This is the problem with compassionate people (whom I believe is most of us). When we win, we don't crush our enemies into oblivion. We still feel empathy, and try to help them get on board with us.
Baby Boomers, now around 70 years of age, have never had anything but antipathy toward the USSR/Russia. Way late for a 180 into some awkward embrace when Russia hasn't changed one stripe.
That is the thing about Gen X, we may have been raised with different religions, in different parts of the country, in economic or social classes, but we knew Russia was the enemy. They have been the bad guys.
呃……各位美国的朋友们，你们认为美国应该改名为“西俄罗斯”还是“东俄罗斯”？你们认为美国在俄罗斯的东边还是西边？
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(AI-transl.) Uh... to all my American friends, do you think the United States should be renamed "West Russia" or "East Russia"? Do you think the United States is to the east or west of Russia?
I couldn’t agree with you more . No one in our lifetime would have ever conceived this being close to reality. This is dictatorship mission creep it’s going to be in our backyard if nothing happens sooner than the next election.
Neither did I. This is heartbreaking to think they may not get to experience living in a country that was once respected. Although we were not perfect by any means. It was far better than what it currently is.
“The gates of hell are open night and day;
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies”
Neither did I think that they would or that my nieces and nephews would… we need to fight, not just for ourselves, but for those who don’t even know yet that their rights are being violated because they’re too young!
and sad for all the folks who support Israel to be aligned with Iran Russia Belarus, etc against a man whose family died defending the right to be Jewish…. Israel Iran in the same sentence is horrifying.
This hits home hard... my firstborn came in 2013, I was 35. 2nd arrived in 2016, I'm terrified for them... I'm 46 now, never have a had to fight so hard just to exist... what's it gonna be like when I've crossed the finish line...
Fifty years of complacency and the low voter turnout that comes with it have brought us to the brink. Add the deliberate obfuscation of reality in the media and we have at hand the end of American democracy.
Nor did I. We are living in sad times, and what makes it worse is so many Trump supporters don’t see it . . . yet. But give it time, they will feel it and then they will understand that he never cared about them; he only needed their votes.
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We wont stop until they are all wiped back into hell. 👊
This is unacceptable and beyond stupid
WHAT IS HAPPENING?!
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Can you speak to the idea of leaving.
I’m thinking it’s not going to be an option soon.
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(AI-transl.) Uh... to all my American friends, do you think the United States should be renamed "West Russia" or "East Russia"? Do you think the United States is to the east or west of Russia?
（AI-transl.）Of course, under Xi Jinping's meddling, our country can already be renamed "West Korea"...
Smooth the descent, and easy is the way:
But to return, and view the cheerful skies,
In this the task and mighty labor lies”
Virgil