• Aequitas@feddit.org
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    I never would have thought that the recipient of the great FIFA Peace Prize would do something like that 😮

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    Attacked Venezuela. Largest oil reserves in the world.

    Bombed Nigeria. Largest oil reserves in Africa.

    Expressed an interest in invading Greenland. Guess what?

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      Sure, i get it, Trump is orange bad boi living the dream in USA or whatever, but you do realise that this type of behaviour isnt new to USA, regardless of what party the president is a member of. USA will continue to bomb odd targets, stage coups and train terrorist groups to do their dirty work.

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          Hahahahaha

          The USs brand loyalty was shinier. That’s literally it.

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          That’s true. However, no matter how good the food tastes, it ends up the same in your belly. Just do the best you can, mind your own business, live a happy life, and do whatever the hell you feel like. As long as you’re not actually hurting anyone, go ahead.

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      I wonder, if in some future timeline where conservatives have managed to drill the absolute fuck out of the planet and use it all up, will their attitude towards EVs and windmills and nuclear change then?

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      When we start fighting wars over fresh water, Trumps plans for Canada and Greenland are going to be seen as genius…

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    How old ARE the kids he fucks? 4? 5?

    Put a blindfold on this mother fucker and tie him to a pole atop the Capitol Steps.

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      Don’t just hate him alone. Remember: he is a puppet and he is being used. Doesn’t excuse him, but see the bigger picture and don’t forget about the motherfuckers that surround him.

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    I’m just so grateful that all the previous presidents refused to do this and setup safeguards to ensure that Trump will be punished. \s \s \s

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      Previous presidents are only part of the equation.

      The other part is having a society that isn’t stupid enough to elect a felon rapist pedophile insurrectionist.

      The situation we find ourselves in is as much American’s fault as it is our politicians. Actually moreso, since those politicians are only there because of American’s decisions.

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        It’s truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it’s antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.

        It’s set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.

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          European countries have a variety of electoral systems, and to my knowledge right wing parties are gaining significant vote share in all of them. Is there a country whose electoral system you see as best helping them deal with populist reactionary figures?

          I am currently a proponent of ranked choice voting - Australia is the country I know of with the most widespread use example. They aren’t magically utopian, but it seems to be helping there. Always on the lookout to learn new things, though, so interested in pointers.

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            European countries have a mindset of colonialist countries that will try to reach for their roots. Unfortunately, that’s part of their political struggle. I actually like the way it is in my country, Mexico. You have one 6-year term only, you can’t have any re-elections, ever. It’s possible to ask for a referendum in the middle of the term, in case the person in chair is not doing as they promised. In the legislative power, we don’t have dinosaurs thanks to this, politicians can go from lower to higher level cameras in this bicameral legislative power, but that’s it. “No reelection” is ingrained with blood in our culture. Of course, electoral systems can only do so much against populist reactionaries, as you put it.

            I like the idea of ranked choice voting a lot, but I don’t know how viable that is for the USA. They need change, urgently, and ranked choice voting would be as good as it gets in terms of change.

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            The people have done what they can. Politicians have failed to them. That’s why Trump was headed to last 4 years in power only, and then the Democrats handed him, on a silver plate, another presidential term by being essentially equal to their rivals. As I see it, the political class is the one failing, by showing the people there is not a real path for a leftist government once and again. Americans need brutal leftist politicians as they have brutal right-wing ones in spades. The people is eager to support a younger Sanders-like face, someone that won’t compromise the benefit of the majority’s views.

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          Ehh… Wouldn’t put it past him having told some engineer to rig it and boast about rigging the election, all while the engineer did fuck all, because they were just a janitor fixing the thermostat in the office of some rich douchebag high on ketamine.

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        The ruling/owner class has waged a decades-long war to undo the forward momentum of the New Deal.

        There’s plenty of blame to go around, but most of it belongs to generational wealth and the “haves” not the average person brainwashed by poorly funded and heavily propagandized public education.

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        The alternative was an outright jingoist who ran to the right of Trump on foreign policy, insisting that she would massively ramp up military spending and build “the most lethal military in the world.” Given the history of Democrats with how much Biden and Obama loved drone strikes, it is rather disconnected from reality to think that Democrats wouldn’t be bombing as well.

