@yomiel @griffith @ChristiJunior this is how I see it:
It's like in boxing, the ref will call a match if one of the guys is too fucked up to continue, even if he wants to keep going. If he keeps going, it's not going to be pretty. Trump is trying to be that ref here and get between Putin and Zelensky, but Zelensky doesn't understand what's happening at all. He's going to get back in that ring, the ref will wash his hands of it, and Putin will beat him into a bloody pulp. It's not worth it. It really is not worth it. Having a fighting spirit is one thing, but when it devolves into being retarded you need someone to stop you.
@yomiel @griffith @ChristiJunior i don't think there is some grand conspiracy to like let russia completely take over ukraine or something. i think trump actually just wants them to stop fighting and he's trying to get them to make a deal, but zelensky is not good at making deals.
a lot of the pro-war neocons are probably just trump dick suckers so they're like agreeing with whatever trump says. that would be my guess.
@yomiel @griffith @ChristiJunior syria is a place i would assume would be extremely homogenous. it's about the size of a state in the US. wyoming was 70% donald trump. washington DC voted 90% for kamala (it is smaller though, of course, so much higher chance for homogenization there).
even if there was interference in an election like this one, i would assume that it wouldn't alter the result.
@BlinkRape @griffith @ChristiJunior @yomiel i can also point to other things though too. covid, george floyd, propaganda was at an all time high, trump and conservatives were losing big time in 2020 on several fronts. it took another few years for everything to fall into place that would lead to trump's win in 2024.
maybe it was rigged, maybe it was cheated, etc. i can see it, but i can also believe biden did win without all of that stuff.
@yomiel @griffith @ChristiJunior oh i forgot you know literally everything about me my bad!
i've had this position forever. it is probably my most consistent belief throughout my life. i've always been anti-war. anti funding it, anti participating it. only if there is war on our soil should we engage, and there is a war on our soil right now in the form of illegal aliens, elite corruption, drug smuggling, and child trafficking. that's where our focus should be, not on israel or ukraine. i never liked us being in the middle east. thinking back to other wars i wasn't alive for, i disagree with the USA's involvement. i have always had the mindset that the US has an absurd amount of problems as-is that we need to focus on but instead we shit all that money away on the stupidest shit that doesn't even apply to us.
i think antagonizing countries that we have strenuous relationships with and that the world does in general is a really bad idea. it is much better to practice diplomacy and i genuinely think trump's conversations with putin and kim jong un are extremely productive not just for the US but for the world.
@yomiel @griffith @ChristiJunior i believe election fraud and election propaganda happens but i tend to think that elections are almost always, if not always, legitimate. i do think biden legitimately won in 2020 even with all the weird shit that happened. i believe russia does overwhelmingly support putin. if zelensky ran an election and won i wouldn't question it. i do question him not holding the election at all and banning political parties.
@meso @griffith @ChristiJunior @yomiel ten more years of zelensky while ukraine slowly burns to the ground incoming
@sendpaws yeah fgc all use consoles for local because it is one platform that they optimized for and there is no chance for things to go wrong or for anything to be modded. or at least, the chances go down a lot.
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