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[–] ClassyHatter@sopuli.xyz 96 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is... is that real? Is this really the world I live in?

[–] lka1988@sh.itjust.works 28 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Yeah. Rubio is a fucking moron.

[–] neidu3@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Yup

I doubt Lemmy as a whole is a big fan of Christie, but at least he's able to call out people trying to get bullshit soundbites by memorizing a post-it.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Makes me ashamed he shares my heritage. My Cuban compatriots in Miami are awful.

[–] grue@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

No offense, but that's kind of to be expected since right-wing Cubans would've been disproportionately likely to flee communism.

[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

That's only part of the story. If you want to learn about why they actually went that way, you should dig deeper. Here's the short, extremely simplified version:

  • Kennedy backed rebellion and supported a group of freedom fighters (One of my cousins was actually part of the insurgents)
  • Congress didn't back him. The legislative branch was mostly Republican at the time. Kennedy, of course, was Democrat.
  • The insurgents went in and lost US support, were all captured and/or killed.
  • Congress blamed Kennedy even though they were the ones that pulled support.
  • Cubans in turn were told Kennedy and the Dems caused it.

As a result, 60+ years later, we have a bunch of ignoramuses in Miami who support the very people who consider us "the help."

Fuck the GOP. (Fuck the Dems, too, but not for that specific thing.)

[–] NotLemming@lemm.ee 3 points 2 days ago

You have to laugh. What a fool.

[–] 30p87@feddit.org 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Seems like russia needs to lose entirely, then. Without russia existing anymore, there won't be a deal.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Ukraine should cede all claims to yakutsk.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 33 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuck off and chug some more water, you prick.

[–] neon_nova@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

His first big exposure to the national spotlight was when he gave the Republican response to one of Obama's State of the Union addresses. And for whatever reason he had insane dry mouth and had to pause his live-on-air speech to grab an off-screen bottle of water and take a drink and for a while that was all anybody associated him with. It kind of killed his momentum as a rising star at the time.

https://youtu.be/dWkjVvoXIS0

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which is weird bcz everybody gets thirsty. It's weird the things we focus on. The fact that he's a bumbling moron should be what people talk about, not some extremely mundane human need.

[–] baronvonj@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah it was like the Howard Dean scream. You could see him getting more and more nervous about it until he finally freaked out and grabbed the water, but such a normal thing to experience.

[–] puia@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I can’t believe Americans voted for these guys

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 14 points 3 days ago
[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Why doesn't the U.S. just become part of Canada? Oh... you mean you don't want to give up U.S. territory... funny how that works.

The great lakes corridor and the west coast can be Canadian.

Mexico takes Texas and whatever else it wants, likely gulf states through to Florida.

[–] SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Canada takes over the East Coast. Mexico takes the West Coast. Texas gets the middle part. By the time Trump is done with the country, there is nobody to resist anyway.

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Rubio must shove a cactus up his ass, I say.

[–] scarabic@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

He’d have to first remove Trump’s cock.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago

Nah, that’s not very Bigly, so both can fit.

[–] Zippygutterslug@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

That's Marco "Eichmann" Rubio, ladies & gentlemen

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Fuck Rubio. Let's get to Washington DC and.mske them cede something

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

No, we need to cede Florida, Texas and the rest of the south.

But nobody in their right mind would take them, like trying to cede a toxic waste dump, but of people.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net -5 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Honestly while Rubio sucks and it’s not really his place to say this, it’s hard to imagine any peace deal that doesn’t have involve territorial concessions. It’s up to Ukrainians to decide whether that or continuing the war is worse but I just don’t see any other options. Ultimately, Russia has to agree to end the war somehow.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I think Europe should step up support.

Russia is Russia, but if we can bleed them of 10, maybe 15 million of their young men we have a real chance at peace for the next century.

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net -2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

But what kind of support are they going to offer that changes the outcome?

[–] Maalus@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Maybe give them what they need to actually fight instead of trickling it? Ukraines problem isn't manpower or the will to fight or training or whatever. They need artillery, they need tanks. Give them that and Russia gets kicked.

[–] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Decent missiles to knock down Kerch bridge, even start striking deep into Russia destroying all their oil facilities,

And honestly, precision drone strikes for leadership.

Beyond that, we just need to keep increasing the happy number: https://lemm.ee/post/58230564

[–] LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 day ago

I don’t think it will be enough but I’ll be happy to be proven wrong.

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Unless something dramatically changes for the better, I tend to agree. Russia is unlikely to be pushed back far enough to regain that territory without direct help (more than just weapons) from other countries.

[–] count_dongulus@lemmy.world 6 points 3 days ago

I'd rather the war go on until Russia runs out of their remaining money, and then collapses again like in 91.