No, I have no real investment in the American political system. I was pointing out the satire in the original photo was misplaced. As people have demonstrated in this conversation most of the interactions have made massive assumptions about why i made my comments rather then addressing my comment.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

the satire in the original photo was misplaced

Perhaps you're not aware of the concept of synecdoche,, where one part of something is used as a representative of the thing as a whole. You saw the float and said that it had nothing to do with trump (vaguely true despite the fact that many of his party still answer his beck and call), whereas the float has "republikaner" written on it, which despite not speaking German I can only assume means "republican". So basically the float is depicting the republican party at large killing Ukraine, despite the fact that there are only two people shown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

This float is far from anything even remotely close to "subtle", and yet that guy still couldn't understand the float. I'd say media literacy is abismal but at this point it's just reading.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

German here, your assumption is correct

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I think it means Republicans, plural, as in not only Trump. Which is an important distinction imo. Trump is just used as an example.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

How exactly is Biden responsible for Republicans blocking any Ukraine aid that he's trying to get through congress?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

No, trump has gotten his house lackeys to stop any bill that gets aid to Ukranians. Purposefully misrepresenting what is going on is very ~~MAGA~~ SVR of you.

And the fact republicans take their marching orders from citizen trump just shows how far gone they are.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago

What does SVR mean?

[+] [email protected] -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Problem is that the only two other options is to either turn a blind eye on what looked like the start of a genocide, or having two nuclear power at open war.

Abandon Ukraine means it put its own wellfare above human rights, in which case Putin would be right to despise the West.

Go at war with Russia would put humanity on risk of annihilation as both side has enough nuclear weapons to wipe it out. Multiple times.

Having the Ukrainian choose their destiny by defending their land, while not ideal, is the only option that the West have to stay true to its ideals. The West populations are not blind to their sacrifices, and as long as they are willing to fight for their rightful territory, so are the West to provide the means to do so.