An immense weight on a great man

Also, he is 47. Men's bodies age rapidly around 45 and again at 65.
- Tell me about it. Started resistance training to strengthen the shoulders, they started feeling weak, then the knees started to act up, stopped skipping leg days. 47 is a bummer physically (for the rest: I'm still 25 in my own head).

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

Zelenskyy and Trump both carry a great weight....but with Trump it's just because he's a fat fuck.
- Fat shaming doesn't somehow become OK when the target is morally reprehensibe.
  
  Ehh fat people need to stop trying to hone in on the moral high ground of race, sexuality, and disability and just accept they are fat fucks because they eat like pigs and don't deserve special treatment. If you don't like it put down the hoho and eat some fucking kale.
  
  Weight is one of those things that most people can largely change about themselves. I agree it's a lot harder to regulate your weight when you have conditions that reduce your mobility and make you burn far fewer calories like ME/CFS or fibromyalgia, but the basic principles of thermodynamics still apply.
  Trump isn't one of those people with a debilitating condition other than his age. He's genuinely an unpleasant glutton who lives on a diet of Big Macs and Diet Coke.
- Trump would be carrying the weight of the US and the free world, too.
  But he rejected the mantle, he didn't pick it up. He just pokes it sometimes, and points at it and talks about it as something in his possession.
  
  As with his life he wants all of the power and none of the responsibility

- Look how they deep fried my boy.
  
  Got a good chuckle out of me man. Much needed, thanks

Absolute hero this man, every European and democratic country should hope to have its own Zelenskyy.
- He wasn't always like this, he was a normal person, a good comediant, but when great and heavy responsibilities come, you change with the times, and for this man, times have been hell. I don't want to be him, knowingly sending my troops and young people to die because of a (insert a bad word for Putin).

It breaks my heart. I have a few Ukrainian coworkers (working remotely), and when we jump in Slack and I chat with them now compared to when we first started working together, all I hear is the weariness, the sadness, the loss. This woman designed all of our proprietary software, and she was always such an upbeat, motivated badass. That cliche of a person "lighting up the room" when they walk in? That's her. Now though? She's had to move three times to avoid bombs, and even though she's safe now, she's lost something that I don't know if she will ever get back.
What I see in this picture of Zelenskyy is what I hear in her voice every time I talk with her. And it makes me fucking furious.
- I have a Ukrainian friend since like 2015, he is US citizen now. since last year they force smile and socialise less, just trying to stay busy with their kids.
  It's so painful that I don't even know how to talk to him about this anymore. I just let him drive the conversation for most part. Most of the time, in the back of my head, I feel the pain of his family/relatives who have been displaced/disabled/dead.
  I can't imagine losing your homeland to a cruel dictator.

Trump posts crap like this to truth social
https://static-assets-1.truthsocial.com/tmtg:prime-ts-assets/media_attachments/files/114/130/744/449/958/273/small/56b8a2c4e789ede9.jpg
- That's fucking hilarious.
  'Remember that obese rockstar whose heart exploded while trying to take a shit? I'm basically like him!'
  
  'Remember that obese rockstar whose heart exploded while trying to take a shit? I'm basically like him!'
  But seriously, can he be like Elvis in this specific way?
- Is the left Elvis?
  
  Unfortunately yes. Lol
- Loool!
  Someone take a recent normal photo of thump and put it on the right side please 😂

American here. Ukraine has a better world leader than America has had in over a century.
- Zelensky will be forever remembered in history.
- Agree with the sentiment, but FDR was less than 100 years ago. He was a damned good world leader IMO.
  
  FDR was a great man but he was forged in the fires of a time far far worse. I shudder to think how bad things need to get before we get leadership like that back.
- Probably one of the best leaders of any country.
  
  Delete the first word of that post. Your post now starts with "One", and from there you change nothing.
  NOW your post is accurate.
- Also American. I fully and emphatically agree.
- I still cannot believe we are betraying them, the Europe and featuring ourselves and I feel powerless to stop it.
  
