'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
'We've lost a partner and a friend': Ukrainians somber as U.S. partnership disintegrates
Ukrainians “couldn’t cope without American weapons and support,” Yuliya Antonyuk, a 42-year-old real estate agent, told NBC News.
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Sorry Ukraine. Turns out most of the US is either just fucking evil, or not bothered enough by evil to lift a fucking finger to stop it.
I really thought we were better than this. We've failed the entire planet.
Update: Angry rant delivered as promised.
I've been calling my congressman's office to angrily rant at his staff every other day for the past few weeks. I plan to do the same tomorrow and Ukraine will be the topic of my rant.
Not sure if it will do any good since he's a shithead Republican and probably doesn't care about my opinion.
ha. well I'm not evil, I care, and I haven't lifted a finger. why? cause the way it works here is money. if u want to do something, no matter how good or evil, you need a lot of money...
did you vote? because a lot of people didn't even do that.
yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.
the
richestmost convincing liar usually wins and my vote doesn't really matter... but it's all I can do so 🤷♂️They were saying that, if you at least voted, you've lifted a finger.
I feel you though. Being a lone voice in a county that went like 93% Trump, it definitely feels like my vote doesn't matter. Hell, our mayor at the time was caught drunk driving with his niece in the car after a fundraiser, told the cop 'do you know who i am' and threatened his job, and he STILL won by a lot.
oh lol. I'm a bit thick sometimes
yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.
Far more than lifting a finger. That alone puts you in the non-evil third of our population.
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.
The crazy half is in control right now and there's not much we can realistically do. With the amount of Republicans who like the current situation and bootlickers who are indifferent protests or other means aren't likely to affect anything. Maybe if the US slides into another great depression public sentiment can shift enough to make a change but until then no one should be treating us like a rational country.
The crazy half is in control right now and there's not much we can realistically do.
That's defeatist. There is a lot that can be done. You could pressure your representatives to gum up congress so much with filibusters, and unnecessary votes to slow down what Trump can actually get done. You could join the democratic party with others and start demanding that they change from within. You could support local or internet grassroots campaigns who resist Trump. If the only thing you're going to do over the next four years is wait to vote Democrat again then there's not much you're realistically Willing to do.
I have been, Trump's not really using congress he's EO banging and violating the constitution and courts are slow to react, if they even will stop him. Even in congress you have to convince Republican congresspeople whose constituents LIKE what's happening.
I never said give up. Keep trying. Just other countries shouldn't be expecting this shit to work and the US to magically be rational again in a couple months. We could be under a Republican dictatorship, a military coup, or a civil war in the next couple years for all I know. We're unstable.
My rep doesn't give a shit lol, he's cheering it on
What have you done to stop this?
Voted against it directly, voted against it indirectly in every smaller election I've been eligible for since 2016, phone canvassed against it, volunteer for local orgs that are targeted by it, and am vocal on and offline against the Nazi rhetoric currently taking over our government.
Why, am I only allowed to criticize evil if I've aimed a gun at it or something?
What about you?
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.
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.
You really don't seem ok.
Cut the manipulative bullshit, it's fucked up seeing how you're behaving in this exchange.