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    he also said…

    • Iran would take 2 weeks

    • Gas prices would be cheaper

    • The economy would be better

    • he was a “stable genius”

    • Biden and Obama were the worst presidents in history

    • he’s not a pedophile

    And he’s 0-6 on all those.

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    Great news for Greenland. A trump “guarantee” is typically the assurance of the opposite

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    Oh I see delusions starting to repeat themselves. Probably going to start going on about injecting bleach again any day now

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    Trump can’t even control his bowels, let alone Iran.

    Starting a war with NATO would end the USA right now.

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      I’m reasonably confident that if trump actually gave the order it would probably result in a military coup. He’s not popular with the generals after he got them all together, pulling many of them from assignments overseas, just to insult them for no readily apparent reasons.

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      Fuck yeah, let’s go! The system designed and controlled by literal Nazis after operation paperclip? Fucking end it yesterday!!

      Edit: not big fans of history around these parts, I see.

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        Nazi Germany had already been defeated at the time of operation paper clip you twit. If they had that much global control why did they then let themselves lose the war.

        If you’re gonna come up with brainless conspiracy theories you need to make some sort of coherent sense.

        You should go with claiming that the Nazis invented a time machine to escape prosecution and traveled forward in time to the 21st century, it’s just a stupid a claim but I can’t actually disprove that one.

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          i am sorry, but last i know you can still vote for him or somebody else. There is a world of options before shooting someone to solve problems. Besides, what does him dying even help? It is a system at this point and not a person

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        When you are responsible for so much death in the world as of late.

        People are going to wish you dead regardless of your position of power or influence and celebrate your death afterwards.

        Its just the nature of people. Sometimes people even do something about it.

        Maybe you should start thinking about that.

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          I can understand people, that is not the point, i am just voicing my own opinion on it.

          My point is, that trying to decide other people death by yourself makes you little better than a mob in the Street practicing self-justice. It is the very reason why we developed a system for it.

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          Why is that? Because you determine that Person to be Bad? Its that kindnof mindset that leads to people killing wach other for their little self justice

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            Yeah he’s bad he raped little girls. That’s bad. He is actively destabilizing the world order and that will lead to economic uncertainty, war, and widespread death. That’s bad. People who do that should definitely be shot in the neck.

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            Not when it’s been corrupted by the very rapists it should be punishing.

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              Thats why you can go and vote, protest, be a lawyer or politician. Is that not possible anymore in the US?

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        Are you fucking stupid? Never mind, we know the answer.

        Would you feel bad about someone wishing death upon Hitler?

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          What am i supposed to say to that? It doesnt matter how i feel about it, it is wrong and condoning murder to anyone leads everybody down to a worse place. My point is that i am not condoning murder, which is something you don’t need to have a porblem with ‘for certain people’

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      When he finally does die they’ll refuse to admit it for about three months and just sort of Weekend at Bernie’s him. Will probably try and pass off a bunch of unconvincing AI video as evidence of his aliveness.

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        I dont know. I think noone would believe hes still alive if he doesnt show some presence for more than a day, given how much of an attention whore he is. Remember when he had COVID and had to show off driving around?

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      Or be crowned leader for life, really in both cases never getting Greenland.

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    Everything trump ever said was nothing but sensationalist headline fodder. Did anything change in the last week?

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        He forbids his team of physicians to publish that diagnostic. See, I’m such a nice person that because of that, I’ll assume he’s perfectly healthy.

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          He’s the healthiest person of all of the people who repeatedly taken dementia IQ tests.

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      Sorry. A lot of people thought Harris was just as bad and don’t like elections. Also, the quality of marksmanship has gone down significantly.

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          And those kind of comments are how Trump got into office.

          But also Putin isn’t a war criminal right? And China hasn’t been trying to slow walk a genocide in Tibet? There are no reeducation camps for Uighur muslims or Tibetans?

          Okay.

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              Uh huh.

              But the reeducation camps the United States government forced indigenous Americans into was definitely genocide. Same banana.

              And no that is not how you get more leftists. Education is how you get more. This generation is 100% more right wing than the media wants to admit

              Also it’s spelled Kamala, maybe don’t talk about a country you’ve probably never even been to so confidently.

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                Frightful times breed frightful people. Being ‘left’ in the US means to be a hypocritical, moralist neoliberal, so don’t expect the revolution to start anytime soon.

