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Russian official Dmitry Medvedev, a close ally of Vladimir Putin, suggested Donald Trump’s election victory may benefit Russia’s interests in Ukraine, citing Trump’s reluctance to fund “idiotic allies” and “voracious international organizations.”

Although Medvedev stopped short of celebrating, he hinted Trump’s aversion to foreign spending could weaken U.S. support for Ukraine.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky cautiously congratulated Trump, recalling their recent discussion on U.S.-Ukraine cooperation.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov maintained a guarded tone, noting the U.S. remains an “unfriendly country” involved in the Ukraine conflict.

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[–] Stovetop 145 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nobody on the left votes for her so the far right wins again. Real galaxy brain move there.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Nobody ever accused voters of being smart. That said, Harris lost a lot of Biden's 2020 voters, so this is the exact good time to go super critical on her campaign.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

And nobody ever accused liberals of even appearing to give a fuck about the working man (literally). The whole Bernie factor was missing, the only Democrat who could actually rally that population -- because he cared about their issues -- just to be hit with the "Bernie Bro" cudgel. "Wait he appeals to men? Must be a sexist!"

A left that doesn't care about class isn't leftist. Worse, they're not even realising that that's why people go for other options because while the right doesn't care about the proletariat either, at least they pretend to. The liberals created Trump.

[–] scarabic 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

A lot of good sense here. Democrats have been so focused on race and sex that they lost the whole working class. I don’t think they realize that people don’t think of themselves as demographics. Representation is a thing, but they assume far too much about it: “Let’s run a black woman - we’ll get all the black AND woman votes! And she’s Asian, too!” Meanwhile they are doing little for the working class issues that affect these voters most. Kamala’s program of tax break handouts was a dead giveaway: Democrats think the system is fine - but they’d like to buy your vote this year. People want structural change to the system, not a new line item on their tax return. Trump’s tariffs, ill-advised as they are, show a willingness to make deep structural change to the macroeconomics that have brought us here. While democrats clutch their pearls over a 5% drop to GDP, working class voters are like “we’re already losing big time - let’s roll the dice.”

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Tax break handouts are a slap in the face of the working poor: What good is a tax break when you don't earn enough to pay taxes, or live a dignified life, in the first place?

[–] scarabic 1 points 2 weeks ago

It’s surprisingly few people who pay no taxes. The standard exemption is only $13,850.

But your point still stands. Poor people aren’t going to hold on til the end of the year for a lousy $300 credit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

Representation is a thing, but they assume far too much about it: “Let’s run a black woman - we’ll get all the black AND woman votes! And she’s Asian, too!” Meanwhile they are doing little for the working class issues that affect these voters most.

Right on the nose. Here's a perfect example of this, which I find incredibly demeaning toward the supposed demographic they're trying to court. It just shows how out of touch the party is.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/13/nx-s1-5151968/harris-weed-crypto

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

working class voters are like “we’re already losing big time - let’s roll the dice.”

AGAIN. Yup. Riding high on Obama's economy (who himself was blamed for Bush's) and now Biden receiving the blame for Trump's, the working class folk yearn for what they used to have - not realizing where it came from or how to get it back.