• @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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    1407 days ago

    wow. kudos for being the “now that it’s too late to have an impact, i’m going to do the thing i should have done many months ago” president

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            you’re right. i’m just salty because we live in a fascist dictatorship now

            we’re basically russia. could biden have even done anything? i don’t even know

              • @solsangraal@lemmy.zip
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                97 days ago

                how do you organize with people who refuse to consider anything other than “maybe it won’t be that bad” or worse?

                if you have a network of people who you trust and are actually willing to take some kind of action beyond “oh well i guess this is life now,” then i’m officially jealous

                • @Arbiter@lemmy.world
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                  227 days ago

                  Well, a network of likeminded people won’t just find you. It’s something you’ve gotta seek out.

                  Look for local non-profits and political groups that advocate for the positions you care about and get involved.

                • UltraMagnus0001
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                  Also people can’t afford to miss a day of work and their employers are just waiting to fire them in support of their false God.

                • @AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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                  26 days ago

                  Imagine being so completely neutered as a proletariat that your idea of emergency grassroots organizing is geared towards expanding nato

                  patriotic socialism is literally nazism

              • @Jessica@discuss.tchncs.de
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                Have you seen what Russia does to people who organize? You get vanned lol

                I’m half expecting that to become reality in America

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              Not exactly russia.

              I know 2nd trump term is terrifying, I’m not denying that this will be worse than his first term, but the difference is that the US has the separation of powers between the states and the federal government. The check and balance within the federal government is gone, but we still have this final line of defence, that is federalism. States can resist tyranny of the federal government, if they have the willingness to do so. Remember, that states run elections, swing states do not all have a republican trifecta. And even in republican trifecta states, there is still the state judiciary, and we might still have some of those non-magas republicans like Raffensperger.

              The election in 2026 will likely be less free and fair than 2024, but with a large enough democratic margin of victory, democrats can still take back the house, maybe senate.

              Maybe I’m in denial, but I consider this view to be optimism. I thought people like Raffensperger would just cave in and do whatever trump wanted but they didn’t.

              Don’t give up hope. We’ll soon see if federalism really works, if states would find the will to resist a tyrannical federal government.

              • @MagicShel@lemmy.zip
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                47 days ago

                Time for those 2A proponents to step up… oh.

                No, I think your message is spot on. We’ll weather Trump, if a bit worse for the wear. We survived a literal civil war, we’ll survive him.

                • @Crismus@lemmy.world
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                  The 2A solution is when there’s no hope of peace. You really don’t want them to remove the last option.

                  The 1st is so people can talk and work through differences. When he only thing left is to use the 2nd, nothing will put the Republic back together the same way.

                  If Congress, Supreme Court, or the Executive find a way to close the 2nd Amendment down. Then there’s no way for the people to fight against complete Tyranny when the time comes.

                  Home-grown insurgencies nearly always win. The US has never been able to win against them, just like Israel can’t win against Palestine. Insurgencies can only be negotiated with and always stop once freedom or rights are acknowledged.

      • @AntiOutsideAktion@lemmy.ml
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        16 days ago

        Especially when they can be equipped with nuclear warheads and your enemy needs to decide what to do about that before they hit their targets

      • @werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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        Plus who knows, 😜, maybe I don’t have to work tomorrow!

        I mean, if I was mangled into 30753 pieces mixed in with the neighbors dog and Misses Jane’s tits on someone’s windshield which is also in 1000 pieces and on fire tomorrow, then I don’t have to go work.

        But all good 👍 if we can possibly get sadam putin in a bag and toss him into the ocean with honors. Or just in to a bag. Tomorrow or this coming week would be a good time for that.

    • @UsernameHere@lemmy.world
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      At the start of the invasion Russia was claiming they finally had hypersonic nuclear missles. Meaning they could get nukes past defense systems. That is the reason the US was hesitant to let things escalate.

      Since then we’ve found out that Russias hypersonic missles had some misfires and still didn’t have the ability to steer at hypersonic speeds if I remember right.

      That plus the fact that Trump is months away from helping Russia changes the strategy.

  • @DarkFuture@lemmy.world
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    Too late.

    Americans chose to abandon Ukraine when they elected Donald Trump and his Republican enablers.

    Russia will win, there will be one less democratic nation on the planet, Russia will expand their borders, and Europe/NATO will be threatened.

    Thanks conservatives, 3rd party voters, single issue voters, and non-voters. You really thought this one through.

