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Vance is one of Trump's most vocal supporters and an outspoken critic of U.S. aid to Ukraine.

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Vance has said that it would be "completely irresponsible" for Ukraine to join NATO. He has also argued for the U.S. to focus solely on preventing Chinese expansion, even if that means sacrificing sovereign Ukrainian lands to Russia.

"Any peace settlement is going to require some significant territorial concessions from Ukraine, and you're gonna have a peace deal, because that's the only way out of the conflict," Vance said in February.

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[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I'm not going to be passive aggressive about it, there's a simple reality at play here.

Lemmy is FOSS, so the moment that these tankies try to give themselves some backdoor or whatever to gain undue influence over the system, it will be discovered, forked and everyone will switch and they will be left out in the cold with nothing.

Maybe that'll happen, maybe it won't. Maybe they'll get sick of only running pariah instances and take their ball and go home, except we can make a copy of their ball and keep going.

That's why I'm happy to use the system, it's an open ecosystem and no individual developer has the power to torpedo it, even if they are the founders. Their authoritarian tendencies can't do that much damage in the long run.

[-] rekorse@lemmy.world 0 points 4 months ago

I was more talking about how you made it sound like the founders of lemmy are upset with the user base of it as a whole, and then said they are fake founders anyways because the real work was done before them by others, and then said if they keep it up (never said what they were doing to begin with) SOME PEOPLE wink**wink will stop supporting them financially.

Its just dripping with self importance and arrogance. Its an extremely american thing to assume that your viewpoint is the only valid and logical one.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

You have me confused with someone else.

How very like a tankie to be unable to follow the basic and obvious facts of a situation. That's necessary to become a tankie.

[-] rekorse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Yeah I assumed the person defending the OP was the OP, my bad. What's your excuse for being an asshat? Internet tough guy? You sound so big and in charge when you talk like that you know. Do you talk to strangers like that in person too? Can you share your other qualities so I can copy them? You are obviously an amazing person so please help me.

[-] Excrubulent@slrpnk.net 2 points 4 months ago

I'm not seeing anywhere you're explaining that I'm wrong about anything here, so there's nothing to respond to.

Unless... oh no. I'm being insulted. Better defend myself in the eyes of this internet rando.

[-] rekorse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 months ago

Call it even I suppose.

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