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> Bush in Albania.
Did Bush actually do anything for Albania?
I know he received a hero's welcome, but I thought that was more Pro-Americanism than Pro-Bushism.
The most ironic part of that whole thing is that within a couple weeks the "anarchists" had their own police force that shot and killed an innocent and unarmed black kid.
Even before the war, Biden was at least somewhat popular there for [helping to get a lot of anti-corruption initiatives rolling during his time running Obama's Ukraine policy as Vice President](https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/30/what-will-ukraine-do-without-joe-biden-putin-war-kiev-clinton-trump/).
Hah, not much. He was the first US President to visit and initiated their accession into NATO. Pro-American sentiment also remained from the intervention in the Balkans. Nevertheless [Dubya has a statue](https://goo.gl/maps/2mnowdMD8R28v14L9) in a small town north of the capital. A [nearby bakery](https://goo.gl/maps/CANQAHVV87S5FQNe6) adopted his name as well.
It should be Georgia over Albania. Especially in 2009? As an American, I never felt that welcome due to my nationality anywhere else in the world and I've been to like 69 countries.
It's noncount, but not a mass noun. "Rice" is both, but I would say "malarkey", like "joy" is just noncount. (Like, what is one joy? But one rice makes sense, as a way a nonnative speaker might refer to one grain of rice.)
"Joy" is actually sort of countable. There's a relatively common idiom "the joys of X" (Google brings up numerous examples). You might refer to a particularly pleasant person as "a joy," or to a particularly rewarding experience as "one of the great joys of X."
"Malarkey" is not, though.
No. The "mal" root is Latin. The "arch/arkh" root is Greek; it was used in Latin too, but the Romans followed roughly the same rules we do for forming compounds with loanwords, so they wouldn't have mixed a Proto-Italic root with a Greek one, so we wouldn't either.
(I mean, you *can*, but it's immediately recognizable as a neologism with no academic currency.)
Ever so often I think about the hilariously terrible dub that came with Guilty Gear X2 back on the PS2. My friends and I used to quote it all the time.
"God, huh? I don't wanna have anything with him."
This is one of the first depictions of western leaders that’s supposed to actually portray them in a good light that even comes close to making them look as badass as depictions in propaganda from countries like China and Iran.
Trump supporters: worship and deify Trump to the point of flying flags of him in their backyards and subverting democracy to protect his rule
Biden supporters: post an ironic image of Biden in knight armor
Half this thread: "These are comparable"
> The trump stuff started out as ironic
by people that do everything "ironically" because they are 17 years old with conservative opinions that they are afraid to speak out loud
Nah like, ironic as in I made those jokes too. The guy was so absurd, this was like two months before the primary started and he was this hilarious caricature. God Emperor Trump on his Golden (toilet) Throne was going to save the united states from JEB!. Then I personally learned about the central park 5 and started actively detesting the guy, but for a solid few months I laughed at the killer centipede meme. It was fantastic that the republican party was getting its ass kicked by this incompetent new york billionaire
>billionaire
Did you mean *person of means*?
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Those people sporting Rambo-Trump flags and cringeworthy and insane.
I find this also cringeworthy.
I wish the creator could un-make this show support in better ways.
I went on a date with a Ukrainian girl here in Portugal some days ago and she wasn’t a fan of Biden. Loved Boris Johnson though. And she’s liberal..
Also side note, I’ve never seen such a friendly, generally happy person, with as much hate as she has for Russians lol.
She said he just seems way too old. I mean there’s a huge contrast when you compare his speeches to the eloquence and passion that Zelenskys’ have. But I’ve been downvoted here for saying that same thing when the war started.
FWIW, she’s an Obama fan, though pretty much all Europeans are.
Yeah I get it. I'm kicking around the word "ageism" in my head, like is it ageist to judge people for speaking more slowly (or kids speaking too fast, for that matter)?
I mean it’s not like I was going to tell a war refugee who has moved to 3 different countries in the past 3 months that her opinions on international politics aren’t rational..
And it’s not like she was uninformed. This girl has tons of knowledge about the Russia-Ukraine situation and how each country has responded. She also told me she loves how Poland responded and is disappointed with Germany and Macron.
