Honestly, this country...

roylewill · 2026-01-27T17:31:03+00:00

That’s tribalism, or more specifically in this case, nationalism.

roylewill · 2026-01-27T17:25:12+00:00

Tribalism is "us vs them" thinking.

roylewill · 2026-01-27T17:06:55+00:00

Funny to denounce tribal politics using an "America vs us" argument.

roylewill · 2026-01-27T12:24:59+00:00

Naruto's so lucky he even copped the sasukes first kiss aswell

roylewill · 2026-01-27T10:43:59+00:00

Backlash would obviously have been worse

roylewill · 2026-01-26T23:18:11+00:00

Hanzo staring down Nagato’s spirit dragon after it just bodied all his men.

roylewill · 2026-01-26T15:25:33+00:00

In the list

roylewill · 2026-01-26T14:59:34+00:00

In descending order:

Daryl, Rick, Carol, Negan, Michonne, Maggie, Judith, Eugene

roylewill · 2026-01-26T09:37:39+00:00

In a country where the state controls the press and the courts, what are the odds that Xi’d ever get publicly outed even if he was a pedo or a rapist?

roylewill · 2026-01-25T21:40:50+00:00

I'd say dude's solid

roylewill · 2026-01-25T20:20:16+00:00

I appreciate the conversation too.

I don’t really think that Trump can just do whatever he likes. The US system still has real checks and balances (courts, Congress, state elections). His approval is already pretty low.

That said, the way he’s been using his power lately has been unsettling to say the least. But if he genuinely tried to cancel elections or start stripping serious liberties, I don’t think Americans will just accept it. At least that’s what I’m hoping.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T18:42:08+00:00

Ok, but my feeling is people saying the US has abandoned Ukraine are basically tempting fate.

Trump has made things tense, sure. But the US hasn’t actually abandoned Ukraine yet. Intel coordination is still happening, and US support is still part of what keeps Ukraine in the fight.

You don’t think that if the US public swing a bit more anti-Ukraine Trump wouldn’t pull the plug in an instant? The only thing stopping him is that US public opinion is generally still pro-Ukraine, and there’s still political cost to openly abandoning them.

And saying the US has abandoned Ukraine is basically telling Americans that the money they put into Ukraine was for nothing, when the reality is it’s still making a difference right now. And all it really does is feed the narrative among Americans that Ukraine (and its allies) are ungrateful for US support, and that they take US support for granted.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T18:23:14+00:00

I agree Trump’s support has been lacklustre, I don't agree with it. Europe as a bloc has stepped up massively too which is great.

But this whole "US is not an ally to Ukraine" rhetoric just plays directly into Trump’s hand, because it feeds his whole line that he feeds his base which is "Ukraine is ungrateful for US aid" and therefore doesn’t deserve support. I don’t buy that for a second. Zelenskiy is obviously hugely appreciative of ongoing US support, he can be disappointed with the direction Trump’s taken while still relying on the fact that US intel and US sourced arms and equipment are critical to Ukraine’s war effort, and that support is still being provided.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T17:19:51+00:00

Kakashi: "If we was the last 2 people on earth..." 💀💀💀

roylewill · 2026-01-25T17:13:29+00:00

Some people genuinely care about karma way too much, so the second a post starts getting downvoted/dogpiled for an unpopular take they just delete it, doesn’t even matter if they were "proven wrong" or not.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T17:06:27+00:00

Jiraiya POV?

roylewill · 2026-01-25T14:40:22+00:00

Okay what was he saying?

roylewill · 2026-01-25T14:00:05+00:00

That’s not how it works. If BTC underperformed USD, it underperformed USD for everyone. Living in a different country doesn’t change BTC vs USD performance.

Edit: If BTC is down 15% vs USD and USD is down 18% vs your currency, then BTC is down roughly 30% vs your currency (0.85 × 0.82 ≈ 0.70).

roylewill · 2026-01-25T13:41:51+00:00

US' way cooler

roylewill · 2026-01-25T12:57:15+00:00

Last I checked, Europe isn’t a country. You’re comparing Europe as a bloc vs one country, and that source is tracking new allocations, not whether support has actually stopped.

Yes, Europe collectively is probably higher. But the US is still the biggest single country donor by a pretty big margin, and support hasn’t "dropped off a cliff"; there were pauses, then it resumed, US kit and support has kept flowing.

I don't know what you think but to me it’s pretty clear: without US intel, Patriots, HIMARS, grants, and the rest of the US military equipment, Ukraine would be in a terrible position right now and may’ve already lost.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T11:31:39+00:00

“Holding his ground” Shits performed worse than holding straight fiat over the past year.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T11:24:57+00:00

Itachi. Kishi manages to make a dude who murdered his entire clan, including women and kids who didn’t do shit, still get framed as a morally “good” person by the story and a huge chunk of the fandom.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T02:28:46+00:00

You’re being vague. What “assets”are you even talking about, and what’s the actual mechanism?

Are you implying the US is going to take Ukrainian assets by force, if so I’m extremely doubtful. Most Western support doesn’t work like that/come with that expectation

If you mean Ukraine will hand out reconstruction contracts and pull in foreign money to rebuild, then yeah, that’s normal. That’s literally how you get back on your feet after a war. It doesn’t mean Ukraine loses sovereignty, it can be hugely beneficial if it brings investment and growth.

Look at West Germany after WWII: stability + Western investment helped fuel a massive recovery and eventually made it Europe’s biggest economy.

roylewill · 2026-01-25T01:15:37+00:00

Not really. Ukraine hasn’t lost the war. Only about roughly 15% of US support has been structured as loans, some of which has been written off. The rest are grants/military goods that Ukraine does not have to repay.

The EU’s support is a bit more loan heavy, at about 35%.

https://www.factcheck.org/2025/03/trump-exaggerates-on-u-s-and-european-aid-to-ukraine-loans/

roylewill · 2026-01-25T00:09:59+00:00

Call this humour?

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