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Post by askew on Jul 27, 2024 10:26:46 GMT
Cargo cult
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Post by Ulythium on Jul 27, 2024 10:28:35 GMT
Jesus, that's horrifying.
I'm marginally less pessimistic than I was this time last week, with Harris now being the presumptive nominee and her campaign having started so strongly, but when what's at stake is so significant (and so very clear), it's hard not to worry.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jul 27, 2024 10:28:50 GMT
I still can't get my head around tens of millions of people in the US want to vote for someone who has been very clear that once elected he wants to be de facto king and not the mostly harmless kind that constitutional monarchies have but the iron fist type. How fucking dense do you have to be when he's telling you this in advance? They either think they'll be part of the "in" crowd and it'll be okay for them, think he's just saying it to "own teh libz" and it won't actually happen (even though he always tells it like it is) or... y'know, actually want it to happen
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Post by askew on Jul 27, 2024 10:32:05 GMT
The American Dream, folks. The American Dream. Did you know great people are saying the American Dream is to install me as your God Emperor. Lyin' Kamala ain't gonna give you that bigly.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jul 27, 2024 10:39:00 GMT
The American Dream, folks. The American Dream. Did you know great people are saying the American Dream is to install me as your God Emperor. Lyin' Kamala ain't gonna give you that bigly. He wants to Make America Great Again! You know, like back in the day when the women and the coloureds knew their place and we had real, hard working 'Murican men! (*barfs while typing*) It's quite the contrast with the Harris campaign slogan being "We're not going back" actually
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 27, 2024 11:24:14 GMT
I for one welcome their old orange overload.
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Post by lukasz on Jul 27, 2024 11:33:45 GMT
Is there some proper context to that or he is basically saying that they will control everything from now on?
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Post by drakesmoke on Jul 27, 2024 11:43:46 GMT
Is there some proper context to that or he is basically saying that they will control everything from now on? The proper context is he’s saying what he means. Being pally with Russia, staging a failed coup, and now announcing that he’s to remove democracy altogether. What does it take to get treason charges going over there?
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Post by JonFE on Jul 27, 2024 12:20:39 GMT
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Post by Zyrr on Jul 27, 2024 12:42:35 GMT
Whichever way you slice it, America's fucked. The cultural divide between them is too wide now and those that profit from it will only stoke the fires of extremism ever higher.
They'd actually be much better off dividing the country into two separate nations, really. Those who want the Taliban wrapped in stars and stripes ruling over them can have the south and those with IQs above 35 can have the north. Simples!
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Jul 27, 2024 13:36:08 GMT
Once Trump is gone, while the root causes of his cult won't go away, the unifying focus will be very hard to replicate. A lot of these lizards will have their eye on the brass ring and there'll be a bloodbath fighting over it. Meanwhile the beliefs and philosophy of his cultists, without any anker in reality, or focussing figurehead, will nebulise into competing narratives and conspiracy theorise.
Ultimately until neo-liberal freemarket capitalism wraps its head around the concept of it needing to underpin the living standards of working people. Democracy will continue to self destruct in this manor. Over and over again.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 27, 2024 13:57:41 GMT
Yeah I can definitely see splinter groups forming when the power vacuum arrives. Don't see a Trump dynasty appearing like the Kennedys as both older Trump boys lack any kind of charisma and one has a raging coke habit, Ivanka obviously doesn't want to get involved anymore, Tiffany isn't even a Trump as far as Donald is concerned and I don't think Melania wants Barron involved after Trump dies even though she herself is proper scum.
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Post by technoish on Jul 27, 2024 14:56:47 GMT
That must be AI generated?!!!!??
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 27, 2024 15:02:24 GMT
That must be AI generated?!!!!?? What is? The video?
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Post by JuniorFE on Jul 27, 2024 15:05:51 GMT
That must be AI generated?!!!!?? Believe me, I'd much rather be in a timeline where everything Trump-related is just an SNL skit and 2016 and on were regular old boring politics over there... But no, it's real.
