Such a gross, slimy monster. The xenomorph is creepy, too.
That xenomorph is sexy AF compared to the shit in the top picture!
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.
I shit on 'em both.
I read that in the accent of the French soldier from Holy Grail.
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 😅
He took way longer to do it, but that’s a good summary. He left office because the prez could only serve two terms but had congress transfer most of the power to the prime ministership and he got that job, so they had a puppet president for 4 years. Then they said he just can’t serve more than 2 terms consecutively so they restored the power of the presidency and he returned to office and they modified the constitution to remove the two term limit and here we are.
yup. but putin was young. trump is old and aging fast so the direct applicability to the US is limited. at this point that’s the only nice thing. putin’s old, trump’s old, xi jinping is old. At least twp of them go out of commission in the next 5 years.
Imo, the problem with Trump isn’t Trump himself becoming dictator. His years are numbered, thankfully. Him possibly irrevocably consolidating power in the executive and installing sycophants throughout branches will really fuck our government up, however.
That said, you can definitely see where Trump gets his inspiration, and it sounds like Putin had direct inspiration from Hitler’s rise. Nifty!
yup, trump’s a symptom not a straight up cause. his demise is expected to be the least consequential of this “elite” trio, as he is already getting sidelined without consequence. Old, virile trump would have fired musk a month ago.
When will the boomers fucking die already?
Putin also did red flag bombing on an apartment complex so he could justify going to war in Chechnya again.
Here’s hoping Europe continues to step up on behalf of Ukraine.
Fuck I am naively hoping elections in Germany and Canada go well…
Im honestly scared. I’ve been hopeful towards every election, but that hope is gone. The left has been surging in polls but I’m fearing a cdu+afd government.
I’m over here hoping we’re a cautionary tale for you all right now.
The polls are complete bullshit.
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.
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The crazy half is in control right now and there’s not much we can realistically do.
That’s defeatist. There is a lot that can be done. You could pressure your representatives to gum up congress so much with filibusters, and unnecessary votes to slow down what Trump can actually get done. You could join the democratic party with others and start demanding that they change from within. You could support local or internet grassroots campaigns who resist Trump. If the only thing you’re going to do over the next four years is wait to vote Democrat again then there’s not much you’re realistically Willing to do.
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My rep doesn’t give a shit lol, he’s cheering it on
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ha. well I’m not evil, I care, and I haven’t lifted a finger. why? cause the way it works here is money. if u want to do something, no matter how good or evil, you need a lot of money…
did you vote? because a lot of people didn’t even do that.
yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.
the
richestmost convincing liar usually wins and my vote doesn’t really matter… but it’s all I can do so 🤷♂️They were saying that, if you at least voted, you’ve lifted a finger.
I feel you though. Being a lone voice in a county that went like 93% Trump, it definitely feels like my vote doesn’t matter. Hell, our mayor at the time was caught drunk driving with his niece in the car after a fundraiser, told the cop ‘do you know who i am’ and threatened his job, and he STILL won by a lot.
oh lol. I’m a bit thick sometimes
yep. in every single election, not just presidential ones.
Far more than lifting a finger. That alone puts you in the non-evil third of our population.
Update: Angry rant delivered as promised.
I’ve been calling my congressman’s office to angrily rant at his staff every other day for the past few weeks. I plan to do the same tomorrow and Ukraine will be the topic of my rant.
Not sure if it will do any good since he’s a shithead Republican and probably doesn’t care about my opinion.
Not gonna get those minerals now, Trump. Either Ukraine deals them to someone else, or Putin claims them for himself.
It wasn’t a real deal anyway. Like Dr Evil asking for one hundred billion dollars.
it was just a show of good faith from trump to PUTIN.
I suspect Trump hopes Putin will give him 20% anyway
Bruh, you think Trump gives a fuck about American interests? Putin is giving him a cut so that’s all he cares about.
One of my states local congresspeople is a Ukrainian Immigrant.
She’s a Republican.
There’s always has to be the “Fuck You I Got My Own” factor
There needs to be some sort of empathy test to weed out the selfish dipshits that wanna run for authority positions.
Unfortunately, while the people who want power shouldn’t have it, the people who should be in power don’t want it.
And people who should be in power also tend to get assassinated.
An inside agent.
theres alot of ukrainians that collaborated with russia, or were part of the immigrated from the USSR era. we had one ukrainian math prof once, but she was nice and did not like russia, judging by the reaction when someone said russia and ukraine or the same.
Spartz?
Immigrants from Eastern Europe tend to have such alignments. Ukrainians even more than Russians.
'We’ve lost a partner and a friend"
Canada has similar feelings.
But we still support our Ukranian friends, despite the crisis our downstairs neighbor is experiencing.
Honestly loving the fire in Canadian belles I’m seeing recently.
When I went to Greece, I was surprised to see footage of the war on TV. In the US we’d never see anything like this. We are really isolated from the reality of what is going on in the world and the consequences of our actions. This makes it easier for our government to create policy that is wrong and immoral.
