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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Trump’s Oval Office tantrum signals the US is auditioning for a role in Putin’s entourage.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

Grand, just grand. Thousands of dead soldiers, women, and children and for what? For a dementia patient rapist asshole president puppet to just switch the US from a mildly so so hero country to a suspectable place that creates concentration camps and jails people in them permanently. OMG! And the Republicans are just thrilled to watch it all burn down. I don't understand. None of this even makes any sense at all. Hello! Nazi=bad remember? You hang nazis, you don't give them government offices!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

I think they carefully calculated when the sofa apathy had ripened into a fully paralysing inability to protest or act due to deep hypnosis. They don't need to be afraid. Nobody is reacting. They test what they can get away with and made this plan. The oligarchy has been installed now

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

US from a mildly so so hero country to a suspectable place that creates concentration camps and jails people in them permanently

Ok hold on a sec there, I agree these developments are awful but the US was never a hero country and has been illegally permanently jailing and torturing people for decades, besides all the couping democratically elected governments, murdering native people, not letting go of slavery, and so on and so on.

No, Putin has orchestrated the fall of the USA from a competent evil superpower to an incompetent evil large power.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

You don't understand that it has always been the hyper capitalist agenda, after Soviet fell since then Russia has chosen capitalism and now it's a super hyper capitalist union where corporations are worshipped as post human entities and is governed by their demonic rage fueled consumption that supports the exponential growth. It will always attack when exponential growth seems impossible and eat something new. Both superpowers are fully enslaved by these entities and no one person or even billionaire is its master. As soon as someone doesn't comply, the megacorp "restructures" and swaps out the used up humans replacing them with new human puppets that are oh so eager to prove they are loyal only to the growth and not to humanity. No one lasts. But the entity is timeless and has no other directive than to grow mercilessly and without compassion. It chooses only the most psychopathic humans to do its more important biddings. This is the model that has scientifically ruined the happiness and standards of living for anyone living in close proximity to the host state, and several orders of magnitude worse for the states that control the resources the entity requires. Where policy has made people improve in happiness and welfare, a complicated propaganda machine relentlessly works to entice the population that the capitalist model is prevailing. Its main weapon becomes apathy and subjugation via hypnosis, bathing the children and young adults minds in dopamine, creating an imbalance where the will to act or improve gets overshadowed by the immediate injections of entertainment at any time of leisure until they should work again in the morning. The megacorps needs humanity only to serve and reproduce in an orderly fashion while longing for the next flush of seratonin they are allowed. We seem to be unable to resist this most of us, some know intuitively we shouldn't because we get sick and die, but we have no biological mechanism to defend ourselves with, it's easy to hijack the mind of someone that is not struggling. A pacified mind is easy to abuse. But when struggles begin, if it doesn't happen in designated war zones, it's terrorism. Most men that cannot take this conveniently travel to the nearest proxy war and participate in slaying like minded boys and girls. The entities have since long ago been ascended to have more rights than humans, and their acolytes that keep it impervious are called lawyers and lobbyists, whose sole purpose is to secure the consumption of the planet so nothing can stop it. The most zealous and ruthless are promoted so they can feel responsible for the exponential infinite growth. It is the working class, the pacified masses, that are the biggest threat to them. When they decide to strike or boycott, they can topple entities in one stroke. Often the officers will abandon the entity and merge or plant new growths as the ecosystem is perfect for them right now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

You know what? I agree. I guess what I meant to say was that the US stopped being too open about our evil doings. Usually we mask things...the war on drugs, the civil rights movement acceptance. The Vietnam war was much more out in the open. Shock and awe and fucking 20 years of combat in civilian cities and encampments. The USA hasn't really every been real nice. We just haven't been evil openly. But now we're doing it. We just had our coming out president. Hello world! You guessed it! We're evil!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I don't think Putin is an idiot. If he does like what Trump is doing, why would he say it and potentially make things harder for him? Putin must know that quite a few Republicans (whether they have the spine to say it or not) are at least uneasy about "aligning" with Russia. So why?

Is it a "whatcha gonna do about it" sort of power move? Is he trying to delay these "peace talks" because he actually wants to end things with Ukraine while Trump is effectively holding Zelensky's arms behind his back?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Putin must know that quite a few Republicans (whether they have the spine to say it or not) are

Quite a few? Doubtful. Maybe 2? 3? If we're talking behind closed doors: maybe a handful more, but it doesn't really matter since they're all terrified of him, and would just resign instead of stand up to him about literally anything.

For Christ sake, Marco Rubio is looking like Trump just subtly showed him a photo of his secret love child that was under the cheesesteak he was eating from the restaurant in the photo, and made heavy implications.

But that's probably giving him too much credit to be honest.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

No… like with Trump, his statements are for an internal audience.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

So, funny story. I like to joke that I'm prescient.

In 3rd Grade, about the year 2000, I heard a news story about Vladimir Putin. This was long before I understood fuck and all about Jack and shit. I told my mom "that guy is pure evil." I remembered her telling me "Gotta give Russia a chance." I'm fairly certain she meant a "chance to remove him" now, but at the time I was like "ok, but he's clearly evil."

25 years later I remember that as my second premonition. I'm sure I heard something from someone about how he was behind the apartment bombing false flag and that's what connected it.

The first premonition was when I grabbed a pillow in the car and squeezed it about 20 seconds before my dad hit an ice patch in our car and spun out into a bridge wall. Again, I'm sure I just got frightened by the cold weather and being on the road for about an hour.

Unfortunately, none of it has been terribly useful. Although one time I had a dream where they had rib sandwiches as school, and if I went with the burger I would be disappointed because my friends were all talking about this crazy good sandwich they served at school. So I got the rib sandwich and it was amazing and they were right.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

the ribwich is back!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

Wasn’t that why they installed Краснов in the first place?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

And trump won the dick sucking contest!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

He's still going for the world record

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