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CONGRESS DO YOUR JOB FOR ONCE - this is ridiculous, someone needs to invoke 25th Amendment on Biden (hexbear.net)

submitted 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago) by micnd90@hexbear.net to c/news@hexbear.net

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Biden is a lame duck president with NO PUBLIC MANDATE and subterranean approval rating, he got ousted by his own party before the election for being mentally incapacitated, his defense against a Justice Department inquiry is he's too old and senile, his party just got BTFO in a national election. No NATO or NATO proxies have ever launched long range missiles into Russia in living memory. How is this guy brump fit for office

STOP EATING CRAYONS AND DO YOUR FUCKING JERB. "Senile old man sends young people to WW3 out of spite"

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[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Suck shit putin

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

How do you people find your way here?

[–] finderscult@lemmy.ml 4 points 43 minutes ago

The fediverse can be confusing, especially for people brain damaged enough to be liberal.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 10 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (3 children)

Who cares.

It's a weapon that Ukraine has, they're at war, it's not a nuke, it ethically doesn't matter whether they made it themselves or received it as a gift*, of course they're going to shoot it at a target in the country that destroyed their infrastructure and turned part of their countryside into a no-man's-land and is occupying places they lived just 3 years ago.

If you wanna get mad at American weapons being used overseas in illegal wars, there are plenty being dropped on defenseless people, out of Israeli aircraft, every single day.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

The modern Holocaust the US government is committing in Gaza doesn't have anything to do with whether the Banderite neonazi regime they installed in Ukraine is bad.

Before this war kicked off properly they were regularly shelling and sending Nazi death squads after civilians, why would you not be mad at that? Why would you want them to be able to remotely bomb civilians in Russia?

downbear

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

It just falls into the rest of the umbrella of "war is war" to me. There's nothing wrong with a war being two-sided.

Ukrainians are already the victims of weapons like this. Russian authorities have already targeted apartment buildings and other civilian targets, including knocking out water and electricity for millions. Half or more of the Ukrainian people are going to be plunged into poverty for decades, because of geopolical forces they can't control.

Sure, defending the Donbass is good. But that doesn't make this a black-and-white conflict, and certainly doesn't mean 20 million people should suffer because the pro-peace candidate they supported (cf. Poroshenko) was twisted onto the warpath.

[–] StalinIsMaiWaifu@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

If you wanna get mad at American weapons being used overseas in illegal wars, there are plenty being dropped on defenseless people, out of Israeli aircraft, every single day.

Porque no los dos?

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 1 hour ago

Porque no cambiará casi nada en la guerra en Ucraina, el pueblo ruso ya puede defenderse, no creo que las fuerzas rusas tienen el derecho único u especial para lanzar bombas hacia ciudades y bases ucrainas.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

should've not killed civilians in Donbass

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 37 minutes ago (1 children)

That has the same energy as "they shouldn't have voted for Trump".

Collective punishment is bad but if it's going to happen, it's better for it to not be unilateral. Plus, it's unlikely that Ukraine uses the weapons on anything other than a strategically useful military target.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 1 points 21 minutes ago* (last edited 14 minutes ago)

Collective punishment is bad

Yeah, agreed

but if it's going to happen, it's better for it to not be unilateral.

Are you saying it would be better if multiple parties decided which groups should be collectively punished, or that it's better for Russian civilians to suffer collective punishment than for them not to because of collateral damage during the current war between Russia and Ukraine?

Plus, it's unlikely that Ukraine uses the weapons on anything other than a strategically useful military target.

What would possibly make you feel this way?

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

donbas would be a lot better off if russians and russian separatists hadnt been occupying it since 2014.

[–] infuziSporg@hexbear.net 2 points 41 minutes ago* (last edited 35 minutes ago)

Absolutely contrary to my point- you can idi na hui.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 4 points 3 hours ago

Pretty bold to openly call for ethnic cleansing in the Donbass, Adolf

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 6 points 4 hours ago

They would’ve been better off if the Nazi-led Ukraine coup hadn’t happened in 2014.

