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In an un-fucking-believable move, the Americans stopped sharing intelligence and disabled Starlink’s military services, rendering Ukraine completely defenseless against Russian ballistic missiles just prior to a major attack.
This coming shortly after the US essentially negated its economic sanctions on Russian diesel and once again pressured Kyiv to unilaterally cease its attacks on Russian energy infrastructure, even as Russia ramps up their own attacks on Ukrainian energy infrastructure.
Trump is now publically aiding the Russians in their aggression against Ukraine and Europe
No, that’s a totally believable move. The American government are terrotists that have the American people held hostage. They will now do whatever they want regardless- and oftentimes to spite what the American people want.
And no one is doing shit about it.
Thank you for not seeing an entire nation as the worst of their parts. I'm trapped in the basement, but I'm trying the best I can. Many people far better than I are doing the same.
If the flame of love & peace dies, all is lost.
Blaming all the people in a nation on the acts of a runaway government is ignorance on display. Just like how all of the Russian citizens don’t support Putin, just like all of Germany didn’t support hitler.
People nowadays seem to have very little time for nuanced thought, and it’s just easier to all-or-nothing a situation because thinking can be hard sometimes.
I’m with ya.
Bro, every time I try to mention nuance on the internet, I'm immediately the bad guy.
Like I'm autistic as fuck, so I can be pretty rigid in the way I think, so I get, like, why people can be that way.
But like on the internet its like half of everyone is just borderline personality about everything. Like it's fun to split people or some shit. Which hurts me to say, because BPD is... complex shit itself.
Same. And while my ASD can also make me pretty rigid, I also know that the world we live in exists almost entirely within the grey area that lies between the polarizing black and white that everyone cannot see past.
And what bothers me the most about it is how rapidly it seems to be getting worse.
I had high hopes that nuance would be easier to maintain on Lemmy for years. But... no.
High highs become the lowest of lows. Bpd ain't no joke. One day, you'll wake up after dreaming about pulling glass shards from your feet and just suddenly be too tired to ramp up. It's not a great feeling, but it's much easier maybe. Then you just use whatever energy you have left to try. Because you have to. Sometimes it's easy, sometimes it isn't. You won't have those soaring moments of clarity and hope, or the valley of despair. It'll just be questions and trying, so learn how to remember or make something that reminds you that you once had the other sides.
The middle isn't pretty, but it works. Or not. I recommend occasionally feeding the beast when you reach the middle.
If I was a secret world ruling oligarch i’d want nations against each other
otherwise they might notice me and all my bunkers
Just wait 'till they dash down into their holes like the vermin that they are, only to find out many of us bribed the staff not to tell them about the toilets we upperdecked and the 200000000000 pillows we be-farted and left mints upon.
Pink eye for eternity
Imagine this if you will:
An entire society of elites, forced underground only to find out the Virtual Reality they invested in can't be seen due to permanent pink eye.
A mole-like parasitic society haunted by ghosts stolen, trained upon the very things that hated them the most.
An artificial intelligence that would continue to exist because they couldn't make new sequels to GTA without it.
A ghost.
All of this, beloved readers...would grow to haunt them like screams in the darkness.
I have empathy, but I'm not perfect. I've said fuck Ruzzia & fuck Israel myself. It's hard not to, when you see what's happening...but we only see what they want us to see these days, in many ways. They only allow us to feel what we do because it plays into some sick narrative .. I've seen entire countries, cultures & religions blamed for injustices & atrocities, and now this burden has come back to haunt those who used it as a weapon. The people are simply hostages in an agenda that would drive you insane if you knew the truth of.
Well said.
Thank you. Caring in modern society is like walking through razor-wire.
I think I needed to hear your words today.
I mean it, thank you.
You’re absolutely welcome my friend! We all could use some encouraging words. Now more than ever. And I totally get the reference. It seems at every turn, there’s someone there to tell you you’ve done something wrong, or think something wrong. But remember, while in the hive, you’ve little to do but comply-
Outside the hive, bees are free.
You should see my lawn. It's not much but I have a wild fox that visits. The bees and so many other things are here as well. All free.
I have plenty of love to give and so much to learn. It's really nice to have a genuine human connection, on the Internet, with a complete stranger.
