During the worst of the fighting in WWII, allied ships when they could still took the time to pick up and rescue enemy sailors in the water.
So I guess, unless you are able to give a Nazi war salute to the German Fuhrer, you might have a chance of being rescued.
So why is zelensky going anywhere?
If the guy you're meeting won't agree to anything unless they have final say .... why bother going to see him?
Same with the Trans issue ... or anything to do with sexuality ... anyone who is sexually different only occupies about 10% of the population yet politicians have to treat it like some kind of mania.
The most troublesome minority group in the world are rich wealthy oligarchs from all nations.
Don't laugh .... I've personally known two people who died of an overdose, one got turned to a vegetable (he's still alive, if you can call it that) and several who did overdose but survived.
Are you kidding ... my best hope is the American people because they are the ones who can change this at any time ... but none of them so so it means that there is no hope ... in 2026, 2028 or any other year, until the American mentality changes.
Xmas version 2025.12.25 just got released .... next incremental release is 2026.01.25, which will work its way up during the year to the final annual version of 2026.12.25
Boycotting and protesting with your money also works
If everyone just organized together and said ... 'hey, let's boycott this one company and just this one company' .. and everyone did it, it would drive that one company to its knees and bankrupt it and even drive it out of business.
It wouldn't affect most people terribly ... we'd still be able to shop, go around do things and go about our lives without much disruption ... but at the same time, it would scare the shit out of that one company.
Once one company gets destroyed, then everyone organize again and target another company and boycott them ... then just keep the ball rolling and keep boycotting and driving out companies one at a time. After a month of doing this, every major company would be shitting their pants knowing that they would be next on the list.
These assholes don't understand if you hold a sign up that says you dislike them .... they never listen to that ... but if a large enough group of us just stood back and withheld our money from them and told them to go fuck themselves, then they'd listen.
This is getting stupid .... every Gaza headline is becoming the same ... more crisis for Gaza and Israel continues siege, operations, attacks, hits, bombings, movements
When is the world going to get shocked or surprised by all this .... when Israel starts using flame throwers, beating people with hammers, and poking their eyes out?
This isn't an Israeli problem ... it's a world problem ... between Israel and the US just doing whatever they want without any responsibility or being held accountable for anything ... why they hell do we pretend that there is any kind of international rule of law?
The more headlines I see like this everyday .. makes me think that there is no such thing as a United Nations ... it's a nice organization that makes everyone feel good but it has not function other than to assemble a bunch of politicians and representatives in fancy offices to do absolutely nothing.
Lucky you ... I'm up in northern Ontario and in most of the places up here Sudbury/Timmins/New Liskeard/North Bay ... the supply seems to have dried up over the years ... we used to see lots, now we see a lot less.
The FBI criticized the film for being communist .... you know why?
Because it depicted the bankers as evil
Take note of that, the government had more to say about how banking and finance were depicted than in thinking about how it depicted common people.
Generally the fediverse on lemmy, piefed and mastodon for me .... lots more out there and it's fun to explore new branches and directions of the fediverse and the communities of people they attract.
It's daunting, challenging, confusing and complex .... but that's the beauty of it .... it feels like wandering around and exploring the early social media internet from the early 2000s and this strange feeling that its going to become a whole lot more as time goes on.
This is the first thing I thought of when the corn memes started.
I was visiting friends and I needed to find a motorcycle shop in the area. Found this shop called The Cycle Therapist and the first thing I thought of was the SNL skit with Jeopardy with Alex Trebek and Sean Connery.
I began calling the shop
"Cycle The Rapist"
It's Mel Brooks' 99th Birthday today ... for anyone that's ever memed, they are sure to have referenced Mel Brooks at one point or another.
Modern comedy wouldn't be the same without him.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to everyone. I know right now there is not much cause to celebrate with the passing of an Ontario government Bill 5 and Federal Government Bill C5 that directly threaten First Nation lands, people and rights.
We've always dealt with issues, events, changes and developments ... it's become our ongoing legacy to constantly fight and we are and will continue to fight on.
What everyone doesn't understand is that we are not just fighting for ourselves, its a fight to protect the future of our people and of all Ontario and all Canada as well. Unrestrained and uncontrolled resource development only destroys the land, air and water ... the same land, air and water we all share no matter our race, group or identity.
It's also a fight for the future, as from the quote from Wendell Berry ....
“We do not inherit the earth from our fathers, we are borrowing it from our children.”
The quote is often attributed as a wise old Native saying or proverb but in actual fact the modern quote comes from an environmentalist in the environmental, ecological movement.
Saying the environment to save ourselves and the future generations to come is not just an idea central to First Nation belief systems .... it's a belief system by those who can see beyond the length of their own lifespans.
Happy Indigenous Peoples Day everyone.
I'm taking a bit of time out for myself for the next little while ... I've had some family loss that was very close to me and I'm taking time doing other things at the moment ... it's not anything or anyone that happened here on Lemmy or Piefed (they're all great communities) ... my life has just made a drastic change right now and I need to take care of myself for a while ... I'll be back later on but for the time being, I won't be around much if at all.
I still love this space and everyone in it ... I just need to take some time for myself right now.