• sns@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    America isn’t like this because Trump is president

    Trump is president because America is like this

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    America is most certainly NOT an ally of Russia. Only that traitorous coward and his administration is.

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        Twice. Fucking TWICE!

        And since the first time that bag of rancid gonorrhoea was elected there’s been:
        An insurrection.
        A bunch of court cases that ended with convicted felonies.
        A successful rape trial, and payout.
        A raid because a lorry load of top secret documents were stolen… AND then stored in an unlocked room next to a fax machine. A FUCKING FAX MACHINE.
        A blatant attempt to flood a server area which held the CCTV footage.
        A confession about showing said documents to a journalist (I think), plus other people.

        And those are just the bullet points I can quickly think of of easily proven corruption and illegality. But there’s more. So much more.
        So, yeah, if a country elects a disgusting thing like that again and again then I’m believing it’s what they want.

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        ‘It’s the systems fault, not mine! I had no reasonable choice! Damn them all! I’m the victim here!’ - sitouts justifying their role in 2024

        Smfh

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        I didn’t vote for, nor do I support trump. Therefore. Your “facts” are already wrong as ALL of America is only represented by the entirely of it. And while I live here, I am represented.

        And in the event that my omission alone is not enough of an example for you to understand that some ≠ all, by my math, roughly 272,358,341 people of the 349,660,921 citizens in this county didn’t vote for him either.

        So maybe you should start the process of changing your “facts” to fit reality.

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          I, unfortunately, live in a red state. I am surrounded by conservatives. I grew up in the Seattle area so I know you are correct, but it doesn’t feel that way where I live.

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    Republicans have been favoring Russia for well over a decade and more like 15 years at this point. That’s another line Democrats really haven’t crossed.

    It’s not an American thing, it’s a Republican thing, and Republicans are not America, although they represent around half.

    That said, Russia is fighting Cold War II and we’re not even aware, so they are wildly winning. Much moreso than in Ukraine, an actual “hot” war.

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      Did you forget when they all had Ukraine signs and stickers? Right up until he said one good thing about Putin then bam supporting Ukraine is woke.

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    That’s because orange donny wants to be emperor of the western hemisphere while pootin wants to be emperor of the eastern hemisphere.

    Did anyone think donny and pootin were no longer friends? After pootin put donny in the white house twice and is working on his third term now?

    Seriously?

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        These weasels are working from the “oil” angle. They’re not all that bright. Crafty motherfuckers one and all, but intelligent? Xi most of all - but again - way too crafty.

        It’s the goddam oil thing again. Saudis have run out, it seems burning billions of barrels of oil during gulf wars (setting wells on fire for one) has caused quite a few of the dessert tribes to go hunting for oil elsewhere (the gulf - via … ah, I won’t go into it with you but putin, trump and the saudis are in on “capturing” the gulf’s oil - drilling unregulated - which will turn the gulf into a fucking oil rag and wipe out the gulf coast for “human” use. (or food)

        But… Iran still has some. As do several other countries. We do. Canada does. Alaska does. I assume Greenland does also. Drill baby drill - the words of a pack of fucking lunatics bent on self profit at the expense of the planet.

        Human monkey greed and the unreal tendency to follow the loudest monkey - much like lemmings following the leader - and here we are, as close to being a failed species as any dinosaur.

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          They may disagree with the idea of it but the reality is that China has full power to dominate their sphere of influence if they choose and no other single nation has the means to stop them.

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    The so called American experiment is over. The result proved to be no different. The nature of humanity is perpetually fighting for freedoms.

    Their superpower was not their military or their economy. It was the mythology that they were exceptional people and the modern exemplar of democracy. For a while much of the world was to believing too.

    Canada’s PM Carney said it well. The world put up with them out of convenience.

    The Americans took that tolerance as a compliment on their brash attitude. They couldn’t adapt when reality diverged from the mythology. Half of them are coping by following the traitor into oblivion. Half of them are insistent reality will return to their mythological storyline.

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      It was over when it started. The founding fucks idea of liberty was simply those with the money make the rules and don’t have to follow them. The so called American experiment has been a great success for the wealthy. You are just confused by propaganda that it was ever about anything else.

      The real news is the rot that exists in the US exists in every country. You can point, cry, rage, etc all you want about the US but it is coming to your country unless you have policies in place to reverse the wealth gap.

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    Traitor Trump doesn’t speak for the American people anymore than Putin the Poisoner speaks for the Russians. Put them both in a room and let everyone they have wronged have a go at them for all I care. They are just puppets for the wealthy.

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      A third of Americans voted for him and another third didn’t care enough to oppose him. Trump does speak for America unfortunately.

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        I think you are confused. Trump speaks for the wealthy. As AOTUS he has broken more laws to enrich himself then anyone could have ever fathomed. It would be comical due to the openess if it wasn’t also criminal. This is not a representative of the people and people should be ashamed for suggesting he is.

        There is no one to speak for the people. You have the Senate which is captured by the wealthy as designed from the start, you have the two-tierd judicial branch which is also captured by the wealthy, and you have the executive branch which is, of course, captured by the wealthy.

        That just leaves Congress who in theory should represent the people but they have been bought off by the wealthy as well. That leaves the people with zero voice.

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    “Western order” to me means Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, East Timor, Iraq, Afghanistan, colonialism, the silent holocaust (the one in guatemala), Guantanamo bay, Pinochet, the genocide in Palestine, Yemen, Libya, Somalia, Iran, etc. The author mentions “western order” as though it’s a good thing. It’s not. Not saying we should all ally with Putin, but I really don’t consider what we, the west, have done to the world a good thing.

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      That’s what bothers me about people calling him a ‘traitor’. A traitor to what? Global US imperialism? Massacres of school children, bombing weddings, hospitals? Long before Trump the US has been a murderous racist thug stalking the earth like a demon.

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        Not a lot of people learn that kind of history. I’m meeting gen z kids who barely know Iraq even happened. One million dead, based on a lie, and it takes one generation to completely forget it.

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    I had the unfortunate experience of knowing a sociopath, and he exhibited the same characteristic. 99% of humans only value was what they could do for him and those who had power over him he fawned over in an embarrassing un self awareness.

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      Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on Confession in open Court.

      for the lazy