r/interestingasfuck • u/MilesLongthe3rd • 19h ago
Witnessing the normalization of destruction: daily life in Ukraine.
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u/ZerpMeizter 19h ago
Living in an active war zone requires immense mental fortitude. I hope you all are safe there.
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u/azmarteal 19h ago
We are not, everyone here can be killed at any moment.
But that's just life
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u/SomeDumbDoggo 18h ago edited 18h ago
as a brit i cannot even begin to fathom how privileged i am with the fact that "that's just life" horrifies and upsets me. Wish i could do more than just donate to the defence effort. Stay strong, Слава Україні!
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u/nulla-nomen-eius 16h ago
as a brit i cannot even begin to fathom how privileged i am with the fact that "that's just life" horrifies and upsets me.
It wasn't even 100 years ago that people in your location were living the same life, worse even at times.
Talk to every government representative you have, write to the king, whatever it takes -- express your solidarity with Ukraine and its people, and your fear that if you and your nation aren't willing to draw the line and aid Ukraine then who will be left to draw a line or aid you when the next time comes?
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u/nulla-nomen-eius 16h ago
First they came for Crimea And I did not speak out Because I did not live in Crimea
Then they came for the Donestsk And I did not speak out Because I did not live in Donestsk
Then they came for the Luhansk And I did not speak out Because I did not live in Luhansk
Then they came for all of Ukraine And I did not speak out Because I did not live in Ukraine
Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me
...as individuals we speak out, but we expect our governments to do more than just speak.
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u/visibleunderwater_-1 6h ago
You are a strong people, the current "light of Democracy" for most of the world. You have stood your ground, pushed back, and honestly...are winning. The toll is very high; far higher than it should be due to MY countries backstabbing.
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u/Bruvvimir 18h ago
You and your people are extremely brave.
I hope this passes soon and the rebuilding is swift.
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u/Unique-Doubt-1049 12h ago
I will resent the US till my dying day for turning its back on you
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u/tattedidiot 12h ago
We’ve made so many promises to protect so many countries if they ever got attacked, and we never keep our word. It’s sickening
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u/CatMorton 18h ago
It shouldn't be ''life'', though :((
All of this should not be happening. Nazis should not have the right to be in power. ruzzia should not be given this much power by anyone.
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u/Careful_Employee_918 14h ago
I know you mean well, and it’s not an attack on you personally, but I chuckle every time I hear foreigners say “stay safe there”, like…yeah, we’d very much like to, but it doesn’t really depend on us at all?
Ballistic missiles can get you anywhere, sometimes you don’t even get an alert (and if you do - you have like 2 minutes max to hide anyway). Like, you can be at home, in the office, in the mall, doing regular things, and the next moment you are dead.
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u/PUSH_AX 19h ago
Living in an active war zone.
Hoping everyone is safe.
You can pick one.
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u/Lumpy_Benefit666 18h ago
You can still hope
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u/Rackem_Willy 16h ago
You can hope they will survive. You can hope they will become safe. You can't hope they are something they categorically presently are not.
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u/chimneyswallow 17h ago
Are you for real? They aren't Safe. Noone is safe there.
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u/-Monkez- 16h ago
"Living in an active warzone..."
"Hope you are all safe there."
What?
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u/ScottMarshall2409 17h ago
I have a friend living in Kyiv, and she periodically posts the view from her balcony on Instagram when attacks are happening. It's heartbreaking.
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u/nulla-nomen-eius 16h ago
I hope you all are safe there.
Call and write to every government rep you have, at every level.
Tell them that you support the Ukrainian people, that you want and expect them to represent that support in your government.
Which means not buying Russian diesel and products... not have your leaders call for the Ukrainian president to step down because he refuses to simply give up his country and people.
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u/GlitteringOwl7274 15h ago
Reminds me of this video from a while back where a shopkeeper in Yemen is looking out the window as bombs drop across the street. A kid is next to the old dude and old dude just hugs the child trying to comfort him as the bombs keep falling.
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u/Beerzoom 11h ago
It is interesting how point of view changes here. My nearest mall have been bombed like month ago. Each time I pass through I think that my family could be there at exact strike moment (near 7 pm). And tho I might be dead like 10 times or more.
