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zelensky-pain in a predictable turn of events it looks like the fascists in Ukraine will probably not get more money because the fascists in the USA are too racist and want more border restrictions and war with China.

link to the funny WaPo article here.

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[–] CrushKillDestroySwag@hexbear.net 72 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Bernie Sanders voted "no"

The Soc Dems can have little a good foreign policy voting, as a treat.

[–] star_wraith@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago

Yeah, for now. Wait for Bernie to hold out then trade his vote for a proverbial handful of beans.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Twist: Bernie voted no because there wasn't enough money for Taiwan.

[–] LibsEatPoop@hexbear.net 51 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

It was because of Israel actually.

I voted NO on the foreign aid supplemental bill today for one reason. I do not believe that we should give the right-wing extremist Netanyahu government an additional $10.1 billion dollars with no strings attached to continue their inhumane war against the Palestinian people. Israel has the absolute right to defend itself against the Hamas terrorists who attacked them on October 7. They do not have the legal or moral right to kill thousands of innocent Palestinian men, women, and children.

[–] Tankiedesantski@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago

Alright Bernie, you did good this time

[–] ElHexo@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago

They need 60 votes anyway

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 72 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Begin the countdown to azov 9/11

Season 12 of Blowback is gonna be wild

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I wonder which Euroid landmark they'll bomb first? I expect to see even more Ukrainian fascist collaboration with the other fascist movements currently all over Europe sadness-abysmal

[–] huf@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago

hungary could be a target, because 1) nobody cares what happens to it 2) it's an entirely pointless country that should've been annexed by slovakia a long time ago and 3) orban was super against ukraine and for putin during all this

so, interesting times. last time we had bombing and shit was during some kind of mafia reorganization/turf war in the 90s

[–] KarlBarqs@hexbear.net 30 points 2 years ago

Poland. They're already mad as fuck about Poland trying to close off the border to Ukranian goods.

[–] footfaults@hexbear.net 27 points 2 years ago

Dirty bomb at the site of the Berlin Holocaust memorial

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago

they already did nordstream, according to the amerikkka

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm betting on an airliner being downed over a major metropolitan area

[–] Weedian@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hundreds of leftover stinger missiles go brrrr

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

They're gonna weld them all together into a Stongerscared

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 6 points 2 years ago

Damn that’s definitely getting lathed into existence.

[–] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 57 points 2 years ago (2 children)

lmfao republicans voting against border fascism because it wasn't fascist enough for them

[–] joaomarrom@hexbear.net 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

listen, it's either going to be fully upgraded team fortress 2 engineer sentry turrets every ten meters along the Mexico border or nothing, you commie

[–] AbbysMuscles@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

I just imagined the engie saying "[slur] enterin' mah country" and kinda hate my brain for it

Just moving the window a little more.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 49 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Sorry they hate brown people more than they hate Russians.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Double edged sword, it's the only reason ukraine had any support in the first place but also Americans hate brown people way more than they feel empathy for white people.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

Ukrainians' white pass might be expiring at some point too.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 48 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Chiang-Kai-Shek should be up there for being the original Zelensky that the US poured billions into just to lose and whine every other year.

[–] emizeko@hexbear.net 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Truman called him "Cash My Check"

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (2 children)

who put funding for israel and humanitarian aid for gaza in the same bill

[–] GrumpigPoopBalls@hexbear.net 33 points 2 years ago

the money is for hundreds of cardboard boxes with "humanitarian aid" written on the side that will be delivered to the IDF so they can unload it from trucks in front of media cameras

[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago
[–] Snackuleata@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago

Thank you socialist grandpa. bernie

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago

Just vote , trust me this time! Things definitely will change! so-true

[–] Evilphd666@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

Keep protesting!

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Good let’s stop throwing good money after bad

75 billion dollars. Sickening to think of how much housing that could have built.

[–] Tachanka@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

America doesn't need to build housing. There's enough housing for everyone already. It's just that they're being rented held onto as speculative financial assets by parasites instead of being lived in. Most cities have more empty homes than homeless people.

[–] BoxedFenders@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

More housing would lower housing prices so they won't be as attractive for speculators. The artificial scarcity is what helps them jack up rents.

[–] Tunnelvision@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago

I don’t think that’s a good reason to just build more houses though. I get what you’re saying, but it sounds kinda wasteful.