I know things were pretty fucked - I haven’t been a lifelong cynic for no reason - but still, it’s amazing how quickly snd completely the US has descended into screeching insanity.
And all at the hands of this demented lunatic, his psychopathic enablers and his legions of angry and stupid followers.
What a world…
And all of it because billionaires want to fuck children and not pay taxes.
Exactly, that’s all we want. Why is that so bad?
— billionaires
Not even the end of Y1
That’s the most astonishing part of it to me.
Reality has gone completely off the rails. Virtually every day, I read another account of blithering insanity, and painfully obviously dangerous and destructive insanity, from this administration, and then I watch as all of the official entities that are meant to check that sort of insanity just treat it as another day and another press release from another President’s office.
It’s like The Emperor’s New Clothes, only far far worse.
And all in less than a year…
The media is highly complicit in how they sanewash the most insane shit we’ve ever seen
People still doubling down on their actions in 24, not acknowledging that those very actions led to the orange idiot being elected. Again.
As long as there is no acknowledgement, we can expect a repeat of the very same in 28, possibly with the literal devil on the other side, while the voters smugly criticize the minutae of the more sensible candidate and sit it out.
Sometimes you put yourself aside in the interest of the country.
Oh look - it’s the DNC Defense Force, here to get an early start on guilt-tripping leftists who won’t vote for whichever shitty center right neolib hack the DNC will likely end up trying to foist on the voters at the behest of their corporate donors.
Fuck that. It’s not the voters’ responsibility to vote for a piece of shit just because they stink a little bit less than the other piece of shit - it’s the DNC’s responsibility to run candidates people actually want to vote for. And when they can’t (or more accurately won’t) even do that, then they and nobody else are responsible for the consequences.
And this is how we got to Trump, the other side acts like psychos but at least they have kind of a coherent football team mentality going on, even if they’re fucking ignorant racist sons of bitches. They don’t focus on the minutia of how they disagree with each other at every turn and spew vitriol and divide themselves like this. Nobody fucking hates the other factions on the left like a lefty. We are all so fractured and individual it’s a fucking joke. Like herding fucking cats, buddy. We should be able to use the anger from this moment to unite, but none of us can even decide what the fuck we should be uniting around. Meanwhile violent sociopathic pedophiles can corral enough morons to crash their way into the capitol whenever they want. We all have lofty ideals about the best possible form of government and the people to staff that government, but in order to have an operational government you have to have a team of people who are united. We can’t even agree on the morality of violence, much less point of finger in the direction we should go from here. Fucking frustrating homies.
Oh and…
The fact that this whole norion of a lack of lefty unity is complete bullshit was neatly demonstrated by leftist voters coming together to overwhelmingly support Zohran Mamdani.
And who didn’t support him? The fucking establishment neolib hacks - the exact same people who keep fucking us over by putting up shitty candidates then trying to guilt trip leftists into voting for them. We finally got a candidate we wanted and they couldn’t even be arsed to endorse him.
Enjoy the next 3 then. It’s not even what I’m implying. In fact, I’m positive you will - the fact that the two comments above sound the same tell me all I need to know.
Supporting genocide is not fucking “minutia.”
oh look, another votescold so thoroughly convinced that everything would have been fine if only everyone followed their campaign strategy, that they’re literally blaming anti-fascists for fascism. How about blaming actual fascists instead?
Ok, I’ll take the non raping, non narcissist, non child abusing, non twice impeached, non trying to save his fat lardy ass, non looking to use the office to take revenge on anyone and anything he disagrees with one, thanks.
votescold
touch grass
It’s unclear if Nigeria asked the US for help but they seem to be accepting it.
Nigeria’s government has said armed groups target both Muslims and Christians, and U.S. claims that Christians face persecution do not represent the complex security situation and ignore efforts to safeguard religious freedom. But it has agreed to work with the U.S. to bolster its forces against militant groups.
At this point though, that’s just noise.
Unfortunately, the mass media is complicit in the insanity - they’ve abandoned principles, integrity, honesty and accuracy in pursuit of profit and/or the owners’ agenda, whichever might be deemed more important in a given organization.
That’s not to say that that story is necessarily false. It’s simply that if it’s a spin that serves someone’s agenda, as this obviously is, then it will be published somewhere, entirely regardless of whether it’s true or not, so the fact that it has been published means nothing at all.
Mainstream media is just billionaire media.
And the government is just billionaire government.
The only war is class war.
Sorry for being picky, just wanted to point out this bit of redundancy:
in pursuit of profit and/or the owners’ agenda
That agenda ultimately is and always will be profit for any company even a hundredth of that size, let alone a straight up monopoly.
Other than that, no notes 10/10
The scariest part is how surprised and unprepared the rest of the world was. “Sanity will prevail!” Really? Why?