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                  I don’t want a revolution. Revolutions look nice on paper and being decades or centuries away from them seem nice but revolutions cause extreme instability that open up space for corruption and allow the very people you’re often trying to help fall through the cracks.

                  We didn’t get the 40 hour work week because people fought and died for it, unfortunately. It might have brought the conversation forward but it likely delayed results as states prioritize control and stability and will increase their means of violence to do so. We got the 40 hour work week because the right people were elected.

                  Unfortunately the same with slavery but in an odd opposite way. The civil war ended slavery, but only because increasingly officials who were anti slavery were elected and that put pressure on southern states to engage in violence as they feared slavery would end. Which caused the government to increase their means of violence and force stability, ending slavery.

                  The solution is obvious, educated people make better decisions including electing better officials and they will steer society the right way. Currently the level of frustration has made people close off their opinions, disengage from electoral processes and regress back into factions prone to infighting. I fear a revolution, it will immediately land on the feet of the poor, destitute and desperate and harm them probably killing the very people a revolution is supposed to help.

                  I’m not preaching total non-violence here. There will be violence. But starting a full blown revolution is not the path forward in my opinion. Regardless of how people want to portray it stability is way closer than it seems, uniting together and education are the shortest paths to it.

                  And people who comment that harris and trump are the same are actively ruining those avenues to a solution because often they’re not interested in a solution they’re interested in being right and being heard and making people believe they are right.

                  That’s just my take though.

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                Lmfao. No the 100 million dead native Americans are what makes what the US did a genocide.

                I agree, education is key, which is why china’s leaders are 60% stem degree holders lol.

                I couldn’t give less of a fuck on how to spell a war criminal removed name.

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              What I am trying to say, and the reason you’re getting down voted for a dumbass opinion, is that for any and ALL reasons you could possibly come up with about her being a bad candidate, trump is objectively 10-100x WORSE on exactly the same reason… Plus 100x extra insane and horrible policies for each of those 1 arguments you made a dumbass comment about.

              No one said anything about “history starting” on Trump’s 2nd term. I’m saying you OBJECTIVELY are ignoring facts, and it makes your comment, and you for making it, look stupid.

              I HATE our two party system more than anyone, but I’ll bet you either voted for trump, didn’t vote, or voted third part during the recent presidential election. IMO, the current state of the US is a direct outcome of your stupidity, and stupid people like you. That, or your not from the US, in which case STFU.

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                And Americans are easily manipulated and believed trump when he pretended to be anti war, while kamala leaned into the war mongering. It’s not the fault of Americans that they’re tremendously stupid, but it should be a consideration to any intelligent politician. It wasn’t this time around and now we have the acceleration of American fascism.

                Edit: I’m not American. Death to America. Your piece of shit country will invade mine before your dumbass midterms.

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                  Well, in this case I am sorry, my country shouldn’t be invading any other countries. I will agree with this, death to American fascism. But don’t let the these maga scum fool you, you say it’s not their fault. While a small group were “useful” idiots and got scammed into this, a much larger group are just racist pos. It is absolutely insane the amount of brainwashed idiots walking around in this country.

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          People forget that in the rather crowded primary she was one of the least popular candidates and one of the first to crash out. And that was even before anyone knew about her dumber policy positions. So, justified or not, we knew people wouldn’t enthusiastically show up for her.

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      Yes, but only if the world takes Trump seriously when he makes threats.

      I cannot overstate how dangerous the TACO Trump Always Cowards Out mentality is because what makes Trump so dangerous is he is too much of a coward to back down.

      Europe is throwing the world into chaos by ignoring this reality.

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      I am SOO fucking sorry man. I country is turning into a real pile of shit and I absolutely hate every second of it.

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      Ye…the boys and girls who shouted for years that they were the vanguard of democracy ánd who for years complained that people of Iran, China and Russia should ‘rise up’ and ‘get rid’ of their tyrannic leaders are now more willing than any other people to throw their hands up and surrender in the face of the dumbest, most incompetent autocrat that has ever risen to power.

      In fact, the US is one of the few countries in the world where average citizens can legally own an automatic rifle or organize a militia and literally no one has tried to wrestle power from him including the supposed opposition party. Think about it; dozens of kids and teachers get blown away by crazed teen shooters each year. Thousands die from armed robberies and murders committed with firearms.

      And the reason they never banned that crap is because of an almost sacred right to defend yourself from tyrannic rule. So, if you’re not going to do that, why even have firearms in the first place?!

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        the dumbest, most incompetent autocrat that has ever risen to power.

