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Sorry for the headline. I don't know why they don't just say it's Vivek Ramaswamy.

To that end, I will accept Russian control of the occupied territories and pledge to block Ukraine’s candidacy for NATO in exchange for Russia exiting its military alliance with China. I will end sanctions and bring Russia back into the world market. In this way, I will elevate Russia as a strategic check on China’s designs in East Asia.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've actually seen a shirt that says "I'd rather be Russian than Democrat."

[–] gammasfor@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

At this point being a Republican should be considered synonymous to being part of a conspiracy to commit treason and be treated as such.

[–] hglman@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is why some kind of civil conflict is likely. Because they are and either we are going to live in their republican hell world or they are going to make the rest of the rest of.us kill them to stop it. It is likely bc they will escalate to killing.

[–] Clbull@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

So have I.

I'm not even from the same continent and it hurts my head to think of how a party whose supporters are synonymous with highly patriotic rednecks are willing to continue supporting their team after they've shown a categorical willingness to sell out to the enemy.

Like... I truly think some big corporation has put something in our food or drink that is making us terminally stupid.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe it's all the microplastics and PFAS.

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Its the lead in the gasoline. Thats why the boomers are all crazy, they breathed that shit all their lives. Slow lead toxicity causes paranoia, delusions, lowers inhibitions, increases agression.

Overlay light airports (small prop planes still use leaded gasoline) with conservative microclimates and you'll see a correlation.

[–] pedalmore@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Gen X is actually worse off from a lead poisoning perspective than boomers because lead is much worse for babies/kids than adults. I saw a cool graphic once but can't find it. Here's a boring article though.

https://news.fsu.edu/news/health-medicine/2022/03/08/fsu-research-team-finds-lead-exposure-linked-to-iq-loss/

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well, your second paragraph has a major confounding factor ih that only rich people own their own planes.

[–] kittyjynx@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Rich people tend not to actually live right next to municipal airports due to the noise as well.

[–] Pretzilla@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

A direct result of IRA/GRU/KozyBear(?), etc., disinfo and influence brainwashing social media campaigns.

Social media is a hellofadrug to the poorly educated.

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

So Ronald Reagan's grave is a gender neutral bathroom and a power generator? Wow!