• futatorius@lemm.ee
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    11 hours ago

    He really does have a stunted vocabulary. There’s nothing in his head but vanity, greed and pig-ignorance, and a compulsion to be subby to Putin.

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    1 day ago

    This is a great example of what is, to me, the most bizarre part of this bizarre timeline - this stinky-assed overgrown toddler actually believes this.

    The way it works in his warped mind:

    • He wants to annex Canada, therefore annexing Canada is just and right and proper and smart and best, because everything he wants automatically is. (And a side note - his Kremlin handlers almost certainly planted the idea of annexing Canada in his mind in the first place, though it’s an open question whether he knows that or not).
    • Canada unsurprisingly opposes annexation.
    • But it’s his idea (not really, but that’s a distinction he’s not equipped to make), therefore it’s the bestest and beautifulest and perfectest idea ever in the history of ever, and Canada’s just being nasty and disagreeable about it.

    And that’s it. That’s the extent of the thinking in his overgrown toddler mind - "I want and you won’t give so you’re mean.

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      23 hours ago

      He said they would be the most objectified… I mean, valued state, and so, just like a good woman they should bask in his praise and do whatever he wants. Otherwise they are a nasty whore.

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        21 hours ago

        Ooh… nicely spotted.

        That’s a thing with his spoiled toddler emotional dysfunction that I’ve recognized but never really given a lot of thought to. He self-evidently has some seriously warped ideas regarding sex, but they don’t fit neatly into a toddler worldview, since toddlers are ignorant of sex. So I knew there was some way that he’d essentially adapted sexual desire to that extreme degree of emotional immaturity, but hadn’t sorted out exactly what it is.

        And everything clicked with the idea of objectification. I have no doubt that that’s the link I hadn’t sussed out.

        And it’s undoubtedly been recursive - like he started out objectifying women and thus treating their refusal to have sex with him the same way that another toddler would treat mom’s refusal to buy him a candy bar at the supermarket - but then over time developed a set of more specific ideas to better frame things - like “nasty” as a descriptor of someone who refuses his advances - which then melded back into his broader worldview.

        When I wrote that last one, I had a hard time fitting “nasty” in. He’s obviously using it to represent bad/mean/awful, but the word has a specific spin that I couldn’t quite get a grip on, since it doesn’t seem to quite match up with any of the common usages I was considering.

        And I have zero doubt that you’re right - that inside his own head, it’s playing the same role it would in the phrase “nasty whore.” And for the same reason - from his cripplingly self-absorbed viewpoint, he’s already recited the incantations about how beautiful she is and how cherished she’ll be, so it’s time for her to lie back and submit. And the nasty whore refuses…

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          Yeah, I recognised it immediately by his body language and facial expression, tone of voice etc. That creepy coaxing…yuck. It’s actually kinda rare to see in the wild because someone would have to have zero insight to act that way so brazenly.

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            And for someone who acts like this to develop a cult of personality and be elected to Supreme Leader?

            The fucking fuck man… This is the stupidest shit that has ever happened on this planet.

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              It sometimes feels like we’re going down in a blaze of shit. We were supposed to be better than this by now. Not even just america, it just seems like our advances as a species mean nothing when a significant proportion are acting as badly or even worse than ancient peoples did.

              And the rest of us are using our species’ advances to watch in real time and commentate, make predictions about what stupidities and indignities will be thrust upon us. It reminds me a bit of Wall-E.

          • WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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            20 hours ago

            Ah… that makes sense.

            Even with my fascination with character analysis and the rich vein of freakishness Trump provides, I generally can’t watch him - he’s just too creepy and unsettling.

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              Same. Especially when he does the exaggerated and arrogant sneering ‘voices’. Kaamaalaaa.

              It’s weirdly like how some people talk down to children.

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    1 day ago

    The Cunt’s really trying to take over the world by merely whining about it like a spoiled brat discovering happy meal toys

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    Hey UK and Australia and New Zealand and other commonwealth nations: you should sign a mutual defense pact, if that’s not already a thing, and it specifically should not include the US. Invite some other euros too, if you can get them.

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    I haven’t seen anyone talk about this and I think it needs to be considered. When considering this clip, consider how trumps supporters will see it.

    What we know about Trump supporters:

    • trumps supporters have turned off their critical thinking skills
    • Many of them have below an 8th grade reading level
    • They always have Fox News or another right wing news source turned on - they are addicted to it
    • They already like and trust Trump, and believe him to be some kind of mastermind
    • They are not a majority, but there is a concerning amount of them

    That means what they will get from this clip is:

    • Canada should have already belonged to the US
    • The US has a right to Canada
    • Because trump called Canadians “nasty”, there is a reason to invade Canada, and Canadians deserve it
    • Canada has a lot of resources that the US can use.

    To most people, Trump sounds like an imbecile, but to his supporters, he sounds like he knows what he’s talking about, I personally think he feeds them reasons to be upset without actually making any logical arguments. We all can see that but his supporters can’t. What I’m trying to get at is MAGA’s public opinions about Canada will change because of this interview. This isn’t just bumbling Trump giving a bizarre interview, it’s intentional propaganda to change his viewers’ allegiances.

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        Yeah, and what kind of response would that get? I’m sure Trump’s handlers would love to make him a martyr and have justification for going to war.

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        I really don’t think Canada should take the first shot. Surely there must be some capable people on the US side.

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    America has been subsidizing Canada

    2024: Canada imports ~$480 billion total from the USA. Divided by 40 million Canadian population, that’s $12,000 for every man, woman, and child spent on American shit.

    USA imports ~$586 billion from Canada. Divided by 400 million population, that’s only $1,465 per capita, and that’s only 1/8th of the amount that Canadians bought from the USA in return.

    ##BUY CANADIAN, BE FAIR!

    You can’t compare apples to apples when one side of the equation has 10 times the population. If we’re trying to be fair, Trumpistan needs to buy 8 times more Canadian shit!

    Tariffs on the Canadian side will be reciprocal and will only serve to make us stop buying Murcan shit, leading to an even bigger Trumped-up deficit and the loss of their biggest, best customer. Likely long-term.

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      That’s cute that you think he’d allow that.

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      1 day ago

      He’s awful confident it’s a good plan, so they fully intend to make that a non-issue in elections. We are going to have to fight for our right to vote in the next election.

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      Better yet. Let’s make the border between the two countries fluid. Any US state that borders Canada, or any Canadian province that borders the US, can vote to switch countries at any time. Require a large 2/3 majority threshold. Which nation does a better job providing for its citizens? I say we let states/provinces decide for themselves and vote with their feet.

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        This is actually a really good idea. Make national scale regions fluid so that you can create them and merge them together as desired and make it Democratic. Bolo’bolo suggests something similar

  • Jona (they/them)@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Ohhh you’ve been a nasty girl Canada~

    Come join daddy and help him out, nasty girl that you are, you’re meant to be mine~


    Sorry for my thoughts, I’ll see myself out

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    Alternately:

    “We wants it. We needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Nasty little Canadianses.”