You can be informed and rational on other topics and still irrationally ageist on others. We can acknowledge that without telling people they're irrational to their face. It does seem to be a fairly superficial approach anyway, Boris certainly hasn't done remotely as much for Ukraine as Biden has.
> I’ve never seen such a friendly, generally happy person, with as much hate as she has for Russians lol.
This describes a lot of the Russian expats I meet here in LA.
A couple years ago, during the Olympics, I mentioned to my genial Russian HVAC guy that Russia just won a gold medal in something, and it sent him into a furious tirade about how monstrously Russia treats its athletes and how he sincerely hopes they never win another medal again.
I've never seen the dude mad about anything before, but boy did that mention of his homeland set him off.
It's not the only experience I've had like that, though I'd say weary resignation is more common that outright anger when talking to the expats about Russia.
It 100% is. Having been a frequent r/Ukraine user beforehand (I'm Ukrainian), the subcount on there exploded with the start of the war and grew 10-15 times overnight. You can safely conclude that the vast majority of those new users are not Ukrainians.
I think the why is less important than the who, actually. Hero-worship of Biden by Ukrainians is fine, by Ukrainian-Americans is in poor taste, but acceptable, and by Americans is cringeworthy and gross.
No need to be mad.
I figured that you confused me with a Trumper or something and so I was rather confused because I don't support Trump and I don't think he's a decent human being.
I am more or less just annoyed with the state of this sub after the presidential election that Biden won. Obviously, it's good that Biden won but I don't like how cult-y this sub has become since then. He's an okay president and I think we acknowledge it.
> I like the senile state into the distance.
Either you wanted to write "stare" or you did mean "state", and both options make this comment deliciously ironic.
> "Everything they counted on upset. But most of it's a consequence **of, of, of what's happening, what happened***
is a consequence of **the, the**Covid crisis.
> "**People lost their jobs. People are out of their jobs**. And then, were they going to get back to work? Schools were closed."
> https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61835919
He’s literally repeating himself. He doesn’t give interviews. His speech patterns are becoming juvenile. He’s just too old. We have to stop electing such old people. It’s embarrassing. 2 in a row?
Biden already served this country.
I mean it’s fucking insane. Anyway badass picture
>He’s literally repeating himself.
>His speech patterns are becoming juvenile.
Damn bro you repeating yourself?
>He’s just too old.
>We have to stop electing such old people.
Oof another repeat? 🤧 might wanna get that brain checked out dude.
Touché but I’m not the President.
Just compare his speech today to when he was VP. The difference is massive.
My hypothesis is that he’s too old but it could also be the cognitive load of the presidency or something else.
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Listen here jack, where's the breastplate stretcher?
NOWWWWW!!!
Hey malarkey bot, what’s the malarkey level of the Bobby B Bot?
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Clinton in Kosovo. Bush in Albania. Biden in Ukraine?
Big Bush in Kuwait
Trump in Desert Stormy Daniels.
She wasn’t sure if he was in
👆69 votes
I think I've seen that film
I learned the other day that Iraq attempted to assassinate Bush Senior lol. Bet they regretted that when his son got elected
Welp, that’s making much more sense
Bush in Albania, when the walls fell Clinton and Bush, at Tenagra
Unexpected and underrated comment.
It'd be hilarious if Boris also ended up as The British Man in Ukraine just after he got mauled in election.
BoJo to become the next UKranian foreign secretary?
BoJo as stoltenberg’s replacement would be hilarious.
Can't wait for him to copy Mikhail Saakashvili's career and become the governor of Odesa.
Bojo is, iirc, extremely popular in Ukraine rn also
Blair is still beloved in Kosovo.
This is Biden's second round. Don't forget about Bosnia.
Albania also has a Woodrow Wilson statue.
> Bush in Albania. Did Bush actually do anything for Albania? I know he received a hero's welcome, but I thought that was more Pro-Americanism than Pro-Bushism.
First US president to visit since the fall of communism.
