Vice President JD Vance was met with hundreds of pro-Ukraine protesters while visiting a Vermont ski resort on Saturday, following his public dust up with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in the White House.

Vance and his family, on a trip to Sugarbush Resort, were greeted by the outraged protesters lining the snow-covered streets of the small Vermont town of Waitsfield.

Protestors displayed signs that labeled Vance a “national disgrace,” accused him of being a “traitor” and encouraged the family to “go ski in Russia.”

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[+] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I am responding to something other than what the person actually said. People like myself (and the countless nameless faces who actually stick their necks out) have been screaming about this to people who metaphorically can't see or hear, for decades, only for them to be the "holier than thou" one trying to look for hypocrisy or hatred in other people who've done more than them. Why focus on idols like Trump and Co when they're just symptoms of the greater problems - capitalistic greed/corporate irresponsibility - and then after listing our many years of efforts to fight it and then say "Yeah but what did you do to stop Trump and Musk specifically?" That sort of nitpicking, missing the forest for the trees attitude is what angers me so, it's proof of how blind people are to the realities of what it means to be in a democracy. "If you want a democracy, you have to be a player."

[–] NoneOfUrBusiness@fedia.io 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Oh, I see; you're a dyed in the wool "down with capitalism" lefty. In this part of history it'll be necessary to tolerate the presence of normies—people who want to stop the backsliding of democracy but don't really understand or care about the down with capitalism stuff. Those people can then be radicalized into full fledged lefties, but at least at present it's important to accept their aims not being as ambitious as yours, even though as you said they're missing the forest for the trees. They with proper education can and do stop going after individual trees and start burning the whole forest, but you have to be patient (or not, you do you). That aside the holier than thou attitude I'm talking about is mostly the bragging. That's probably not what it feels to you, but to an external observer you definitely sound like you're bragging about the fascist bricks you got hit with, so.. uh... yeah.

[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com -4 points 1 day ago

Not bragging, just proud.