If you want to spend 75 minutes learning entirely too much about this fucker, I highly recommend this video:
Rapist logic. I did what I did because I was strong enough to take what I want.
Absolutely disgusting.
That’s the thing that binds together the youngest techbro and the oldest oil baron.
Antisocial “might makes right and I’m going to win” mentalities.
Same logic for any violent unhinged asshole.
What world did you think we lived in before? Just curious.
One where at least some countries learned something from WW2?
Would you ascribe that to some sudden evolutionary species-wide shift in the human genome?
We’re the same hungry short-sighted horrific apes as four generations ago. And now that the good cheap energy is starting to run out, we will start hacking each other to death for crumbs.
It ain’t the Care Bears out there.
What they did in Venezuela was so reprehensible that this is really the only possible defense. You can’t murder a bunch of innocent people to capture a drug trafficker and think that you get the moral high ground. If they can arrest Maduro and bring him to the US, then Venezuela should be able to arrest Trump for murder and bring him to Venezuela.
There is no moral high ground. There is no good outcome. This is just what happens when evil people gain control of the world’s most powerful military.
This thread’s title is not sensational. Dudes a childish maniac with influence over the use of nuclear weapons.
The fact that he’s allowed to be a public spokesperson for the administration speaks wonders. Wormtongue is supposed to be whispering in the shadows like he was in the first term. He’s now the public face of the mask off authoritarian message that keeps ramping up.
I was just saying tonight - the fact that we’re seeing more and more of racist Nosferatu means things are getting much worse. They are have dropped all pretense of giving a shit. They’re not even giving us lies anymore. It’s now just “fuck you that’s why”.
This dude gave an unhinged rant in high school. None of this should be surprising. He and his wife need to be yeeted into the sun.
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So, by that same logic, any other country can, if it has the resources, kill him because reasons, right? If international rules are over…
I mean effectively that’s basically what they are calling for… Hell I think that’s half what they are hoping for… either another country makes an attempt to attack and we get to test out our detection and defenses before launching a sharp counter and claiming whatever country attacks as our own. Or everyone’s too afraid to, and then we leverage our position as the unstable psychopath bully that everyone just gives whatever it asks for in the hopes that they can avoid being the next bullying target.
Even the world vs the United States would be a bad idea. We’re geographically isolated from major military powers, and unless there is civil war and regional breakup (nowhere close to happening), the US is impossible to seriously threaten.
It also doesn’t make sense for anybody to pick a fight with the US, as Trump is destroying both the American economy and global influence. Nobody can do more damage to America than Trump, so placating him in surface level ways while preparing a costly defensive strategy is the smart move.
The problem is what happens when surface level isn’t enough… IE with the Venezuela having happened, what’s the response to do for Canada and Greenland. When trump says “OK we’re taking these now, join us or we’ll take it by force”. How should the other nations respond?
They should already have stopped all trade and cooperation with us but they haven’t so that’s a good place to start.
Bunker up and show strength. Make it clear a war won’t be easy, and he’ll go after weaker nations.
I’d say to put in comparison… Canada and Greenland probably should view themselves as in the same position as Ukraine. The parallels are kind of scary there. IE they sure as hell are doing an impressive job of holding their ground against a much bigger army… but the death toll is horrific… and I can’t imagine the difficult decisions for everyone with regards to how dangerous it is to get involved. While both Putin and Trump are horrible actors… Trump I can’t help but get the feeling he doesn’t understand the concept of MAD, and actually would launch a nuke.
Trump is fundamentally different from Putin. Putin wants to restore the empire Russia lost with the collapse of the Soviet Union. Trump wants to bully and power trip, but doesn’t want an all out war. After he realized attacking Iran might lead to a more protracted war, he immediately tried to deescalate. Lucky for him Iran has big internal issues and didn’t really want more problems, but other targets might not back down so easily.
This isn’t to say he won’t attack Greenland, but it is less likely than most of Latin American. If Europe doesn’t do anything meaningful to beef up their defenses, he might do it. However, he wouldn’t want a war of attrition against a modern military, but an overwhelming show of force with no clear goal beyond death an mayhem. His strategy is to beat smaller nations until they call him God and bend the knee. He’s a bully, not a conquer.
What will be more scary is if he dies in the middle of escalating wars. JD Vance is a weakling who will easily fold to the rabid zealots who might actually want expensive conquest. They might suspend elections and start forever wars to keep power until they collapse under their own weight.
And MAGA worshippers are watching with glee.
As a non-Merican I hope the Union falls apart before Trump can crown himself King of America.
As an American, I hope for the same. The New England Federation will probably be pretty chill. Probably high taxes even for the poors though
The New England Federation will probably be pretty chill.
Please god let Pennsylvania join. Or even better, just the eastern part.
Ooohh, I was on the fence about New York, but if they can join us I suppose yinz can too
Wannabe Henry Kissenger without the charisma, intellect, ability to disguise evil as perfectly logical foreign policy.
So basically mask off right now.
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New mods? Sir, this Lemmy.world .
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.world is known for censoring topics precisely like you’re complaining about, as well as having a reputation for some of the most toxic mod behavior across the Lemmy instances*.
Specific mods, plural, on .world are known to encounter comments they disagree with, and go back through user histories looking for unrelated, thin excuses for bans.
I don’t care quite enough to go find sources, these are my accumulated observations. But they are fairly well known and uncontroversial, among those who watch such things, I believe.
[*originally said Fediverse in place of Lemmy, bigger claim I realized I wasn’t meaning to make at all]
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Thanks, I should probably clarify that I’m aware people have mixed experiences and it’s not the kind of extreme heavy handedness that I understand Reddit has largely incorporated.
And yet there was a whole saga where world admins claimed being pro Luigi, especially mentioning jury nullification, constituted advocating for violence and they had to remove such posts due to ‘EU law’ according to legal advice they totally received.
I’ve been banned from .ml though
That’s a badge of honor
I was banned from a group called Late Stage Capitalism, where one of the rules is you’re not allowed to support the Democrats and another is you’re not allowed to call anyone a “bot” or “tankie” or “paid by Putin”
They banned me for “NBo anticommunist bullshit”
I don’t even know what “NBo” means but I’m gonna assume a community that has a rule against calling people “paid by Putin” is not exactly a good bunch of people
My brother is a solid liberal and hates Trump, but for some unknown reason he hopped on Putin’s dick years ago. Whenever his defense of Putin descends into bad comedy, he claims that if Putin is actually a bad person then the CIA installed him. Which somehow makes him a good person? I dunno. I assume that some random podcasters somewhere are running around defending Putin because podcasts are my brother’s sources for all knowledge.
How has most of America not heard about this virulent pus bag? He’s on the news constantly, foaming at the mouth, shouting shit that would have gotten him dragged to the gallows by an angry mob any time before 1920 (and even then only because he absolutely would have funded the Pinkertons).
the majority of america is either so disillusioned with the system or so inherently selfish that they simply don’t care at all unless something “political” directly effects them
The problem this time is that unlike Germany, the US has almost unlimited technology, military force, and the backing of Russia. Fascism usually burns itself out for lack of resources. This time it could take a hundred years.
If I could pick one person in the entire world to just not exist he would easily be in my top 3.
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Trump, Musk, Putin, Thiel…Man do I wish I had a Death Note.
Trump will take care of himself. He’s nothing without the people telling him what to do. He’s doing more damage to the republican party than anyone else ever could.
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He said himself that strength and power are the only things that matter in the real world. It’s only fair I think.
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Now we’re fuckin’ talkin’
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