right. we've sent ukraine a shit ton of basically decommissioned shit. and even then we've been weirdly stingy, and unresponsive to their non military aid requests (their biggest ask is glass)
i'm not referringeto the vote delta between trump and harris, i'metalking about the vote delta between biden in 2020 and harris in 2024
it's inspired by lemmy but seeks to addres; community concerns stemming from that programming is a form of communication and the things the lemmy project owners value as messaging are vile
Well y'all finally went and did it. You got me to comment in your community, so now I gotta post something before I leave. I hope you're happy. I mean honestly. Is this what you wanted? Do you like this? Do you like my shitty shit post?
Don't ever let it be said I don't follow the rules
Posting from my alt account because file uploads seem to still not be working on beehaw
For the screen readers: This is a very small preying mantis that was on my door this morning. It is about the length of my first finger's first bone (the finger tip).
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a interesting mixture of concerned, disappointed, and hungry