Tho mental health don’t grow strong, it just pauses or quit the chat. You live as one brick of the system, that has to hold back russians. You just can’t give up, because you have to options: this life with small sparkles of joy or death/slavery by russians.
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u/Treqou 7h ago
It’s almost profound the resilience of the indomitable spirit especially for those that have to stay and can’t afford to escape. Imagine being a minimum wage worker at McDonalds and still having to go to work even though the office block opposite was just blown to pieces…. Doubt they’re getting hazard pay
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u/Kane1412 5h ago
When the war started, like, around April or May, the company I worked for, Auchan, made a video to share with all workers because of backlash over them not closing doors in Russia. They were excusing their business decisions by listing numbers like "we can't leave our co workers from Russia suddenly without income" and other shit.
And then they talk about the Ukrainian spirit and said "just this morning, our co workers from (I can't remember the city) went to work at 9, there was an attack alert at 10 so they rushed to the bunker and by 11 they were back at work again!"
I never felt so disgusted and mad in my life before. The thought that these people, French, (the owners) far from Ukraine were all happy and safe in their mansion while saying this...! The thought they made so much money and yet wouldn't help..!!
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u/PhiliptheAsian 18h ago
Oh that's the lukianivska McDonald's. The building that got hit is a mall, I remember going to the dollar store in it right across the McDonald's. They keep hitting this area a lot for some reason, there used to be some military factory that closed down called artem but it closed to down like 10 years ago and they kept hitting the building and the whole area over dozen times and even hit the children's hospital okhmadit a kilometer away
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u/jtpolzin 18h ago
That McDonald’s already survived almost everything. At this point it’s industructable
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u/serana_surana 17h ago
There used to be such a fun little store with model ships, trains and planes in that mall...
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u/alter-egor 19h ago
Trump: But mah diesel!
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u/Siegfried-IX 18h ago
As a European, I wonder if there are still enough people in America who believe this madman, who support his blatant lies and completely illogical decisions. The man is deranged. You have to wonder how he can still be in office or even alive, but then you remember that he makes policy for the rich, and people would rather let themselves be treated like bitches than stand up against it.
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u/nulla-nomen-eius 16h ago
Reddit is heavily biased toward those who dislike him -- there's still a frightening level of support for him in reality.
That said, what's most important is the reality that he's got fractures within his party.
It used to be that whatever he said was their gospel, no one would publicly contradict, let alone vote against -- the only party votes against him were clearly planned and strategic allowing those politicians to pander to centerists in their constituency. Or the various retiring politicians who suddenly felt safe to go against him because they weren't seeking re-election (and probably were writing a book or looking for other publicity vehicles to make money).
Lately we're seeing active politicians publicly disagreeing. Removing him from their campaign messaging and similar. Whether this is just public lip service to pander to centerists or not remains to be seen, but I suspect they see the writing on the wall: The party is over with Trump (literally and figuratively).
If the USA is a train moving on a track this is a man who has ordered half the fuel thrown overboard to save weight claiming it will make us faster and more efficient, and ordered the tracks many miles ahead to be disassembled so that he can sell half of the steel to put the proceeds in his and his kids' pockets and the other half of the proceeds he holds up to the people and says "look at all the money I've made this country" -- things weren't great, but he's accelerated the spiral by his short term actions, and especially through the long term changes he's made across all forms of leadership -- it's only our enormous influence and inertia that kept us from collapsing like any other country would have.
It's extremely unlikely that a majority shift in party next month is going to do much because these politicians are feckless, they'll talk and talk, but ultimately they're all in comfortable positions and don't want to disrupt the gravy train that seems to enable ever elected official to eventually become wealthy.
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u/MoneyBeeeee 15h ago
Reddit is heavily biased toward those who dislike him -- there's still a frightening level of support for him in reality.
I have been banned multiple times for making oblique comments about merely looking forward to a future where I don't have to hear about he-who-must-not-be-named every day.
Reddit deliberately has no way to report misinformation or disinformation. They are happy with the traffic that comes from trolls.
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u/blacksheep998 14h ago
Many of us are looking forward to that big beautiful day.
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u/MoneyBeeeee 11h ago
Cheers to that. There is a world of difference between wishing someone harm and just wishing someone would go away.
