• Blackmist@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    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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    3 months ago

    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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      3 months ago

      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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            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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          3 months ago

          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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    3 months ago

    From the article:

    “In November, CNN reported that the president’s initial threat against Nigeria came after he watched a Fox News segment about violence in the country.”

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    3 months ago

    I know things were pretty fucked - I haven’t been a lifelong cynic for no reason - but still, it’s amazing how quickly snd completely the US has descended into screeching insanity.

    And all at the hands of this demented lunatic, his psychopathic enablers and his legions of angry and stupid followers.

    What a world…

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      3 months ago

      And all of it because billionaires want to fuck children and not pay taxes.