Not voting is still choosing Dem or GOP; it’s just silencing your own preference between the two and putting your faith in your countrymen to make the right decision… many hundreds of thousands of which are fucking morons.
I really, strongly encourage you to show up and pick the least-bad candidate who has a realistic shot at winning.
Two choices: Dem or GOP
Multiple choices. Dem, GOP, third party, refrain from voting, etc
Couldn’t be any worse than the current model for televised news, which is 2-4 buzzword parrots all attempting to shout over each other without ever attempting to address what the others are saying.
Being human doesn’t make it good.
Wake me up when there’s a better medium than just plain text.
Current model doesn’t have one, but I find myself missing it frequently. 3.5mm jack will be a must on my next phone.
Yeah I have no idea what the original version of that comic is, but it’s been floating around since way before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
You can shoe it into almost any flavor of republican bullshit “Stop ____ so we can take care of our own!” …they use that argument to oppose funding of basically anything outside the US; but then simultaneously refuse to fund anything in the US either, except ofc guns and churches.
Or a Republican.
I mean, that’s just the next link down on the human centipede.
Putin can end the war any minute. That’s what I’d like. But he won’t.
Failing that, enabling Ukraine to defend itself is the next best option. That’s what I’d like. But republicans are doing their evil shit again and blocking that route.
All of the remaining options are shit. If you don’t like what I’m proposing, dude I’m with you: I don’t like it either. This whole situation is horrible, and it’s shameful as fuck that we have politicians here in the US that are hell-bent on enabling Putin.
…but what’s left to do? Throw our hands up and say “gg republicans, you outplayed us! Putin, Ukraine’s all yours!”?
So… just sit back and hope the next country they invade is a NATO member? Got a plan B for when it isn’t?
Oh dang, I forgot about escalation. Which country should we feed to Putin after he’s done destroying Ukraine? Gotta keep him appeased at all costs!
What I wish for is that Putin trips over a dildo and suffers a spinal injury that triggers every single one of his pain receptors so that all he can experience from here on out is pure agony, effectively removing him from power and marking an end to his stupid fucking war.
…but short of that, I’ll settle for another option that marks an end to his stupid fucking war; and while we can hope for the former, we can actually accomplish the latter.
The last thing we want to do is show Russia that the threat of escalation is their free pass to wipe other countries off the map. The best thing we can do in terms of impact on the US, is to arm Ukraine so that they’re capable of winning this stupid fucking war on their own; but republicans are blocking that, because they don’t give a fuck about human life.
I don’t see any good options on the table… so, what’s the least-bad option?
Speaking as a vet - I understand the implication. I also understand the implication of just letting Russia decimate other countries without consequence. Families are being murdered on your chess board right now whether or not they fly our colors. Russia is currently in a severely weakened state, so a full military response from the US and hopefully our allies would end the war practically over night.
The best option is for Russia to pull out on its own - that’s not going to happen. The second best option is for Ukraine to defend itself in a manner effective enough to force Russia to withdraw - republicans are blocking that. The third best option is for the rest of the world to step in to swiftly end wars of aggression.
The worst thing we can do is show Russia that the threat of escalation is enough to give them a free pass to just wipe other countries off the map.
Correct me of I’m wrong, but I’m pretty sure the president has the authority to send troops to engage an enemy for up to like 60 days before needing to have anything cleared by congress.
If this is how Republicans want to play, we could still still support Ukraine by intervening directly.
But Berrnieeeee, there’s still Palestinian children that haven’t been bombed yet!!
They don’t give a fuck. The right only ‘supports our troops’ on bumper stickers. When it comes to actual policy, the military is just another out-group to fuck over.
The wild part is how many troops/vets refuse to see that and vote against their own interests.
Republicans need to ditch the elephant mascot in favor of this:
Shouldn’t need that for a civil sentence, but stay ready.
@diannetea@lemmy.world you probably don’t need to be warned not to click this link, but for anyone else’s morbid curiosity: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CgcGQYWns4
Threads is Meta, one of the largest corporate enshitifiers on the internet - the crap most of us fled from that landed us in the fediverse in the first place.
…it’s userbase is a relative ocean compared to the fediverse’s drop, so the immediate concern is being able to moderate the tsunami of submissions; the long term concern is that things go peachy at first and the fediverse becomes so intertwined with Meta that it becomes functionally dependent on it… and then Meta decides to pull the plug, effectively destroying the parts of the fediverse that didn’t defederate right out of the gate. This is called “EEE” or “embrace, extend, extinguish” as others have mentioned in this thread. It’s a shitty thing bigger tech can do to destroy budding competition before it has a chance to become actual competition. Google has a history of it, and a lot of folks here naively think Meta will for some reason handle things more ethically.