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Vance calls end of Ukraine aid 'one of the proudest' achievements of Trump administration
(kyivindependent.com)
this post was submitted on 16 Apr 2026
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Hey R voters and sitouts: proud yet?
How do people still think R voters have shame about anything he does? Good lord
But they had to sit out the election because of Palestine!
Not that they care that Trump just lifted all restrictions on Bibi in Gaza, the morally important thing is to teach Harris a lesson!
And signal their inability to tell between different levels of evil, or to see things beyond a 14-day timeframe, apparently.
They don't want to understand that harris was the lesser evil from where to start something new. But they are also coward enough to not admit that by not voting, they put pedohitler and harris at the same level.
They won't ever admit it because they know it means that they couldn't see anything worse on the child rapist than in harris. In the end, for them, raping children and supporting israhell not worse than just supporting israhell, meaning that for them, raping children is not something to consider when voting for a president.
There's the child-raping, and then there's the whole barreling towards a cyberpunk hellhole that Trump and the heritage foundation are engineering. This doesn't seem like a difficult choice to make, I honestly can't understand these people.
I think when it comes to those people, my judgement is fair: they are amoral idiots who are maybe worse than trump supporters. Trump supporters proudly exclaim they're involved in fascism and everything else that history taught us is horrendous. The protest non voting "leftist" not only hides what they are, they seek to maximize the number of others who increase the damage. Then they want you to feel morally inferior if you didn't join them in helping to destroy the social fabric.
Republicans literally don't give a shit about Ukraine.
I've made the mistake before of assuming they had a basic sense of human decency. I pointed out that trump and congressional republicans would pull funding for Ukrainian defense, and I was blindsided when someone responded to me as if they view that as a good thing.
I was flabbergasted, dumbfounded. What do you even say to that? How do you even debate someone who lacks any semblance of logic or empathy?
And yet the same people think it's fine that we're still giving bombs to Israel, and launching billion-dollar rockets at Iranian civilians.
It's absolutely insane.
I gave up trying to explain to the sitouts why they did wrong. But they refuse to understand even the most basic concept of the lesser evil. All you hear when you discuss with them is "lib", "libtard", some basic insults and a fixed set of "reasons" why they couldn't get to vote for harris and why it's not their fault at all that pedohitler is president.
They are just cowards who refuse to admit they fucked up greatly. It's always someone else's fault with them.
If anything, their fixation on using GENOCIDE to attack anyone with a dissenting view, instead of engaging and considering anything other than GENOCIDE, has desensitized people to the word. Watch as i get smacked around for being a 'GENOCIDE supporter' lol.
Maybe there wouldnt be so many sit outs if the Democratic party actually tried to help people, or at least said they will. People are fucking stupid. Whether you think voting for the lesser evil is logically correct or not, that's evidently not how the average American feels. Running an uninspiring, pro genocide campaign doesn't encourage people who don't feel targeted by current politics to engage.
If there's ever another fair election, they simply have to do better. The bar was in the floor and they couldn't clear it.
Yup, people need to understand its the candidate's responsibility to get people to come out and vote for them. If they aren't able to do that people should blame them for being a bad candidate and not trying to reach the masses.
Kamala spent so much effort trying to court republican voters, whom would never vote for her, rather than focusing on the 35% of the population that didn't vote. Two policy choices would have convinced a good chuck of the non voters to come out, no genocide (This is literally the bare minimum and should be easy) and one of the following: universal healthcare, universal childcare, legalized pot, or a reasonable path to citizenship for immigrants. She refused to try and win in my opinion it should have been such an easy election but she did everything possible to fuck it up and people should be pissed at her and the democrats for doing that, not the people who didn't want to vote for genocide.