• @waddle_dee@lemmy.world
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    15219 days ago

    How Trump supporters, a lot them I know hard-line McCarthyists, don’t see the takeover of the US by Russia is fucking beyond me. But then again, it was never about Russia, it was always about authoritarianism.

    • @PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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      4819 days ago

      I always wonder: Why is it tied so closely to American evangelical Christianity?

      And it makes sense if you consider:

      They need some absolute power to punish people different than them

      They believe they are absolutely correct per God (gott mins uns, anyone?)

      And no mentally healthy reasonable grown up human believes in magical stories about sexy abs-jacked Jesus performing magic.

      They’re all liars. Arguing in bad faith

      It’s all to punish anyone different thab them who have things they wish they had.

      The entire objective is some weird “prima noctum” scheme where they remove all the men, and force all the women to birth their rape babies.

      I’m sure there’s some other plausible explanation for what they are doing.

      Right? There’s another reason for all this? And it’s not rape and murder and theft.

      Right?

      Please?

      • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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        19 days ago

        Please stop putting each sentence on a different line.

        It doesn’t make you more profound.

        It just makes it impossible to read.

        It’s also much more simple.

        The US right wing is based on religion.

        So if they want to talk up a different country.

        They just have to say how they’re a good Christian country.

        With Christian values, just like them.

        • @PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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          419 days ago

          Thank you for your Input

          I am not seeking profundity it’s just how i organize my thoughts.

          If it bothers you, a downvote would work.

          Or you could take it personal and believe I am assaulting your perceived mundanity. And accuse me of trying to be “profound”

          You do you man! I like you just the way you are

          • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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            19 days ago

            If it bothers you, a downvote would work.

            Orrrrrrrrrrrr I could provide constructive feedback.

            Instead of random downvotes that you don’t know why.

            If you write like this profesionally.

            I have news for you.

            And it’s not good.

            • @PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social
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              419 days ago

              I am a professional writer.

              I write code.

              White space is important for readability.

              It helps other coders read your stuff

              But if you came here to argue with mw let’s argue about something more substantive than your hatred of my use of white space.

              Shohei Ohtani: better than babe Ruth?

      • @ShittDickk@lemmy.world
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        619 days ago

        Oh theres another point. The earth is dying, and not just for the poor. The biggest cause of climate change are the systems required to support 8 billion people. Why do you see a push for AI slaves at the same time as a push for WW3. When zuck has his art, food, entertainment and all taken care of why does he need poor people killing his planet?

    • @punksnotdead@slrpnk.net
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      2519 days ago

      On the sixth day of Hate Week, after the processions, the speeches, the shouting, the singing, the banners, the posters, the films, the waxworks, the rolling of drums and squealing of trumpets, the tramp of marching feet, the grinding of the caterpillars of tanks, the roar of massed planes, the booming of guns—after six days of this, when the great orgasm was quivering to its climax and the general hatred of Eurasia had boiled up into such delirium that if the crowd could have got their hands on the 2,000 Eurasian war-criminals who were to be publicly hanged on the last day of the proceedings, they would unquestionably have torn them to pieces—at just this moment it had been announced that Oceania was not after all at war with Eurasia. Oceania was at war with Eastasia. Eurasia was an ally.

      There was, of course, no admission that any change had taken place. Merely it became known, with extreme suddenness and everywhere at once, that Eastasia and not Eurasia was the enemy.

      • 1984, George Orwell

      In my eyes a mandatory read for anybody opposed to authoritarianism.

      Available here: https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021h.html

    • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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      1019 days ago

      Fox News talking positively about Russia for 5 to 10 years will do wonders. These people never did a deep analysis, they were told Russia bad and now they’re told Russia good.

    • @Ledericas@lemm.ee
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      318 days ago

      Especially the use of signicant disinformation by their propaganda networks all over USA, social media and msm

    • @HighFructoseLowStand@lemm.ee
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      219 days ago

      McCarthy was in fact backed in 1946 in the Republican primary against progressive Robert M. La Follette Jr. by the Wisconsin Communist Party because they felt that La Follette would be more effective in opposing communism.

  • @kandoh@reddthat.com
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    4819 days ago

    You can see it in their leaked chat group. They hate hate hate hate democracy. They love dictators and monarchies, nothing negative at all to day about those guys.

    • ms.lane
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      218 days ago

      But also hate King Charles, because he’s not as hateful as they are.

  • @Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world
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    1918 days ago

    Donald Trump, facing financial trouble after failed casinos and business ventures, gets invited by the Soviet government to collaborate 1987

    Trump had taken major losses with his casino’s in Atlantic city and other failed companies. So he was in desperate need of a different finance source. And this was around the time that russian oligarchies were looking to diversify their money given the growing instability of the country and you had Donald Trump needing that cash. In the following years, Trump sold roughly one third of his properties to individuals or companies affiliated with Russia.

  • @MehBlah@lemmy.world
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    1319 days ago

    Its the same way he justifies being a racist bigot when he is married to a non Caucasian woman.