• tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip
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        “See, what I did was change the spelling from having two e’s, you know, a lot of people don’t know that week has two e’s, I change the spelling, and I put an a, and you know, then it means weak, not strong! weak, like he is… has anyone ever thought of that? I don’t think anyone’s thought of that before. I thought of that, that’s why I call him too weak!”

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    Trump has ended war on Iran so many times now that he must get Nobel peace prize. No one has ended the war so many times. Many people have said that. Beautiful people.

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    The more I find out about how he and Hegseth got roped into this war by Israel, the more I realize that these dopes are stupider and more ignorant than I gave them credit for. They literally have no idea of how to govern, interact with other people, or even behave like a normal human adult.

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    Are we still in the range of tens of forecasts by Trump of total victory in this war, or is it already past 100?

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    Not nottheonion - the pinned post at the top of this comm details why these kinds of posts are prohibited here.

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        I don’t but I like to keep track of the laws as they’re broken.

        Maybe midterms will change things, but that’s a pipe dream

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          I hope the midterms will change things. But I think the only real yield we’ll see out of the midterms is an increase in the visible and obvious collapse of democracy in this place, because the fascists don’t seem too concerned at all about, you know, actually doing things to get people to vote for them, which leads me to assume they have very concrete plans to get around that “problem”.

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            They don’t have concrete plans. This Iran War bullshit illustrates that.

            They’re evil, but they’re also incompetent. The one thing Trump wants more than anything is to punish his enemies. He has had control of the DOJ for a year and a half, is already on his second AG, and hasn’t successfully jailed any of his political opponents. The best they’ve done is get some financial settlement out of John Bolton. There are hundreds of high profile Democrats, lawyers, media figures, etc. that Trump and his supporters want in prison or executed, but they can’t get it done.

            It’s hard to steal elections. It takes competence and the ability to execute complex plans. They don’t have the requisite human capital. Trump has caused a catastrophic brain drain on the right.

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              Well… ineptitude does not preclude having a plan, or even getting parts of said plan implemented - albeit chaotically and ham-fistedly. To wit: https://project2025.observer/en

              P2025 was publicly available on the open web without any auth or paywalls, by intention, since shortly after orangeboi lost in 2020.

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            actually doing things to get people to vote for them*, which leads me to assume they have very concrete plans to get around that “problem”.

            Not at all, why do you think people voted for them the first time; anti-gay, racism, xenophobia, anti-trans, anti china, anti abortion etal … none of that had anything to do with helping people, it was to hurt other people.

            As John Stuart Mills points out stupid people are inherinetly.conservative, not the only criteria to be conservative but if you’re stupid (using Cipolla’s definition, 3) they’re probably conservative and we’re back to 1

            You’re doing 1 and 4 and they’re 3 and 5 and will keep doibg that… why ? because they’re stupid.


            These are Cipolla’s five fundamental laws of stupidity:

            1. Always and inevitably, everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.

            2. The probability that a certain person (will) be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.

            3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.

            4. Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular, non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places, and under any circumstances, to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.

            5. A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.

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    "Netanyahu said Israel is continuing to operate in Lebanon against the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah, and that Israel “has full right to self-defense, and we will exercise it to the full extent necessary.”

    Meanwhile, the Lebanese Health Ministry said an Israeli airstrike on the village of Zefta killed seven people Monday, including a Syrian child. Eight people were wounded. Another strike on the coastal city of Tyre killed five and wounded eight, some of them members of the Lebanese Red Cross, the ministry said."

    Thankfully that child and members of the Red Cross were murdered in self defense so Israel can breath easier. /s

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    I’ve never seen anyone so out of control who insists that they are in control.

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    He’s ready to announce total victory, not at all in line with what we can see with our eyes.

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    He needs the war to continue through the fall so he can declare martial law and cancel the elections.