PugJesus @ PugJesus @lemmy.world

Cripple. History Major. Irritable and in constant pain. Vaguely Left-Wing.

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Obviously Russia’s Genocide of Ukraine is bad. That’s not up for debate.

Until the question of doing anything about it comes up, in which case it very quickly turns to "Well, suddenly I'm a fiscal conservative" or "Russia has Legitimate Security Interests 🥺"

"Genocide bad, but we can't actually do anything that might fight it!"

Isn't that the exact position you criticized mainstream Dems for, just on Palestine?

If this outcome (which many leftists correctly predicted) was known to Ukrainians three years ago,

"We predicted that we were going to help the GOP elect a Russian puppeted fascist three years ago, because NEOLIBS are worse than fascists, and the lives of minorities and foreigners don't matter . "

Quite a prediction from 'many leftists'.

do you think Ukrainians would have been as enthusiastic to fight? So America can put a straw in their ground, and slurp up their minerals to fund Raytheon.

Do I think Ukrainians would have been as enthusiastic about not being genocided if America wasn't supporting them?

Yes. Most people who aren't ghouls think that.

To be fair to the Germans the mud hut would probably apply to almost all the countryside in the empire. The prosperity of Rome wasn’t spread out that evenly, both geographically and socially.

There are two things to clarify in this:

1. The Germanic tribes in the 1st-3rd centuries BCE-AD were monumentally impoverished and technologically backward, including compared to their non-Roman neighbors in Gaul before it was conquered.
2. While the prosperity of Rome was concentrated in urban areas and the upper class, there is considerable evidence of increased living standards, including in the construction of rural houses, during the height of the Republic and Principate.

The parts of the economy that are/were going well are from Biden’s inflation reduction measures. Likewise, the shit economy in 2021 was what Trump’s COVID response brought him. Like it sounds like a double standard on the surface, but the idea is that Trump and Musk are currently breaking the government, but people are only going to start feeling it in a few months.

That's a fucking dream. People don't react to reality. They react to their perceptions. And everything has been tee'd up for the Trump regime to dictate the perception of the mass of Americans who don't follow politics or don't care, in addition to already controlling the perceptions of their party-line goons.

Trump, like Hitler, will be able to run the country into the ground, and still have majority support a decade after everything has been turned to rubble.

Sorry that I think Ukrainian genocide is bad. I know that's a radical opinion on the performative left.

Polls from Gallup, Ipsos, CNN, and Quinnipiac show Trump's approval rating between 45-47% while one from YouGov puts him exactly at 50%.

This poll:

Donald Trump's favorability stands at 50%, with a net favorable of +7 points.

Yeah. There's nothing like cutting our own throats.

It doesn't matter that we've always fought to eliminate fraud and waste and that the GOP is full of frauds. They support Dear Leader 'eliminating' fraud and waste.

Facts don't matter, man.

What a lovely duo. About what I was expecting considering the podcast's name.

All of Trump's key policies received majority support except for renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, with deportation of illegal immigrants who have committed crimes (81%), eliminating fraud and waste in government expenditures (76%), and closing the border (76%) as the top three most supported policies.

Surely the proletariat will express their disgust with fascism any day now, we just had to Teach The Dems(tm) first. Any day now.

FFS I’m just so tired of that orange bastard, get your shit together USA, isn’t this why you have that second amendment???

Unfortunately, most Americans either support this moron or just don't care.

I'm sorry. We're a very broken society.

Not just Fox News zombies.

But yes. Most Americans are really stupid and ignorant.

The Blowback season for Ukraine is going to be great 👍

Would you like to clarify what you mean by this?

Client states, who knows what degenerate thoughts they Google

"Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion", effectively a term for anti-discrimination measures employed by organizations.

(I mean, they were Romans too)

GREEK SYMPATHIZER DETECTED, OPINION REJECTED

The Greeks can only object to Romans(I mean, they were Romans too) sexually harassing their twinks because they wanted to do it themselves. I believe it is Greece that was famous for it’s practice of paederasty.

"Only WE get to sexual harass our teen boys!"

Also, why do you only include contemporary greek territories in Greece? What about Ionia and magna Graecia?

I'm not the map's maker, I'm too lazy for that kind of meme work 😭

This but also after meeting Karlach

Explanation:

In the spring of 9 BCE Drusus, this time as a consul, again led the troops deep into Germania. He attacked and defeated Khatts, Swabians, Marcomanni and Cherusci. He crossed the Weser and reached the Elbe. It was the farthest point in Germania that a Roman army had ever reached. In order to consolidate the gains, he took many measures: he built fortresses along the Elbe, Weser and the Meuse, he organized a permanent flotilla on the Rhine. Apparently, he was dissuaded from crossing the Elbe by a vision in which the supernatural-sized apparition of a woman foretold him his impending death.

Explanation:

In the spring of 9 BCE Drusus, this time as a consul, again led the troops deep into Germania. He attacked and defeated Khatts, Swabians, Marcomanni and Cherusci. He crossed the Weser and reached the Elbe. It was the farthest point in Germania that a Roman army had ever reached. In order to consolidate the gains, he took many measures: he built fortresses along the Elbe, Weser and the Meuse, he organized a permanent flotilla on the Rhine. Apparently, he was dissuaded from crossing the Elbe by a vision in which the supernatural-sized apparition of a woman foretold him his impending death.

Most of Siberia was only colonized in the 17th and 18th centuries. Even then, it was (and to some degree, still is) a peripheral region of Russia - most of the population (80%) is in European Russia.

Siberia also isn't where Napoleon or Hitler were stopped at.