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    Video : Trump Rages at Zelenskyy in the White House

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  • That's how you lose with characters like Trump. They're looking to trigger you into a shit show, and then beat you with experience. You have to stay calm and let them make an ass of themselves. They will eventually get too rash and make a royal fuck up.

  • Diplomacy dies on live TV as Trump and Vance gang up to bully Ukraine leader

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  • Yes it is because keeping Ukraine out of Putin's hands is essential to Western prosperity. Do you understand Ukraine's role in global wheat production? Do you understand the value of naval ports in the Black Sea? Do you understand the danger of having a Russian border even further in Europe and NATO? Plus, do you think you're going to see any of the savings? The maybe 1.5% of the federal budget that went to Ukraine...so if you miraculously got those $20 of your federal income tax back, they are gonna turn your life around?

  • Trump to Splinter the FBI into a Thousand Pieces

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  • He's gotta to a Stalin purge first.

  • Political Memes @lemmy.world
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    Trump to Splinter the FBI into a Thousand Pieces

  • Acting on Trump's order, federal officials opened up two California dams

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  • So we can all understand what is happening, I mapped it out. The dams empty into Tulare Lake. The fires are in LA and contained. The article notes that there has been no plan released to transport the water from Tulare Lake to the fires (that are contained and have sufficient water). Historians will laugh at how stupid this is.

    Indianapolis: After weeks of efforts, we have contained the fire and have things under control.

    Trump: I got this. Force Chicago to have more water!! Done 👌

  • Cuba rejects US plan to deport immigrants to Guantanamo Bay

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  • ha! got em

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    Jerkoff

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  • Looks like they live in a dumpster 💅

  • I'm gonna need more then one. I was born with two hands for a reason.

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  • Pls explain how to starve and binge 3k Cal simultaneously

  • I'm gonna need more then one. I was born with two hands for a reason.

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  • Just 2 short of a perfect score

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    Pixelfed #11 in Android app store

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  • But the thing is that here in Europe, we are more relaxed than USians because we have government mandated vacation days. It's even better when I get sick at the same time because I can catch a free ambulance ride to the hospital near the beach since there is no "out of network" medical care (whatever that means) here. I can then take mass transit from the hospital to the beach and make university-educated friends with everyone because tuition here is free. Because I didn't die in a mass shooting when leaving the beach, I can order a reasonably-sized meal that doesn't cause instant cardiovascular disease and not leave a tip because our servers are paid a living wage. I can't imagine the horror of living in such an underdeveloped country as USA. I am so glad I am in the EU.

    • Sent from my phone without concern of being doxxed or tracked thanks to EU privacy laws

  • US announces $25m reward for arrest of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro

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  • Something here is fishy. How does the US not know where Maduro is?

  • PragerUrine

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  • The Red Army along with the Western Allies defeated the Nazis. It is true that the Red Army a magnitude more of losses and were responsible for 3/4 of Nazis killed in battle, so they objectively lost more of their own and took more Nazi lives. However, that is not the only factor that won the war. The Red Army received a considerable amount of military equipment from the West. Additionally, one can argue that the Red Army lost so many lives in part to their military strategy in which deserters and dissenters where killed. Shoot. Their leader was Stalin. Often times, Red Army soldiers would be ordered to rush a Nazi position knowing it would be certain death, but if they disobeyed, they would be killed by other Red Army soldiers. Plus, the Western allies, especially the UK, the USA, and Canada fought the Nazis on another front, forcing the Nazis to split their military units, equipment, and supplies. The Americans also were the main force fighting against the Japanese Empire, which reduced the strain on the Soviet Union allowing it to focus more on the Nazis eastern front, though technically, that has nothing to do with the war between the Nazis and the Red Army. And in the beginning, it was the UK that took the brunt of the Nazi war machine. Civilians in London were taking shelter in the subway during Nazi bombing missions. I would also like to give a shout out to the French resistance that terrorized Nazi occupation.

    The Red Army definitely took the heaviest human toll against the Nazis. Estimates for Red Army losses vary immensely since they were so high and the war was so chaotic. Their losses were so much, that some of the ranges of casualty estimates I have seen on Wikipedia are as large as the rest of the lives lost by everyone else. According to a quick search on Perplexity, the Red Army loss ~8.7 million soldiers, while the rest of the allies lost ~1 million. So if there is an estimate that the Red Army suffered between 8.2 & 9.2 million, the range would be as wide as the losses of Allied military forces. Furthermore, many major battles were on Soviet ground, so they also suffered immense civilian casualties. Perplexity gives an estimate of 13.7 million Soviet civilian deaths. That's over twice the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust which was a systematic genocide carried out to be as efficient as possible by a people known for efficiency.

    Despite all of that, the Soviet Union did not defeat the Nazis on their own. They had considerable and decisive help from Western allies, both in battle and supplies. The Soviets took the brunt of the losses, and without WWII, the world would be an unrecognizable political landscape in which communism may have been more popular or prominent, whether you would prefer that or not. However, it is disingenuous to say the Red Army defeated the Nazis on their own.

  • He changed from Republican to Democrat one day before being arrested but it now means dems pick up a seat in the WV state legislature

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  • Barcelona

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  • What's the name of someone speaking a foreign language?

  • Barcelona

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  • Why?? What's the difference, and why would they care?

  • Barcelona

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  • No. They use Krung Thep, which is short for Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.

  • Barcelona

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  • I have not, but now I am interested. Any idea where I could hear the difference between the correct Japanese way and the butchered American way?

  • Barcelona

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  • Supposedly, the English took it from the Dutch. The English king gave it to his brother who was the Duke of York and renamed it in his honor.

  • Barcelona

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  • Lygos or gtfo

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  • I think it's interesting that some countries have entirely different names depending on the language. Here is one for example:

    • English - Germany
    • Spanish - Alemania
    • Finnish - Saksa
    • Polish - Niemcy
    • German - Deutschland

    There are many others, but they are more so variations of the same name, so I didn't include them. The ones I listed are completely different.

    I heard that the different names originated from the names of the Germanic tribes that interacted most with the respective peoples and resulting language. For example, what would be English-speakers would interact mostly with Germanic tribes, whereas would be Spanish-speakers would interactact mostly with Alemanni tribes. However, Perplexity says that the English name comes from the Roman name for the area, while the Spanish name comes from the name of the tribe. If only Crunk the Historian could investigate this and find an ultimate answer.