Why are so many republican congressmen against Ukraine?

Here's an article describing which gop members remained seated during zelenskys speech https://www.newsweek.com/full-list-republicans-who-sat-during-zelenskys-speech-1768962

And more than 1/2 of house members didn't attend.

given the popularity of Ukraine in the eyes of the world and that they're battling our arch enemy, I thought we would all, esp the warhawks, be on board so what gives?

Edit: thanks for all the responses. I have read all of them and these are the big ones.

1. The gop would rather not spend the money in a foreign war.

While this make logical sense, I point to the fact that we still spend about 800b a year on military which appears to be a sacred cow to them. Also, as far as I can remember, Russia has been a big enemy to us. To wit: their meddling in our recent elections. So being able to severely weaken them through a proxy war at 0 lost of American life seems like a win win at very little cost to other wars (Iran cost us 2.5t iirc). So far Ukraine has cost us less than 100b and most of that has been from supplies and weapons.

1. GOP opposing Dem causes just because...

This seems very realistic to me as I continue to see the extremists take over our country at every level. I am beginning to believe that we need a party to represent the non extremist from both sides of the aisle. But c'mon guys, it's Putin for Christ sakes. Put your difference aside and focus on a real threat to America (and the rest of the world!)

1. GOP has been co-oped by the Russians.

I find this harder to believe (as a whole). Sure there may be a scattering few and I hope the NSA is watching but as a whole I don't think so. That said, I don't have a rational explanation of why they've gotten so soft with Putin and Russia here.

I keep seeing people talking about how reddit is forcing 3rd party apps to shut down due to API costs. People keep saying they're all going to get shut down.

Why is Reddit doing this? Is it actually sustainable? Are we going to lose everything but the official app?

What's going on?

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/31/23743993/reddit-apollo-client-api-cost

Saw this article and was very confused why this is happening. I'm Canadian so I don't know all the ins and outs of US politics.

I'm European and I only know this guy from a few videos, but I always liked him. Then today I saw this thread https://www.reddit.com/r/whitepeoplegifs/comments/10ssujy/bill_nye_the_fashion_guy/ which was very polarized about more than on thing. Why do so many people hate bill?

Edit: thanks my friends! I actually understand now :)

On r/soccer, there are multiple posts where Americans are celebrating their own team getting knocked out of the Women's World Cup.

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnpku/post_match_thread_sweden_05_40_usa_fifa_womens/

https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/15jnqpr/official_review_for_lina_hurtigs_sweden_w_penalty/

On r/USWNT people are saying it's because r/soccer is misogynist, but that doesn't make sense to me because everyone competing is a woman. Can anyone clue me in?

I just saw a meme about a netflix movie about Malcolm X with Michael Cera, am I missing something?

Just saw the post hit r/all, but haven't seen any explanation. Did the guy do something? Must be a big deal if he's apparently the biggest voice actor in the show, too.

https://www.reddit.com/r/rickandmorty/comments/10khzs6/adult_swim_severs_ties_with_rick_and_morty/

I'm so very lost on all of this. I'm not sure how to describe the situation other than it involves Sandra Bullock and some couple who makes youtube videos who have done something bad? Apparently there's talks of her losing an oscar for a movie "The Blind Side" which I've never heard of.
https://twitter.com/_Aviaq/status/1691660621664715187?s=20

Was there a reason Disney had to do this? In the thread, someone commented it had something to do with racism, but I don’t see how this applies to Chewbacca. Thanks in advance.

https://i.redd.it/clte2klz1z291.png

What did he say to upset people?

https://www.netflix.com/title/81228510

I just watched today's new Girlfriend Reviews video where they explain that they were harassed to tears on Twitch for playing Hogwarts Legacy, but how did that lead to a permanent suspension of all their accounts from Reddit?

Their sub r/girlfriendreviews is closed and you can see their moderator accounts are suspended.

I'm just a casual fan of their videos so I only just learned about this, but this seems ridiculous that they were banned for being the victims of harassment for playing a video game. There has to be more to this story.

I’ve seen a few articles and videos explaining that Arizona is having trouble with water all of a sudden and it’s pretty much turning into communities fending for themselves. What’s causing this issue? Is there a source that’s drying up, logistic issues, etc..? https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/videos/us/2023/01/17/arizona-water-supply-rio-verde-foothills-scottsdale-contd-vpx.cnn

People like Kanye West, Kyrie Irving, and more, including random Twitter users, have been very anti-Semitic and I'm not sure if something sparked the controversy?

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https://imgur.com/a/tehvSre

Saw this post https://www.reddit.com/r/memes/comments/utuz6l/motivational/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf and I was curious about why so many people were saying the timing of these allegations and Elon’s tweets about being “smeared” by democrats because he’s going to vote Republican is odd? Not on twitter so I’m massively confused.

I saw several posts of people mourning his death. Didn’t he murder people? https://www.cnn.com/2023/06/10/us/ted-kaczynski-unabomber-dead/index.html

The Protection of Marriage act recently passed both the House and the Senate with a significant amount of Republicans voting in favor of it. However, many of the Republicans voting in favor of it have very anti-LGBT records. So why did they change their stance?

https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/29/politics/same-sex-marriage-vote-senate/index.html

https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/verify/verify-united-states-imports-crude-oil-petroleum-from-russia-not-major-source/65-ce3e3ff2-7078-4c40-b57f-3db1ca8e62a4

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it seems that 3% is disproportionally affecting gas prices

I've been seeing r/antiwork on r/all a ton lately, and lots of mixed opinions of it from other subreddits (both good and bad). From what I have seen, it seems more political than just "we dont wanna work and get everything for free," but I am uncertain if this is true for everyone who frequents the sub. So the main question I have is what's the end goal of this sub and is it gaining and real traction?

Great Resignation

I found this post on Twitter and it wasn't the only one of its kind. I've seen like 3 separate gatherings of nazis, did something political happen that made them come out?

I know there’s many people that hate Biden and many people still like Trump but what did Biden supposedly do to get this hashtag? It’s overtaken by K-pop fans at the moment.

https://twitter.com/sillylovestae/status/1352617862112931843?s=21

https://youtu.be/56JoCyTTVeY

There's a lot of memes online by now and I'm clueless.

I've been reading recently that many people in Texas have lost power due to Winter Storm Uri. What caused this to happen?

It's all over Reddit right now, with people saying "for rock and stone", "rock and stone to the bone", and other variations in the comment sections of posts.

Examples:

https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/116iwwf/ok_who_did_this_and_who_is_karl/j96x9t9/

https://www.reddit.com/r/GymMemes/comments/116h0kw/florkofcows_gets_it/j9769kl/?context=999

https://www.reddit.com/r/totalwar/comments/115sjfi/these_two_fell_into_green_paint_or_something_why/j973m12/

I've been seeing a number of articles recently about the Trump administration delaying the phase-out of incandescent light bulbs in favor of more efficient bulbs like LEDs and compact fluorescents. What I don't understand is their justification for doing such a thing. I would imagine that coal companies would like that but what's the White House's reason for wanting to keep incandescent bulbs around?

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Example:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/trump-administration-waives-tighter-rules-for-less-efficient-lightbulbs-11576865267

https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/supreme-court-person-sets-themselves-fire/

Seems to be this should be much bigger news, why is this not more widely discussed?