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[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 95 points 1 week ago (2 children)

“If you go back to World War II, if you go back to World War I. If you go back to every major conflict in human history, they all end with some kind of negotiation,” Vance said.

Crawl back in between the cushions you dumb ass motherfucker. We won't accept this revisionism to benefit your mother Russia.

[–] mkwt@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Technically, the status of Germany was settled b by the Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany, in 1990. That was certainly a negotiated agreement.

[–] xyzzy@lemmy.today 26 points 1 week ago

I mean, the Paris treaty formally ended the war, it's just that Germany wasn't a signatory to it. Turns out if you kill enough Nazis, it doesn't really matter if one signs your treaty or not.

[–] Mr_WorldlyWiseman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah I mean I guess every war technically ends with a treaty or status quo ceasefire, but you're skipping a lot of steps where all of the most egregious nazis were killed or captured first.

You don't have to go as far as the Romans did to Carthage to demand an unconditional surrender through force.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 5 points 1 week ago

Negotiating like when someone has a guy on the ground, and keeps punching him in the face, screaming "HAD ENOUGH MOTHERFUCKER?"

Yeah, like that, if you want to call that a negotiation. I mean he did ASK.

[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 70 points 1 week ago

I think he forgot that the fascists were the bad guys.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

He's got as much charisma as the sofa he fucks.

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Sofa(Fuc)king Nazi.

[–] forrgott@lemmy.zip 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] wheezy@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Thanks! Hate with a passion how we have to login to read anything these days.

[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

You don't need to login to read the Daily Mail, Sun or Fox

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The allies negotiated Hitler to a cyanide capsule and bullet to the head.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago

That was Hitler's FINAL offer. The Allies accepted.

[–] mhague@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

A violent armed robbery is like a negotiation.

You see, people are considering the situation and value is transferred between parties.

I'm so smart. I'm like, negotiating life right now.

[–] WhatsHerBucket@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Haha! -Nelson Muntz

[–] jjjalljs@ttrpg.network 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Can never tell with this kind of turd if they're stupid, lying, or both

[–] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

The answer is yes.

The have been raised and bred with selective information.

And they have been taught you dont matter.

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 1 points 1 week ago

I just save time and effort and assume all three. It's almost always correct.

[–] DudenessBoy@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, dropping bombs is negotiation

[–] HubertManne@piefed.social 11 points 1 week ago

Nobody understands ww2 like vance. he knew right from when the germans bombed pearl harbor that it would end in negotiation.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Um, what the actual fuck?

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 week ago

This is another sign that Trump and Vance are going to sell out Ukraine, through "negotiation."

[–] Goldholz@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Hey USA, get back under the crown

[–] Invertedouroboros@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not sure the UK's interested in having us back at this point.

[–] frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

And it's not like the UK is doing so hot with their own conservative takeover.

Honestly, I think they get too much credit for having socialized healthcare. On a lot of other metrics, they're not much better than the US.

[–] MehBlah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

That he exists is reason enough to mock him.

[–] bubblybubbles@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Babe wakeup, new JD mocking material jus dropped

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago
[–] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 0 points 1 week ago

What if his plan is to actually drop two bombs on Russia

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