Also, “ReTruths” are stupid

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    Z: “What kind of diplomacy will you offer Putin that he hasn’t broken before?”

    T & W: tantrums

    T: Z is not ready for Peace™.

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    Dunno why hes surprised; zelensky has a habit of standing up against wannabe dictators

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      He already stood up to him when he wouldn’t sign off on the biden bullshit during the 2020 campaign even though he was basically blackmailed.

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        Did you notice how Trump said he “knew Putin was going to invade when Biden pulled out of Afghanistan” in the cabinet meeting? I found it very interesting, considering he personally set the pull out date before leaving office.

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          Jesus christ. His handlers are fucking evil trash. They need to be eradicated from planet earth.

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          Can you link that? I must’ve missed that, but was curious before hand about the timing

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    And y’all still think Trump is in charge? Do you think that senile old man wrote that post? He’s on a tight leash this time, they’ve learned to control him. FFS, does that read like a Trump post?!

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    Guh. They spin harder than a goddamned pulsar. Zelenskyy had incredible restraint to sit through this meeting, what a total waste of his valuable time.

    The EU and the world needs to lift one big middle-finger to this administration and support Ukraine in any way possible. The US needs to be shut out in the cold, NOW. Kick them out of NATO. Put Ukraine in their place. EU, throw out the bloody procedural bullshit and just DO IT NOW. Start building tanks and planes and drones and ammo NOW, because the world will need it to stop Russia without the US’s help. After Ukraine, it’ll be Moldova, then all the other small neighbouring nations, then …

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      Don’t forget the part about how China has been planning for an isolationist America to push its own territorial ambitions. This is not going to be merely hell in the Baltics, a world war is taking shape as the long peace crumbles.

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        I wouldn’t exactly describe the last decades as ‘peace’, but ok…

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          Peaceful enough that apparently people in industrial nations forgot how bad war really is if they elect war mongers like Trump as leaders.

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          You will if a war starts like the one /u/gradually_adjusting is talking about

      • Match!!@pawb.social
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        i don’t blame China for that though, i haven’t seen anything China’s done to advance american isolationism, just seems like they had some measure of foresight

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          China surpassed Russia in internet influence shenanigans years ago.

          People just became somewhat aware of Russia’s activities because of “Russiagate” and then when Russia invaded Ukraine we started seeing the shilling for Russia.

          China saw the success of Russia’s operations and stepped up their activities. Also they have TikTok which is a direct line to young people in the West to promote discontent.

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          They also dont need to go to war to benefit. China as a whole is doing well moving into the future.

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    Every time I see him speak or write, I wonder why they don’t have IQ tests for being president.

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        They actually think that having money proves that rich people are smart. Had a dumb ass tell me a couple years ago that Musk must be smart, because he wouldn’t be so rich if he wasn’t a genius.

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      I don’t think IQ tests are regarded as a good test of intelligence anymore but I know what you’re saying

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      Put a clown in the white house and he won’t become a president but the white house a circus.

      Someone said.

    • Ech@lemm.ee
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      Because pseudo-science has no place deciding who gets to participate in their country’s politics.

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          Incredibly subjective and prone to abuse. There is no world where that doesn’t end up getting applied to whatever other “undesirables” the wretched and powerful decide shouldn’t have a political voice.

          Is it not telling that, historically, the only people that would agree with those sorts of limits on voting are racists, bigots, and fascists?

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            Lol of you’re one of those… While I agree that IQ tests are indeed just as problematic as you described, watching my father in law decline so quickly and so low that he couldn’t remember a word from a sentence he read less then a minute before tells me all I need to know. You want people like that making decisions for millions in the name of fairness?

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              Yes, I do. Because I understand that excluding them (a fraction of a percent of people actually voting) will inevitably disenfranchise much larger swathes of voters that already face discrimination in every other facet of their lives.

              And what do you mean I’m “one of those”? Be clear if you’re going to disparage me.

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                I hard disagree with those in cognitive decline be allowed in positions of power. I get what you’re saying in a broader sense, but not in the very real sense that those people aren’t capable of making logic based decisions for large groups of people.

                It was less a disparaging comment and more of a descriptive one. You’re a “can’t see the forest for the trees” person imo.

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    “He can come back when he is ready for Peace.”

    Trump is such a fucking man child.

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    If I cherish a space, I ensure that there are no shit stains in it.

    Maybe my standards are unreasonably high, though.