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    Zelenskys expression is like when your kid shows you his rocks and sticks collection.

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    This guy is just so fucking cringe I’m getting third-hand embarrassment through my phone.

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    Instead of mildly infuriating, I would call this vicariously embarrassing.

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    I’d be embarrassed if my country and its terrible leaders hadn’t already killed that part of me over the past decade.

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        i hope this time the democratic party parades dick cheney himself to get the huge “moderate republican” voting bloc

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    Imagine being Zelenskyy, your soldiers dying on the battlefield, children abducted and your cities bombed. Daily.

    Now here you are, having to pretend being interested in some narcissists fascist cap collection

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      I hope Zelensky goes back to comedy after his political career. So much source material!

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      Must take every fiber of his being not to just beat Cheeto chimp into a quivering pile of piss & shit.

      Imagine how powerful Z would appear by doing that?

      Yes, I believe Z would still make it back to Ukraine.

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      I honestly don’t know why he even takes these meetings with trump. I don’t want to sound like an asshole, but damn, it really makes me wonder about his intelligence and really, just his awareness in general. Its so fucking obvious he’s going to get nothing from these meetings even before they happen. Just seems like an extreme waste of time for a man that has much MUCH bigger things to deal with.

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        Even if you know you’re going to lose a match you still show up to play. Zelensky is playing the game that’s politics and yeah I bet he knows how trump doesn’t give a fuck or care besides the last compliment he received but Trump gets to say yes or no especially to the arms deal was “talked about” for 100 billion so Us gets money and Ukraine gets “NATO 5 security protections” how ever doubtful is going to happen he has to play or at least be there to listen to the and be able to use his for voice for his country’s survival. I get and understand your view and frustrations as from well and if we can see it here “arm chairing” the situation from here I’m sure it’s plenty palatable on what the situation is there on the “ground floor” . Look how levity acted right after the meeting with Putin and everyone reaction who attended meeting after, there faces and tone said it all the US is capitulating to Russia over allies and Ukraine and from the look of things that’s probably not going to change with the tan mango or US foreign policy as brine soon. Hope you don’t take this as me disagreeing with your perspective because if you’re not frustrated and upset you’re not paying attention. I want Ukraine to win and the clock is running on time and support as more countries still move towards the far right with elections results and the US isn’t helping things in that sphere either… sorry about the ramble and long reply and hope you took my reply as a different view on the same situation but hey I’m just a very concerned person with the state of the world right now same as you where our sphere of conserve is global but our influence is very minuscule in comparison. Do what you can from the bottom up locally/politically if you’re able too and that’s going to be on what you consider possible and safe for your own self and loved ones. Shit has been scary and continues too get worse by the day hour it seems at the end of the day we each have to decide our own level of involvement for whatever reason that may be (I’m not trying to hate on any one who cannot voice their opinion because it might put them in danger of being kidnapped by ICE in the US or reprisals that may get you fired or black balled in your work or industry but if you can work either in the shadows or your in a privileged position or class please use your voice for those who cannot or have already been silenced)

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            Shit my bad :( will work on that being on a small screen is no excuse on that front appreciate you reading/wading through my comment haha

            P.S. great the username and sorry Canada swear that we are trying to cleanup the dumpster fire that is the US right now (honestly has been for awhile) definitely keep boycotting the US and working on moving away from anything with the US infrastructure.

            You’ve always been a great neighbor and friend that we definitely didn’t deserve.

            Apologies… embarrassed we couldn’t even put on a friendly face for such a great ally. Please do everything you can to distance yourself from us till we prove we “got our shit” together.

            We are definitely are not to be trusted our track record isn’t/wasn’t good in the first place. We are just “mask off” in fascism decline and it’s going to be a shitstorm to clean up, but it’s our mess to clean up and we know no one is coming to us.