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u/Jessiphat 7h ago
It will be the biggest day. Nobody will have ever seen a day bigger than that. The biggest and most beautiful day in all of history.
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u/nulla-nomen-eius 16h ago
put the proceeds in his and his kids' pockets
I cannot express enough this point, and how absolutely stupid many of his supporters are.
In my area there is a (multi-millionaire) candidate for governor who has said he will refuse or donate his salary -- he's very Trump aligned, even today -- people come out of the woodwork still talking about great Trump is for donating his presidential salary.
Trump is like a contractor that you hired for $50/hr to come fix something in your home... he spends 4 hours in there and says "I won't take any money for the job" and these people will stand there with doe eyes and tears about what a wonderful man he is, meanwhile in those 4 hours he stole half the jewelry out of your bedroom, drank half your OJ straight from the carton in the fridge, and all the money out of your wallet all without you realizing it, or at least not accepting it despite seeing it.
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u/MyNameIsRay 9h ago
Somewhere around a third of Americans live in an alternate reality, supported by multiple news channels/pundits/communities that have rejected the reality the rest of us share. These loyalists have never wavered.
In that alternate reality, Trump has never lied, all his decisions are logical, and they're all to the personal benefit of his supporters. They really do believe everything is better under Trump.
I really don't think there's anything that could bring them back, because they just reject anything that disputes their view as "fake news".
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u/SanityReversal 6h ago
My mom and in laws still support him.
When asked about literally anything negative he does or says, they dont know what im talking about and claim im listening to liberal media.
If I show them the white house releases and transcripts, they just say something along the lines of "oh, idk why he would say that but Biden"
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u/DontEatNitrousOxide 18h ago
depends how much you consider his second election rigged with votes being bought, set on fire, and the bragging from musk about hacking voting machines
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u/Siegfried-IX 18h ago edited 17h ago
To be honest, I’m even more afraid of the election. That man would never accept defeat, if he is voted out of office, he won’t accept it and will claim once again that the election was rigged. I hope it doesn’t come to domestic military deployments or even a civil war in the States, though the current US administration is certainly capable of that.
When will all these right-wing idiots realize they're just being used to turn the West against each other? Putin and XI are laughing their ass off. While Trump and his sycophants and billionaires are just trying to enrich themselves at your expense without any regard.
Up there, there are only people left who don’t care about you and the people not only lets this happen, but actually supports it?
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u/_plebbie 17h ago
He didn't accept it the first time. He literally staged a coup and failed.
But the Democrats are too fucking scared to put any of them to the flame.
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u/annoyingashe 14h ago
He even claims 2016 was rigged because he could not handle the fact that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton
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u/Lobin 17h ago
He can't be voted out of office. This is his second term; our presidents are limited to two. By law, he will be out of office for good on January 20, 2029.
Not that he pays attention to laws.
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u/LingonberryMinimum23 15h ago
But do you really think that the army will Listen to the orange goblin? I think a lot of them wouldn't shoot their own people.
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u/ShadowXohoo 17h ago
As a European it baffles me how American just let themself get bended over and get fucked. Like all the time we read they got guns to defend their country from fascist and here we are. Meanwhile students in France got more balls, than grown as man.
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u/Saturos47 16h ago
Meanwhile students in France got more balls, than grown as man.
And yet Macron has a 15% approval rating
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u/This-Atmosphere-5794 16h ago
Here’s the thing, most Americans are fucking morons that are easily deceived. They love their orange daddy and are a bunch of fake patriots that excused mass child murders to keep their guns and pretended it was for defence when obviously they are just scared and lonely and need guns to feel safe. So very sad and pathetic
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u/throwaway098764567 8h ago
there's a reason the areas with poor educational systems and orange creature voters have a strong overlap. i think you'd be appalled at but also receive clarity if you understood the education happening. if people don't know enough to understand they're voting against their own interests, they're easier to hoodwink, and that's not an accident.
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u/illegible 14h ago
On my typical suburban street in a typical town in a purple area and I have many neighbors that would still vote for him. Even the ones that say they don’t like him would say things like “the democrats are worse.” I have a deeper understanding of how hitler came to be now…
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u/mistere213 14h ago
Exactly. I see less people defending and bragging about Trump, but more and more spreading hate and fear about trans people, Muslims, and "communists" (which is anyone who doesn't agree with them). There's barely any "He's Great!" but plenty of "Dems are going to literally murder your unborn baby to sacrifice to a Muslim unless it was going to be born trans!"
