• @amazing_cat2357@lemmy.world
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    156 days ago

    I feel bad for him, he is trying his best yet we got people like Dump bullying him on the global stage for not wearing a suit and “not doing enough”

    • @Renohren@lemmy.today
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      157 days ago

      Tell me about it. Started resistance training to strengthen the shoulders, they started feeling weak, then the knees started to act up, stopped skipping leg days. 47 is a bummer physically (for the rest: I’m still 25 in my own head).

    • @CitizenKong@lemmy.world
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      46 days ago

      I’m 45. :,) You really have to do sports regularly, better daily at that point. If I don’t do some sports for a week I immediately feel horrible.

      • @gamer@lemm.ee
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        46 days ago

        If I don’t do some sports for a week I immediately feel horrible.

        I’m under 30, and I feel like that when I don’t go to the gym for a few days. That’s probably not specifically an aging thing.

    • Yerbouti
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      96 days ago

      Ah ok, you’re a facsist troll. Congrats on making me waste my time.

    • @Olgratin_Magmatoe@slrpnk.net
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      6 days ago

      Exactly what about this post is a half truth/lie/false information/etc?

      Or are you using the more lax definition which means anything that attempts to effect public opinion?

      • @GaMEChld@lemmy.world
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        297 days ago

        FDR was a great man but he was forged in the fires of a time far far worse. I shudder to think how bad things need to get before we get leadership like that back.

    • @takeda@lemm.ee
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      247 days ago

      I still cannot believe we are betraying them, the Europe and featuring ourselves and I feel powerless to stop it.

      • @ByteJunk@lemmy.world
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        97 days ago

        Look for the protest actions, join them. Like, casually, just happen to be there.

        You’ll probably find like minded people there and as you connect to more people, that hopelessness will go away!

      • @Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
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        97 days ago

        Delete the first word of that post. Your post now starts with “One”, and from there you change nothing.

        NOW your post is accurate.

    • @sartalon@lemmy.world
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      67 days ago

      Ok, full props to Zelenskyy. He is certainly doing a better job than any current leaders I can think of and he should have been able to count on the U.S. for full support. I would even support deploying our own troops.

      But better than any leader the U.S. has had for 100 years? That’s quite the suck up. You can respect and support without being a blatant kiss ass. It’s embarrassing for you and for him.

            • @Womble@lemmy.world
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              167 days ago

              He served five terms because he was so good he was massively popular, the conservatives paniced and pushed for term limits afterwards as they were scared of the idea of people running with policies that benifted the majority of people repetedly getting long periods of power like that.

  • @Doctor_Satan@lemmy.world
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    It breaks my heart. I have a few Ukrainian coworkers (working remotely), and when we jump in Slack and I chat with them now compared to when we first started working together, all I hear is the weariness, the sadness, the loss. This woman designed all of our proprietary software, and she was always such an upbeat, motivated badass. That cliche of a person “lighting up the room” when they walk in? That’s her. Now though? She’s had to move three times to avoid bombs, and even though she’s safe now, she’s lost something that I don’t know if she will ever get back.

    What I see in this picture of Zelenskyy is what I hear in her voice every time I talk with her. And it makes me fucking furious.

    • @AHuman2@lemm.ee
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      217 days ago

      I have a Ukrainian friend since like 2015, he is US citizen now. since last year they force smile and socialise less, just trying to stay busy with their kids.

      It’s so painful that I don’t even know how to talk to him about this anymore. I just let him drive the conversation for most part. Most of the time, in the back of my head, I feel the pain of his family/relatives who have been displaced/disabled/dead.

      I can’t imagine losing your homeland to a cruel dictator.

    • @margaritox@lemmy.world
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      56 days ago

      I’m Ukrainian living in the US, I know.

      And yet, there are idiots all over social platforms who bitch (and even joke!) about how they’re “tired of giving money to Ukraine). I only wish they knew how painful that is to see. I wish that they at least had the courtesy to keep their mouth shut.

  • ohellidk
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    7 days ago

    Mad respect for the man. He really loves his country. Maybe some of our “leaders” should take note. This is what a true badass does when a lot is at stake.

  • @inOut@sh.itjust.works
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    Like the Obama photos, but with war included. That shit ages a person. Even a president.

    I have been re-watching servant of the people, and it’s just so apparent the amount of stress this man deals with on a daily basis. What a fucking hero.

  • @alxmg@slrpnk.net
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    747 days ago

    Absolute hero this man, every European and democratic country should hope to have its own Zelenskyy.

    • HunterLF
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      157 days ago

      He wasn’t always like this, he was a normal person, a good comediant, but when great and heavy responsibilities come, you change with the times, and for this man, times have been hell. I don’t want to be him, knowingly sending my troops and young people to die because of a (insert a bad word for Putin).

      • @alxmg@slrpnk.net
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        76 days ago

        I bet many people, professional politicians, people with no principles that care only about money, would’ve run away leaving their country to suffer. This man had the strength to change and demand help for his own people, that makes him great honour.

      • If I remember correctly he was playing in a comedy as a guy who gets kinda accidentally elected, and based on the show he was kinda accidentally elected - half as a protest, half as a joke.