• wheezy@lemmy.mlEnglish
      36·
      10 months ago

      Dude is looking much more reasonable than all the American allies that don’t have nukes.

      The western world having a surprised Pikachu face when the American empire starts treating them like it does the entire global South.

      Please, please realize that the actions America is taking are (1) not because of Trump alone. He is the leader that enacts the interest of its wealthy ruling class. (2) This is not new. This has been what the US has done for decades. The only thing that is new is who its being done to.

      You (your nations leaders) all watched and “felt bad” as it enabled a genocide in Gaza. Some even condemning it while continuing to arm Israel as not to upset America. This cannot be understated. This gave America the confidence to do what it is doing now. Gaza was a testing ground.

      Now, that empire asks you to bend the knee and remove the illusion of self sovereignty.

      Korean people, Vietnamese people, Iraqi people, etc. Might want to read some of the struggles against empire from their perspective. Because that’s what is happening now. You can still think “that won’t happen to us”. Well, you might want to prepare for that.

      Because “the 65%” of normal citizen in the US don’t want any of this either but they are just as inactive as you are. Your resistance gives us in the US more power to resist as well. We need to realize that this not a fight between nations and leaders. But a fight against the people of the world. Our blind eye towards Gaza and other crimes has given the green light for it to be done to us.

      We are not fighting against nations. We are fighting against the rulers of wealth. We are sitting in the fascist imperial core being subject to SS troops going door to door. You (in the rest of the west) will see material conditions decline as your politicians are pressured by their own wealthy ruling class to give in to the empires demands. You cannot let that happen. America needs to be choked. It needs to be sanctioned and boycott and if necessary fought against. Do not let your politicians give in; and you cannot afford to continue to be inactive.

      • respectmahauthoritybrah@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creator
        13·
        10 months ago

        Yeah exactly its a leapords ate my face situation, after decades of killing brown in the middle east, and korean/vietnamese and latin american populations, the europeans are now acting surprised that they are next, recently when trump leaked a text between him and macron and macron saying how they are “inline with syria and iran but need to talk about greenland”, we saw the attitude of the “leaders” in real time, they want to kill and murder brown people for resources and dominance but think the american empire and the orange man will spare their own people, well it seems its not working out now is it

  • Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.worldBanned
    39·
    10 months ago

    In a way he’s sort of like westboro baptist church in the states. Once universally despised now outdone by more crazy and sort of forgotten about

  • RedFrank24@lemmy.world
    15·
    10 months ago

    Kim Jong Un is batshit crazy, but he does know the extent of his power. His power doesn’t reach much further than North Korea itself, and if he tries anything that might piss off China, he backs off. Trump has no such restrictions, he can do whatever the hell he wants, and does.

    The general principle in international relations for the past 100 years is that if you kill your own people, nobody really gives a shit. If you start killing other people, well then that’s when other countries start taking notice.

  • America@sh.itjust.works
    4·
    10 months ago

    I wouldn’t call trump crazy. Senile? Yes. Dumb? Yes. Overly prideful? Yes. Bigoted? Yes. Crazy? No. He’s just beholden to nothing and no one relevant to our perspectives.

    • pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
      15·
      10 months ago

      Senile and has dementia could loosely be called crazy.

      He is old af, in diapers and talking to the yard about his ballroom while in meetings. He’s lost it occasionally and sundowns occasionally. He is not up for the job.

      • huppakee@piefed.socialEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        He is not up for the job.

        Totally agree, but i’d say he is sane. It’s just that he has a different sense of what is normal, a different view on what is morally okay and priorities that are different than those of the average politician. But being crazy is imo different than doing something crazy. I think you could actually do a lot of crazy things without actually being crazy, which is how i see what is happening in the US gov.

    • Midnight Wolf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      10 months ago

      Didn’t he want to nuke a hurricane, back in like 2017? After someone told him that just changing the expected course with an expo market on a map doesn’t actually do anything?

      That’s like first-grader logic and problem solving right there. I don’t even know if it is true but the fact that it could be tells you everything you need to know about his mental capacity…

    • The D Quuuuuill@slrpnk.netEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      germany’s laws on mental acuity were based very directly on the code of Virginia. Auschwitz planning docs included references to St Albans boarding school turned sanitarium in Radford, Virginia.

      the roots of nazi eugenics are here in america. the fascists demanding a return to an imagined past who make up somewhere between 18-30% of our population absolutely want to get back to all that.

      one third of this country wants to kill another third of our country. a remaining third of our country thinks the third of our country getting killed is overstating how killed they’re getting