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u/Snoo-35041 15h ago
When the government stopped the equal time rules for media in the 80’s is when the wheels came off. All of the sudden, for profit talk show hosts boomed. And we slowly started to treat politics like a sports team. We must win!
A football game doesn’t end by debate and compromise. But sports teams also make alot of money. So does political media.
People hate to admit they are wrong, and we’ve lost empathy. If your neighbor makes more money than you, you want your neighbor to make less. Instead of saying I should make more.
It’s all quite concerning. Not being able to put yourself in someone else’s shoes is a societal downfall.
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u/Daedalus81 17h ago
We are being bombarded in media.
It has created downright morons who will believe any divisive rhetoric, because deep down they are terrible people. They are the Confederacy reanimated.
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u/Waesrdtfyg0987 17h ago
The educational system in the US has been crippled for decades. I tried to explain to my parent how there are 13 college graduates in our family and we all see that this is a horrible scenario, while they are the one who isn't educated and the only one who doesn't understand.
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u/blacksheep998 14h ago
And I'm sure they replied that all the college graduates had been brainwashed...
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u/thebestpostever 14h ago
My parents and siblings believe in that fucktard. I can no longer associate with them and have cut contact with them. It disgusts me that they have any semblance of respect for that monster.
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u/Axol555 15h ago
His popularity has dropped and no longer in the majority, but its still a significant amount of people. It also depends on the topic, ICE is still defended heavily by right-wing individuals, however the war against Iran is very unpopular.
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u/No-Drummer9173 9h ago
Every time I see ICE on reddit, I would see myself turning red in anger after what happened back on January 7th.
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u/Desecrated_Potato 10h ago
Because the news for so many people is heavily propagandized and straight up doesn’t cover things or at the very least doesn’t cover them honestly. Education has stopped focusing on critical thinking and people don’t understand how to recognize punditry vs actual journalism
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u/DeliciousGoose1002 19h ago
turning on Europe for an increase of .5 in barrels of diesel per day
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u/Trainzzo 19h ago
Une réalité pour les personnes qui continuent à vivre ou survivre en temps de guerre. La normalité de la vie au quotidien reste une manière de résister.
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u/Rollover__Hazard 19h ago
I remember hearing from a journalist who was there that people’s social lives have completely broken down into short term situations because no one knows what will happen next. They live their lives week by week, day by day not knowing if it’ll be a ceasefire or another attack or which comes. All the while the relentless barrage of rockets and artillery kill civilians every day while the battle on the frontlines grinds on.
What a horrific place to have to be.
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u/TashaStarlight 18h ago
Pfft we know that there won't be a ceasefire. There will be another attack, the question is if it does kill you or someone you know this time.
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u/Majestic-Bar-5618 18h ago
Well, as a Ukrainian I'd say that we are used to assuming there won't be any ceasefire and we'll continue being under fire. The complications coming with it like not living to see another day switched from mortifying to mildly infuriating when we can't got to the place we wanted to be at due to air raid alerts. And yeah, we are thinking of what will happen in half a year, but it's more like dreaming lol.
Actually not that bad here, in Kyiv. You can get used to that
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u/erik_skr 7h ago
Yep, exactly this. I also live in Kyiv and well. It's not like some existential dread looming over me every day, it felt like that maybe first two months, but you really get used to it. Your psyche can't handle that much of intense emotions really, you either spiral down into very messed up state of mind (some surely did), or the stuff that was like WTF WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE becomes a normal Tuesday. A rocket hits somewhere near, the house shakes, oh well, can I go to sleep again now.
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u/TonyDigger 10h ago
Та й моментами на Донбасі і Харківській області. Неприємно що постійно тривоги і оця хуйня з Трампом, але життя триває. Сподіваюся ти там в безпеці і поруч прильотів немає 👥
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u/AlyssaurusWrecks 19h ago
i don't think you can ever really repair the kind of trauma this instills. it has to be bone deep.