Quickly it was not. This has been in the works since Nixon. Now it just when it’s coming to a head. And it’ll only get worse from here.
No, that’s what
I know things were pretty fucked
was seemingly referring to
It’s accelerated a lot recently, but this has been in the works for a long time, and many people were ringing alarm bells.
I’m old. My first awareness of the world of politics was the Watergate hearings, so I actually lived through most of the run-up to this.
It’s certainly the case that the US has been moving more or less steadily toward plutocratic oligarchy since at least Nixon, and progress has definitely accelerated (though it really started accelerating with the Wall Street bailouts in the wake of the 2008 real estate bubble collapse and hasn’t really let up since), but that’s not really what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about the literal insanity of Trump and his sycophants. They aren’t merely corrupt tools of the plutocrats like so many past politicians - they’re deranged lunatics. That’s not hyperbole - it’s simple fact, plainly obvious to anyone who takes a step back and honestly looks at what they do and say.
It’s not that the US has accelerated toward autocracy in less than a year (though it has), because yes - that’s the direction it’s been headed for decades. The astonishing thing to me is that the US has effectively gone insane in less than a year.
If the US was a person, it’d be on a psych hold. And that’s something I wasn’t prepared for, even as cynical as I’ve always been.
I’m sorry, you think this sort of behavioral escalation is distinctively Trumpian? Go look up the military actions of Obama, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Reagan, etc. This is the the US - nonstop mass murder, constantly, unending, brutal, insane. Trump is just rubber stamping what the military puts in front him. He isn’t planning these things out.
bOtH SiDeS eXaCtLy ThE sAmE. Bullshit like this is all I hear from people who want to suck Trump’s dick these days
Imperialism is fine if I agree with it
Obama literally got the Nobel peace price while bombing civilians with drones in the middle east, do you really think that what’s happening in Nigeria is significantly worse?
There is a difference yes, equating the two allows the people who are less justified and also currently doing things to get away with more than I think you’re realizing. I’m also pointing out that that is basically the main strategy for people who support Trump right now, pretend the bad things Democrats have done are basically exactly the same level of bad as this straight up fucking evil bullshit fascism we are seeing. I’m simply saying that equating everything and calling it all the same amount of bad is not productive and allows the worst to become more normalized than they would otherwise. I’m not justifying anything bad that any Democratic president did, just saying that we need to have gray areas here and recognize some level of tiers of evil, not just pretend that somehow Obama and Trump are the same person.
There is a difference yes
Ok, point out the material difference between war crimes conducted by obama and trump. “Decorum” or “justifications” don’t count as material differences.
trump is worse on many other topics, from outright fascism in the US to openly supporting fascists abroad to cutting USAID and such, but in terms of military action this administration is mostly just following the long-established bipartisan war crime traditions.
For support for fascism, look no further than Truman (D) presiding over Operation Paperclip which collaborated with the Vatican to save many Nazis and relocate them all over the US and South America, give them new identies, jobs, money, and protection.
I’m not saying D are all paragons, in fact fuck much of what they have done, and fuck them for being beholden to the rich, fuck them for a bunch of other stuff besides, but there was more genuine intent for good than this absolute filth fascism horseshit. Lefties are supposed to be the side of the spectrum that can actually parse differing levels of evil, but it seems more like many of us want to make perfect the enemy of good
My point is the opposite of normalizing Trump. What needs normalizing is the (correct) view that the USA has always been a genocidal war-crime state, and that a mere change of leadership back to Kamala “most lethal army in the world” Harris-type democrats will not suffice. I equate them because, in international policy, they’re indistinguishable, geopolitics are bipartisan in the USA and they’ve always been. Trump surely is worse for USA inhabitants than democrats, no doubt, but I’m a Spaniard, not an US citizen.
You’re failing in your goal
That’s your opinion, good to know
The nobel peace prize really has never been an indicator of someone not causing wide spread death and destruction both indirectly or directly.
The name is kinda misleading. The whole peace aspect is an ideal not a reality sadly.
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Not defending it in any way, but he got the award before the drone campaigns I believe. I think he got it like as soon as he took office?
Also, it’s not just Nigeria. If this were a vacuum, sure. But these kinds of arguments just come off as disingenuous these days.
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You can’t convince me the person that wrote this comment is not a Russian fucking troll. You’re going to lecture me and use the r word in the same comment? You really got your head up your ass buddy. I’m not deflecting shit, just not throwing every leader we’ve ever had into a trash bin out of hand. Equating Democratic leadership and conservative leadership right now is exactly the playbook of trump supporters that’s what I’m trying to say.