  Look for the protest actions, join them. Like, casually, just happen to be there.
  You'll probably find like minded people there and as you connect to more people, that hopelessness will go away!
- 1000%. Also American (regretfully, at this point).
- Ok, full props to Zelenskyy. He is certainly doing a better job than any current leaders I can think of and he should have been able to count on the U.S. for full support. I would even support deploying our own troops.
  But better than any leader the U.S. has had for 100 years? That's quite the suck up. You can respect and support without being a blatant kiss ass. It's embarrassing for you and for him.
  
  Who among the US presidents has been better since Rosevelt?
  Carter is the ONLY one who comes close.

Yea, it’s heartbreaking to see comments like “I’d rather [xyz] than give another billion to Ukraine.” Just no words. I wish these people at least had the courtesy to shut the fuck up.

Mad respect for the man. He really loves his country. Maybe some of our "leaders" should take note. This is what a true badass does when a lot is at stake.
- Dude’s country is being attacked by the “second army in the world” and he says “I don’t need a ride I need ammunition.”
  I’m amazed his giant brass balls even fit in his pants.
- Maybe some of our "leaders" should take note.
  That's the thing, many politicians don't care.
- Spoiler Alert: They won't

Once the government here in the US ends up in Jail, we'll build a monument to Zelensky. The title might be something like "never forget to not be the nazi." Or "never elect another trump/republican."

Words can't describe how powerful this picture is to me.

Reminds me of this pic of Lincoln.
- O, the Rail Splitter. You know what they say about good deeds never going unpunished. As my dad used to say, "only the good die young". Then he died at 59. He was a piece of shit. So now I don't even know what to think
  
  The good are more likely to be killed by the evil, but there is no karma. Sometimes good guys die for no reason, and sometimes bad guys do too.
- Looks like Doctor McCoys brother

Like the Obama photos, but with war included. That shit ages a person. Even a president.
I have been re-watching servant of the people, and it’s just so apparent the amount of stress this man deals with on a daily basis. What a fucking hero.

He and Andy Serkis are aging remarkably similarly
- Damn you. Now I will never unsee this. It never even crossed my mind until you cursed me.

Churchill and Roosevelt could not hold a candle to this man.
- Pretty sure the UK literally endured the same amount of stress and terror as Ukraine, given that the Germans dropped tens of thousands of bombs on their major cities for years.
  
  For what it's worth, Britain probably didn't suffer as much as Ukraine has. The actual island of Great Britain was more or less secured after the aerial battle of Britain was won, and that took less than a year. Military casualties would go on to be comparable to the war in Ukraine, of course, and there was the ongoing difficulty of feeding everyone, but Britain at least had the sea and a massive navy standing between it and the enemy and civilian casualties were "only" about 70,000
  
  Yes but Britain did it with the world’s biggest navy and a significant defense industry
  Plus Churchill was a racist asshole.
- To be fair, both of them were pruned up and wrinkly old men before any war started.

He's turning into Karl Urban!

This was me after the first season of White Lotus.
- Having worked in that industry it was entertaining but otherwise meh 🤷
- Was that the Hawaiian season? I don't remember it really hitting that hard in terms of being sad, but it's been awhile since watching it. Newest season is great so far, though.
  
  Ha-wha-ee, yes. The cinematography was spot on. Writing too. The Aussie lad was toxic af tho. Looking forward to S2.
  
  Perhaps you might feel differently if you bothered to watch the second season.
  It’s pretty obvious that you did not.
- I’m afraid to see what you look like after the second season. Lol.
  
  lol Sicily! I’m working on that pasta face right now.

- He's taking down Putin, that's an immense feat in itself.

Obama aged in his term too

- The point is that Zelenskyy has undertaken a great deal of stress during this trying time, as many Ukrainians have. The exhaustion written on his face is saddening, because it reflects the weight of the troubles assailing Ukraine, but it also shows that he is a great man, undertaking these burdens when lesser men would have fled or given up.
  
  I am suspecting that before the spectacle they likely were trying to bribe him to just let Russia win and he didn't do it, so they used this to beater him and switch sides.
- What a needlessly aggressive reply...
  
  Maybe. I just feel bad about making a meme out of the guy.
- What a bizarre take. This isn't a "Zelenskyy didn't put on his face this morning" post.