We aren’t talking about the aid package. We’re talking about the secret delivery of missiles to Ukraine.

No, I’m saying it’s something. Every time I engage with one of you you’re decrying everything he’s working on as nothing and attributing that ‘nothing’ to his entire presidency.

Reminds me of some of the worst smoke seasons we’ve had in the PNW

I notice the lack of ‘he’s not doing enough’ and ‘he’ll never do enough’ crowd here.

Got it. Thanks!

I realized when typing I wasn’t sure

I find it interesting that they said there’d be a larger response if Israel retaliated 2 days ago, but now they’re saying there will be no response to Israel’s retaliatory strike.

I’d be willing to bet you could find one or two Israelies (Israelites?) that hate Israel too.

Gotta add that /s fam

I wonder what all the headline could have said he’s been in contact with. His wife? Car? A BLT? 3 children in a trench coat?

Reflection on history. I don’t see that as an inherently negative thing even though it would ostensibly exclude me.

Do projects that drive us to consider the plights of slaves, Jews in the holocaust, or other groups that were tortured, murdered, or otherwise persecuted en masse elicit this same response to you? If not, why?

It seems to me that the art is doing what it’s intended to do, illicit a reaction. What you do with that reaction, positive or negative, is up to you.

I don’t see it as revenge, I see it as reflection.

Of course he doesn’t. The man doesn’t know shit.

It’s not realistic. The realistic phrase would be ‘excess does not buy happiness’.

Yes we have Anthony Bourdain and Robin Williams as counter examples, but it’s pretty shitty to use their mental health to support a classist tool designed to keep the lower classes quiet. Money doesn’t fix everything because not everything can be fixed, but it definitely does buy a lot of joy and opportunity to live and enjoy living.

It would be my immediate thought if I were on that plane. I’d be convinced he was patient zero.

Seems like both suck pretty badly.

The whole premise that ‘money can’t buy happiness’ is a tool for the ruling class to try and make the poors become content with their poverty and not try to do anything about the inequality.

There’s one more thing that comes to mind….

Which would be meaningless for nearly anyone that’s not in a position of power and influence, yes.

I’m really not sure what your point is here.

Yes, I am included in ‘everyone’.

The reason I say it is because Zelensky has been put on a pretty high pedestal, for example:

bruh everything about zelensky is incredible. What a guy

And some folks are going to be sorely disappointed later on when they learn more about him and where his failings lie.

Absolutely. I couldn’t agree more.

I just see a lot of people putting him on a pedestal that are probably gonna be let down some day.