100% bot assault, it’s so painfully clear
ZERO US citizens would equate Obama and OrangeShitsHisPants, because only a Russian bot (or someone cosplaying a Russia bot) would see them as the same
Nobody sees them as the same, sure. Some people see Obama as worse. 30% of the country think Trump is doing great.
I will, fuck US imperialism and fuck the soapbox they gave you to stand on and the propaganda they emboldened you with.
I don’t owe the murder capital of the world anything for being born there.
Russian Troll
Now who’s fake news?
Emotional overreactions aren’t discussions, and devolving into name calling is the same thing a fascist would do on Facebook,
Good job!
I hear you, and I empathize, genuinely. But this attitude isn’t exactly fuckin productive now is it? Expressing things this way is exactly what those fuckers want to think about lefties. Why would anyone try and parley or have a constructive discussion with a person who says shit like this?
Da comrade, extra bread for you dis veek
everyone I disagree with is a Russian troll
Real free thinker vibes
Odd that you think believing that the US is a violent, terrible, evil, exploitative globe-spanning empire exporting death, destruction and poverty is equivalent to liking Trump.
None of them made their policy decisions based on short entertainment segments on Fox.
I never would have thought that the recipient of the great FIFA Peace Prize would do something like that 😮
It’s in the game!
Hey, they gave him that prize because they knew he was the kind of dictator who would only use regular bombs on (most likely) random civilians. He’d never be so heartless as to use a nuke.
FIFA is just a club for racist colonial grifters… Trump should be president of FIFA.
From the article:
“In November, CNN reported that the president’s initial threat against Nigeria came after he watched a Fox News segment about violence in the country.”
So the solution is to introduce more violence?
For the US, generally, the answer is “yes.”
tRump is trying to play to his base. He doesn’t care that Christians are committing the same atrocities as ISIS.
He also needs to try to distract everyone from the Epstein files.
Only if the bad people are killing the good people that we like. At this point I’ll be not surprised when we find out Nigeria has oil or rare minerals.
Nigerias got oil, it’s not a secret
You know those Nigerian prince scams?
They started because the Nigerian government is in collusion with the oil companies at the expense of the Nigerian people, who have had their fishery and farming practices destroyed by oil pollution.
The people found the only way to survive was join organized crime and scam rich foreigners.
U.S. military’s Africa Command confirmed it had conducted a strike that killed multiple militants at the request of Nigerian authorities.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/trump-says-us-hit-isis-232435995.html
It’s a little unclear if Nigeria asked for it but they seem to be going along with it.
Nigeria’s government has said armed groups target both Muslims and Christians, and U.S. claims that Christians face persecution do not represent the complex security situation and ignore efforts to safeguard religious freedom. But it has agreed to work with the U.S. to bolster its forces against militant groups.
So, that’s the thing, right? We’re so used to everything this administration does being Absolutely horrible. Rightly so.
But they took out Islamic State™? That would be a win for humanity. . .but is it true? Sheesh, that’s the hard part. Who’s to say? It’s always more complicated than a single headline or news article can contain.
We’re almost entirely in a post-truth society at this point.
Sometimes the why can be just as important as the action.
Did this happen because Donald Trump wanted to do a good thing that would benefit someone that isn’t him? Probably not.
Did this happen because headlines are flying around that Donald Trump is a child rapist/baby murderer and any distraction is a good distraction? I’d say the timing is pretty fucking on point for a new conflict or a newly publicized conflict.
I feel like this is something that could have possibly been the right the to do, but I am more than certain that it wasn’t intended to be.
Who’s to say?
Who knows man
I thought you were supposed to be the one with a definitive answer to the “who’s to say” question!
I’m allowed to make murky/neutral statements at best, rules are rules after all
World police again!? Didn’t our diddler and chief explicitly say he was against this. What a moron.
The real morons are the people who voted for him thinking he’s the anti-war candidate.
The real morons are the people who vote
Just cause the cops retired doesn’t mean he can’t hit black kids…
“I really deserve a peace prize” > bombs people for Christmas
I hate this man so very much.
Don’t just hate him alone. Remember: he is a puppet and he is being used. Doesn’t excuse him, but see the bigger picture and don’t forget about the motherfuckers that surround him.
How old ARE the kids he fucks? 4? 5?
Put a blindfold on this mother fucker and tie him to a pole atop the Capitol Steps.
Draw and quarter
Another Epstein diversion.
The really sad thing about this is I think you’re right
Other presidents had families they spent Christmas with, Donnie. This motherfucker spent it in some bunker ordering murder across the world
Would you spend time with Eric and Junior?
Well, if you have to choose…
And ranting dementedly on social media
Still angling for that Nobel Peace Prize…
The victims are the right color so he’s got a chance.
So more distractions from the Epstein files?
He’s absolutely scrambling to have us talking about something else.