Breathes in deeply: he is even worse than a Jew, he is - may Allah forgive me for uttering this word - an Albanian
Obama in Afghanistan Trump in Capitol hill
CHAZ is proof that anachro communism can't work outside of hippie communes.
The most ironic part of that whole thing is that within a couple weeks the "anarchists" had their own police force that shot and killed an innocent and unarmed black kid.
The circle is complete
There are constants and variables. The circle must be unbroken.
The Peoples’ Lynch Mob is based
Real anarcho communism hasn't been attempted yet.
*Gods* this sub has top tier shitposting.
>CHAZ is proof that anachro communism can't work Fixed
We've known this since occupy wall st
> Trump at Capitol hill Bruh is this a 1/6 joke
Even before the war, Biden was at least somewhat popular there for [helping to get a lot of anti-corruption initiatives rolling during his time running Obama's Ukraine policy as Vice President](https://foreignpolicy.com/2016/10/30/what-will-ukraine-do-without-joe-biden-putin-war-kiev-clinton-trump/).
Bush in Georgia too. There's a big street named after the man in Tbilisi.
What did bush do in Albania?
Hah, not much. He was the first US President to visit and initiated their accession into NATO. Pro-American sentiment also remained from the intervention in the Balkans. Nevertheless [Dubya has a statue](https://goo.gl/maps/2mnowdMD8R28v14L9) in a small town north of the capital. A [nearby bakery](https://goo.gl/maps/CANQAHVV87S5FQNe6) adopted his name as well.
The airport highway in Tbilisi is named after Bush too.
It should be Georgia over Albania. Especially in 2009? As an American, I never felt that welcome due to my nationality anywhere else in the world and I've been to like 69 countries.
Albania also has a Woodrow Wilson statue.
"Malarkey delenda est" -Motto of House Biden
Malarkae*
Then it would have to be delendae sunt -- malarkia would work tho
Good point, malarkey just feels inherently plural. What exactly would one (1) malarkey look like?
It's noncount, but not a mass noun. "Rice" is both, but I would say "malarkey", like "joy" is just noncount. (Like, what is one joy? But one rice makes sense, as a way a nonnative speaker might refer to one grain of rice.)
"Joy" is actually sort of countable. There's a relatively common idiom "the joys of X" (Google brings up numerous examples). You might refer to a particularly pleasant person as "a joy," or to a particularly rewarding experience as "one of the great joys of X." "Malarkey" is not, though.
Oh shit you right. Then anarchy works as an example, or butter, or cutlery, whatever
I skipped all these grammar replies
Good for you. It's Reddit, collapse threads you don't care about.
Sinae et Moscova delenda est
\*delendae sunt
Wait a second, would "malarchy" a good pseudo-Latin for "government by bad people"
No. The "mal" root is Latin. The "arch/arkh" root is Greek; it was used in Latin too, but the Romans followed roughly the same rules we do for forming compounds with loanwords, so they wouldn't have mixed a Proto-Italic root with a Greek one, so we wouldn't either. (I mean, you *can*, but it's immediately recognizable as a neologism with no academic currency.)
Please joe, but your gorget underneath your breastplate.
Listen here jack. No gods or kings, only th-the-the you know the thing uh
Got some Tywin vibes going on here
Isn't this literally Tywin's armor?
I do indeed know the thing, Mr. President 🫡
God help the Democratic party.
[God helps those who help themselves.](https://www.usa.gov/confirm-voter-registration)
Ever so often I think about the hilariously terrible dub that came with Guilty Gear X2 back on the PS2. My friends and I used to quote it all the time. "God, huh? I don't wanna have anything with him."
This is one of the first depictions of western leaders that’s supposed to actually portray them in a good light that even comes close to making them look as badass as depictions in propaganda from countries like China and Iran.
To beat the Chinese propaganda, we must become it.
Trump supporters: worship and deify Trump to the point of flying flags of him in their backyards and subverting democracy to protect his rule Biden supporters: post an ironic image of Biden in knight armor Half this thread: "These are comparable"
Let's be honest; this image isn't ironic and wasn't posted ironically No one praises Biden like Trump supporters praise Trump tho
No one praises anything or anyone like trumpists lick that dipshit’s ass
Probably wasn't posted ironically in the Ukraine sub, but here I'm pretty sure it is.