            • Your crazy neighbor 💕 ( hope we get our shit together and we can get on that long road of repairing and doing things right from there but honestly I’m not sure if we can)
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                My fault for assuming and I so feel you on that last sentence, but looks like I got some cleaning to do though in the hopes that it’s not too late cleaning up the wet dog shit that we keep tracking in. -_-

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      It’s like watching a spoiled kids gunko pop collection. They are cheap and ugly but he’s still proud and wants praise even tho he didn’t do anything for it.

      Someone probably showed him a collection of trophies or something and he was like: i want that, but without the trophies.

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      Kid, I literally could not care less about your Pokémon card collection.

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        Everything is new-in-the-box, not to be played with. DON’T TOUCH THAT!

        All the theoretically coolest stuff (well, not in this case), but in the most joyless, unfun context possible.

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      Not to diminish what the soldiers at the front have to go through, but having to play nice with such a shit person as Trump, only for your country to still get less support than under sleepy Joe, must be painful beyond belief. I wouldn’t even last a day having to kiss Trumps feet.

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        sleepy Joe

        Can we not use MAGAt language? Call him other names, except anything that legitimizes their rhetoric.

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            I am not. But Biden was a walking corpse for half of his term. We were robbed of Bernie, I am not going show any respect to a man and a system that did everything in their power to block Bernie.

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              Using the term “sleepy Joe” doesn’t look good on anyone. No, he was not a “corpse”.

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                If Biden was awake Trump would have been prosecuted for Jan 6 (or any of his countless other crimes) and we wouldn’t be dealing with his shit today. Biden fucked us all. He deserves every bit of disrespect coming his way.

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                  This has nothing to do with what Biden deserves. It has to do with not wanting to hear maga rhetoric normalized

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          Nah, dude was like 78 years old and mentally gone. That rhetoric is legitimate. The last thing we should be doing is pretending that he was an acceptable candidate and the Democrats did nothing wrong.

          And by the way, Trump is 79 years old and also mentally gone, as you can see in the OP photo.

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            The enemy of your enemy is not your friend. Come up with something clever, I don’t care what you call him. Don’t legitimize MAGA. That’s it.

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                Sure. I’m only saying don’t legitimize MAGA’s rhetoric. I don’t know why people think I’m saying anything more than that.

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              Yeah but trying to police what terms they use to criticize him in a way this specific is weird man.

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                Bruh, policing? I’m not enforcing anything, I’m asking.

                Can you do two things for me:

                • Stop putting words in my mouth
                • pay attention to what I’m saying

                Much appreciated.

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                  No, they used the word correctly. What you’re doing is absolutely considered policing on the internet.

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            Oh, fuck that shit, no, the reason we’re in this mess to begin with is because rich douchebags won’t get their fucking dicks out of politics because woe is them someone might actually take their ill-begotten gains to benefit everyone, so they propped up a fucking fascist and then bought all the media to make idiots like you blame Biden for it.

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              So we agree, rich douchebags took over our democracy while Sleepy Joe sat back and did NOTHING to stop it. Jan 6th? Trump sees no consequences. Numerous other indictments for Trump? No need to rush. Musk buying votes in PA? Seems fine.

              All the while Joe sits around insisting he’s strapped in and ready for another term. He got elected on the premise that he would be a 1 term president then decided he was comfy, in spite of incredibly clear polling numbers showing that his policy was remarkably unpopular. Then Kamala picked up the mantle and when she asked what she would do differently? No notes.

              Policy-wise Joe was better than most but politically he gave away the country to the fascists.

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                No, we don’t agree. You’re a MAGA trying to blame Joe Biden for the evils of other people, or even the inactions of other people. Biden isn’t a prosecutor, nor is he a judge.

                Nice name by the way, rather gives you away.

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    Uh, there “Trump 2028” caps at the top left of the photo.

    He’s casually showing world leaders his shitty hats and that he plans to run for a third term despite it being entirely unconstitutional.

    I can’t tell if it’s complete bravado or sheer incompetence.

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    His people are dieing everyday, but Zelensky has to look at hats. What has the world come too? Why is a todler elected to such a powerful position?

