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    11 months ago

    “But he didn’t win, the election was stolen”

    You can never hold a narcissist to their word; they’d sooner warp the fabric of reality to match their narrative than be wrong.

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      11 months ago

      Unfortunately, many countries are slipping into Trumps brand of right-wing populism.

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        Canada for instance. A lot of the plays made by republicans are being copied by conservatives here.

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          Yup, if I have to hear my uncle tell me another nutjob conspiracy theory about how Trudeau is promoting LGBTQ politics to mask the vaccinations making us gay, I’m going to lose it.

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            11 months ago

            Yup, Justin isn’t my favorite guy either, but if he is so terrible they wouldn’t have to make shit up to cry about. It just makes them look desperate.

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        They aren’t slipping that way … they are being marketed and advertised in that direction. It takes money and funding to convince people to think a certain way … look at all advertising, Coca-Cola, Doritos, Gucci, Ferrari, Ford, Google, Facebook, Amazon … most people easily identify these things because of years of advertising.

        Conservative parties and politicians are pretty bland individuals and hardly have that much charisma, especially here in Canada … but when you plaster their face and their voice non stop in video, paper, commercials, TV, internet, radio everywhere all the time … it has an effect on people. Look at all the idiots everywhere that have the ‘Fuck Trudeau’ sign everywhere in shirts, cars, trucks, houses, stickers

        It all requires funding and money to maintain all that promotion.

        So the majority of people aren’t thinking this way … they are being marketed to think that the majority of people are thinking this way.

        The longer the marketing happens … the more people believe it.

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        11 months ago

        It’s time for a fairness doctrine in every country. And curriculum that teaches you what fake news is, how to spot it on social media etc.

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      Hes bonkers-senile enough that he could think to the moon is getting richest of all, send him up with an igloo’s full of oxegen and mcwhatevers and let short planning bankrupt his assets moonside. Moon Prison 2024. I do feel sorry though for future generations having to deal with that space detritus…

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      11 months ago

      You know those barges of garbage that the USA sent away but then the destination countries didn’t want them?

      That’s how I think of this. Very similar.

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        I’m quite sure he has already offered, but in Helsinki their private meeting was kept off the books, so we’ll never know.

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        He can offer them to run an insurrection in the US if paid enough. >!Then proceed to do nothing and disappear when someone actually asks for results!<

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            Luckily Soviet Russia is gone (for now 🤔) and they seem to let go more easily if you don’t commit some really atrocious crime like spreading stickers in the shop, posting online, or standing on the streets with a Constitution quotes. If you took some millions and ran away, just be diligent and spare some of the money and they couldn’t care less.

            This may not reflect the real state of affairs but is a good approximation

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              “In Soviet Russia…” is a meme based on a quote from the TV show The Simpson’s.

              Though Putin’s Russia is not really so different.

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                Yeah, I know just wanted to be a bit of bummer. TBF Soviet Russia seem to be good for memes or sci-fi but not much else, anyway. Appreciate you being helpful and explaining, though.

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      Major breakthrough every week. Usually water pipes, but sometimes dams and sewers.

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    Who could’ve known he’d end up doing the exact opposite of what he said by desperately trying to cling to power, even going so far as to try to coup the government

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    The guy who wants to lead our society literally can’t share a country with another guy. How can he be expected to make good policy for getting people to get along if he can’t get along?

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      Because for a shocking amount of people, this is “manly”. Compromising and trying to get along with other people is WRONG and BAD and you should get angry when you don’t get your way.

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    11 months ago

    Ummm… If Biden wins, Trump leaving the country is his way of not going to jail for his crimes.

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    Ancient history had a lot of instances of disliked people being exiled from a territory. Now that all land is claimed, I guess we can’t do that anymore.

    I don’t even know which country would want Trump instead. Russia might not even find him useful from within their borders.

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      Hey, there are already too many idiots presidents in my country, I don’t need more.

      On the other note, speaker of our parlamemt says Putin worth a lot, but I can give him with huge discount for free if you choose self-pickup option.