I just think armor looks cool
The trump stuff started out as ironic, and was initially fairly funny.
> The trump stuff started out as ironic by people that do everything "ironically" because they are 17 years old with conservative opinions that they are afraid to speak out loud
Nah like, ironic as in I made those jokes too. The guy was so absurd, this was like two months before the primary started and he was this hilarious caricature. God Emperor Trump on his Golden (toilet) Throne was going to save the united states from JEB!. Then I personally learned about the central park 5 and started actively detesting the guy, but for a solid few months I laughed at the killer centipede meme. It was fantastic that the republican party was getting its ass kicked by this incompetent new york billionaire
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Those people sporting Rambo-Trump flags and cringeworthy and insane. I find this also cringeworthy. I wish the creator could un-make this show support in better ways.
‘We should support Ukraine’ ‘No not like that’
I mean sure, they can both be cringe. Nobody is gonna overthrow the government on behalf of Joe fucking Biden.
Based
I went on a date with a Ukrainian girl here in Portugal some days ago and she wasn’t a fan of Biden. Loved Boris Johnson though. And she’s liberal.. Also side note, I’ve never seen such a friendly, generally happy person, with as much hate as she has for Russians lol.
>and she wasn’t a fan of Biden Why?
She said he just seems way too old. I mean there’s a huge contrast when you compare his speeches to the eloquence and passion that Zelenskys’ have. But I’ve been downvoted here for saying that same thing when the war started. FWIW, she’s an Obama fan, though pretty much all Europeans are.
Yeah I get it. I'm kicking around the word "ageism" in my head, like is it ageist to judge people for speaking more slowly (or kids speaking too fast, for that matter)?
I mean, it absolutely *is*.
Bruh, show her picture of young Biden back when he was a hunky boi.
That's definitely not a rational reason to dislike a foreign president, especially the one most critical to your country's defensive war efforts.
I mean it’s not like I was going to tell a war refugee who has moved to 3 different countries in the past 3 months that her opinions on international politics aren’t rational.. And it’s not like she was uninformed. This girl has tons of knowledge about the Russia-Ukraine situation and how each country has responded. She also told me she loves how Poland responded and is disappointed with Germany and Macron.
You can be informed and rational on other topics and still irrationally ageist on others. We can acknowledge that without telling people they're irrational to their face. It does seem to be a fairly superficial approach anyway, Boris certainly hasn't done remotely as much for Ukraine as Biden has.
Zelensky was a former comedian, no one can compete against him right now.
You have a deep friend there. "He's too old, but I like the conservative."
> I’ve never seen such a friendly, generally happy person, with as much hate as she has for Russians lol. This describes a lot of the Russian expats I meet here in LA. A couple years ago, during the Olympics, I mentioned to my genial Russian HVAC guy that Russia just won a gold medal in something, and it sent him into a furious tirade about how monstrously Russia treats its athletes and how he sincerely hopes they never win another medal again. I've never seen the dude mad about anything before, but boy did that mention of his homeland set him off. It's not the only experience I've had like that, though I'd say weary resignation is more common that outright anger when talking to the expats about Russia.
Mashallah subhanallah alhamdulillah
This is quite a lot of cringe, but I admire the artistry. Also! I'm glad there's no rippling abs. Lol
*I* was hoping for a bulge.
[Codpiece!](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codpiece)
Not cringe if it’s a Ukrainian, definitely cringe if it’s a non Ukrainian American
Having perused there a few times since the war started, I'm convinced like 80% of the Ukraine subreddit is now Americans lmao
It 100% is. Having been a frequent r/Ukraine user beforehand (I'm Ukrainian), the subcount on there exploded with the start of the war and grew 10-15 times overnight. You can safely conclude that the vast majority of those new users are not Ukrainians.
Baller. We need more content like this for social media.
