• Bullerfar@lemmy.world
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    23 days ago

    Worlds biggest fucking baby. They seriously voted in a fucking baby as president of the USA…

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      I don’t know man, I currently got a baby and she seems rather reasonable in comparison. Sure she cries when she’s hungry but so far she has only hungered for milk and not a nobel peace price. I’ll let you know if things change.

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        22 days ago

        I can believe once, the second one was almost certainly stolen. There is just too much evidence and litteral coffesions to think otherwise.

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          Democrats nominated Kamala Harris. There’s a reason she had to drop out of the primaries in 2020 before a single vote was cast. She was quite literally the worst option out of every Democrat option.

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            trump is far worst, plus there were other issues that were playing against her, israeli and russian propaganda, musk rigging the machines, states choosing to end COUNTING early to make trump win.

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      23 days ago

      And they knew him all too well. They saw his baby antics on television long before he started appearing on ballots.

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        23 days ago

        Once would’ve been bad enough. They elected him twice (or allowed him to steal an election, effectively same thing if you accept it and don’t fight it)

        The first time was a terrible mistake, the second time was unforgivable. If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there is no helping you. Fight the orange man-baby and his supporters, or there is no future for you.

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          22 days ago

          3 times, and both elections were STOLEN with the help of the same actors, plus a new one for the recent election.

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    Firstly, Greenland is part of Denmark, not Norway. Not the same thing.

    Secondly, I might be wrong but I don’t think the Norwegian government gives the Nobel prizes, an organization based in Norway does

    Thirdly, how deranged does someone have to be to threaten war over not getting a peace prize?

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      22 days ago

      He’s terrorizing Minnesota because the population votes for the opposing party. The madness with the Orange knows no bounds.

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        also because walz stepped down from running for the gov, because hes too non-confrontational. the right wingers are trying to spin up the propaganda so that an R can take MINNESOTA, kristi noem even had to say it burned down a couple times to keep the lie going on CBS.

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          They think this will lead to MAGA taking overinmesota, they are delusional. This will only make it worse for them.

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            i think its mainly sound bites for fox, and the other right wing propaganda sources like newsmax , and OAN. remember nyc and california hellhole , its to reinforce the magats consumption that these states are burning down. all the southern states are doing significantly more ICE raids and deportation but MSM isnt reporting it.

            its to distract from epstein and the BBB

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        He’s terrorizing Minnesota because the population votes

        Don’t worry, not for long! 🤪

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      22 days ago

      gestures broadly this deranged. It’s all excuses. Dictators don’t need reasons they just act.

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      Secondly, I might be wrong but I don’t think the Norwegian government gives the Nobel prizes, an organization based in Norway does

      Correct. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by The Norwegian Nobel Commitee, not the government. The committee consists of members appointed by the Norwegian Parliament – again, not the goverment. The commitee thus a private body, and the government has absolutely no say in their selection of the recipient.

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    “Considering your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize … I no longer feel an obligation to think purely of Peace, although it will always be predominant, but can now think about what is good and proper for the United States of America,” Trump’s message to Jonas Gahr Støre said. “The World is not secure unless we have Complete and Total Control of Greenland.”

    The Norwegian government has no control over how the Nobel Committee awards its prizes. Greenland is a territory of Denmark, not Norway.

    I don’t understand how this is “normal.”

    Like, I can bring this up to Trump-liking family, genuinely smart people, and it’s just brushed off.

    If Biden so much as stuttered in a speech, it was like a national emergency. What do you think would happen if he started mixing up EU countries and impulse texting them over “your Country decided not to give me the Nobel Peace Prize?”

    Congress would impeach any other president on the spot. Democrat or Republican.

    Even accounting for Fox News, I just don’t understand how this gets a pass.

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      Are you familiar with the concept of limerence? It’s an intense infatuation with a person typically rooted in romantic interest. It occurs when you don’t really know a person, and you build an idealized version of them in your mind that likely doesn’t reflect reality. You attribute all sorts of positive traits to them and overlook all their negative traits. You effectively view them through “rose colored glasses”. This is how Trump’s followers look at him. They have this delusional view of him as this strong man here to save them from the mean old leftists. His efforts to seize and wield extraordinary power is viewed favorably, because he is their savior. Everything he does is either awesome or it’s just minimized and ignored. When he does horrible things, it’s just haters looking to knock him down, because he’s just giving the U.S. the tough medicine it needs. There is no way to reason with them, because you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into in the first place. It’s an emotional thing, in the same way you might be smitten by an attractive woman and build her up in your mind into something that she isn’t. The only way to break the spell is when your fantasy runs into cold, hard reality. In this case, the cold, hard reality will be financial collapse of the U.S. (or worse).

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        you can’t reason someone out of something they didn’t reason themselves into

        This is the crux. None of it is reasoned.

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          Yep. This is why you have to code your language to things that are emotionally evocative to them. To some Christians, it’s using the world evil (“this action is evil”). To others it’s using the word weak (“this makes him look really weak”).

