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Do you feel like the winds of change are blowing today too?

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Saturday, August 16, 2025 6:06 PM

Shut the fuck up, Second. And shove your faux empathy right up your ass where it belongs. You have no idea what that word actually means.

I've known genuinely bad people who had more empathy in their pinky knuckle than you've ever been able to muster in the entirety of your selfish, entirely self-centered life.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

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Saturday, August 16, 2025 9:30 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by 6ixStringJack:
Shut the fuck up, Second. And shove your faux empathy right up your ass where it belongs. You have no idea what that word actually means.

I've known genuinely bad people who had more empathy in their pinky knuckle than you've ever been able to muster in the entirety of your selfish, entirely self-centered life.

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"I don't find this stuff amusing anymore." ~Paul Simon

6ix, you have said that you don't talk about politics with people. I can see why because your beliefs mark you as an evil little man. Your beliefs are only acceptable by other Trumptards, equally evil or worse.

6ix, I have zero empathy for Nazis and Confederate slave-owners. But I'd punish Trumptards even more harshly because, unlike Nazis and Confederates, I know Trumptards personally, know their life stories and how they screwed up badly because they are fundamentally evil people, the very worst Americans.

Someone helpfully listed what good Americans do and contrasted it with what Trumptards do:

Trump is losing support for his destruction of Medicaid because taking away people’s healthcare is wrong, and (some Americans, but not Trumptards) know it.

He is losing support on cutting Food Stamps because denying poor, malnourished children food is wrong, and (some) Americans (but not Trumptards) know it.

He is losing support on his hacking away at medical research because depriving us of medical advances is wrong, and Americans know it.

He is losing support on insisting climate change isn’t a real problem because ignoring global warming is wrong, and Americans know it.

He is losing support because terminating the Department of Education and the Consumer Product Safety Commission and the Voice of America and other federal agencies that help Americans and American allies is wrong, and they know it.

He is losing support because his self-interested attacks on law firms and universities and independent media are wrong, and Americans know it.

He is losing support because transferring FEMA to the states and refusing FEMA aid to blue states is wrong, and Americans know it.

He is losing support because firing federal workers on the false pretense that they are wasteful and fraudulent is wrong, and Americans know it.

He is losing support because giving aid to Israel while ignoring Palestinian starvation, and playing footsy with Vladimir Putin while giving and then withdrawing and then giving again and then withdrawing again aid to Ukraine is wrong, and Americans know it.

He is losing support because many Americans now realize how much USAID contributed to saving lives and he is wrong — dead wrong — to have killed it, and Americans know it.

He is losing support because vaccine denial is wrong and deadly measles outbreaks are unnecessary, and Americans know it.

He is losing support — and we haven’t even begun to make a dent in the list — because all his instincts, everything he does, is wrong. Everything.

And (some people, but not Trumptards,) are beginning to notice, finally, and perhaps too late, that Trump is so thoroughly transactional that there is no morality in him whatsoever, no moral gene, and we miss it. We miss right and wrong. They are like old friends who went AWOL. And many of us want to welcome them back.

https://whowhatwhy.org/politics/us-politics/because-its-wrong-how-we-m
ight-save-america-from-donald-trump/

6ix, the standard Libtard attitude is Live and Let Live. Standard version Libtards oppose the death penalty. That's not me because I have been around you goddamn worthless Trumptards all my life. The only efficient way to make Trumptards behave better is to fire them. Or like during the Civil War, kill the slave-owners and burn their cotton plantations. Or with Nazis and Japanese Imperialists during WWII, fire bomb them or nuke them. Negotiation with evil people, be they Trumptards, Confederates, or Fascists doesn't work until after a large percent of these evil people have suffered or died violently. If they weren't evil, a minority of them won't have to be brutally beaten to death in order for majority of them to see the error of their ways.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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Saturday, August 16, 2025 9:33 PM

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The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

Trump Has No Cards

Why would Putin need to make a deal with him?

By Anne Applebaum | August 16, 2025, 10:50 AM ET

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/08/trump-putin-ukraine-
talks/683899/

President Donald Trump berated President Volodymyr Zelensky in the Oval Office. He allowed the Pentagon twice to halt prearranged military shipments to Ukraine. He promised that when the current tranche of armaments runs out, there will be no more. He has cut or threatened to cut the U.S. funds that previously supported independent Russian-language media and opposition. His administration is slowly, quietly easing sanctions on Russia, ending “basic sanctions and export control actions that had maintained and increased U.S. pressure,” according to a Senate-minority report. “Every month he’s spent in office without action has strengthened Putin’s hand, weakened ours and undermined Ukraine’s own efforts to bring an end to the war,” Senators Jeanne Shaheen and Elizabeth Warren wrote in a joint statement.

Many of these changes have gone almost unremarked on in the United States. But they are widely known in Russia. The administration’s attacks on Zelensky, Europeans, and Voice of America have been celebrated on Russian television. Of course Vladimir Putin knows about the slow lifting of sanctions. As a result, the Russian president has clearly made a calculation: Trump, to use the language he once hurled at Zelensky, has no cards.

Trump does say that he wants to end the war in Ukraine, and sometimes he also says that he is angry that Putin doesn’t. But if the U.S. is not willing to use any economic, military, or political tools to help Ukraine, if Trump will not put any diplomatic pressure on Putin or any new sanctions on Russian resources, then the U.S. president’s fond wish to be seen as a peacemaker can be safely ignored. No wonder all of Trump’s negotiating deadlines for Russia have passed, to no effect, and no wonder the invitation to Anchorage produced no result.

There is not much else to say about yesterday’s Trump-Putin meeting in Alaska, other than to observe the intertwining elements of tragedy and farce. It was embarrassing for Americans to welcome a notorious wanted war criminal on their territory. It was humiliating to watch an American president act like a happy puppy upon encountering the dictator of a much poorer, much less important state, treating him as a superior. It’s excruciating to imagine how badly Trump’s diplomatic envoy, Steve Witkoff, an amateur out of his depth, misunderstood his last meeting with Putin in Moscow if he thought that the Alaska summit was going to be successful. It’s ominous that Trump now says he doesn’t want to push for a cease-fire but instead for peace negotiations, because the latter formula gives Putin time to keep killing Ukrainians. It’s strange that Russian reports of the meeting focused on business cooperation. “Russian-American business and investment partnership has huge potential,” Putin said today.

I appreciate that many Ukrainians, Europeans, and of course Americans are relieved that Trump didn’t announce something worse. He didn’t call for Ukrainian capitulation, or for Ukraine to cede territory. Unless there are secret protocols, perhaps some business deals, that we haven’t yet learned about, Anchorage will probably not be remembered as one of history’s crime scenes, a new Munich Conference, or a Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact. But that’s a very low bar to reach.

The better way to understand Anchorage is not as the start of something new, but as the culmination of a longer process. As the U.S. dismantles its foreign-policy tools, as this administration fires the people who know how to use them, our ability to act with any agility will diminish. From the Treasury Department to the U.S. Agency for Global Media, from the State Department to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, agency after agency is being undermined, deliberately or accidentally, by political appointees who are unqualified, craven, or hostile to their own mission.

The U.S. has no cards because we’ve been giving them away. If we ever want to play them again, we will have to win them back: Arm Ukraine, expand sanctions, stop the lethal drone swarms, break the Russian economy, and win the war. Then there will be peace.

The Joss Whedon script for Serenity, where Wash lives, is Serenity-190pages.pdf at https://www.mediafire.com/two

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