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Ironic how people shat on Russians for not standing up to their government only for the US to do the same.
From my country, it's just surreal to watch the lack of reactions from Americans. It looks like they mostly support the actions of the co-nazi dictators, a really bad picture to say the least.
Those that support Trump kinda do. These people are selfish enough to hate anyone else because their lives are kinda shit and they're too stupid to understand why. America has been headed towards this point for a long time.
The left is highly disillusioned due to DNC shenanigans to block any real progress on the real problem of inequality. So there is no opposition. It is a really bad picture to say the least.
DNC really dropped the ball. Biden should have never even considered a second term, and there should have been open primaries.
Nah. We wanted trump in.
People wanted Putin in at first too, no? Didn't he do the whole "I'm the strong man who will save everyone and only I can do it" kind of bs like Trump, then once in gutted everything in order to consolidate and maintain power also kind of like Trump?
I'm actually fairly ignorant on his initial rise to power, so please don't be too hard on me 😅
Russia was fucked from the collapse of the Sovjet Union. Imagine if most of the US would be like Detroit in the late 90s.
Meanwhile Russians didn't have "experience" with Democracy and the institutions were not designed yet for it.
The FSB, ex-KGB and other intelligence/military started to organize the oligarchy as a mafia.
Saying Russians in 2025 wanted Putin becauae he rose to power back then and manipulated all elections since, is a bit unfair imo.
Such a gross, slimy monster. The xenomorph is creepy, too.
That xenomorph is sexy AF compared to the shit in the top picture!
Probably smells so bad
No wonder Michelle Obama doesn't show up to Presidential events anymore if she doesn't have to.
One of my states local congresspeople is a Ukrainian Immigrant.
She's a Republican.
But dipshits across the nation told me Trump would make us respected.
Sorry Ukraine. Turns out most of the US is either just fucking evil, or not bothered enough by evil to lift a fucking finger to stop it.
I really thought we were better than this. We've failed the entire planet.
The crazy half is in control right now and there's not much we can realistically do. With the amount of Republicans who like the current situation and bootlickers who are indifferent protests or other means aren't likely to affect anything. Maybe if the US slides into another great depression public sentiment can shift enough to make a change but until then no one should be treating us like a rational country.
What should an individual American do?
Answering that directly would be a violation of rule #6.
What should the individual German citizen have done in the 1920s and 1930s to prevent the Nazis from rising to power and/or to resist them once they were in power? Cuz... that.
Unity ~~between lefties and liberals~~ (german communists and socialists) as a common front against the nazi threat would have worked too, but they were busy bickering. That would have helped a lot in the 1930s, but nobody was expecting what was about to happen. We know today what happens when you let fascists in the henhouse, but everyone is doing the same all over again.
Lefties supported Kamala. I dunno where you are getting that they didn't.
yea, I was clumsy comparing the german communist and socialist party to those groups in the present-day US, especially given how vague the words left and liberal have become...but the lesson stands. Unity.
Agreed, we must all hang together.....
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