        Foreign policy is something that Democrats and Republicans have always agreed upon, have always been warmongering parties and CNN and Fox News always come to agree on every war the US ever gets involved in. There literally wasn’t an option to avoid US imperialist wars.

        Well, there are third parties, but if you talk about voting for third parties then everyone will claim a third party is secretly a vote for Trump and then try to paint you as equivalent to Trump supporter.

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      We haven’t technically had an official war since WW2. Every “war” was a special military operation. So this is business as normal because no president wants to have to go through Congress to declare war officially. But hey why should we care about checks and balances on power?

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    Other presidents had families they spent Christmas with, Donnie. This motherfucker spent it in some bunker ordering murder across the world

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      There I was, 10,000 years ago, when Nigerian’s oil was stolen from the US by Nigerians. That oil is rightfully ours.

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        It kind of does, but then you look at the list and kind of realize a pattern of this Trump administrations actions.

        1. Venezuela - common threats of war, seizing tankers
        2. Saudi
        3. Iran - recently bombed and heavy sanctions
        4. Iraq
        5. Canada - annexation threats
        6. UAE
        7. Kuwait
        8. Russia - heavy sanctions and it kind of looks like support to blowing up tankers by Ukraine
        9. USA
        10. Libya
        11. Nigeria - recent bombing

        This has not even been a year and we are 5/11 with one of the countries being the US.

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    Every day I see a new headline and think, it’s almost like this guy is trying to instigate WWIII by any means necessary because he wants to kill us all.

    You know how these fascists are obsessed with patriarchy and authoritarianism? Sometimes narcissists commit familicide before they off themselves.

    Yardley, Wilson, and Lynes divide familicides into four groups: anomic, disappointed, self-righteous, and paranoid.

    In this typology, the “anomic” killer sees his family purely as a status symbol; when his economic status collapses, he sees them as surplus to requirements. The “disappointed” killer seeks to punish the family for not living up to his ideals of family life. The “self-righteous” killer destroys the family to exact revenge upon the mother, in an act that he blames on her. Finally, the “paranoid” killer kills their family in what they imagine to be an attempt to protect them from something even worse.

    I have Trump pegged as the anomic type. Possibly disappointed.

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      He wants a war, so he can have a draft, and take control of the most dangerous demographic group - military age men, who also share the characteristic that they are easy to manipulate through propaganda, which is easier to control in a military setting.

      If you can gain control of their brains as they turn 18, you can preserve those who take to the propaganda, and send those with decent Critical Thinking Skills to the front line.

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        But what’s the end game? He and Putin (along with several other of the world’s richest and most dangerous psychopaths) are reaching an age where their end of days due to natural causes is rapidly approaching.

        However, if they were to die tomorrow, they risk leaving their “legacy” and the history that will be written about them, to a planet that would have been better off if they never existed. What is the only way they can ensure that doesn’t happen?

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          I think the End is the endgame for a lot of these rich asshats. They fly in private jets and eat with gold forks while alive, who cares about anyone or anything else after that’s done.

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            Exactly. The Endgame is them living bigger than a King until the day they die, and they’re doing their best to live to at least 150. They don’t care what happens after that. Do you think Trump gives a single rat’s ass what happens to his kids after he’s gone?

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              Either we build guillotines or zoom in on Taylor swift in the suite box.

              I love sports but I’m pretty handy with carpentry and tired of this obscene class divide

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      Yup. The NPD family annihilator Anthony Todt pulled the same stunt but he was too chicken to fuck himself so he ended up at trial for the murder of his wife, and his three kids.

      But the kicker was his testimony during. It’s the most narcissistic display I’ve ever seen. He tried to pin it all on his wife and her, get this, “lyme disease”. I know, wtf, as if that causes you to go on a murder spree on your family.

      He was literally caught red handed with their putrified corpses still in the house.

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      If dude wanted ww3, he would attack a fellow empire (russia, china, etc).

      Instead he’s just another coward murdering the poorest people on earth.

      Like any president.