Hikuro-93

Sadly, yes. I mean, Trump knows he’s ‘close’ to his grave and needs to leave some kind of legacy - even if it’s the Hitler kind of one - his narcissistic self just wants to enter them history books as one of the big humans instead of ‘another rich guy’ as a footnote.

Pretty sure either Elon or Vance are already lined up for when the time comes. When Trump leaves the world, and when there’s no longer actual rules preventing them from taking over and ‘fixing’ under martial law what big bad orange wrecked. At least according to them, that is.

No matter how bad what they’re doing seems this is just the preparation stage. Things can become so, so much worse, and the more we let them consolidate power the tougher it’ll be to fight it later.

And some will defend them as hardworking people who worked day in and day out for their wealth.

I’m sorry, no intention to depreciate your effort or success, but if you are building a super-yatch and your employees still have to pee in bottles you are greedy scum who doesn’t deserve success. There’s more than enough success to distribute part of it into happy employees who like to work for you, while still leaving you nasty rich.

No one needs untold amounts of wealth, and frankly there should be a cap at “fuck you money” level. Once you can spend “fuck you money” you know damn well you don’t need any more, you just need to maintain yourself there.

Yes, yes, every piece slowly falls into place. *Cue maniacal villain laughter

It’s like they actually studied history, to try and replicate the desired results as identically as possible. Or they didn’t, at all, and this is just 2+2=4 scenario but with history.

‘He’s underwater on everything’ - except the one way that matters the most.

Oh? I was under the impression you didn’t need us lesser and grifter nations? That we took you for a ride?

Hm… I propose a fair trade - you might even call if “the best deal ever”. Our eggs, for your cards.

Wait, I forgot. Your cards lost their value recently, as they couldn’t do shit for Ukraine against our common enemy.

Did not see this one coming, for sure. /s

Bet the ultrarich tax breaks are marked with a bright red “Priority No. 1” though, right? 🥸

Yeah. Agreed.

Yeah, wild. NATO can’t help Ukraine or accept it, should stay out of the conflict.

But then wants to use the Ukraine conflict not only to take Ukraine down, but also dictate the rules on how NATO and bordering nations operate.

How about we just take you down and you get your own Nuremberg trial while we show the world what happens to dictators?

Seems like a plan to me, specially so your western orange buddy can see how little we think of your ilk and what we do to them.

Nice. Symbolism on point. 👌

Shouldn’t even be up for consideration at this point. Buy jets from trustworthy people (like EU), and if you want total defense independence start building the framework to build Canadian jets for when these ones approach EoL.

The Asshole-in-chief and his little bumhole.

I’m sure not-nazi Elon has everyone’s best interests at heart for going there, right? Right?..

Maybe he’s just looking for marketing data to improve his tanked tesla sales. Yeah, must be it.

If anything it’s cause for national insecurity, given that if they invade, per NATO rules, an attack on one is an attack on all.

But Trump is used to getting what he wants by breaking the rules and facing no consequences, so I guess it’ll be a FAFO thing.

I must admit, I do fear that if it comes to that NATO will fight the usual way - strong worded letter. For a buffoon who can’t even read and only responds to a fat stick to the face.

Inb4 Trump starts invading because 2-3 MAGA nuts from greenland said they wanted to be part of US, so that’s plenty of reason for the whole Greenland to need it as well - “they’ll see why it’s good for them once they’re ours, trust me”.

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Those are rookie numbers.

Gotta pump them up until you randomly see a former oligarch malnourished and in dirty scrapped clothes holding a cup saying “change for the poor” as you exit the local random gas station.

I know, wishful thinking as these sleazebags have safety nets within safety nets, but one can dream.

Sad that they never learn their lesson and we’re all stuck in this cycle of:

Rich person buys power > Makes life a living hell for the people > The people revolt and burn everything down > Rich person (hopefully) gets dragged through the streets and has a public medieval-like execution as an example > Peace with rules in place to prevent that from happening again > People generations later get lax > Another rich prick comes along and exploits the weakness of the system and meekness of the people.

And round and round we go. As they say, “Strong men create times of peace, weak men create times of conflict”.

Between her and Harris she’s 10x less bad, I’ll give you that. Other than that, agree to disagree. 🤷‍♂️

While your logic does have a point, and there’s no shortage of sexists out there, I must also state that both Clinton and Harris were horrid candidates as well, and both followed a democrat president the people were starting to/were done with.

Not only that, but both times Trump preyed on what the people were desperate to hear: “Better living conditions, lower prices” and all that. This was mainly the illusion of choice between two evils, and they chose the one that seemed to be the lesser one. The one who appeared to be “more honest” and despite being a nepo-baby called out and criticized all other rich people.

The issue is the system itself, and the fact that voters choose their candidates like celebrities or their sports team. See Harris making her campaign way more about celebrity endorsement than commiting to actual societal issues. She was never gonna win like that, and even if she did, she would still be a bad president. Not worse for sure, now that we all are seeing current Trump starting all sorts of conflicts and trying to become a dictator, but still a bad president.

The US can elect a female president. But so far the options picked for that were absolutely horrid, and I know there’s several good and competent female leaders who are both democrats and republicans. Sadly they have too much common sense or lean too much to the centre to be taken seriously by the ones who want to create a spectacle.

That’s great to know, and will try to compare. Can’t say I had yet trouble with Jerboa, but then again only today did I start to nuke my reddit history - initiating the full switch to Lemmy. Any info is always welcome, stay well! 😁