• nothrone@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Trump is and always was absolutely stupid. But I wonder if he even knows that it was Russia that started, that Russians are the agressor. I mean, maybe people tell him but he is just so demented already that he simply forgets. Maybe his dementia doesn’t allow him to understand the idea that there is an aggressor and a defender?

    I would really like to see someone sit him down and talk to him like a grown up, cameras rolling. Ask him what year it is. Ask him what is happening in Ukraine. And don’t accept answers such as “a very bad thing is happening in Ukraine.”. Those are copt out answers by someone who is probably completely lost. Go deep. Ask him what is the bad thing? How did it start?, etc.

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      I think it’s simpler than that. To him defending yourself is taking someone on. Might makes right mentality.

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        Kind of sad now that you mention it. The current situation is a direct result of a long line of people who were afraid to say “no.”

        Sure they may have lost their jobs, lost their own next elections, or whatever. But plenty of people had the opportunity to say “no, this guy’s a dumbass, he didn’t pass this class” or “no, this guy is being used by the Russian government, we should tell the public” or “no, this guy tried to blackmail Ukraine he shouldn’t be president” or “no this guy tried to overthrow the government” or “no this guy raped a girl” or… well you get the point.

        The list goes on and on forever. Often in those cases a single person in power could have stopped this crazy train but chose to pass the buck.

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          This is the reasoning behind “the broken window policing”: if you do a small crime and get caught, you are less likely to do a bigger crime.

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      Don’t worry! They found the biggest idiot there is (at the moment) and as promised by him, there will be no more elections!

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        Will he just start an energy drink company and use it to water the fields already?

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          Saying current events are the same as a movie is 1) foolish and 2) misrepresents the danger these people and groups pose. Underestimate them at your own peril. They’ve already proven how effective they can be with this fool at the helm.

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            In the movie, the world was hopeless and full of aggressive morons that destroyed the world. The most aggressive and moronic at the top. I see some uncanny parallels.

            I don’t have to underestimate the greed, the violence or the stupidity of it all just because I keep my sense of humor about it.

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      if you look at morons, vote for other morons. because often they are stupid, easily manipulated by propaganda.

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      Heyhey, stop that train of thought there right away. Without the moron stuff, the US still would have an egocentric pedophile rapist for president, who robs society of it’s riches for his own and to the advantage of his rich “friends”. I mean, it could be even worse. Imagine a younger Putin.

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    By that logic the American patriots in 1776 shouldn’t have taken on the British Empire.

    Well, my bad, Trump and logic don’t mix.

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      If i remember correctly the Americans had a lot of help from the French who wanted nothing more than reduced british influence in the world.

      Almost as if we should be pumping Ukraine full of military hardware to reduce Russian influence on the world

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      Well, the indigenous wouldn’t have been so thoroughly genocided if they hadn’t. The primary contradiction leading to the war was the British forbidding further westward settlement and the colonizers were not okay with that.

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        That is true but also irrelevant to the point of “small nations can take on larger ones”.

        Closer to that would be to say that of course it made sense for the indigenous people to fight the European/American colonization and Genocide every step of the way even if they were dwarfed by their power.

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          I can only recommend anyone speaking German to listen to the German-Turkish Comedian Serdar Somuncu reading from “Mein Kampf”. The book is in large part incomprehensible gibberish that was mostly dictated by Hitler to his close friend Rudolf Hess while Hitler was “imprisoned” with many benefits after his coup attempt. There is sentences that have just been shortened with “etc.-” as Hitler must have rambled on without Hess able to keep up.

          Somuncu is not only mocking the entire book, but also a lot of the absurdity of Neonazis idolizing and the German societies mystification of it.

          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENMWnV0c-MU

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    I mean in landmass yea, but it’s just 4 or 5 times the size by population. Not that I’d expect Don to check his math…or perhaps know what math is

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    10x size doesn’t mean 10x the patriotic support from their people. I wonder what the body count and equipment damage of Russia vs Ukraine is, not including the innocent civilians Russia has killed.

    *Looks like Russia lost 1 million as of June 2025, but can’t find anything on Ukraine.