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      They’re trying to insinuate that the accusations on them are of the same legitimacy of those they’ve been throwing at everyone for decades.

      If their claims are rebuked as baseless, they’ll call the claims against them baseless as well. If the claims against them are said to be substantiated, they’ll point to their claims and suggest the same. It’s the “tails I win, heads you lose” of a political scheme.

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        conservatives are more likely to believe fake news, and cons more. eventhough AI is fake, its just affirmation to thier beliefs.

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      He’s flailing so hard he is speed running through all of his tried and true distraction techniques. It’s like watching Jordan Peterson on the Surrounded thing on YouTube. He’s a one-trick pony, and it becomes obvious when you do it that fast.

      I mean … even MAGA caught on. Now, are they going to see the pattern, or are they going to go back to the mental gymnastics and become furious about a book in a school library in a state they don’t live in? Unfortunately, we could safely wager our life savings on which option they will choose.

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        you noticed the threat of Tariffs are having no effect anymore as a distraction even from the magats, and News are just moving on after mentioning it. he used it so much people got tired of listening to it.

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      I would have if donny two scoops didn’t keep bringing it up every 5 minutes

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      the ways he’s trying to distract us are telling.

      He’s on the list. Frequently enough his magic sharpie ran out of ink.

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      aaannnddd? the guy was literaly convicted and the american people still voted for him. He does tbe most outrageous shit, break the law, order juges to be arrested and nobody does nothing. Crazy

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    Epstein’s best friend, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump, is a human trafficking child rapist.

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      Correct.

      Do not get distracted folks. He’s on a mission to make you forget about Epstein.

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      I like how Ezra Klein put it, “Trump isn’t trying to confuse you, he himself is confused.” Just listen to him talk, guy can’t focus on a single thing.

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      Just FYI, you in Europe should spend more time learning how not to freak out the moment you invite a relatively small amount of Muslim people of color to live among you as refugees and start pushing boats back into the sea to drown. We watch your society start to break apart the moment it drifts even a tiny bit away from white ethnostates. Hungary and Poland fell before the US.

      Don’t get me wrong, we’re a flaming dumpster fire right now, but it gets very tired very quickly listening to you people look down your noses at the US like your shit doesn’t stink as you teeter to and from the brink of far right parties taking power every 3 years on a platform of “no Muslims in Country X.” You’re not wrong, but glass houses my guy. You judge us, but the rest of the world judges us both.

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      I’m an American who moved to the Netherlands in July of '22. I spend a lot of time going back and forth. My then fiancé, now my wife, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the pandemic. Given the obvious price difference for medication to treat the disease, I decided to move in with her instead of her coming to the US.

      I find it disheartening to see what the rest of the world thinks about Americans up close. I am competently multilingual enough to hold conversations. I have to admit now that I understand why other natively born Americans pretend that they’re from Canada outside of the U.S.

      Despite my embarrassment about the body politic and discourse from my country, I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe. Either that or they’ve always been here to begin with. To me, the difference is that the scale is much smaller.

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        Yeah, for sure. The Russians have been busy in all countries. The reason things got out of hand in the states is because you have a two party system. You only need to control a few people to control enough to take over the country.

        That being said, Americans need to take a page out of the French play book at this point. If you try to make a Frenchman work an extra half hour a week, Paris will burn. That’s the level of outrage you need here. Nothing short of that will be effective. Don’t protest, riot! A few people hanging about with plakards isn’t going to cut it when the government is deciding which TV shows they’ll allow, threatening politicians, protecting pedophiles, killing witnesses in federal custody, detaining people without cause, deporting/imprisoning people without trial, and deploying combat troops against peaceful protesters.

        I’d like to point out that all this shit is not normal and Americans need to understand how deeply fucked up the situation is. From where I’m standing I’m not sure most of them do. Yeah it’s regrettable that fascism took hold in the states despite the rest of the world screaming at them to stop, but what’s really alarming is that they’re just kinda going along with it.