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u/SunTzu- 18h ago
Some of the first instances of being able to identify the impact of generational trauma came about from studying the RNA of holocaust survivors and of their descendants. Kids born after the war ended would "inherit" the same RNA markers as their parents, even though our previous understanding was that RNA wasn't passed down. This is now known as epigenetic inheritance and quite literally proves that the horrors we inflict on populations will echo down the generations.
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u/RanaMahal 18h ago
How many generations does it take to heal that trauma
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u/SheJigOnMySawTilIPuz 17h ago
That greatly depends whether the younger generations are given the space and resources to heal and prevent further trauma. Ex. in America for a lot of black people this has been an unbroken issue since slavery because even after black people were "freed" from chattel slavery, they were segregated and forced yet still in to dangerous, traumatic living situations, dangerous jobs etc and forced to develop skills to keep themselves safe from their own neighbors at the cost of health and growth.
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u/SunTzu- 15h ago
Jim Crow, redlining, the inability to accumulate and pass down wealth, school funding being tied to the value of houses so poor neighborhoods are underfunded... There's a lot there which locked in generational trauma and explains why the ghost of slavery still looms so large among black Americans.
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u/snokeyx 18h ago
whats going on here? random french comment and you all respond in english https://i.imgur.com/PPEKanu.png
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u/0110010101111000 18h ago
The reddit app translates posts and comments by default for a lot of people. It's a pretty dumb feature if you ask me
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u/ForsakenBobcat8937 18h ago
It's super annoying when using old.reddit which doesn't have the translation feature, just random languages all over, people thinking the whole subreddit is in their own language because the app is translating etc. etc.
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u/kontoSenpai 18h ago
I use old reddit too, and It's still always funny because most of the time it's french messages that I see "untranslated", until reddit puts de_irl on my front page.
I was not aware that "new" reddit auto translate, I just thought it's French people not bothered to translate stuff online, as it's often the case in video games where among the see of english messages, you'll have your fair share of french ones.
I'm French too for the record (I'm allowed to make fun of my own), but it always makes me chuckle, as we have a reputation of not giving a fuck about learning english since almost every media accessible in France is localized.
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u/whupazz 16h ago
It's super annoying when using old.reddit
I believe that's the intention.
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u/mainman879 15h ago
It absolutely is. Reddit is actively hostile to old reddit and tries everything they can to force people to switch.
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u/snokeyx 18h ago
oh yea i don't like that, reddit helped me with improving my english
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u/TashaStarlight 18h ago
You can turn the auto translate off and you'll still have the translate button on posts and comments in foreign languages. It's pretty convenient actually
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u/PrincessBonkers628 18h ago
Yeah I like it, makes it easier to have conversations in multiple languages
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u/thedeclineirl 18h ago
My Duolingo streak is high enough that I understand most of the message, but still lack the confidence to reply in French. I can't be alone in that. But probably the translation feature
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u/Astrophan 18h ago
Up-to-date Reddit has auto-translate. Everyone can comment in their native language and you'll see it in English.
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u/Visual_Property_8379 16h ago
Sometimes i even forget when it all started. It must be so heartbreaking for ukranians to see places they have always been to be demolished and lifeless like this
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u/Then-Bag-7031 8h ago
first of all yes its true
second of all we cant even buy mcdonalds every stacks of meat cheese and other is blew up so we can only buy toys breakfast things drinks and ice cream
im accualy ukranian and im still scared how everything goes im littelary crying what is happening i want to end this all i even got a teached that got a brother that got disabled legs and he is lost somewhere at the army so nobody knows what happend to him...
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u/arsino23 5h ago
Bro it's nothing but ... Feel hugged. You are going through hell, but you are so amazing you people. Reading this and then knowing there are people even here in Germany (thank god not the government) that want to end aid... Now the US... I want this fucking war to end, for your country and more importantly your peoples sake
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u/TonyDigger 13h ago
Хехех, ну типу того. Навіть в парках можна пройтись, під звуки сирени і роботу ППО:3
Але найприкольніше - що буквально життя триває навіть під обстрілами 😌❤️
Бо русня смоктати+лежати.
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u/DopesickJesus 12h ago
Best of luck to you and all of yours. I’m sorry the country I currently claim as home isnt helping as we should’ve.
