• BussyCat@lemmy.world
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      1 hour ago

      If a person applies for a job and says they will be able to start in 2 months and then shows up in 2 months that’s not dragging their feet. If they keep pushing the date back until the employer says “ if you don’t show up on Monday you’re fired” that would be dragging their feet.

      • Thalion@lemmy.ca
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        47 minutes ago

        If a person is living at home and convinces their parents to get a second job to help support them, but doesn’t get a second job themselves until 3 years later because their parents finally gave them an ultimatum and their old job ended, , and then waits until the last day of that ultimatum to finally get the new job, they’re dragging their feet.

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          34 minutes ago

          But that’s not what happened…

          USSR didn’t convince the U.S. to get into a two front war, the USSR got invaded when they were unprepared because Stalin originally wanted to ally with the Nazis.

          They were then pushed back into their own territory with such bad logistics that they couldn’t even give all their soldiers guns. Once they finished fighting their own war they asked for a little bit of time to mourn the deaths of millions, reestablish their territory, and mobilize millions.

          Nothing about that is dragging their feet, I personally think Stalin was a raging cunt and you are making me defend them because of just how shit your take is.

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            25 minutes ago

            Except the USSR pushed incessantly for the Americans and Allies to open a second front

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              20 minutes ago

              That “ second front” was against the same Nazis the allies were already fighting it wasn’t starting a war in an entirely different theater.