Ooh! It's been a while since I walked near the turbolib house near me that had one displayed out the front.
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Seeing a bunch of Ukraine flags out today. Country of fucking children
the nicely dressed people on TV who tell me what's real wouldn't lie this time. they just made oopsies in favor of empire with Iraq's supposed WMDs and the Gulf of Tonkin and the USS Maine. this time it's for freeeeeeedom
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
First Luigi might get the death penalty and now this. Truly dark times for white-adjacent Europeans.
I just drove by a hands off protest, there was at least 5.
Did Americans peaceful protest Trump out of office yet?
I was talking to my son about seeing protestors when I was out earlier and he said "peaceful protest doesn't actually do anything though."
"Well bud, this is the first step to the state cracking down way too hard on peaceful protestors, then things will get more interesting."
Peaceful protests by themselves exclusively don't achieve any political goals (as long as it's not funded by the CIA in an unstable region). Protests should be tied to actual action: unionisation, collective bargaining, striking, and teaching of political theory to the masses. And by "tied", I mean that the people in the demonstration should explicitly be told to support the following, concrete steps already planned before the protest.
Protests used to be called 'demonstrations' because the point was to have an organized demonstration of your power to bring industry to a halt.
Hell even Rosa Park had to "stage" her act of protest where she became famous for and she didnt work alone. It was an concerted effort by black civil rights groups. The collective effort is erased in liberal history, because of the worship of the individual above the collective.
Abbie Hoffman was good at this. Abbie Hoffman was also not afraid of a little violence.
Your son sounds based AF.
He's sixteen. He's got a good head on his shoulders.
The kids are alright 
"Well you see, Jimbo..."
i'm getting reports from the front now: trump has taken his ball and is going home. we did it people.
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This feels like a Nextdoor post.
It's funny because the Rich-Town-Next-To-Mine Index has had them buy new flags to hang up
Only a few of them though
Have they? I still see plenty in my neck of the woods.
~~the~~ Ukraine
It means borderland. Similar to Krajina, which is also called prefixed with a "the". This just petty semantics and nationalistic foolery.
"If yOu UsE tHe DeFiNiTe ArTiCle In FrOnT tHat'S lIkE RuSsIan, a LaNguAgE tHaT nOtAblY dOeSn'T hAvE ArTicLeS aT alL!"
Language stuff unrelated to politics because I couldn't care less about which article is used for different countries: in Russian, the preposition "in" translates as "в" (pronounced like the English v) and is the one most commonly used for referring to countries. However, for reasons I don't personally know, Ukraine and possibly other countries (idk lmao I don't speak a lot of Russian) are talked of not "in", but using the preposition "on" (на, sounds like English nah).
It's just because the word Ukraine comes from "окраина", which means "borderlands", and in Russian we say "in a country" but "on a land". Same explanation applies to what comrade Collatz_problem (sorry not sure how to @) says below – "на Руси" has a connotation of "on the land of Rus".
P.S. I personally don't see a problem with saying "в Украине", it is grammatically correct Russian that recognises Ukraine as a country.
It's exactly same in Polish. It's probably some kind of archaism from old slavic language since a lot of the old medieval contacts are "on" but nearly all of the newer ones are "in"
As additional evidence, in Russian there is also an interesting dichotomy between modern form "в России" and archaic form "на Руси".
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Shibboleth
Cry about it
the former ukraine 
the ~~Ukraine~~
The, Ukraine, the!
на Украине