kescusay @ kescusay @lemmy.world

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NATO will do exactly nothing to help the bloated orange shit-weasel take over Greenland.

Je visiterai le Canada dans deux semaines. Bonjour.

Peut-être que je ne reviendrai pas à la maison.

I've been screaming into it since November.

The message is clear: Do not come to the United States as a tourist. Do not spend your money in the United States. Do not support businesses that operate from the United States. Our borders are closed, our economy crumbling, our government falling to fascism, and our culture dominated by a relatively small minority of aggressively ignorant morons.

Don't come. We've gotten unfathomably stupid over here, and it's no longer safe.

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

"Hey! That hurt! To get you back for it, I'm gonna punch myself in the face!"

And I support the rest of the G7's right to form a "G6" and tell the USA to go fuck itself. And I say that as an American.

It's a very big "if," though. Europe has a lot of work to do.

But with the United States falling to fascism and despotism, there's no one else to step up. And I doubt Europe has any illusions about the size of the threat Russia poses, so they have every incentive to halt Russia's expansionist goals there in Ukraine.

Putin once said Russia's borders don't end anywhere, a very telling sentiment: He doesn't believe anything but Russia should get to exist. A country that doesn't respect its own borders is a threat to all of its neighbors.

And because of its expansionist goals, its neighbors are the entire world.

So... Europe is going to massively step up support for Ukraine. It's possible that unlike the United States, Europe will have no reservations about giving Ukraine everything it needs to not only hold Russia back, but to outright win.

An unambiguous win for Ukraine would almost certainly culminate in the death of Vladimir Putin and a full, systemic collapse in Russia. At this point, Russia is all in on destroying and taking over Ukraine, and if it can't, it's basically got nothing else to fall back on.

First job ever: Highschool work program. I slung coffee in a Costco.

First job in a field related to what I wanted to do: Needed any job I could get, applied a bunch of places, got hired by one basically sight unseen because they were desperate for anyone they could get and practically pulling people in off the streets.

First job specifically doing what I wanted to do: Used experience moonlighting and doing stuff somewhat related to get a full-time job doing the actual thing I loved.

Current job: With experience under my belt and a better resume, I applied at a better company (that paid well), and got the job. Planning to stay with this company until I can retire, if possible.

I could practically hear the sadness and disappointment in that "oh," and I feel exactly the same way.

Something something Obama something tan suit something cornpop.

Ergo and some other Latin words.

And it's going to get far worse.

That's the thing I've been most worried about. The media have largely capitulated out of (justifiable) fear of reprisal and violence. The fear is legit, but we depend on the media to speak truth to power especially when democracy is on the line.

This is why I no longer believe this will end without violence.

Nope. Not watching. I'd rather drag razor blades between my toes. Rub sandpaper on my tongue. Give myself paper cuts on my eyelids. Watch videos consisting entirely of nails on chalkboards.

Twice. They did it twice.

Je t'ai eu, ma famille. (Translation: I got you, fam.)

À partir de maintenant, je ne parlerai que français.

Alternate headline: Iowa becomes first state to declare that it really doesn't want any tourism dollars at all. Like, none.

Yep. Fascism doesn't work without a dedicated cult of personality, and that's exactly what Trump has with his legion of MAGA asshole-idiots who are willing to commit violence for their messiah.