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[–] SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 27 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

Every political move Donald Trump (Krasnov) has made since he lived in Russia has been an order from the Kremlin.

Like he lived in Russia for years, changed his party affiliation from Democrat to Republican, married a Slovenian escort with ties to the KGB, and then ran for president as a Republican with the full support of Russia's and China's troll farm operations (confirmed by the US Gov)

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_interference_in_the_2016_United_States_elections

And Russia and China are allies.

So anyone paying attention can see this is Russia and China attempting to dethrone the US as the boot on the neck of the human race.

And TBH I'm a lot more afraid of China's boot considering the dissenters dissappear.

Be careful of Chinese troll farms invading these spaces to push their messaging as the US is dropping the ball.

[–] asap@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

He might be making decisions on behalf of Russia (no comment), but a LOT of rich and powerful Americans and politicians supported him and what he said he was going to do (which is exactly what he did do).

The USA absolutely dropped the ball.

[–] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I do too think trump lived in Russia, did he? I'm not defending him, cause he's indefensivle. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[–] Lv_InSaNe_vL@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

He's traveled there a bunch and owns real estate in Russia, but I don't believe he ever lived there? I also haven't seen any real evidence that Melania has any ties to the KGB outside of just being Russian.

Edit: before anyone gets any ideas I am an American and I did not vote for trump.

[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 25 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I was expecting America to decline during my life. What surprised me is how fast and stupid it was.

[–] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

This.

"COME ON DOWN TO CRAZY DOLAN'S WHERE WE'RE PRACTICALLY GIVING AWAY INFLUENCE! WANNA TAKE OVER EUROPE LMAO HERE'S MY VENMO! WANT US TO GO FROM G'DAY TO G'DLUCK WITH AUSTRALIA? THAT'LL BE ONE TRUMP HOTEL AND A DANCE WITH A GLOWING ORB^wow!!!^. ACT NOW, THESE DEALS WON'T LAST, BECAUSE PETER THIEL JUST CASH APP'D ME TO DRONE STRIKE THE FCC AND WHO FUCKING KNOWS WHAT'LL HAPPEN AFTER THAT"

[–] HalfSalesman@lemm.ee 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

As an American, I'm fine with the US no longer being the most influential anymore, as long as the most influential country that replaces us is a democracy. Preferably much more democratic than we are.

[–] Harlehatschi@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 days ago

Like 95% of democratic countries are much more democratic than the US...

[–] EchoCT@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Dude. I fucking live here. I wanted to watch the hegemony decay, we've been responsible for some absolute nightmares. I did not want to life through shitting ourselves like a sun-setting dementia patient.

Yet here we are.

[–] WhatSay@slrpnk.net 9 points 6 days ago

Shower thought:

I wonder if Rome had stand-up comedians, and if they had the best humor before the fall.

It's certainly time for the US NOT to be the most influential. There should be term limits on stuff like that.

[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 4 points 6 days ago

Not for much longer if Trump stays in the White House.

[–] Harlehatschi@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

I'm quite happy to see this shithole disassembling itself. Was about fucking time.

me but it's the haha sickos meme where i'm looking through a window from another room in the same house

[–] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

The most influential for now…

[–] KiwiHuman@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Depending on whether it is a slow self dismantling or a rapid explosion the US will either be a lot less, or a lot more influential.

[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I personally feel that Trump's first term is pretty less consequential in the world stage than the second term. But then this second term of his is only three months in, and it is already causing havoc that even the oligarchs are inconvenienced and thinking twice now about supporting him!

[–] WuceBrillis@lemm.ee 49 points 1 week ago (24 children)

Americans have been fucked from the start, Hitler talked a lot about how he was inspired by Americans way of treating colored people.

Then they beat Hitler, but took all his scientists. They included rocket builders, but they also included political science and propagandistists.

The Nazis literally rebuilt in America, and took 71 years to show the people they were there, and 85 years to gain control of the largest military in the world.

Then they had an interesting civil liberties fight for less than a decade, before the Nazi republicans just started the war on drugs as a way of shutting them down and arrested / killed everyone involved.

I simply don't trust Americans to fix this problem themselves. It is my dire belief that the entire world will have to invade America, like we did with Germany.

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world -2 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Ooh, those Nazis, taking over America and doing such horrible things as...

the Civil Rights Movement...?

[–] keegomatic@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s confusingly worded, but I think they were saying “they” as in “America” were having a civil rights movement (60s), and that the Nazi successors started the war on drugs to undermine and destroy it.

[–] andros_rex@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] WuceBrillis@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

More like assassinating Martin Luther King Jr.

And no, obviously i am not saying that the political scientists and propogandists were doing this, they were old as shit when that happened.

But they helped other people spread the same ideology, do you think Americans weren't racist while the civil rights movement needed to be a thing?

It got stopped though, by who?

[–] finitebanjo@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

I realize that I'm not going to leave a single dent in 57 years of conspiracy theories by saying this, but

  • It wouldn't require government intervention to create opposition to the civil rights movement, they were more common than MAGAts.

  • The government targeting the icon for peaceful nonviolent approach would certainly be an unusual play to make.

  • The opposition to civil rights in the federal government was the majority party, and the passing of the Civil Rights Act was bipartisan.

  • James Earl Ray, past crimes included Burglary, Armed Robbery, Mail Fraud (stealing checks in the mail), and Armed Robbery Again before escaping prison from 1967 to 1969 before being caught in London, during which time he traveled many states but eventually wound up in LA where he worked and frequently visited the George Wallace headquarters, Wallace being a Segregationist politician and presidential candidate. Ray was renting a room across the street from MLK Jr's place of assassination and fled shortly thereafter.

[–] WuceBrillis@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

I am not saying the government killed him directly, but i definitely think that the Nazis had a role to play in the American propoganda machine, that helped racism grow back to its glory days.

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[–] Chainweasel@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago (7 children)

I know America deserves all the shit we're getting right now.
But I feel like like people in other countries are being a bit cavalier about the fact that they're locked in a room with America and it's got a loaded gun.
Trump may be an idiot, but he has the world's largest army and a nuclear arsenal at his fingertips.

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