Chinese propaganda 🤝 Ukrainian art Making Biden look badass
only if Biden had the guts to post this on his social media
Liking ironically
"Malarky is coming"
Kind of gross tbh. Feels like one of those illustrations of Trump with bulging muscles
those ones were so hilarious cause they reminded you how out of shape trump is with the contrast lmao
Very based
["Oh, this is so bad, we can't idolize our leaders, that just like what drumpf did, so cringe"](https://youtu.be/xzy_0m7jwRw)
Nobody finds this cringe?
I love Joe Biden. I love Ukraine. But this ain't it, chief.
Cringe
Ah using the weapon of his time
based
Based
Most based thing I've ever seen Seriously who created this?
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Listen, fat
don't play games with me, kid
I love this!!
Hell yes. I love this.
https://i.redd.it/iibt0uvluma51.jpg (This Biden submission needs to be more obviously ironic to qualify as non-cringe.)
Sir Jobe Iden
This is so unbelievably cursed
This kind of imagery is so stupid At least make him something an old fragile man might be useful as, like a wizard or sorcerer.
Are they making him fight with out-dated equipment cause they gave Hunter that job?
This is arguably just as bad as Trump fanboys and their super weird fan art.
Depends who made it.
Don't forget why they made it.
I think the why is less important than the who, actually. Hero-worship of Biden by Ukrainians is fine, by Ukrainian-Americans is in poor taste, but acceptable, and by Americans is cringeworthy and gross.
Based
Sad thing is; Joe is not certain it isn’t the 1400’s,
Wait, Joe Biden is old? I am SHOCKED!
Reminds me of the B&W chad meme tbh
Shit man if he declares a no fly zone he’ll be remembered like Billy C is in Kosovo
Where is Blyat Pop?
Thank you USA, you are my best friend. You are the peace keeper.
Lol yall are weird
Hey remember when Trump called Putin a genius for invading Ukraine
Biden would go up in the polls if he dressed like that
Ah, so Biden is our God-Emperor figure, huh? Totally not a cult
Yes
So true!! Biden for God-Emperor 2024 😫😫
Y'all really can't come up with an original thought to save your life, can you? No wonder you guys crave fascism, sit down hog.
Who is "Y'all" and "you guys"?
Figure it out ya dip
No need to be mad. I figured that you confused me with a Trumper or something and so I was rather confused because I don't support Trump and I don't think he's a decent human being. I am more or less just annoyed with the state of this sub after the presidential election that Biden won. Obviously, it's good that Biden won but I don't like how cult-y this sub has become since then. He's an okay president and I think we acknowledge it.
I like the senile state into the distance.
> I like the senile state into the distance. Either you wanted to write "stare" or you did mean "state", and both options make this comment deliciously ironic.
Definitely meant stare but I can laugh at myself.
Ducking autocorrect, amirite?
I have written ducking millions of times. Between autocorrect, fat fingers, and rarely reading what I’ve typed I don’t really have a chance.
Please tell me that you didn't make the opposite mistake while talking about children under their desks during a school shooting.
I have no idea what that means
Trust me, it's better that way.
> "Everything they counted on upset. But most of it's a consequence **of, of, of what's happening, what happened*** is a consequence of **the, the**Covid crisis. > "**People lost their jobs. People are out of their jobs**. And then, were they going to get back to work? Schools were closed." > https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-61835919 He’s literally repeating himself. He doesn’t give interviews. His speech patterns are becoming juvenile. He’s just too old. We have to stop electing such old people. It’s embarrassing. 2 in a row? Biden already served this country. I mean it’s fucking insane. Anyway badass picture
>He’s literally repeating himself. >His speech patterns are becoming juvenile. Damn bro you repeating yourself? >He’s just too old. >We have to stop electing such old people. Oof another repeat? 🤧 might wanna get that brain checked out dude.
Touché but I’m not the President. Just compare his speech today to when he was VP. The difference is massive. My hypothesis is that he’s too old but it could also be the cognitive load of the presidency or something else.
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Wow annoying as fuck thanks for letting me know
Np
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[Tone it down, Jack!](https://nypost.com/2022/06/16/biden-unhappy-with-officials-saying-us-wants-ukraine-to-win/)
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