          Edit: and to be clear, it doesn’t actually need to be logical. You can say something like “his makeup makes him look weak” or “I heard that he sings in a falsetto, that’s super weird”. It doesn’t matter (by definition, it doesn’t need to be logical). What matters is repeatedly associating a negative stimulus with the target position you’re trying to dislodge (or positive stimulus for a position you want held, but humans in America and maybe generally tend to be very profoundly negative averse). The reason these people are hear is because this association game has been played very long and very hard. It is the basis of propaganda.

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        People do this with fictional characters too. TVtropes calls it “Draco in Leather Pants”. People find an evil character attractive and so paint a picture of that character in their head that is nothing like they are in canon, exaggerating any good thing about them (or just making up good things about them) and ignoring or justifying anything bad about them

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        You effectively view them through “rose colored glasses”

        They must be seeing him through orange colored glasses, effectively normalizing his appearance. . . But who knows what they’re smoking to ignore all their other senses!

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      23 days ago

      Cognitive bias affects all classes and education levels. But in my experience conservatives are the most flagrant, “the only moral abortion is my abortion” for example.

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      It’s because nothing Trump is doing scares them as much as:

      • Whites becoming a minority
      • Gender not being a fundamental way of organizing society
      • Random made up things they heard online that they believe to be true

      Trump doesn’t look so bad if you believe every US city was burned to the ground 6 years ago and had to be rebuilt using taxes from rural america which were collected by black & latino paramilitary troops controlled by the jews.

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        Script theory does a good job of showing how being able to follow certain social scripts does not suggest that the person does not hold a strong delusion that is unchallenged by those scripts.

        You can believe you can fly while not needing to contest that until it becomes an active choice you are forced to make. Some might back off from the belief when put to contest, because they are okay believing whatever feels good despite the dissonance they feel. Some might take action believing they can fly. Both exist comfortable in a shared social group of online “flying truthers.”

        People are easily deluded, and usually those delusions cover vaguely bounded and varying social groups, where a single person and an LLM can confirm the person into a noticeable delusion that hasn’t been socialized into the surrounding social scripts.

        This is also how you can get a genuinely smart person in math or something, which also holds confident deluded beliefs on some other context.

        On the whole: Eco-niche specialization, misplaced confidence, and social affirmation, generally can lead to this.

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    US went from “We don’t negotiate with terrorists.” to “We are the terrorists.” Sources: All recent happenings in the US. Killing of the innocent, invasion to the foreign countries, market manipulation, hostile takeover or the main govt. branches etc…

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      You realize that was 12 years ago and the only people who still bring this up are liberals acting like it’s some great “gotcha!”, right? Shut the fuck up with the tan suit already. You sound as demented as him. Maybe focus on today. If your best defense against facism is some half-witted comment about 12 years ago, weren’t not gonna win this.

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        I legit think Trump is obsessed over the Nobel Peace prize because it was awarded to Obama. And I think it all goes back Obama joking about Trump at the White House correspondents dinner in 2011.

        It created some epic revenge arch that started with peddling Obama is a Kenyan national, and continues today. Shit in 2016 I don’t think Trump even really wanted to be president, and now he can’t get off the rails.

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    How does Karoline Leavitt spin this one to reporters? Another joke? Or just attack the journalist for asking?

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      Even if it were a joke, some jokes aren’t appropriate for the leader of a country to make. Multiple countries are taking him seriously and gearing up to defend Greenland. If I called someone’s house repeatedly and threatened to rob them, I’d probably be arrested and the defence “it was just a joke” would do little good.

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      I’m waiting for the day the whole administration tries to flip the script and claim this was all a giant social experiment. They crashed the economy, invaded US cities with a militia, started killing civilians, and dragged us into a foreign war over oil and then kicked off WWIII bc they knew it was the only way they could get all the sheeple to wake up.

      Like the current grift will just shift into a new grift where they pretend an angry mob of millions forming outside of the White House was actually their plan the entire time.

      “This was a test and you passed. Congratulations, give yourself a round of applause.”

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      after she gets her lip injections, and botox, letting it rip after consuming mexican restuarant food. of course she wears lying CROSS.

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    Waitaminit… a private Norwegian organization decides the manbaby isn’t getting an award, so he decides to take it out on Denmark?

    That’s straight up a pussy bitch move.

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      He’s too stupid to know the difference, plus he’s probably being bribed by some other pedophile racist billionarie in exchange for mineral rights or whatever.

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      Not even Denmark. Greenland, an autonomous country under Denmark’s administration(?).

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      Markets are closed today to celebrate MLK Day. Tomorrow marks a ton of state legislation getting scheduled as well. Gonna suck.

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        MLK Day is a US holiday. It’s not celebrated anywhere outside the United States of America.

        I know you’re replying to a photo of the S&P 500, but I’m equally confused about the statement since I’ve not seen any global market slump.

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          Agreed. The German DAX eat largest at 1% down on close. Markets can swing that hard in a day for absolutely no reason so there’s no market sell off that I can see

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          VWCE went from 150 eur to 146 in about 2 days, but yea, hardly a selloff in my books too…

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      The S&P 500 is primarily US companies so a global sell off isn’t really going to affect it.

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    The worst part about Trump being a dictator is…hes not even good at it. At least if he was an effective dictator maybe we could modernize the military or expand research into nuclear fusion. Instead we get unfinished data centers and invading…greenland…because he didnt win a Nobel (which everyone knows is a joke anyway)