[–] Aru@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Donbass would've been better if Gorbashev and Yeltsin were hanged

also mf how does a separatist occupy their land? that doesn't make sense

[–] Backlog3231@reddthat.com 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

haha cry harder

[–] GaryLeChat@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

At what

[–] PrettyFlyForAFatGuy@feddit.uk 0 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Russia receiving a small taste of what they have been subjecting Ukraine to for 10 years

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 9 points 4 hours ago

What happened 10 years ago? Oh yeah fedposting

[–] RaisedFistJoker@hexbear.net 18 points 10 hours ago

congress is doing its job: making money off of military company insider trading

[–] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 15 points 11 hours ago

You have to understand, Joe just really likes genocide and nuclear annihilation is the biggest genocide there is posadist-nuke

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 39 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

What would happen if in responce Russia blew up some trucks at an IDF base.

[–] Eirene@hexbear.net 31 points 14 hours ago

timmy-pray please god let this happen it would be so fucking funny

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 19 points 15 hours ago

Are they trying to escalate it so much that Trump can't withdraw? Not that Trump would even get to decide one way or the other. Or that he even wants to.

[–] Philosoraptor@hexbear.net 72 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

"Since Biden is a lame duck and the Republicans are about to take control anyway, I sure wish he'd just use his power to solve global warming once and for all!"

Monkey's Paw curls

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[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 48 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

biden-harbinger IF I'M GONNA GO I'M TAKING THE WHOLE WORLD WITH ME

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[–] 666PeaceKeepaGirl@hexbear.net 50 points 18 hours ago

This is like the assholes who made their guys fight to the last minute before the armistice in wwi

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 77 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

I can't even imagine what any of them are thinking. Many of them lived through the entire Nuclear age. I can only assume they're so high on their own supply they just can't imagine Washington disappearing in a flash of hot light and hard radiation.

[–] xiaohongshu@hexbear.net 53 points 19 hours ago (4 children)

They’re calling Russia’s bluff. That’s what they’re thinking. They’re betting Russia wouldn’t dare to escalate into a nuclear war, and they’d be right (most of the time), because no sane country would want that.

[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 38 points 18 hours ago (2 children)

Russia won't escalate to nuclear, but it will have to escalate, which is going to ruin the rest of Ukraine all for a chance of getting more intelligence on Russian capabilities.

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

How will Russia escalate further? They are already doing almost everything they can, including deploying troops in Ukraine from other countries like NK, and indiscriminate bombing of civilian centers in Ukraine.

Russia has no capability to escalate the war besides nukes, which they won't use. It's amusing y'all think this is a big deal, it's not and nothing will happen. The US should have approved these strikes the minute we supplied the weapons in the first place.

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (1 children)

Hopefully they'll provide Ansarallah with advanced weapons which will lead to very cool things happening in and around the red sea.

EDIT: or they could just start using non-nuclear weapons on NATO assets themselves

[–] Zetta@mander.xyz 1 points 47 minutes ago (1 children)

The red sea stuff would be interesting and a more realistic option, but they won't strike NATO because NATO would easily wipe the floor with Russia.

Russia's 3 day invasion has turned into a multi year disaster because they can't fight against decade old NATO tech, they know they aren't capable of besting NATO

[–] TheLepidopterists@hexbear.net 1 points 39 minutes ago

Other than Ukraine where Russia has gradually ground the UAF into dust when is the last time NATO equipment and tactics were used against a near peer?

All NATO troops know how to do is massacre civilians and bomb militias.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 22 points 15 hours ago

small price to pay for the US. Not like anyone in Ukraine can complain. Not like any westerner ever sees anything about the consequences. Not like the lackeys "in charge" in Ukraine will say anything about it. The US will just pay off their most loyal puppets and move on to the next country to destroy.

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