• Random_Character_A@lemmy.world
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    1 hour ago

    So he has foolish ideas about ending existing wars and plans to start a few new ones.

    He really can’t wait to go full Hitler.

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    12 hours ago

    He’s not even back in office yet and I’m already so. Fucking. Exhausted.

    • john89@lemmy.ca
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      49 minutes ago

      Get off of social media?

      If anything, these elections should teach us that we shouldn’t be putting our faith in the political process. This generation is learning from experience why previous generations didn’t care to discuss politics; it’s all crapshoot and we are better off focusing on things we can have substantial impact on.

      • kipo@lemm.ee
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        31 minutes ago

        This should be teaching us to work at the local and state levels to change the political process.

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          You’re right, to an extent.

          The problem is that small-town politics are usually red-dominated; it’ll be a big uphill battle to change their minds.

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        10 hours ago

        He’s the fucking president elect, not some troll. You can’t ignore him and make him go away.

        • superkret@feddit.org
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          You definitely can ignore [Trump quote of the day] and the 24h news cycle.

          Reading about what’s current once a week and otherwise just picking up stuff from conversations with your peers is enough.

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.de
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          You definitely can, but you’ll have to uninstall Lemmy and all other social media for a while.

          • Mac@mander.xyz
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            This is the one thing that’s better about that other site. It’s so big that you can ignore politics while still enjoying your communities.

    • ddh@lemmy.sdf.org
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      9 hours ago

      He’s not going to do anything. But we’re now talking about this instead of something else. Mission accomplished.

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      10 hours ago

      He’s throwing everything he can into the wind so that it distracts the American people from all the heinous shit his compatriots are doing. He has always been good at exactly one thing: distracting bluster. And he’s a master at it.

    • tabarnaski@sh.itjust.works
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      He’s just an entitled, stupid, obnoxious rich white man like there are hundreds of thousands in America. He’s treating the presidency like a tv show and the country like something he owns. He sees his power as a way to get richer, so he’ll bully other countries if they have something he wants. Strategy and geopolitics don’t mean anything to him.

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    I’m sure the 25th Infantry Division is thrilled to know they’ll be required to fight a jungle insurgency for an obsolete canal.

    /s

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    Still, Trump said, that, once his second term is underway, “If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America, in full, quickly and without question.”

    “I’m not going to stand for it,” Trump said. “So to the officials of Panama, please be guided accordingly.”

    Trump then took to his social media site to offer in response, “We’ll see about that!” He also posted a picture of a U.S. flag planted in the canal zone under the phrase, “Welcome to the United States Canal!”

    Yo what the fuck. So he said it on truth aocial, then said all of the above during a speech today, and then went back to his social network for a follow up.

    This entire thing is so fucked up.

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    Interesting how Latin American leaders are pushing back firmly against Trump’s trash talk, whereas Canada and Europe have been almost totally spineless.

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      The US has fucked up Central America for a century now. They know what it means to let us do what we like to enrich our corporations at their expense.

      Canada and Europe are still in denial at just how evil the US can be when we’re led by a corporate stooge and populist “fuck the world” attitudes.

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        Canadian here … most of Canada is pretty decent and this is coming from an indigenous Canadian.

        We have the same problem as the US where a small group of wealthy people and corporations basically own and control the country against the wishes of the people. We’re in the same situation as the Americans, ours just looks nicer but with less money.

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    This is it folks, this is his “making us respected on the world’s stage again.” He’s going to piss off absolutely everyone and balkanize the US.

    I’d say it’s been a good run, but it hasn’t been.

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    From a Risk/HoI4 point of view it makes sense, take all territory down to Panama so you can place all your army stacks there so the front is real small.

    But this would go as well as when Russia tried to invade it’s neighbor: not good at all.