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source: the turbolibs nearby who have had a Ukrainian flag on their house for three full years have at last taken the faded rag down. Ukraine will probably collapse now without their brave full-scale show of support

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[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 87 points 5 days ago (2 children)

See this is why I changed my profile to an instance that was federated with hexbear lol

[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 75 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] miz@hexbear.net 84 points 5 days ago (6 children)
[–] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 53 points 5 days ago (1 children)

So you trusted the USA and got yourself into a meatgrinder war and now the USA has betrayed you and after killing hundreds of thousands of your people you're finally ready to negotiate: A Primer.

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[–] newmou@hexbear.net 56 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Seeing a bunch of Ukraine flags out today. Country of fucking children

[–] miz@hexbear.net 49 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

the nicely dressed people on TV who tell me what's real wouldn't lie this time. they just made oopsies in favor of empire with Iraq's supposed WMDs and the Gulf of Tonkin and the USS Maine. this time it's for freeeeeeedom

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[–] AssortedBiscuits@hexbear.net 47 points 5 days ago

First Luigi might get the death penalty and now this. Truly dark times for white-adjacent Europeans.

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I just drove by a hands off protest, there was at least 5.

[–] miz@hexbear.net 63 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] peeonyou@hexbear.net 53 points 5 days ago (1 children)
[–] miz@hexbear.net 59 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

the fucking gall to put "fReE sPeEcH" on there when a big chunk of these libs were busy ignoring (or cheering for) the violent suppression of campus Palestine protests under Biden

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 48 points 5 days ago

Liberals have no ideology other than arguing about what colour Harry Potter characters are anymore.

[–] Cruxifux@feddit.nl 49 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Did Americans peaceful protest Trump out of office yet?

[–] ANarcoSnowPlow@hexbear.net 44 points 5 days ago (5 children)

I was talking to my son about seeing protestors when I was out earlier and he said "peaceful protest doesn't actually do anything though."

"Well bud, this is the first step to the state cracking down way too hard on peaceful protestors, then things will get more interesting."

[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 39 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

Peaceful protests by themselves exclusively don't achieve any political goals (as long as it's not funded by the CIA in an unstable region). Protests should be tied to actual action: unionisation, collective bargaining, striking, and teaching of political theory to the masses. And by "tied", I mean that the people in the demonstration should explicitly be told to support the following, concrete steps already planned before the protest.

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[–] CommCat@hexbear.net 38 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I thought they would double down on their "slava Ukraini", since the orange man absolutely bullied their boy. I guess the battlefield realities is too much for even turbolibs to deny.

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