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u/TonyDigger 12h ago
As long as you support us both online and in real life - we can at least not be in shit:) Thank you for being you and for supporting us❤️. And the ginger monkey can shove his "peace deal" up his ass
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u/addbiy3852 19h ago
This is so dystopian. At the end of it all, the bombs have fallen, way of life has ended, yet McDonalds continues to thrive
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u/BulletproofBannana 18h ago
When you think about it it's genius on many levels.
McDonald's is a global corporation with nearly limitless resources. They can rebuild and rebuild many times over and it wouldmt effect their bottom line. What they are doing is providing people in a warzone with some sort of familiar comfort.
Not unlike the "Happy Meal", the people living there might view McDonald's as that one small comfort for a brief moment, like we all remember collecting a toy and going to play in the ball pitt. Thus McDonald's will be rewarded with a customer for life.
I'm sure if people stopped going it would close, but there is obviously a need to keep it open.
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u/Sithishe 18h ago edited 17h ago
Yeah, you get it. It was very important for us to get McDonald's working again after initial invasion. Its one of the pillars our mentality holds on
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u/Academic_Engine_1161 17h ago
Let’s see here I’ve got my Family? Check. Big Mac? Double check. All good now. Edit: /s
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u/addbiy3852 15h ago
In ww3, ubereats will be providing big mac food rations to our boys on the front lines
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u/veerKg_CSS_Geologist 18h ago
I don't know what it's like in Ukraine, but in the US most McDonald's are owned by franchises, aka a small business owner who might have only a single store. McD's corporate provides the branding, menu and suppliers, but it's the owner who actually fronts the capital and pays for insurance, building, rent, wages, etc.
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u/dlebed 18h ago
It's different in Ukraine. All restaurants in Ukraine belong to and managed by McDonalds Ukraine branch. Not sure McDonalds use this model elsewhere.
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u/Kagenlim 17h ago
Singaporean. Same thing too, all of McDonald's is handled by a separate private company
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u/MrBlueA 18h ago
Would it be less dystopian if restaurants closed and people had no food...?
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u/TemporaryJohny 17h ago
"Food"
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u/Ace612807 14h ago
Yeah, you know what, fuck it
Sometimes you don't want to think about preparing stuff and are game for a relatively cheap and extremely inoffensively tasting burger from McD. Is it healthy? No, but who fucking cares if you can get killed by a Shahed drone in the next 24 hours. People crave at least sone sense of normalcy, and being able to grab some junk food is a part of that
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u/MaznWas 19h ago
ruzzia is a terrorist state
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u/hillman_avenger 18h ago
If only there were other countries who could stand up to him.
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u/onlycodeposts 19h ago
Yep.
Just like their ally Iran.
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u/Gothic_Mexa 19h ago
And exactly like the US and Israel
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u/Crunch1990 18h ago
Maybe the whole world is terrorist, probably symptoms of power driven narcissists at the top, a.k.a. the Epstein class
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u/hurrdurrmeh 17h ago
Please just remember that upwards of 90% of the Iranian population passionately hate the regime that rules them. Iranians are basically held hostage to a state that has alien values (from their perspective) and which will kill them publically for demanding even basic human rights.
So hate the regime, have compassion for the people. Everyone inside and outside of Iran wants the regime GONE. Except for the tiny minority that profit from their oppression.
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u/chokeonmywords 18h ago
Fuck Putin, Trump & Bibi
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u/meissobored0 17h ago
Only comment I agree with so far (as a Russian)
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u/ghitsatsybuliak 17h ago
Only time I'm liking russian comment (as a Ukrainian)
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u/redAI123 19h ago
Yeah, its pretty bad. This is why when a country want to justify bombing other country for national security I always have aversion for its.
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u/whatasuperdude 19h ago
Feel so bad for you guys. Someone really needs to get Trump out of power at this point is clear he is just working with Putin.
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u/Rath_Brained 16h ago
That destroys my heart every time I them forced to deal with that. No one should. It's fucking sick and wrong.
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u/Project__5 15h ago
That's horrible. On top of it, they've had touchscreen ordering kiosks forced on to them too which is simply the salt in the wound.
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u/Ivaresh 16h ago
I am so enraged to see more and more people forgetting about Ukraine. Or worse, siding with Putin.
