• wabafee@lemmy.world
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    8 minutes ago

    Meh both are facist Japanese gov and Japanese in general are also tone deaf to be fair. Just happen to receive their own medicine.

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    5 hours ago

    Its crazy how well he represents the worst of america so well. Let me tell you folks no one does it better. The best people are all saying it. Top people in fact.

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    9 hours ago

    Americans must be so proud of their commander in chief. Well at least 40% still are. That’s all you need to know about the United States. In regards to the world, you lost all respect and trust that took 80 years to built. If any other foreign leader would use this language, he would be in a white padded cell within hours.

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      8 hours ago

      I actually think someone like trump could exist in more countries than we are willing to acknowledge. He plays terribly as someone else’s leader, but as your own leader, people seem to love the jingoism, bravado, and shamelessness in a lot of countries.

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        4 hours ago

        People like him do exist in other countries. But without a cult of personality they don’t really achieve very much, and no one can do cults like the US.

        The MEGA equivalents in other countries are actually having a bit of a problem because everyone can see a live demonstration of what their policies would actually look like, and no one likes it.

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          That’s basically what happened in Australia’s last election. The Liberals were trying to play up culture war shit & wanted to emulate DOGE, and it backfired hard. I was waiting to lock up a polling place for the night in Western Australia which is a couple of hours behind the eastern states, by the time they’d finished packing up the votes to be counted it was already so lopsided that even if every remaining vote was Liberal it wouldn’t have mattered.

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        8 hours ago

        Indeed they do but in other countries there are mechanisms in place to ensure you don’t get a cosplay dictator. In the Netherlands, Wilders was elected who is a Trump wannabe, but thanks for the proper democratic system in the Netherlands, he was severely limited in what crazy shit he wanted to do. Obviously the government collapsed and now they have a much more middle of the road government, which means more will get done. It is about checks and balances but Trump does whatever he wants and no one stops him.

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          8 hours ago

          Yeah the executive has been out of control here for decades, it just took trump to make that obvious.

  • randint@lemmy.frozeninferno.xyz
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    7 hours ago

    I was curious about what the Japanese side’s take on Trump’s remark would be, so I found this news report from a Japanese outlet:

    https://youtu.be/gy-4-iySD-s

    Try translating the comments by yourself. You’d find that most people are blaming the Japanese reporter who asked “why didn’t you notify us before attacking Iran.” They say that of course they wouldn’t tell us (Japanese) about a surprise attack beforehand and that this question is stupid and rude.

    Personally though I think this remark is rude regardless of what questions were asked. Also I think that the question itself may be stupid but isn’t rude.

    • Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      The question should have been phrased “why did you not form a Coalition before your attack on Iran” but that would have confused Trump.

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        Given the fact that he also wanted to approach China for support I think him actually attempting to get consensus would have been more chaotic than the current timeline.

        There’s been enough blue on blue action as it is without trying to get nations who don’t really like each other to work together

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    9 hours ago

    I haven’t read anything about this interview because I’m preemptively feeling the embarrassment and rage of what our Prime Minister will say or promise to cater to the orange shit stain.

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    11 hours ago

    “Oval Office stunned…”

    No, they weren’t. No one is surprised when Trump makes a complete ass of himself in front of other world leaders, it’s sort of his thing.

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      41 minutes ago

      That headline surprised me too. Other than Takeuchi, why would anyone accustomed to being in the room be surprised that he would say something stupid?

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      7 hours ago

      I don’t work near the tangerine, I can’t stand listening to him, I wish I never had to hear his voice again.

      The only I didn’t expect in this was that he was in the room with the Japanese PM. Not even really a surprise, just didn’t know that was happening.