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[-] C1pher@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago

Translation: "Thanks to your stupid politics, you managed to pull EU closer and finally decide on things for Greater good."

[-] CircaV@lemmy.ca 6 points 17 hours ago

The utterly simplistic language of it all. 🙄🙄🙄

[-] ReversalHatchery@beehaw.org 4 points 15 hours ago

"in a big way", "it will be your win"

It's ridiculous

[-] Zerush@lemmy.ml 2 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 15 hours ago)

Too many MAGA assholes and bootlickers out there, good for Canada and Spain to show them the middle finger

[-] Asfalttikyntaja@sopuli.xyz 5 points 22 hours ago

This make me feels somewhat awkward.

[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 day ago

My sense at this point is that grotesque flattery works on Trump, but only to a point. Trump doesn't really like anyone, the best you can do is a slightly-better-than-neutral relationship. (And at the other end he's willing to coexist with anyone who hasn't personally slighted him, like Kim Jong Un)

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 38 points 1 day ago

Anyone else remember when libs were fearmongering that Trump will leave NATO and leftists said "don't threaten me with a good time"?

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Liberals are right-wing. Always have been, always will be.

Dutch liberals are not under the progressive umbrella,
so while the Dutch progressive party is advocating to stop the war,
Dutch liberals are in full support of it.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

??? What does Dutch libs have to do with this? I meant Usians and others here advocating for voting for Harris. They are naturally pro-NATO so they were using argument people should vote for Harris because Trump said he will make USA leave NATO, while it's obvious NATO is one of prime tools of US imperialism and no way US will leave it and so Trump lied there, and the asskissing in the OP is clear proof.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rutte is a Dutch lib.
US leftists are irrelevant unless they reform or topple their regime,
with the former being the more unrealistic option.

You made it sound like anything changed.

I remember it and it's still the same with the only two differences now being that for one the
voices of the democratic socialists are slowly going back to their roots,
becoming more and more anti-NATO.
And two, the fearmongering is now geared towards Russia.
Rutte's bootlicking and increasing EU's military budget while buying US equipment is not just what Trump wanted,
but the Euro libs as well.

[-] PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

I have no idea what did you even read in my post, but it's a complete non seqitur.

[-] ZMonster@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Brain-rot exists. I constantly have to remind my right-wing shit head coworkers that they have more in common with liberals than I do.

"Well whatabout™ this lib rep or that one???”

Great, go get them. Drag them into the street and eat them to absorb their power or hang them in your basement with a ball gag for all I care. They are you're homies, not mine.

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 day ago

Does Trump not realize that this message makes himself look bad?

[-] martin4598@lemm.ee 23 points 1 day ago

No. The message here is "look at how I´m having my dick sucked"

[-] EightBitBlood@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

Yep. But the point is Donald doesn't realize his dick is getting sucked by someone trying to get a favor out of him rather than just because he's such a swell guy.

He's a narcissist. All he sees is compliments, not the clear manipulation behind them.

Give Trump praise, he'll do exactly what you say. Which is why he thinks Putin is his best friend. Putin is just using Trump as a convenient idiot that'll do anything asked as long as Trump feels he'll be complimented by it.

All he has to say is something like:

"Oh Donny, at this time your big hands and strong will are our only hope. Won't you please bomb Iran to protect the world and become it's hero?"

And that's all it takes to start WW3. And Trump would post the message thinking it's a compliment.

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[-] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 day ago

I mean, he also paints himself orange and thinks it's hot...

[-] cornshark@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

How does it make him look bad?

[-] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 1 points 23 hours ago

It's clear Mark Rutte is talking to Trump like he's talking to a child. He's buttering Trump up because it's clear superficial gestures are enough to please him.

It does reflect positively on the influence of America, but not on Trump himself.

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[-] conicalscientist@lemmy.world 50 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

World leaders have figured out he's functionally a toddler. Starmer and Trudeau took the same approach.

[-] swemg@sh.itjust.works 101 points 2 days ago
[-] assaultpotato@sh.itjust.works 109 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Real tweet, fake text... no way any NATO leader would say "Europe is going to pay BIG" it's just too Trump. Same with the incessant comma splices.

But big congrats to Trump for ruining the information space so completely that I genuinely cannot tell what's real anymore.

[-] folaht@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

This is Mark Rutte.
He would totally say “Europe is going to pay in a BIG way” to flatter Trump.
Incessant comma splices is I guess typically Dutch and indicative to the way Rutte talks. I sometimes do it too.
He's a liberal, making him almost as right-wing as Ursula von der Leyen, not a social democrat
or a democratic socialist or left of that.

[-] VeganCheesecake 15 points 1 day ago

Hasn't Rutte always been known for being able to handle Trump well? I'm pretty sure the only way to do that is kiss his ass in a way he understands, so this doesn't seem too surprising.

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[-] Unpigged@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 2 days ago

Communication is most effective in the language of receiver. Rutte emulates Trump like ChatGPT.

[-] wanderwisley@lemm.ee 18 points 2 days ago

I’ve have said this before but WW3 will start because of a meme or ChatGPT.

[-] HiddenLayer555@lemmy.ml 47 points 2 days ago

This is so poorly written I have no idea if it's sarcasm or not.

[-] bigboismith@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

It's written in a way for Trump to understand

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