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          As a leftist American, you’re right. There’s a simply incredible amount of the population who refuse to participate in politics at all, then another huge swathe who gets all their news from social media or a single source which never gives the whole picture. I’ve protested, I’ve written my leadership, I’ve changed family and friends to the side of sanity but it feels like there’s just no winning like this. I’m ready for a general strike, to stop paying federal taxes but it’s all self harming if done alone. Our leaders have failed us basically across the board and I’m hoping that they’ve fucked up enough in the eyes of the general public so there’s a correction and we can get this country far more socialized and kick corporations off welfare.

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          Too many Americans are eager to lick the boot. “We have to work (for free) this weekend to get this feature out [for the deadline the owner made up and customers don’t care about]” was something my old team unironically said to me more than once

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        I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe

        America’s worst export.

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          Bold to claim we had to export it. This is like someone saying “yeah, we’ve got black mold, but it obviously came from our neighbours, and has nothing to do with the raw sewage we’ve left in the basement for the last eighty years!”

          Literally none of those things first gained traction in the Americas. As a US citizen, I think we need to be doing a general strike with riots in the streets and shutting down interstate trade with our bodies marching on the highways.

          But you need to see to your own houses, because while the mold is running wild over here, it didn’t start with us.

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      I think what’s pissing me off about the US most right now, is even through the dumpster fire and their idiotic elected leader, Americans are STILL moraizing, looking down on others and being the world police

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        For the record, we average citizens don’t want to be the “world police”. This is what President Eisenhower was referring to as the “Military Industrial Complex”.

        Starting in  the  1980s,  the  United  States,  which  insisted  on  strict  terms  for  the  re-payment of  Third  World  debt,  itself  accrued  debts  that  easily  dwarfed those  of  the  entire  Third  World  combined — mainly  fueled  by  military spending.  The  U.S.  foreign  debt,  though,  takes  the  form  of  treasury bonds  held  by  institutional  investors  in  countries  (Germany,  Japan, South  Korea,  Taiwan,  Thailand,  the  Gulf  States)  that  are  in  most  cases, effectively,  U.S.  military  protectorates,  most  covered  in  U.S.  bases  full of  arms  and  equipment  paid  for  with  that  very  deficit  spending.

        This has  changed  a  little  now  that  China  has  gotten  in  on  the  game  (China is  a  special  case,  for  reasons  that  will  be  explained  later),  but  not  very much — even  China  finds  that  the  fact  it  holds  so  many  U.S.  treasury bonds  makes  it  to  some  degree  beholden  to  U.S.  interests,  rather  than the  other  way  around.

        So  what  is  the  status  of  all  this  money  continually  being  funneled into  the  U.S.  treasury?  Are  these  loans?  Or is it tribute? In the past, military  powers  that  maintained  hundreds  of  military  bases  outside their  own  home  territory  were  ordinarily  referred  to  as  “empires,”  and empires  regularly  demanded  tribute  from  subject  peoples. The  U.S. government,  of  course,  insists  that  it  is  not  an  empire — but  one  could easily  make  a  case  that  the  only  reason  it  insists  on  treating  these  payments as  “loans”  and  not  as  “tribute”  is  precisely  to  deny  the  reality of  what’s  going  on.

        • Except from the Beginning of David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years
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          Nobody else appointed the US as “world police”.

          It’s a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.

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          The young left has become the world moral police and it has nothing to do with the military, right wing uses the military. The young left is just using shit slinging. But Americans need to get to the back of the line when it comes to moralizing or leading global issues, the rest of the world doesn’t want to hear it from Americans

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            I don’t understand anything you just typed. Who’s “young left”? The global “young left”? You think only the “right wing” uses the military?

            And who should be leading global issues? Europeans? Chinese? Russians? Indians? G8? G20? UN? Who?

            Or is it that Americans are the only ones who can’t or shouldn’t be allowed to “lead” or “moralize”?

            Genuinely confused.

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              Yes, Americans need to shut up, we don’t wanna hear it, fix your damn country before you start criticizing others. You only cheapen a movement by leading out and infecting it with your toxicity.

              It’s hard to explain who the “left” is in the US right now because you all think the left means just you and your group of friends. You are all punching left and fighting each other while the right is united and you guys let them win. You’re all so weird and you can’t see it from the inside, but the rest of us around the world don’t want to hear your opinion anymore

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                Opinion on what? Your country? The world? Geopolitics? What Americans are moralizing about anything to you? And about what? The young left? Who is the American version of Greta Thunberg?

