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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 10:51 am
(October 28, 2024 at 4:12 am)Belacqua Wrote: Hate and insults are easy.
Understanding the thoughts of people unlike yourself may take more time.
Here is a video explaining why some thinking people support Trump:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99uL8KYxBI4&t=1s
A 90-minute video explaining your point? You're an unserious person.
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October 28, 2024 at 11:14 am
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-in which bel makes himself an active disseminator of self described redpilling content, with a specific focus on anti-vax nuttery and how the bush admins lies about iraq are the reason we ought to let putin have ukraine.
Still, it's true in a fun way. If a person believes that institutional politics does not and will not and perhaps even cannot address the concerns of our citizens they will abandon policy based governance and broad tents for a microtargeted focus on what interests appeal to them. This is where maga consistently shows itself to be the application of left wing ideology and language to the reich wing cause. Like they're magic words...and if you just say them right, the nazis will have been the good guys all along.
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 11:36 am
(October 28, 2024 at 11:14 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: how the bush admins lies about iraq
well well wel, as European I was opposed to the Iraq war, it was clear it was baseless and that without Saddam Iraq would have slipped into chaos.
I really, until today, do not understand how the US could get away with that without consequences. A country invaded and destroyed based on fake proofs of weapon of mass destruction.
The same is with Gheddafi's Lybia, a country I know very well.
I do not like dictators, but we must admit that democracy is something people want to have, not something it is delivered to them. Because 2 iraqis think that in democracy, if they disagree, they can shoot each other with a AK-47, conversely we westerners think that if we disagree we just discuss until we find a compromise
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 11:48 am
I think that conflict had more to do with Iraq being constantly belligerent and uncooperative, violating no-fly zones, invading Kuwait, and they gave no indication they were going to quit undermining regional stability.
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 11:59 am
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From the point of view of the Iraqi citizen, toppling him was not the best choice
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 12:13 pm
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(October 28, 2024 at 11:36 am)europeanatheist Wrote: (October 28, 2024 at 11:14 am)The Grand Nudger Wrote: how the bush admins lies about iraq
well well wel, as European I was opposed to the Iraq war, it was clear it was baseless and that without Saddam Iraq would have slipped into chaos.
I really, until today, do not understand how the US could get away with that without consequences. A country invaded and destroyed based on fake proofs of weapon of mass destruction.
The same is with Gheddafi's Lybia, a country I know very well.
I do not like dictators, but we must admit that democracy is something people want to have, not something it is delivered to them. Because 2 iraqis think that in democracy, if they disagree, they can shoot each other with a AK-47, conversely we westerners think that if we disagree we just discuss until we find a compromise
That's also the traditional way for florida men to solve problems between them. Sure though, it's a fair observation that the bush administration lied about it's internal rationale for the iraqi war. Do you think that the bush admins lies about iraq are a good reason for americans to abandon ukraine, or vote for trump? If not, that channel might not be for you, lol. Similarly, if you don't think that anti-vax stuff...even if we assumed it were true, would be a good reason to vote for trump..again, not it's target market.
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 12:23 pm
(October 28, 2024 at 12:13 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's also the traditional way for florida men to solve problems between them. Sure though, it's a fair observation that the bush administration lied about it's internal rationale for the iraqi war. Do you think that the bush admins lies about iraq are a good reason for americans to abandon ukraine, or vote for trump? If not, that channel might not be for you, lol. Similarly, if you don't think that anti-vax stuff...even if we assumed it were true, would be a good reason to vote for trump..again, not it's target market.
ahahaahha good point about Florida, maybe add all the hillibillies in the appalachians...
Beside the jokes, I do not think that we can settle the wrong done in the past with leaving Ukraine. As European, I have many Ukranianasn and also russians in my network, some refugees are also in my daughters school classes etc.
What we should do in Ukraine is to freeze the situation as it is with a temporary ceasefire and staert to negotiate which bit of land should go to whom, as simple as that.
At the moment, from the Russia-Ukraine war only Europe is losing, and on top of that NATO should bomb Ukraine, not Russia. That is because Ukraine destroyed the Northstream 2, a vital energy infrastructure to a NATO member (Germany). If we follow the NATO rules, a non NATO country bombed a vital infrastructure thus NATO needs to attack the country that destroyed the infrastructure...
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 12:35 pm
(October 28, 2024 at 3:03 am)Belacqua Wrote: If Trump wins there will certainly be work to do. We're all aware of who will be vulnerable and what the Dems will need to focus on. Women's rights, trans rights, humane treatment of immigrants. These things will need urgent attention.
If Trumps wins, there will be more than work to do. Active defense of minorities will be required as the man's bigotries will be given the power of government organs and the imprimatur of a court that has abandoned Constitutionality in favor of enabling executive power at any cost. Of course, not living here, you may be unaware that the Democrats are already giving those demographics under attack their "urgent attention", but they are.
I'll take a picture of a few pro-Trump signs around here and post them tomorrow so you can see what I see on the ground here.
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 12:38 pm
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(October 28, 2024 at 12:23 pm)europeanatheist Wrote: (October 28, 2024 at 12:13 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: That's also the traditional way for florida men to solve problems between them. Sure though, it's a fair observation that the bush administration lied about it's internal rationale for the iraqi war. Do you think that the bush admins lies about iraq are a good reason for americans to abandon ukraine, or vote for trump? If not, that channel might not be for you, lol. Similarly, if you don't think that anti-vax stuff...even if we assumed it were true, would be a good reason to vote for trump..again, not it's target market.
ahahaahha good point about Florida, maybe add all the hillibillies in the appalachians...
Beside the jokes, I do not think that we can settle the wrong done in the past with leaving Ukraine. As European, I have many Ukranianasn and also russians in my network, some refugees are also in my daughters school classes etc.
What we should do in Ukraine is to freeze the situation as it is with a temporary ceasefire and staert to negotiate which bit of land should go to whom, as simple as that.
At the moment, from the Russia-Ukraine war only Europe is losing, and on top of that NATO should bomb Ukraine, not Russia. That is because Ukraine destroyed the Northstream 2, a vital energy infrastructure to a NATO member (Germany). If we follow the NATO rules, a non NATO country bombed a vital infrastructure thus NATO needs to attack the country that destroyed the infrastructure...
Negotiating with fascists dictators only emboldens them. Europe should increase help to Ukraine so it can fuck up this "Upper Volta with rockets" properly and made sure it will be to weak to even think about aggression in the future. Fascists don't understand language other than power and even this is something they only comprehend when they're thoroughly beaten.
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RE: Americans: Have You Thought About How You Will Cope if Trump Wins?
October 28, 2024 at 12:42 pm
Incredible luck, I'm both things.
Would you consider this viewpoint left wing, centrist, right wing (or..other, you know, like purely pragmatic)
I am the Infantry. I am my country’s strength in war, her deterrent in peace. I am the heart of the fight… wherever, whenever. I carry America’s faith and honor against her enemies. I am the Queen of Battle. I am what my country expects me to be, the best trained Soldier in the world. In the race for victory, I am swift, determined, and courageous, armed with a fierce will to win. Never will I fail my country’s trust. Always I fight on…through the foe, to the objective, to triumph overall. If necessary, I will fight to my death. By my steadfast courage, I have won more than 200 years of freedom. I yield not to weakness, to hunger, to cowardice, to fatigue, to superior odds, For I am mentally tough, physically strong, and morally straight. I forsake not, my country, my mission, my comrades, my sacred duty. I am relentless. I am always there, now and forever. I AM THE INFANTRY! FOLLOW ME!
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