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An 8-panel Phoebe Teaching Joey meme.

The first panel is Phoebe from Friends saying “Russia”.

The second panel is Joey from the same show replying with “Russia”.

The third panel is Phoebe saying “has invaded”.

The fourth panel is Joey repeating back “has invaded”.

The fifth panel is Phoebe saying “Ukraine”.

The sixth panel is Joey repeating back “Ukraine”.

The seventh panel is Phoebe saying the completed phrase “Russia has invaded Ukraine”.

The final panel shows Joey proudly proclaiming “NATO just started a proxy war”.

  • luckyhunter@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I was thinking if taking my family out to dinner. Maybe vacation, I’m not too sure what my cut would be.

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      1 year ago

      Given that you’re worried about income taxes, your cut is very small.

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          1 year ago

          That’s not how income taxes work (you already got paid a rebate for your dependents) and equality in taxation is not a thing you actually want.

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            1 year ago

            I don’t care what you call it. I want a rebate, covid money, bailout, stimulus check, of my family share of all the aid sent to Ukraine, as of June this year that’s about $1,000 total and counting. That will cover a weekend trip to Big Sky this winter!

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              1 year ago

              The level of sheer selfish ignorance you display is incredibly shocking. But not unsurprising for someone clearly as blinkered as yourself.

              For the price of some asinine trip to bumfuck Idaho you would allow an aggressive megalomaniac to achieve his goals? Do you really think he will stop after Ukraine, if he can get away with it?

              You best believe that it is in your interest to keep Putin from winning this war. Or else you will find that a bigger problem waits for you and yours in a few years.

              Appeasement only makes an aggressor more aggressive. You need a history lesson more than you need some holiday money.

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                He couldn’t handle Ukraine before the aid even started flowing, any American concerned now that Russia is a threat to the US is bonkers. The selfish ones are everyone in Europe who thinks the US needs to help Ukraine at all. There’s no reason the US should be out spending the entirety of Europe combined.

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                  Look at fucking Generalissimo Armchair over here would ya.

                  You are the fucking selfish one, so stop projecting.

                  I’ll give you a real good reason you Trump Chump. It’s called maintaining the Status Quo, in which the USA is the largest and most powerful economic force on the planet. It is in your interest to prevent nations from destabilising that because it improves the likelihood that your redneck arse gets to keep existing.

                  And inb4, yes Ukraine falling to the Russians is massively destabilising.

                  Is that a selfish enough reason for you?

                  Or if that doesn’t work, how about this, go read a history book and see how it plays out if we don’t support Ukraine. This was how the last fucking world war started. Only last time Poland was the first domino.

                  You deluded fucking clown, you would rather a $1000 for a god-damn ski weekend over helping to prevent a nuclear armed Russian from marching, once again, over eastern Europe.

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                    1 year ago

                    Yep, I want my ski weekend. Europe is perfectly capable of preventing a nuclear armed Russia from marching over eastern Europe without my $1000. If Germany started marching all over Eastern Europe again, I might get slightly concerned.

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              1 year ago

              Well, wish in one hand and shit in the other and let me know which hand fills up.

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                1 year ago

                lol no shit. Maybe they can put “Sponsored by Luckyhunter” on some unnamed conscripts grave as a consolation prize.