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Trump just presided over one of the greatest diplomatic disasters in modern history, with flared tempers, raised voices, and shredded protocol.

Never before has a U.S. president bullied and berated an adversary, never mind an ally, in such a public way.

During a tense Oval Office meeting, Trump and JD Vance attacked Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, demanding he accept a peace deal with Russia or lose U.S. support.

The conversation devolved into shouting, with Trump accusing Zelenskyy of being ungrateful and “gambling with World War III.”

The meeting ended in chaos, with no agreement reached.

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[–] Wrench 17 points 5 hours ago (5 children)

Congrats Never Genocide people posing as Progressives. We fucking warned you that exactly this was going to happen. Trump and his cult would side with Russia and throw Ukraine under the bus.

Great fucking job.

And great fucking job, Mods, for protecting those fucks in the name of civility.

We are the baddies now. And we got here because you'd rather protect Nazis from being punched in the mouth for their words and actions in the name of civility.

[–] Ensign_Crab 2 points 42 minutes ago

Congrats Never Genocide people posing as Progressives

Centrists do think that "never genocide" is a bad position.

We fucking warned you that exactly this was going to happen.

No. You screamed abuse at anyone to your left and only your left because opposition to genocide is opposition to your wing of the party. Progressives tried to warn you what would happen if you didn't ditch Netanyahu. We could read the writing on the wall. You had all the warning in the fucking world that if you kept pissing off people you needed to win, they wouldn't vote for you. You loved genocide so dearly that you kept going.

We are the baddies now.

You always have been. I reluctantly voted for Harris and I may one day stop resenting being manipulated into voting for genocide.

[–] spirinolas 0 points 40 minutes ago

Jesus fucking Christ, I wished they had all voted Democrat just to shut you up. Trump is bad enough but hearing you guys complain about this over and over is just too much.

Let it go, for fuck sakes. Deal with it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Doing God's work in excusing the DNC's unwillingness to do what it took to defeat Trump (just like, right now, they're not doing what it takes to stop him).

For the instinctive ass-kisser it's never the Royalty who is to blame, always the plebes.

With an "opposition" that doesn't actually oppose and is ever less representative of the population, Project 2025 was always going to happen, sooner or later, since the trend of the last 2 decades has been ever more of far right populism, propped up by the Democrats' ever more Rightwing policies and ever less trying to represent the broader population (and repeatedly using "we're not them" as their entire electoral strategy).

You know what might've worked? Not having licked the boots of the Democrat Leadership during the last decade or two.

Now, you're getting to enjoy the bed you made for yourself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

They really have you all wrapped around their fingers, don’t they? Your democracy is literally on fire around you and the best both ”sides” can do is bicker whose fault it is.

[–] merdaverse 7 points 3 hours ago

There was never any democracy to begin with if you can't vote for whoever the fuck you want, without resorting to "lesser evil" strategies.

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

That's by design.

[–] Tezzerets_Tea_Time 14 points 4 hours ago (4 children)

Thank fucking God we didn't vote for Harris because she wouldn't outright condemn Israel. Totally worth everything happening now (that any remotely educated and reasonable person warned about).

[–] Ensign_Crab 2 points 38 minutes ago

At least no centrist had to abandon support for genocide.

[–] SloganLessons 11 points 4 hours ago

Better to suck Putin’s cock than to have a female president

[–] IndustryStandard -4 points 1 hour ago

Gaslighting people into believing that Harris did not promise unconditional support for Israel's genocide I see.

[–] EcoByte 0 points 2 hours ago

I hope you're joking

[–] Regrettable_incident -1 points 3 hours ago

I kinda feel like the 'never genocide' people were always secretly embarrassed trumpsuckers.

But I don't have a problem with mods giving them the same protections as the rest of us. I think those people are a bunch of wankers but I don't want Lemmy turning into more of an echo chamber than it already is.