        You know what they say… if idiots are in government then the idiots are well represented.

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    Dude should read into what traditional casus belli can be caused by, notably one of those things is preemptive war caused by repeated threats to invade.

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        If Denmark pushes EU to an economic war, then the USD is no longer the petrol dollar and will crash immediately.

        The US relies in Europe for their economy to a greater deal than the EU relies on the US. But an economic war between the worlds two largest economies will cause global economic instability for a bit.

        Personally I were shocked EU didn’t attack the petrol dollar at the beginning of the Hormuz closure, as that was the easy way to keep energy flowing out of the strait.

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          Denmark has allowed the US to have new bases in Denmark while the US was threatening Greenland. The EU is made up of countries and many have good relations with the US.

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            Several EU countries have been distancing themselves from the US for the past year and a half, but apparently they didn’t feel prepared for cutting contact this spring.

            Was it three trade agreements signed since Trump went to office? Mercosur, India and Australia iirc. They’ve all been laying around in a drawer, with minor details missing. Boom, they’re all good now.

            That’s not at random, that’s Europe positioning itself to not rely on the US. The continent has been awakened and the drift away is going to happen. The US wanted to be isolated, they can’t stop the movement now.

            India is going to replace a fair share of the reliance Europe has on the US. But Africa is right there next door screaming for investment, no need to invest in the US

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              Mercosur, India and Australia

              Mercosur wasn’t signed in Colombia at the initially planned date. That looked like US influence.

              India is built up against China, with an extreme right government that looks US made.

              Australia is big but with a small population. That looks more like a support of the American shift to Asia since it came with a defence agreement if I remember correctly.

              But Africa is right there next door screaming for investment

              So why don’t we invest?

              Five of Cuba’s 15 provinces without power as grid fails again

              https://feddit.org/post/33508934

              We honor the US embargo. There is no independence.

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                India is built up against China, with an extreme right government that looks US made.

                But it’s a democracy which is moving in the right direction in terms of personal freedoms.

                Australia is big but with a small population. That looks more like a support of the American shift to Asia since it came with a defence agreement if I remember correctly.

                Looking at the official statement, it’s a direct jab against the US turning away from a rules based order. This agreement is not to glaze the US, far from it.

                The EU and Australia are already long-standing allies and partners, whose global outlook is aligned in terms of defending multilateralism and the rules-based international order.

                https://www.eeas.europa.eu/delegations/australia/eu-and-australia-strengthen-relations-security-and-defence-partnership-and-trade-agreement_en?s=163

                So why don’t we invest?

                We are, but we should be investing more. And more importantly, we should cleverly flood the Arabic peninsula with euroes through energy trade. To make Saudi Arabia assert its soft power in Africa and weaken the US in the process.

                We honor the US embargo. There is no independence.

                There’s no way we can break a US blockade on Cuba, just like the US successfully can’t invade France. Distance is a hell of an issue.

                Cuba is too insignificant to cause a greater international reaction

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                  But it’s a democracy

                  That’s a nice benefit but we can’t use the Indian trade agreement as an example of European independence if it serves the US strategy.

                  defending multilateralism and the rules-based international order.

                  As opposed to the multipolar order. This is not opposing the US. France, and thus the EU, were not so long ago excluded from a nuclear submarine deal. I doubt that Australia switched to relying on the EU.

                  we should cleverly flood the Arabic peninsula with euroes through energy trade. To make Saudi Arabia assert its soft power in Africa and weaken the US in the process.

                  I don’t think Saudi Arabia can be bought like that. Saudi Arabia was made by the US. Also, how would the EU benefit? Saudi Arabia most likely has their own goals.

                  There’s no way we can break a US blockade on Cuba,

                  True, but we could try to deliver and more prominently rub it in that the US are violating international law.

                  Cuba is too insignificant to cause a greater international reaction

                  That’s when international law matters. If we don’t defend it or at least try, we signal that it is only there to suppress the ambitions of small countries.

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        They don’t have to attack anyone, wars can happen without any violence just peace talks and treaties.

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            Hybrid war isn’t. You can attack an enemy’s interests: harm their economy, flood them with refugees beyond their ability to cope, throw up obstacles to their normal foreign trade, etc.

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      He needs WW3 to stay in office, the U.S. will be alone against everyone, they will be decimated.

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        In the USA, there is no “staying in office” after your term is up when you don’t win an election.

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        The beauty is that most countries are involved in conflicts that force them to cooperate with the US. The US have done their homework.