Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting

Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by umanwizard on Friday February 28, 2025 @04:16PM (#43211117)

I’m a bully for how someone I don’t know treated someone else I don’t know, because he happens to be the head of state of the country I live in?

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by j_maffe on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:15PM (#43212322)

You, as in the country.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by umanwizard on Friday February 28, 2025 @10:07PM (#43215312)

I am not a country. Nor are countries sentient beings with intentions; they are abstract entities. “We” didn’t bully anyone — one or two specific people did.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by mrguyorama on Friday February 28, 2025 @05:49PM (#43212772)

Yes. Democracy means we are culpable for what our leaders do.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by umanwizard on Friday February 28, 2025 @06:29PM (#43213236)

That is a very expansive understanding of democracy that would, for example, imply that indiscriminately targeting civilians in a war is justifiable.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by usernomdeguerre on Friday February 28, 2025 @08:03PM (#43214293)

No, it doesn't.

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Re:Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting by i_love_retros on Saturday March 01, 2025 @07:27AM (#43218592)

Read the parent comment.

> Must we endlessly fund a war that is in stalemate and will continue to savagely end the lives of military and civilian alike? Otherwise, we are a bully?

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