• NewSocialWhoDis@lemmy.zip
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    “The honor of taking Cuba” sounds like an old man talking about a young girl he’s about to rape.

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    “I do believe I’ll be the honor of – have the honor of taking Cuba. That would be good. That’s a big honor,” said the president.

    “Taking Cuba. In some form, yeah,” the president confirmed. “Taking Cuba.”

    “I mean, whether I free it, or take it… I think I can do anything I want with it, to tell you the truth,” Trump said.

    Wasn’t he trying to make people forget about the Epstein files? Because jfc that isn’t how you do it

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      filled with a terrorist population

      yeah, sure, a third of them aren’t terrorists

      but the other third? either openly approve or don’t care enough to even vote against it lol. the bare minimum

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        The US has had centuries of the conservative white majority consistently trying to suppress the vote of minorities and the youth. Hundreds of thousands of voters were purged from the voter rolls shortly before the 2024 elections, with a majority of those purged being minorities. Sauce: https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/

        Many conservative states put fewer polling locations in poor communities. They block measures to make voting easier like same day registration and vote by mail.

        Stop demonizing people that have been systematically disempowered. The Republicans in the Senate are about to shut down all other business in an attempt to strip married women of the right to vote.

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    When I was a kid I always dreamed of visiting the USA.

    Now, I will only visit it once. To piss on Trump’s grave when he dies.

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      you probably won’t be able to afford the ticket… if there is one thing i know about america’s capitalist pigs, is that you will 100% be charged money at the gate to go and piss on his grave, and it will cost more than fifa tickets.

      although, ironically… i only ever had to pay to use the pissers in europe lol, this will be america’s first pay toilet lol! …and that is still a better legacy than her deserves

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    Naval blockades are an act of war in international law (as much as that matters anymore). Cuba seems to be the first target of Trump expansionism in the Americas. It has the potential to be the annexation of Czechoslovakia of our time.

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    Trump seems to be speed-running the “overextend yourself militarily” part of the late stage in the collapse of empires.

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        That a sleazy criminal crook like Trump got elected and that he gets away with doing what he does is 100% the fault of the American system, the American elites and the American people.

        No amount of foreign interference would be able to even wobble this building if it wasn’t already rotten from the inside down to its foundations.

        Trump is a symptom, not a cause, and if it wasn’t him, it would sooner or later be somebody else like him.

        So please stop parroting the Neoliberal version of the “blame the foreigners” self-excusing nationalist propaganda that deflects from the 100% local people who are most to blame for what’s happenning, the deserved punishment for their actions at the hands of the common citizens - this shit would never have happenned without decades of pillaging by insiders, subversion of the guardians of Democracy like Courts and the Press, widespread ridiculous amounts of Nationalism switching of people’s critical thinking about their country and the purposeful stupidification of the populace.

        Next to the sleazy greedy assholes and a culture normalizing and even applauding sleaze and greed in America, the impact of even the most influencial of foreign states - Israel - is tiny.

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          The local people are to blame, but they’ve been influenced by decades of foreign-backed media/ propaganda and ideologues. Yes, some of it is due to the selfishness and greed of American culture - at every level - but the collapse is due to a confluence of multiple factors. And a non-trivial factor has been the influence of foreign propaganda and henchmen (it’s not just Donald Trump that is beholden to Russia/ Israel).

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            Go check who owns most of the Press in America - it ain’t foreigners.

            Go check who owns most of the Social Media in America - it ain’t foreigners.

            The rot not only predates Social Media, but the very Social Media that accelerated it is American-owned.

            I’m sorry but you’re just being a useful idiot when you parrot the very deflection propaganda of the local power elites that I mentioned in my last post.

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    Maybe if they get spread thin enough, Greenland can launch a counter attack with their polar bears and moose. Come on Latin America, stir them up a bit more just by being there minding your own business speaking “foreign” and looking tanned. That’ll do it.

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    In the fifth year of WW3, the US is going to be saying the same damn thing. Gotta finished up your Iran before you get any Cuba, little Donny.

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    Well, at least he has lowered his expectations down from Canada and Greenland, but given how Iran is going, his threats are empty for now. There’s a little bit of me that worries that Agent Krasnov might be doing this in cooperation with Russia.

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      If Trump’s America invades Heard Island (the penguin island he imposed tariffs on) it might even get a win.

      Then again, it would probably piss of Australia.

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      “A little bit…”

      Only a little? Are you a little slow…

      No rational explanation for the events of the past few months is good. You can look at the events as separate or string them together, you can wear an aluminium tin hat and make a conspiracy board of events but in all situations america, the west and the world lose.

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    It’s crazy how often he accidentally admits he’s a sexual-assault enthusiast, like here.