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    I would say this is embarrassing if he wasn’t doing things so much worse, like crashing the economy, alienating allies, trampling civil rights, punishing minorities, and abandoning those invaded and starving.

    "Trump is a weak man’s idea of a strong man, a poor man’s idea of a rich man, and a stupid man’s idea of a smart man.”

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        There are sadly, a lot of men in power who are also rapists the same way normal people eat breakfast.

        If we don’t take collective action and start caring about our communities and linking arms with people we don’t agree with on everything, we are going back to a time when little girls are property of the state and have no future past “fleshlight for fat old fucks” or “baby machine.”

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          International sex trafficking rings have been Hollywood fodder for movies like Taken, for as long as there have been movies. As a human population, we all believe that something like this goes on somewhere.

          Now we find out that it was going on for real, and people like Trump, Epstein, Casablanca, Brunel, and others were operating it. Instead of demanding that all of them be rounded up and prosecuted, MAGAs just dismiss the whole thing, even though it was this child sex trafficking ring that inspired their involvement in the first place.

          It’s like they got to the bottom of the rabbit hole, and decided “Eh, fuck it, I’m cool with it. Carry on.”

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            It’s like they got to the bottom of the rabbit hole, and decided “Eh, fuck it, I’m cool with it. Carry on.”

            Oh you’re right, it was never about protecting children, it was about feeling special for figuring out a secret “they” don’t want you to know. When “They” come out in the open and just admit to it and show exactly who is doing it and how far it goes without secrecy, it loses interest for the obsessives and people missing things from their lives.

            It was about the hunt, not the outcome. And this is an attitude that a LOT of people have about far more things than just Q-anon conspiracy, most liberals and leftists also have their own cars they chase without a plan for what to do when they catch it. Everyone has some storyline they’re engaged with and feel connected to.

            And these storylines are deliberately being both seeded and capitalized on to keep a leash around the population and to keep people from unifying.

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    It’s like a Wimmelbilder of deeply troubling / embarrassing / weird shit. It feels like there should be extra special finds hidden in the details, like a copy of Mein Kampf or a gold statue of Trump holding a smaller gold statue of Trump.

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    The only thing I hate more than seeing a standard “MAGA” merch is seeing “TRUMP 2028” merch. It’s disturbing how many of those I’ve seen around since the last US election.

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      The hats aren’t even of good quality. Most rip apart easily. Chinese-made hats are better than that.

      Also overpriced. I saw them for $15… seriously? In my country I can get better quality ones for €5.

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        Where do you think Trump makes his hats? Also China can make good quality stuff but you have to pay for it. If you cheap out you get what you pay for.

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          Oh, they know how to sell full price crap.

          To get quality you must have water proof deal on paper and constant vigilant quality control at your end.

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            Or just buy brands popular with Chinese. It just takes research that no one is willing to do, then they complain that thing they ordered off AliExpress is crap.

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              Bingo. I work with clothing and people like to complain about the generics, but if you get something above the absolute cheapest shirt we offer (go figure, it’s what most people go for), you’ll end up with something pretty nice.

              MAGA doesn’t care about quality. Like, at all. All of the customers I’ve gotten that are clearly on that side of the fence all want it cheap and fast. Who cares if it looks or feels good as long as you tick the box. They wouldn’t know taste if it threw up in their mouth.

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      It’s equal parts disgusting and terrifying that Trump has those hats. He’s already proving through his actions that he doesn’t give a shit about our democracy - but having a hat that basically says “fuck you, I’m a dictator” is just so brazen.

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      Why not? There are other Trumps who are eligible. If Junior runs, they don’t even need to change the banners or the hats much. They dont even need to hide it, they can have big “Donald Trump jr for President” banners still. Dad can go campaigning, and they can make perfectly clear who will make the decisions.

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        I hate that you’ve given me one more plausible concern… this is all predicated on us even having elections in 2028

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          There will be elections. There have to be, in order for the new Congress to be seated.

          The only question is how ratfucked they will be…