Implying killing people is less bad than being a pedo? Is he distracting from being a piece of shit by being a piece of shit?
In his point of view, yeah. Bombing countries will win him favor with his supporters, but implications in the Epstein files does the opposite.
He’s so guilty and has so much blood on his hands already that outrage over spurious bombings is completely ineffectual. Sure, I’m angry he’s killing people again, but that doesn’t get me anywhere.
Oh fuck off, they’re out there, and you’re still parroting this? “The epstein files” (the idea of them, not the actual files) are distracting you from your president bombing people on Christmas mate
Yes they’re out and there’s some terrible shit about him in there but he doesn’t want anyone asking him questions about it. You should know since it sounds like you’ve had enough time to read over 30,000 pages.
Do I think being best buddies with a known peodphile and sex trafficker is the worst thing he’s done, probably not but he absolutely doesn’t want to talk about it because he has no good answers.
It’s all part of his flood the zone tactics to control the narrative of anything. So, he’ll continue to violently kill and imprison people, and put his name on stupid shit, and kill the planet with coal, and tear down the norms of this country. Anything to provide distractions that his base can focus on and to avoid any questions or prosecution.
Of course he has “answers”: liberal witch hunt, they don’t want America being great, blah blah blah. If facts were relevant, he would’ve already faced the consequences for shitting on the constitution every other day since he took office. It’s mind boggling to me that Americans are still expecting justice to come from within a system that is part of the problem.
What do you expect to happen? That if memes reach critical spiciness he will implode? Asking questions will stop him?
And these “distractions”, they are just more heinous actions. It’s not some empty news cycle drama. Killing people across the world just adds onto the pile of reasons he needs to be removed
What do you expect to happen?
Probably nothing and he dies a sadly comfortable life.
I participate in protests and boycotts, I donate as much as I can to organizations I believe in. I talk to my friends about trying to organize more and I constantly talk to them about a general strike and a need to shut the system down as it is. My career actively helps against waste and climate change. You’ll probably say that’s the bare minimum and maybe it is but I have a family to take care of so I can’t be out there like Greta Thunberg. It’s not that I don’t think violence can change things but I’m a nonviolent person.
I understand that my comments on a niche social media website will do nothing to change anything.
My apologies if that’s not enough for you random stranger.
Thanks Ruzzia!
Uhh ok sure. I’d love to hear your reasoning behind this, but actually don’t bother. I don’t want to lose braincells
You sound exactly like all the Russian trolls.
If you’re not one, you got tricked. If you are one, you got tricked.
I’m just so grateful that all the previous presidents refused to do this and setup safeguards to ensure that Trump will be punished. \s \s \s
Previous presidents are only part of the equation.
The other part is having a society that isn’t stupid enough to elect a felon rapist pedophile insurrectionist.
The situation we find ourselves in is as much American’s fault as it is our politicians. Actually moreso, since those politicians are only there because of American’s decisions.
It’s truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it’s antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.
It’s set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.
An people have done nothing to change it. That’s the point.
European countries have a variety of electoral systems, and to my knowledge right wing parties are gaining significant vote share in all of them. Is there a country whose electoral system you see as best helping them deal with populist reactionary figures?
I am currently a proponent of ranked choice voting - Australia is the country I know of with the most widespread use example. They aren’t magically utopian, but it seems to be helping there. Always on the lookout to learn new things, though, so interested in pointers.
Morbid Elon fixed the election as he basically said he did.
Ehh… Wouldn’t put it past him having told some engineer to rig it and boast about rigging the election, all while the engineer did fuck all, because they were just a janitor fixing the thermostat in the office of some rich douchebag high on ketamine.
The ruling/owner class has waged a decades-long war to undo the forward momentum of the New Deal.
There’s plenty of blame to go around, but most of it belongs to generational wealth and the “haves” not the average person brainwashed by poorly funded and heavily propagandized public education.
THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR IS PEACE
THE RADICAL LEFT IS SLAVERY
FOX NEWS IS STRENTHHAIL BIG BROTHER
Ok Hitler guy
The book reference is “1984”
Killed 'em with kindness like I have never seen!
That’s an excellent user name as well, for what it’s worth.
Trumps says he killed ‘ISIS scum’ who terrorized Christians in Nigeria
- When will he tackle MAGA scum for the same crimes within the US?
- Does he demonstrate that his magical weapons kill only ISIS, excluding from harm, any non-ISIS Muslims and Christians?
- Has he set a date to annex the oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria?
oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria
Oh. I thought the choice of country was strange. Now I understand.
We only need consult the list of countries by proven oil reserves to identify the next attack.
Has he set a date to annex the oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria?
Pretty sure this has been ongoing for decades.