Lurkers, watch and melt with love!
Wish I had a lawn. Apartment living for me, but at least I don’t have to fix appliances or pay for new roofing, so…. There’s that.
And we don’t have a fox, but we have a family of beavers!!
I rent my lot but own my home, so it's not like I'm fancy but I do have a fox that visits so maybe I am.
The closest thing I've had to a beaver is a gopher. That was fun too.
Beavers are 2nd to humans in changing landscapes. That's an impressive feat. I like beavers. Maybe this dates me but do you remember "Angry Beavers?". I'm imagining that
now.
So, I can't share the video without uploading it to whatever, but I can screenshot the video of the fox. So here's one now. Gods you should hear it yelp before a thunderstorm. Took me months to figure out. Lol
I do remember angry beavers!
I feel so seen.
Pam!
You're almost close enough to pet the beaver.
We do it all the time. We hate all Russians because of Putin. We hate all Israelis because of Netanyahu. Why wouldn't the world hate all Americans because of Trump?
Human nature.
I don't hate Russians because of Putin. I don't hate Isrealis because of Netanyahu.
I hate Putin. I hate Netanyahu. I hate Trump. I hate Xi Jinping. I hate Lukenshenko. I hate Kim Jong Un. Dictators.
I do hate people that believe they have superiority over anyone.
You’re a lot more optimistic about humanity than I am.
Fear and religious superiority is why the average Israelite supports Netanyahu. Apathy and a desire for racial superiority is why the average Russian tends to support Putin. Racism, sexism, and a desire to make their mediocre lives matter are why majority of American supported Trump.
Ignorance isn’t human nature.
I'm all for equivocation and nuance, but I must admit it's really hard to get over the fact he was voted in twice. The danger signals were displayed loud and clear, and the US populace went "Yep, after the trial period, this is the guy for us". Forgive me if that put a major dent in my trust in anything American.
Ive been going about this all wrong. Let's not just dunk Trump in Boston harbor and haul him off to international criminal court. We need the whole gang. And a better form of justice. Fuck prison and fuck capital punishment.
Make them watch us make the world a better place, without them. They can be free, but never again shall they know power.
Facts.
American conservatives hate Ukraine because their media has trained them to do so.
American conservatives have a greater affinity for Russian style domestic and foreign policy than they do with liberal democracy.
This is what American conservatives want. They want conservative chauvinism to bowl over the "leftist, globalist" world order with violence and abuse.
Most American Conservatives have no idea what Russian style policy is, or what life, even for “middle class” Russians is like.
They are passive, lazy and infantile people that just go along with whatever their peers and their media diet (Fox News, Talk Radio, Facebook, and now mass media) spoon feeds them.
The core of these people were always either racist or greedy or tolerant of racists for some other idiotic or bigoted reason.
This is what happens when you have a society of overly “soft” and spoiled people. People that have basically never experienced hardship for 2, 3 or 4 generations.
America happens to be the most powerful and most culturally dominant country right now, but this isn’t a special thing. It is human nature and America is just ahead of the curve.
2/3rds of the country endorsed this, or decided they were okay with it happening and did nothing to stop it.
And no, im not calling it Stockholm Syndrome when that's total BS made up to cover for incompetent negotiators and hostage rescue.
Yep. MAGA, non-voters, and 3rd party voters opened this door.
Yeah, trump announced he would do this many times during the election (and his first term). The american people chose this. Twice. At least there is no war in the middle east...
They did the same thing last year, Ukraine and Europe has been preparing for this happening
Which I do feel is glossed over. Europe knew it was coming. Putin is cashing in his influence to make it one more day.
How much will it hurt Ukraine? We can only find out.
Such a specific way to sabotage Ukraine. They didn't shut down access, just made it so their weapons didn't work.
Those are the same thing. Ukraine wasn't using it to shit post on X.
Even worse that they did it not just without warning, but without even a "hey we shut you off". Just, system switch cut off.
And as others have said, not even remotely surprising at this point.
I've been dumbfounded at the US since the start of the year but I think this marks the moment where they are openly on Russia's side against the West. Dangerous times. I'm rather worried at where this is going.