Honestly feel horrible for Zelensky. Imagine having to sit there and be shouted down to by two men so obviously and utterly corrupt that they consider helping your country fight off tyranny to be a favour, as though that isn’t what the Western world should be doing by default.
as though that isn’t what the Western world should be doing by default.
Vaguely gestures at what the West has been doing since WWII. The only thing Trump is doing differently here is that the people he’s bullying are white.
Trump is mask off USA
If you cannot see how this is different than what has happened before, I don’t know what to tell you.
The only thing I can think of that compares (but on a smaller level) is what Trump did to the Kurds fighting ISIS in Syria.
Geopolitically it’s a pretty big deal, I know, but morally it’s very much in line with what the US does on a daily basis around the world. Just now it’s white people feeling the effects rather than brown people.
If you cannot see how often the US has been the invader, overthrowing a small country’s government for their resources, I don’t know what to tell you.
I feel like all the countries aided by USAID would like a word…
I’m very concerned about how many people mistake Trump’s attempts at appeasement as “peace”. People are actually buying that Zelensky “doesn’t want peace”. What can be done to change this narrative to the people who don’t get it?
True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I don’t think appeasement is the right word, as that would imply Trump is actually trying to help Ukraine rather than trying to slowly create a narrative to justify abandoning Ukraine to Russia.
The worst part is I would bet Zelensky is keenly aware of what Trump is up to, but knows any attempt to distance from Trump would only make it easier for Trump to justify abandoning his people to the wolves.
I don’t think it’s just abandonment of Ukraine. It is also Trump wanting to carve out his piece of Ukraine while Russia gets the rest. I think he thought he might be able to humilate Zelensky into signing away mineral rights.
I guess I used the word “appeasement” because it can resemble peace to the less knowledgeable people. I just don’t know how to get people to see the danger of this type of policy. I’m amazed at how many people don’t think that this will eventually affect them too.
They are not men. They act like boys.
Remember when the Republicans refused to take the Jan 6 impeachment seriously because he was not going to be in office by the time they completed the investigation, and they said that it would be a matter for the courts, and then the SCOTUS said that Presidents are immune to prosecution and the only recourse is impeachment?
Trump can be impeached again for everything and anything he did between then and now, including while he was out of office. He can be impeached for inciting the Jan 6 terrorist attacks, he can be impeached for his election interference in several states, he can be impeached for sharing state secrets and documents at Mar a Lago with foreign agents, and he can be impeached for just about any of the executive actions he’s taken since being reelected.
He should be, but there is a zero percent chance of the republicans holding him accountable for anything at this point.
Yeah, because that would set a precedent for holding people accountable. Even those who internally oppose Trump don’t want to relinquish their free pass on illegal and unethical activities.
Several Democrats who visibly “oppose” him too, from the look of it.
The Media is Complicit in Trumps escapades.
Especially with his second term, with how astronomically hard they worked to sanewash everything he said and did. because they’d rather sell out the country and their integrity, than dare risk losing access.
The Lügenpresse are no longer the enemy of the state… They are the tool of the state.
The 4th Branch of the Government, corporate controlled media.
Man I’m half tempted to make 70 accounts just to upvote you over and over again.
Not really, but damn this needs to be something everyone is thinking about.
Brazil has been dealing with this 4th power since the 1960s. The BBC doc “Beyond Citizen Kane” explains it well
That phrase was hammered into my head via Immortal Technique lol
Media during the election:
Kamala said “from” instead of “to” – does she have what it takes to lead the country?
Next up, how ripping apart trade agreements while pretending to be a truck driver is the what America needs.
Another thing the news won’t highlight is trump made all these deals with Canada and Mexico. It’s bullshit for him to turn around and start a trade war over them. They are his deals!
Dementia or something. Probably wants Mexico and Canada to be states if he can figure out how to deport all the Latinos/as further south.
That’s honestly probably why he isn’t calling for Mexico to be a state. Too many not quite white people.
I can’t decide if it’s pathological lying or he honestly doesn’t remember anymore.
One thousand plus likes on lemmy. First time I ever see that high of a number. Before upvoting I thought it was part of the image
People are starting to pour in from Reddit bans.
Personally I left because they increased efforts to ban 3rd party apps…
They can pry Boost from my cold, dead hands.
Mine stopped working yesterday, but there are fixes using the ReVanced Manager stuff
Now? Again? You’re not talking about last year are you?
There had been workarounds for a while, but all seemed like a pain in the ass.
It has been working fine since then, as long as you are moderator (just make your own sub). But now they’re banning specific user agents from accessing the API.
~ oops, meant to reply above you
So if I get moderator status on Reddit I can still use a third party app? Interesting. I don’t think I can be bothered though. I like it here and very rarely go back to reddit to lurk niche things I can’t find otherwise
Yeah, until yesterday Boost was working as usual.
Now you need to patch it. It’s pretty simple, though, takes maybe 5-10 minutes with this guide.
It’s a fairly regular occurrence if you sort by top day or week. However, it’s definitely at the upper limit of votes.
Maybe you’re right, but I don’t recall seeing it regularly. I always sort by new though, and when I made the comment this post only had a few hours
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Connecting the dots is too difficult.
I feel like it would be like mentioning Monica Lewinski when talking about Bill Clinton - everyone knows, everyone is sick of hearing about it - no matter how relevant it is.
And yet people - some people - still don’t know.
Except Ukraine actually fucking matters
I’m so confused by this tweet. No, I don’t remember. When?? He was impeached for denying aid when? Anyone have a source? Tweets are such shitty methods of spreading information. 150 characters are designed for misinformation.
On the off chance that you’re not kidding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_impeachment_of_Donald_Trump
They probably can’t remember because media companies swamped it with distraction articles and it never went anywhere because feckless Republican killed it in the Senate
Right! Thank you. I wasn’t kidding and I stand by what I said. I’m blown away by the replies to my comment too, because it’s true AND relevant. The deleted comments expressing hostility totally missed the point. Tweets are SUCH shitty ways of spreading information, but effective at misinformation. The right constantly makes fake history out of tweets like this one. when you see a wild unsourced claim that agrees with your worldview the smart thing to do is to question it, and look further into it. I wanted to see if anyone would actually try to educate me.
for real, what’s with this tweet? if it’s such a big cover up then why not include a source for it so people can learn?? I wasn’t even in the united states at the time. This is literally the first I’m hearing about it and I’ve been following US politics closely since I arrived here 5 years ago.
But no, it’s not an exposure problem it’s a YOU problem and if you dont remember then we are just better than you. That’s why the original tweet said “hey you know you no one else remembers this because they’re willfully ignorant?” oh wait no it didn’t, it said the media isn’t giving it attention, i guess that means we should link a fucking article god i hate social media sometimes
that’s wild, I definitely missed that. I knew he was impeached twice and did a lot more bs deserving impeachment, and that the second one was for sedition… I guess this one happened so closely to jan 6 that it overshadowed everything else
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Was just re-reading how Manafort installed Putin’s stooge before Zelensky. Trump seemed to have thought that’s who he could just call up and get to do his bidding. I’m saying he probably thought he was calling Yanukovych even though Manafort was his own stooge. I mean, that’s moronic and all but, it tracks, considering what we know now.
It wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
Typical bot propaganda
