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This is what you get for electing a weakling with bone spurs.
He's so stupid. He just walks into these PR disasters unforced because he can't come up with something better.
Just wax lyrical about the dedication of your soldiers and how thankful the USA is for them to carry out this important mission. It would be so easy.
Every single one of them that voted for Trump or didn't vote, got what they deserve. They voted for the leopard eating faces, and now the leopard is on them.
The ones that voted against Trump are the only ones I can really feel sorry for.
Fuck Americans that failed to vote against Trump.
Trump is a malignant narcissist, and that was very clear before the election, it was also clear before he was elected the first time.
If you want a malignant narcissist as leader of your country, you are not right in the head.
There's no way they could have known. It's not like he had a history going back into the 70s and 60s of being a... oh, yeah. He did.
You know the joke in Back to the Future where Marty tells Doc the President is Reagan, and he says incredulously, "What? The actor?" Well, imagine going back to any point in the latter 20th century and telling someone that Trump will be President. Anyone would laugh, no matter what party affiliation. Seems we all had standards back then, even if they were still low.
The reason is simply because he's the perfect tool that the Southern Strategy dreamed of. They never had an idea it would work so well.
Hell, the Simpsons made fun of the idea.
There’s no way they could have known.
They couldn't have known an obvious malignant narcissist would behave like a malignant narcissist? Is that really your claim?
For that to be true, you'd have to be so stupid you wouldn't be able to find the polling station either.
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It doesn't change anything that he quotes a movie, he picked that quote to make that point. And it is simply wrong.
Well, yes, people can be that stupid. Also, how did you read all of what I posted and not realize it was sarcasm? Or did you see the first few words and rage post?
You’re going to need this.
Not for the first replies. But if they double down, then sure, let them have their "victory". The chain of messages tells the real story.
No you have to agree with the psychopath to not be able to see it, and if you agree, you are no better yourself.
Only a psychopath don't recognize a psychopath. And Malignant Narcissist is the worst kind of Psychopath there is.
Also it doesn't look like sarcasm to me, only somewhat incoherent.
For instance I have no idea what a southern strategy is.
You should look it up. It will make you realize how deep this goes. Can't help you with the rest, it was pretty clear, unless you also don't understand the movie reference. Which is entirely possible, it's amazing how many memes are shared by people these days who are clueless on the origins. A true loss.
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Yes I know the movie, I just don't see how it's relevant. You quoted that because you mean it.
There’s no way they could have known
I doesn't change anything that you are quoting a movie where the statement may have been correct.
In the context you use it here it is simply wrong.
In general it takes a psychopath to not detect an obvious psychopath consistently behaving like a psychopath, that's a fact.
Thanks.
Yes back to the future is actually one of my top 3 favorite movies, the whole thing after the first sentence was just such a load of irrelevant gibberish to me, I ignored it.
I don't see how southern strategy is in any way relevant to detecting Trump is a psychopath or rather malignant narcissist which is psychopath².
I've edited 2 of my posts to better reflect my disagreement with what Rhaedas wrote.
Movie quotes or not, he is simply factually wrong.
I'm sorry that you missed many levels of understanding my original post. I wish you could have just asked for clarification instead of the diatribe of anger. Might have made you appreciate the meaning. You seem to have some issues understanding others in this message thread too. Maybe step back a second and take a breath.
You seem to have some issues understanding others in this message thread too.
I think you are hallucinating there. He is the one who doesn't understand the meaning of what he wrote.
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Of course I know back to the future and doc and Marty, it's actually 1 of my top 3 favorite movies.
But you just twisted it so much using it in this context it didn't make the least bit of sense to me, it was like reading gibberish. So I ignored it, and I don't see how it changes anything about the claim you made in the beginning,
There’s no way they could have known.
you used that quote because you mean it, and you are dead wrong.
As per my first response.
Yes, a reference to someone being amazed of a person being voted in not qualified as President is totally out of context in this thread.
You would think as long as you've been on Lemmy, and probably on other places before that, you'd pick up on a common sarcasm trope like my first line, especially when it's ended as I did. But I realize Poe's Law has been dead for a good decade now, so the assumption is always that the person is being real. Never mind the many words later that seem to point otherwise. Right, you ignored them, as attacking on an assumption is always a great move. (that's sarcasm, btw)
Don't really feel sorry for anyone willing to fight in wars...
Dont forget that the poverty is by design.
Entire states are pushed into poverty and shit education to feed the US military machine.
That’s not an excuse to sign up to be in the military.
Stop the bullshit.
Yes the system is built to proliferate poverty and wage slavery.
That doesn’t mean becoming a soldier for the most corrupt nation and government is their only choice. Fuck that lie.
Ukraine is fighting for their right to live as Ukrainians. They have to defend themselves to avoid genocide.
I can not respect you if you don't support the right for Ukraine to exist.
I deliberately phrased it such that you could not do that and you still did it. Do you know what "willing" means? Defensive wars are not willing on the defenders part...
Of course they're willing - that makes no sense.
Willing to fight to defend yourself is still willing to fight.
I think you are confusing the words willing and voluntarily.
The sheer amount of dick-twisting you're performing to avoid just saying "okay sorry you're right I misunderstood / didn't read"
Are you really claiming I didn't read 1 short line of text?
People unwilling to go to war normally means totally unwilling, as in pacifists.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacifism
Now please stop being an idiot, and admit you made a poorly formulated comment, that doesn't mean what you thought it means.
240+ days not nearly long enough...I wonder how many times he's played golf during that time.
Was anyone expecting him to? Has he ever apologized for anything in his 80 years on this planet?
US residents can solve the problem with this one weird trick involving 9mm of metal.
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