Spent a week in the UK visiting my sister recently. There is an overwhelmingly positive amount of support on the TV there.
I get the view that they called the current shit show before the rest of us.
The US is putin’s now.
And Netanyahu’s as well. Fuck the USA AND Israel.
But dipshits across the nation told me Trump would make us respected.
Exactly as I’ve been predicting.
& it took 1 month, to-the-day, for Trump to resolve to that position, too.
There’s 44 MORE months until the purported “election” which Trump would have, to elect his-replacement, right?
The Trump/Putin/Orban/Millei/LePen/AfD/Farage/etc. global-alliance is going to be OWNING this world’s-determination, shortly, unless SOMEBODY among the various “political parties” grows some SPINE, immediately.
What “Interesting Times” to be living-in…
( yes, that refers to the Chinese curse: “may you live in interesting-times”. )
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When are americans using the second amendment to overthrow this dictator? I mean its what they sacrificed all these children for right? To be able to “defend” their democracy. I always called it bs, now they have a chance to proof it
The Venn diagram of people who are all over 2A rights and people who are trump supporters has significant overlap.
Well shit. TIL!
44 months is simultaneously optimistic and pessimistic.
He’ll either extend his tenure to a 3rd term or get himself and/or the entire U.S. killed.
Sad to see. They must feel absolutely used and betrayed.
As somebody from the US, I can’t wait to see our country fall. The world isn’t going stand by and let us fuck with them anymore
I am also in the US and horribly disappointed in how our population let the world’s stupidest and vilest people manipulate them into giving over control. I really had high hopes for America, democracies are really our best hope for the future.
But now I just want it to accelerate, we need the shit to really hit the fan so our population wakes up and realizes who the real enemies are, the putins and musks and trumps and millers and bannons… they are the beasts that stalk us in the modern age and need to be put down or taken away and the only way this will happen is enough people become uncomfortable enough that they forget the narratives and storylines that manipulate us so easily.
As much as I hate to say it, I fully agree. We need something drastic to happen so that the population will open its eyes.
On a completely separate topic, I think states need to become a lot more independent from the federal government. I’m in NY for example and I’ve never felt prouder of my state than right now
I think states need to become a lot more independent from the federal government.
Most red states would collapse. Not that I care anymore. They’re leeches.
Good. Kill the disease on this country right at the source
This kind of goes as a warning over what happens when a democracy isn’t set up in such a way to prevent this thing from happening. Just getting rid of first past the post elections could’ve helped in preventing this and had given us a more balanced government that wouldn’t have been so easily captured by moneyed interests.
The electoral college was actually intended to prevent this exact scenario. Of course, it failed spectacularly.
Yo Zelenskyy!
You haven’t lost all of us. There are still those who support the Ukranian people and believe in your efforts.
Unfortunately, he lost the people who have the power to actually help him.
That’s true to some extent, but the EU did announce they were preparing their biggest aid package yet. The unconfirmed number was €700B which works out at about €1500 per citizen and I am all fucking in on that if it’s true.
I just meant the people in the US with the power to help him. Hopefully the EU will be able to step in since the US has decided to go full Nazi.
While China’s military power is still growing and not yet on par with the U.S., its ability to shape global affairs through economic and infrastructural investments is undeniable. This raises the question: Is China the world’s only superpower now?
The EU outranks China in terms of economical and political influence, exporting standards and even laws with market and soft power. Only took a couple of years until states all over the world started copying the GDPR, noone anywhere is producing phones without USB-C charging any more, and those are just prominent examples. And people don’t even realise how big of an impact the CSDDD will have.
US is still a superpower.
I don’t know why you’re getting pushback and downvotes on this, it’s factual.
Have we ALSO lost track of facts people? Are we the same as the ones who made this all go to shit, unable to separate facts from feelings? USA isn’t just “a superpower” it’s THE superpower, it’s the wealthiest nation on earth with a military force larger and more advanced than all other nations put together. What do you call that?
THIS is why it’s such a huge deal that we all fucking let the dumbest, evilest people in the world take the controls. Are you really just so nihilistic and self-obsessed that you’re willing to discard the largest and most powerful democracy on earth because you feel jaded and cynical because “America bad?”
Dude, clean your room. Seriously, this is our home, this is where we live. LETS FIX IT.
True, true! For now. I really hope US will reverse its current direction. A superpower needs both military strength and global influence through aid and presence. While the U.S. has cut foreign aid and withdrawn from international agreements, China is expanding its influence - especially in Africa.
US is not really withdrawing, just restructuring\diversifying its investments so to say, from guys like EU to guys like Milei/Netanyahu/Putin, which is not really new for US foreign policy.
It’s what Russia does that has cost it even dictatorships from among its former allies, but their strategy is based on “there’s no other place for them to go”, with Armenia and Georgia this is correct (despite all the pretentious words neither got hard backing from the west), with Central Asian nations not really, with Ukraine undecided.
The obvious difference - US really is what thieving jerks in charge of Russia pretend to be. What Russia can’t do, It can.
LOL
Wish I could. Evil superpowers scare the shit out of me.
