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"A lot of the reporting [ . . .] suggests Presidents Biden and Zelenskyy have an uphill climb when it comes to sustaining support for Ukraine ¨. . .]. This is fucking insane.

A lot seems to mean some US/European media, I hate to tell you this, but there is very, very little support for NATO/Ukrainian position among UN members, nor among the independent media (even corporate and state media). It's not that the 85% of the world which don't buy the Ukrainian position outright are Putin's dupes, but they are skeptical of both western and Russian propaganda, and their governments tend to take a more nuanced view of the whole mess,

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founding

Apparently never again means actually again.

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Oh. My. God. Zelenskyy's speech. I was crying and holding my breath until he finished. The very best of humanity lives in that man. Slava Ukrainii.

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Sometimes countries lose their minds. France in the time of Napoleon. Germany in the time of Hitler. America with that Trump thing. And Russia with Putin.

Those aren't the only examples, but time is tight.

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Jesus, Zelenskyy is not fucking around.

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I'm gonna guess and hope that Pres. Zelenskyy has a state-of-the-art security team, if not better than that.

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Well, well

No wonder Donald was being so OPENLY antisemitic recently

He was copycatting his hero Putin so Putin could hear him

https://youtu.be/ZXrKcd-32kI?si=7ii7Q0tkmaqkbLya

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Zelenskyy is supposed to be coming to Toronto later this week. Wonder if he'll stop by Queen's Park...

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to be fair, the domestic asslickers' puppet masters will have conniptions of their own.

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Damn...I seem to have a rather large lump in my throat watching Zelensky accept the American flag from Nancy Pelosi...

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When will Fox News start complaining Zelenskyy isn't wearing a tie?

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Very OT ...

Person on event organizing committee: "I think we should" (add more responsibilities and restrictions 3 weeks prior to event)

Me: "OK, who wants to take responsibility for doing those things?"

* crickets *

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With ALL of my black little heart I am hoping for and veritably willing triumph followed by PEACE in the great nation of Ukraine in 2024.

That it be for the good of global democracy so mote it be.

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Whether it’s Russia who wants to genocide Ukraine and steal their land or Ukraine refusing to let Russia genocide them and steal their land, both sides have contributed to the polarized partisan tribalism.

NYT

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I'm sorry, but mother fucking printers. I'm about to go into a meeting, and I can't print out what I need to.

Printers don't even get the privilege of sucking my ass.

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OT: We're at the "fire in a whorehouse" level of chaos, to quote one of my Great-Uncles...

𝗛𝗼𝘂𝘀𝗲 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗛𝘂𝗿𝗹 𝗖𝗹𝗼𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗼 𝗦𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗱𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗮𝘀 𝗕𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝘁𝗼 𝗞𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝗚𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 𝗢𝗽𝗲𝗻 𝗚𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗽𝗲𝗱: 𝗥𝗲𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁

https://www.thenewcivilrightsmovement.com/2023/09/house-republicans-hurl-closer-to-shutdown-as-bill-to-keep-government-open-gets-scrapped-report/

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