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Devac  ·  136 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Dear Joe, it’s time to go

Nah, throwing your vote into the pile matters wherever you are. We recently had a Sołtys (like county-level official for rural areas) election where the difference between candidates was 6 votes (out of 250-someting voters). Sure, it's not the same league, our Sołtys is 47 and kicks ass as a public servant, but may POTUS match her importance and prestige one day. Your vote is no less important than mouthbreather's next in line.

    I know how good Poland might look if, say, a POTUS gave you half of Ukraine

LOL, come on, that's basic even by my understanding of geopolitics. Ukraine is neither his/America's to give nor ours to take. Also, combining it with Poland would cause a civil war faster than most of you can spell 'Volhynia'.





am_Unition  ·  135 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Dude you need to tell your friends that an American tried to singularize a singular word (soltys).

Devac  ·  135 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Nah, I told you already: we're pretty understanding of this. Hell, we have plurals of collective nouns, like 'the police' (nominative singular: policja, plural: policje), so go and wrap your head around that. It's like Latin, but much weirder and less regular. You're fine.

And good one, but what would we do with whole three lie-bear-ians?

am_Unition  ·  135 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The well-boy is key to lie-bear-yun stability. We're all about the 1/3 nuclear family and superbreeders.

Devac  ·  134 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you shuffled the words and were about 1/3 families and nuclear superbreeders, it'd be sustainable even without lye-baer-oons.

am_Unition  ·  136 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Send the Solty over, if you can, thanks.

I have once again ruined communication with a proverbial "you". I am talking about Trump giving Putin Ukraine. Even some of it. Putin lives and breathes mid-20th century Soviet expansionist propaganda. If he thinks the US is noncommittal enough with NATO, I think you have Moldova as a warning case, and then maybe latvia and estonia but god knows belarus is a done deal.