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    7 days ago

    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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      7 days ago

      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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            7 days ago

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

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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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    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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      I was gonna say the 2028 one is deeply disturbing, but in reality, all of them are

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          Yep. Way too many people are treating it like a joke

          He already attempted to overturn an election he lost. He’s repeatedly stated he wants a 3rd term. He has consilidated his oower and put loyalists in nearly every position of power

          What more could he do to make it clear he plans to stay in power?

          Edit: Forgot, He’s taken over DC law enforcement. You know, the people that stopped his mob from overthrowing the government in 2020?

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            Yeah, we’ve seen this over and over, where he says something heinous, and all the MAGAs claim that he was only joking, and then we find out our later than he was 100% serious.

            He’s 100% serious about this. Everybody thinks those cases about Jan6 and the stolen documents are over, but they aren’t, they’re just waiting for him to not be president again. He knows that once he is out of office, there is about a 100% chance he goes to prison for life. Before 2024, he had a shot at at house arrest, now he’ll be lucky if he doesn’t get the death penalty. Life in prison would be a gift, one that he doesn’t deserve.

            So he will do ANYTHING it takes to stay in office, because he has to. Martial Law, suspend elections, election fraud, flat out refusing to abide by the the election or the Constitution, etc. He will choose one, or all of them, and MAGA will back him all the way, and fight for him to stay in power.

            We will probably have to kill him, and anyone who defends him, before we can get our nation back, and I’m fine with that.

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

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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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    A dunce showing off his collection of modern dunce caps.

    This fuckhead literally killed red hats. If you wear a red hat now, everyone with an average or above IQ will associate you with a low IQ and avoid you. In the modern era it is the most effective way to let people know you’re an idiot.

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

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      What about all those love letters your mom wrote me on facebook?

      edit no you are right this is worse

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    what a fucking embarrassment.

    not, “look at the things I built”, but “look at the things I’ve collected”.

    what a vile pathetic and weak leader.

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      And he never shut up about how embarrassing Biden apparently was.

      If one of my friends showed me a collection of hats with their name on it, I would pull them aside and ask if they have considered getting professional help.

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      I don’t think there’s anything inherently wrong with collecting stuff, or even showing it off if there was some effort or challenge in amassing the things (beyond - I threw money at this problem) however these are a collection of hats anyone could get made on AliExpress for $100.

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      Those aren’t things he collected! They’re merch! He’s got multiple of each item. It’s a griftshop not a collection.

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      The rich don’t build anything they only collect things.

      You can slap your name on something but it doesn’t mean you made it.

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    The leader of the free world…and his collection of stupid hats. This is the most pathetic human on the planet right now, prove me wrong! Please!!!