6 states siding against a supreme court decision to deny access to federal authorities seems big, if thats happened in my lifetime I've not heard of it before

  • bbnh69420 [she/her, they/them]
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    5 months ago

    Ever since Ukraine, my partner scoffs whenever I say “nothing major is going to happen.” I can’t say they’re wrong

    • Egon [they/them]
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      5 months ago

      I had a large discussion with some colleagues about there not "being anything going on in Ukraine" because they had finally, after weeks/months of scaremongering, picked up on the news that "something was going to happen in Ukraine".
      This argument took place on february the 24th. I had not heard the news because I had finally tuned out, because nothing was going to happen lol. I literally said "I'll call it a war when there's tanks rolling into Ukraine!" Not knowing that at that moment, tanks were rolling into Ukraine.

      • Tachanka [comrade/them]
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        5 months ago

        I don't blame you. That was a lot of us. US dem-party-leaning media screeched about Russiagate for 6 years, wearing everyone's patience thin on anti-Russian scaremongering and creating a "boy who cried wolf" effect. All the libs I know were very smug that day.

      • GarfGirl
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        5 months ago

        i remember the night before i had a drunken discussion with friends at uni and said i thought nothing was going to happen and the next day tanks went in

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      5 months ago

      Happens to the best of us, literally. Lenin said revolution wasn't going to happen in his lifetime.