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AOC has a warning for Trump officials: ‘So many criminals in this administration’
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... Sorry, off topic, but why is your icon the buc-ees mascot? Those guys chug maga cock like their life depends on it.
Irony. Think punks and John Lennon rocking Mickey Mouse tees. Buc-ee's is the height of MAGA brain rot culture. A gas station treated as some sort of cultural identity.
That said, they are great rest stops...
My husband brought me bucees sweat pants from his business trip to Austin, we both had a laugh. Then we read up on the owners 😳.
The fact that they won't sue him means we should all be able to safely use this.
Put it on a bunch of gas stations.
You know I hate tankies as much as anyone else, but I'll honestly say JoMiran is one of the few .ml users who doesn't seem to be one.
As in, they're actually capable of rational thought/discussion and has some decent takes from time to time, which a tankie would be utterly incapable of
Wait what, when did anyone mention swastikas? I must have missed that part of the conversation. What I saw is that they said punks wore mickey mouse shirts. Which is a completely different thing.
I'm not here to defend .ml as an instance, I think it's garbage and most of its users are disingenuous trolls and accelerationist edge lords who would rather see the world burn with no plan to rebuild after rather than contribute in any meaningful or reasonable way to any sort of productive discussion whatsoever.
That being said, I've seen JoMiran around on different threads and they don't act like the usual .ml user. There's a couple others too, but they're very much the exception rather than the rule over there. That's all I'm saying.
And I never listened to the sex pistols, but there are plenty of punk bands who hate nazis, and honestly the punk ethos is diametrically opposed to fascism, so that weird subgenre of nazi punk is not only an oxymoron, but they're also just a bunch of posers appropriating the aesthetic and not really punks. They would get chased out of any regular punk venue. Call it gatekeeping if you want but nazis are not punk, even when they try to call themselves that.
Sigh. Anti-NATO and pro-China is not pro-Russia. If anything, we agree with you libs that China and the USA are fighting a proxy war using Russia and Ukraine as condoms.
The US provoked it, Russia started it, then China stepped in and used the opportunity to make Russia completely economically dependent on them.
Russia sucks in so many ways. Ukraine sucks way less because they were the ones who got invaded, and I'm far more on their side, but they have problems too. The people of both countries are being used and thrown away by unaccountable foreign bastards (and domestic bastards in Russia's case).
It's just a game to the people at the top. China wants to limit Western advancement on their western flank, and the US/NATO wants to kill Russians and advance their economic influence into countries previously dominated by Russia.
It's two capitalist markets trying to gain power over each other. We at ml think the solution to this is to bring down capitalism, and the major other communist faction on Lemmy is to do that but bring down the state as well.
Now, does any of this sound like we are pro-Russian to you?
To your final question, yes.
Which part?
Are they big fans of gas stations over there?
They're tankies. So they're big fans of obvious fascism and authoritarian ideas claiming it's basically anything else.
Meanwhile the US is evil incarnatez and absolutely everything they do is bad, without exception. Russia and China do no wrong. Even when they do the exact same things.
They're not big fans or critical thinking over there, and aggressively ban anyone not participating in the group think.
You just replied to me to explain, in answer to my question "Why does dou9m think that I can expect every ml user to be a fan of a gas station brand?" is that its because they are authoritarians? Like I was making a joke obviously, but your response doesn't actually make any sense.
Don't worry, we all know what tankies are, and we all think they are very silly and unimportant people. It's hard to spend any time on lemmy without knowing about them. I find the people who follow them around screaming about it to be just as annoying as they are.
So for future reference: We get it, my dude.
I guarantee you a gigantic chunk of people on this site, and even more importantly, all of the people who will end up migrating to Lemmy over the following year, are going to have no idea how to even slightly define what a tankie is.
Give me a call when they hold any political power whatsoever <3
The world’s most virulent one is literally POTUS lol
You think donald trump is a tankie?
Let's see, hmm, is President Krasnov -- who has business in Russia, who helps Putin at every turn, having secret meetings with him and overturning established sanctions on Russia and low-key betraying Ukraine as much as possible while trying to appear as though he is not, who even has a fucking Russian operative code name -- is he, could he possibly be, a tankie?
My god man. We will never know. It is a mystery of the goddamn universe.
Oh my god thank you lol, saved my fingies a lot of typing. The only thing I’d change is this part tho:
I don’t think there’s been a single time in either Trump presidency where it felt like he and his regime’s cronies were anything but absolutely highkey, straightforward enemies of Ukraine.
I mean fucking Vance quite literally brought Zelenskyy into the oval office to get some viral clips of him while his citizens are getting purposefully targeted by fucking missiles. Republicans as a whole have no, zero, argument for being anything but fascist, authoritarian, rapist, racist scumbags.
Your point is valid and well-taken; the only reason I did not go as far as that is because while Trump has absolutely done as much as he can personally, via the executive, to fuck Ukraine in the ass, he has also hidden behind others -- like Musk cutting off the military arm of Starlink -- and been restrained from the worst of his excesses by the Republicans that still very much support Ukraine. So I could write it and be technically correct, but I would not readily be able to source it as fact. You know, and I know, but sourcing it would be a prolonged undertaking.
Also, keep in mind that as an older American, every time I type the name of that great country Ukraine, I am reminded of how Ukraine would not even been in this position had they not traded their nukes for American assurances, among others (including Putin himself on behalf of Russia) that if Ukraine were attacked we would readily defend them.
Ukraine had gained independence, and to be a good world neighbor they willingly disarmed. Here we are, twenty-two years later, and of all the signatories and supporters of the Budapest Memorandum in 1994 and its terms -- Ukraine, Russia, the United States, the UK, France, and China -- one of them is the primary aggressor and the rest have all fucked right off or are providing only minimal support. It is deeply, deeply shaming to me as an American citizen that we have not supported Ukraine with all our might.
Yeah thats russia, a capitalist nation since 1994? Do you read the news? it was quite a big event.
That is literally nonsensical. Krokodil a bit too strong for you these days?
Have you been living under a rock for the last 33 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1993_Russian_constitutional_crisis
Russia is literally just a shitty oligarch ridden country, it is not in any way communist. This is not a conversation, it's just recorded fact.
We are not arguing, I'm telling you what reality is, and you are telling me donald trump is a tankie and russia is the soviet union still. This is silly, please see sense.