                I moved to the Netherlands from the US in '22 out of necessity due to my Dutch wife’s medical diagnosis. I’m not here for the fun of it. Furthermore, I’ve been to 12 countries in total and I speak four languages, 2 of them fluently.

                I’ve noticed something.

                Every rural shit-heel out here in the Dutch countryside complaining about Moroccans and Turks sounds like a typical MAGA pussy to me. This breed of mouth breather has an iteration specific to every country I’ve been in. I’m sure I’ll find versions in Japan, China, Kyrgyzstan, Angola, Paraguay, and everywhere else someone says “god damned <insertEthnicSlurHere>, breathing up all our air.”

                So don’t preach to me how fucking “enlightened” the rest of the world is when the conservative puritanical nationalism that is in every conservative talking point globally got its birth right here in this part of the fucking world (Europe) before the United States even existed.

                I don’t know where you’re from but this tide of authoritarianism is global. The United States is a dumpster fire politically. But that fire did not start there and it’s clearly not the only trash receptacle burning right now.

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    Do you know what I do when I go to bed? I sleep. Almost instantly. I don’t lay there and stress and worry about what I did. I don’t worry about how I’m percieved. I just sleep.

    You can see by his actions that trump is a deeply troubled, deeply insecure, deeply stressed man. And I use the word “man” in the loosest of definitions.

    Everything he’s doing, from the CBS cancelations, to blocking the commanders stadium deal, to whatever this ai video bullshit is, it all screams of a man grasping at straws, desprate to change the topic.

    Me? I have no desperation. What’ya guys wanna talk about?

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      Same, it bothers my wife how quickly I fall asleep. Its easy when you don’t have any worries.

      Had a family member (who’s going through some odd mental health stuff) accuse me of forcing them to watch horror movies or I’d think they were weak. I don’t even watch that genre. My wife is up worrying : Aren’t you concerned about them spreading that rumour? Me: Nope. The people who know me, would know its false. The opinion of people who don’t know me is irrelevent. Zzzz…Zzzz

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        Man I must’ve been having worries since birth because I’ve never been able to fall asleep quickly

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      I don’t lay there and stress and worry about what I did. I don’t worry about how I’m percieved. I just sleep

      Must be nice to be neurotypical or even more relaxed than the typical neuro, I guess 🤷😛

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      Yes and nothing will happen from it. News outlets squak. The cult laughs. The “libs” get angry. The government does nothing because even if they did this is a presidental action and he has immunity.

      I can’t believe how fucked everything is. I’m over it. I just want to survive with my family.

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        The “libs” get angry.

        Rolling your eyes and muttering “what a fucking idiot” isn’t the same as getting angry.

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    Jesus. What a shit show.

    Y’all know there’s some old ass country bumpkin watching this and jerking off to it.

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    Another low effort attempt to distract feom the fact that this guy is100% in the Epstein files. The AI slop mess is just so very on brand like the distasteful Trump Gaza nonsense

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      He’s probably the CoConspirator that the court deal said they wouldn’t prosecute

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    pedophile president breaking his own law about posting bullshit online

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        I’m assuming this is just a joke but in case is not, PSA on, please get involved in your local community some way if you’re not already. It will be important to be involved at local levels if we’re to clean up the mess we’re in. Thanks for listening to my PSA

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          What the hell am I going to do about the way things are? I can’t fix it. I inherited it. And the dumb people are taking over. I’ll spend my knowledge but life is too damn short to go on “fighting the good fight” when the majority is morons.

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            As he said, “please get involved in your local community if you aren’t already.”

            He didn’t say “fix the problem.”

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              There were more words than that. But even a local investment should not be my responsibility. I pay taxes and work and have a kid with hobbies. The system was designed to not be in the middle of all the time and monitor it like it’s on life support. The system was designed to pay attention every six months to a year and hire someone to represent our interests. Not make it a damn hobby.

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                You make it sound like this system was designed with your interests in mind.

                The problem is, the system is broken without direct participation, and most people expect it to just work for them with no more effort than paying most taxes and obeying most laws (and possibly voting).

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                  That is not how it was intended to work. It was never meant to be a high maintenance endeavor. It was meant to be representatively maintained with the constituents in mind.