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u/HedgehogAromatic836 17h ago
War will come back to Russia. Soon or late. Everything that Russians wish upon Ukrainians will return to Russians a hundredfold.
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u/Agent_Smith_IHTP 13h ago
I feel so sorry for all the Ukrainians having to see all the comments saying "what about Gaza" on a post about their war...
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u/wildpen70 14h ago
so who is buying Russian oil?
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u/Randomgrunt4820 8h ago
China’s number one. Then it goes, India, Turkey, and then Europe. Would you like to know more.
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u/Classic_Rich_8850 11h ago
usa 🇺🇸
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u/Randomgrunt4820 8h ago edited 8h ago
You misspelled Europe. But actually China.
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u/United-Ad9153 14h ago
How does it feel knowing the Trump admin deliberately chose not to warn them about a massive ballistic missile strike this week? Imagine being the intelligence officer who sat on that information and refused to pass it to Ukrainians, knowing civilians would be killed because of it.
The Trump administration deliberately allowed a terrorist attack to be carried out to extort Ukraine into effectively giving up their sovereignty. Why? To push down diesel prices they are personally responsible for driving up by launching the Iran War.
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u/CMDRDrazik 19h ago
What makes people choose music for their shit videos - like "oh yeah that song really FITS"
I fucking hate social media
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u/DunkinSheepsInSoup2 18h ago
half the time the original video creators post the song to it, in this video the "drop" of the song is supposed to align with finding out theres a fucked bombed building, like a movie
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u/Vonplinkplonk 17h ago
Well this lady is clearly living in a much tougher set of circumstances than virtually everyone of us is currently doing so maybe we can tone down the critique.
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u/Scoobelidoop 16h ago
Because "trending" songs on the impact improve chances to show up on the front page. More videos using the song leads to song trending, leads to those videos being pushed on the algorithm.
It's a way for advertisers to promote music (even if shit) and content creators follow suit because they want to trend
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u/Ok-Disk-2191 19h ago
Man the country has been blown to bits, but honestly fuck the people who would still litter like that, Macca's have bins all over the place, use them FFS.
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u/Plucky_Hedgehog 16h ago
Meanwhile, in Italy, ordinary people are protesting because gas prices have gone up a bit, accusing the government of helping Ukraine instead of Italian citizens - with the equivalent of… checks notes… 15–20 euros per person over five years.
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u/Lost_Paladin89 17h ago edited 15h ago
I can’t comprehend the people who understand that was is happening in Gaza is wrong; but make excuses for this in Ukraine.
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u/Available-Hippo-4815 16h ago
Nah war sucks, fuck war and anyone who advocate it, humanity should sort out issues with a sort of game instead.
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u/largestcob 16h ago
ive actually never witnessed someone be pro palestine AND pro russia
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u/hieronymus_bossk7 14h ago
Hasan Piker
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u/Nathanlivesmatter 14h ago
His sub Reddit is insane. I check it months ago and there were people in there defending North korea and Kim jong un.
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u/Lost_Paladin89 14h ago
To be fair to the CCP agent, he has come out in support of Ukraine. But only after his Chinese handlers cleared it.
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u/SpiritedKick9753 16h ago
If anything there are far more people out there the other way around. They understand what is happening in Ukraine is wrong but have almost no issue with what has happened in Gaza
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u/Jaded-Ad-960 15h ago
There are more people who make excuses for what is happening in Gaza than for what is happening in Ukraine. People in Ukraine get suppert from the worlds richest and most powerful states to defend themselves, meanwhile people in Gaza have to watch the worlds richest and most powerful states support Israel in their destruction and sanctioning the International Criminal Court for condemning what is happening to them.
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u/General_Structure120 3h ago
I love you Ukraine. You are Rohan fighting for middle earth, in real life.
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u/Bmacster 14h ago
Interesting how a positive Ukrainian post can only exist after a major Russian data center was destroyed. A small reprieve from the bot troll farms
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u/Todd_Renard_Fox 19h ago
Is that the most bombed McDonald's in the world?
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u/Mister_Enot 17h ago
most bombed McDonald's
why this sentence even exists... russians are morons.
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u/Madscone2 19h ago
Lukyanivka? There’s a McDonald’s there that’ll go down in history it’s been hit and restored so many times