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Post by Zyrr on Jul 27, 2024 16:27:35 GMT
According to career slimeball Martin Schkreli (yeah, I know), he helped Barron release the crypto memecoin TrumpCoin. If this is even remotely true, then Barron is already up to his neck in money making scams.
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Post by zephro on Jul 27, 2024 21:16:09 GMT
The whole thing will collapse once Trump leaves the scene. Whether anyone else can wait that long is another matter.
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Post by Blue_Mike on Jul 27, 2024 23:04:26 GMT
This nightmarish vision of dystopia set in 2030 now seems optimistic by any former comparison now that it's only 6 years away:
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Post by Lukus on Jul 27, 2024 23:09:43 GMT
Is there some proper context to that or he is basically saying that they will control everything from now on? The proper context is he’s saying what he means. Being pally with Russia, staging a failed coup, and now announcing that he’s to remove democracy altogether. What does it take to get treason charges going over there? Apparently this is the actual context, from the replies to the above. Though I've not watched the video. x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1817095918023221705?t=GlTgHDa7YvhQChaf2Z-iww&s=19
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Post by cubby on Jul 27, 2024 23:12:46 GMT
Yeah that guy looks totally legit.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 28, 2024 0:23:48 GMT
The proper context is he’s saying what he means. Being pally with Russia, staging a failed coup, and now announcing that he’s to remove democracy altogether. What does it take to get treason charges going over there? Apparently this is the actual context, from the replies to the above. Though I've not watched the video. x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1817095918023221705?t=GlTgHDa7YvhQChaf2Z-iww&s=19His actual twitter feed is a dumpster fire. I don't think I'm going to this guy for my objective information. Case in point
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Post by peekconfusion on Jul 28, 2024 6:36:05 GMT
The proper context is he’s saying what he means. Being pally with Russia, staging a failed coup, and now announcing that he’s to remove democracy altogether. What does it take to get treason charges going over there? Apparently this is the actual context, from the replies to the above. Though I've not watched the video. x.com/shaunmmaguire/status/1817095918023221705?t=GlTgHDa7YvhQChaf2Z-iww&s=19I laugh at the "additional context" being massive voter disenfranchisement (but not absentee ballots - those are fine apparently). That doesn't really justify the "you won't need to vote again in 4 years" bit though. Why not Donald?
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Post by Vandelay on Jul 28, 2024 10:13:19 GMT
The context is that Trump is a moron and doesn't know what he saying. Either he is so thick that he just let the cat out of the bag that they are going to change all the rules and start rigging/ending elections or (which I think is much more likely) he was very poorly trying to encourage people that don't normally vote to just vote this one time.
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Post by JuniorFE on Jul 28, 2024 10:24:19 GMT
Or he's admitting that if he gets back in he'll be hit by the two-term limit (assuming no more fuckery) and he only gives a fuck about himself and not the party... So after they vote for him they won't have to vote again, because they won't be voting for him anymore so in his narcissistic little skull sponge it doesn't matter.
Even the most charitable interpretation is ten pounds of bullshit in a two-pound bag though
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Post by Leolian'sBro on Jul 28, 2024 10:40:08 GMT
‘Assuming no more fuckery’ is one hell of an assumption, given that fuckery is the only Republican route to power they have left.
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Post by Tuffty on Jul 28, 2024 12:18:04 GMT
Sounds like a failed dialogue check in Disco Elysium
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Post by JuniorFE on Jul 28, 2024 12:28:04 GMT
I see he's been reading from the Ted Cruz best seller, "How To Be A Spineless Twat 101 or He Insulted My Wife, So I Kissed His Ass Until He Paid Me"...
Fuck Ted Cruz and fuck JD Vance (obligatory)
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 28, 2024 12:31:16 GMT
Sounds like a failed dialogue check in Disco Elysium /you died of a heart attack
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jul 28, 2024 16:17:41 GMT
What's this about the former WH photographer having his account on twitter deleted because he shared an AP photo of Trump's incredibly healed ear?
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Post by peekconfusion on Jul 28, 2024 16:56:34 GMT
Sounds like a failed dialogue check in Disco Elysium Was that recorded before or after the Mountain Dew "joke"?
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