  • @credo@lemmy.worldOP
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    I believe NYT makes you login, even on a gift link. Here is a TLDR:

    President Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range Army Tactical Missile Systems (ATACMS) to strike Russian and North Korean forces in Russia, a significant shift in U.S. policy. This decision comes in response to Russia’s introduction of North Korean troops into the conflict and their anticipated assault on Ukrainian forces in the Kursk region.

    The move reflects growing concerns over Ukraine’s ability to withstand simultaneous assaults while defending territory. The authorization aims to bolster Ukraine’s defense, target high-value military assets, and deter North Korean involvement. However, it has sparked debate among U.S. officials over escalation risks, as Russia might retaliate against the U.S. or its allies.

    President-elect Donald Trump, who has vowed to reduce U.S. support for Ukraine, is set to take office in two months, adding urgency to the decision. The Ukrainian strategy may include using captured Russian territory in Kursk as leverage in potential future negotiations. Meanwhile, the risk of Russian countermeasures remains a central concern for Biden’s administration and its allies.

    My take: I’ve been waiting on this since the US election. It’s sound strategy of we believe Putin won’t want to escalate with NATO before Trump takes office.

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    While they won’t be able to reach Moscow with these, even from within Kursk, I am willing to bet the authorization was withheld on intelligence grounds. A lot of things in the war make sense if you look at it from the perspective that arms support can’t be guaranteed.

    Instead of letting Ukraine just burn through weapons, the US and allies have waited until they have the full operational capability to deploy the weapons with extreme effectiveness. They’ve had ATACMS for a while, so I suspect they held off deep strikes until the most effective targets had been identified and the likelihood of effective strike was near certain.

    • @Cocodapuf@lemmy.world
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      That’s giving everyone involved a lot of credit. To be honest, I sort of doubt these decisions were quite that rational.

  • @LillyPip@lemmy.ca
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    I’m seeing a lot of comments taking this literally or saying why didn’t he do this before –

    You all realise this is a very powerful symbolic gesture, right? This is a diplomatic move, not a literal one. The president of the US would never strike at this time in this kind of proxy war, and this is the closest ‘fuck you’ he can issue at Russia (which, again, would not be said aloud).

    There’s nothing the US president could do to poke the Russian bear –other than escalate it to a hot war – other than this. This is an outgoing diplomatic move, and that is all.

  • @ryedaft@sh.itjust.works
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    They only have 300 km range. They are very nice but still. Pretty sure Ukraine has struck further inland with drones.

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    There’s obviously no logic whatsoever in allowing Russia to attack Ukraine freely from within its own borders while Ukraine is allowed to only defend inside its own borders. And Russia even thinks Crimea is part of Russia by some fucked up kindergarten bully logic.

    No war ever in the history of mankind has followed such logic and neither does this one. If Russia threatens the use of nuclear weapons, then it is doing that without any sensible reason and it might have just as well done that without any war going on anywhere.

  • @jagged_circle@feddit.nl
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    He’s supposed to be calming shit down before Trump takes office, not setting the stage for WW3. Fucking maniac

    • @nexguy@lemmy.world
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      Yeah, Biden need to set the stage for Trump to try to force Ukraine into surrendering its land to a murderous dictator so that the dictator can further his plans to take more land later gah.

    • Noxy
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      156 days ago

      “calm” would be Ukraine no longer being invaded and occupied. Working towards that end is arguably a more effective way to calm shit down.

        • Noxy
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          66 days ago

          You don’t think we’re headed there anyways from climate change, pollution, deforestation, or any of the other shit that’s already causing ecosystems to collapse and entire species to go extinct?

            • Noxy
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              I genuinely doubt nuclear war would cause total extinction.

                • Noxy
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                  25 days ago

                  Well I probably won’t survive either and it sure as shit feels like I can’t stop either so I not gonna get too worried about it

        • @JasonDJ@lemmy.zip
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          Totally unrelated but as I’m reading this thread I’m listening to an audiobook and one of the characters said “End of all life on this planet” at practically the same time I read your comment.

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              Eruption. Apparently Michael Crichton had a pet-project he was working on and his widow found an author to finish it…James Patterson.

              I never read any James Patterson, but it does have a feel like a lot of Michael Crichton books I loved like Jurassic Park or Andromeda Strain…building up “how the hell could we let this happen” with entirely plausible scenarios and science with only enough fantasy to make it work.