• darcmage@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    15 days ago

    I’m sure this stunt is his attempt to distract us from something. This guy has to be the best at being the “racist senile old man” I’ve ever seen. I don’t think he plans anything but he plays the media like a fiddle to get attention any time he wants while avoiding all accountability.

    I’ve never understood why anyone ever took him seriously and I’ve known people who thought he was intelligent which immediately made me question their judgement on everything.

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      15 days ago

      I love how everything Donnie does is a 4D strategy “to distract us” from the last shitty thing he did. No, it’s not a distraction, he’s just a piece of shit.

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        14 days ago

        Why not both?

        That’s basically the Republican playbook, in general:

        Focus all your messaging on “wedge issues” that appeal to your (prejudiced) base, then pass laws that enrich the wealthy at the cost of their base. Deflect. Blame others. Distract. Lie. It’s all distraction, and it’s all vile.

        I reject your false dichotomy. It’s also not 4D chess; it’s business-as-usual Conservative politics, and the Republicans are some of the best in the world at it because they now own most of the traditional media and the tech platforms used by “influencers” and most alt media.

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      15 days ago

      yeah, kinda curious what was in the other 49 tweets he made that hour that might’ve needed distracting from.

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      15 days ago

      We get it, POTUS. You are a racist POS. Now how about the kids in concentration camps with shitty food and no health care or education.

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      15 days ago

      I’d bet a loony it’s part of a larger attempt at provoking some kind of agressive response from the population so he can justify with his base to crank up the authoritarianism.

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        15 days ago

        I agree but it won’t happen. It’s interwoven deep with Tribalism. And unfortunately Tribalism is interlinked with culture… The human species is fatally flawed. Perhaps our tiny monkey brains aren’t up to the task physically. Let us all go extinct I say.

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          Social views that are based on “others” and tacitly exclude oneself are dangerous. If you can see the flaws of tribalism and capable of imagining what the right thing to do is, so is everyone else. It will take time, sure. It might take dacades, or even centuries, but defeatism and attributing all negative qualities of humanity to some “others” who just are incapable of thinking for themselves won’t help anyone. Culture is intergenerational accumulation of knowledge and it can change. It did change. It shapes human activity more than biology in many situations. And it evolves way faster than biology. This is not a dig at you. All I am trying to say is, if you can see the wrong and imagine the right, there are definitely many others like you, and we can change things. Not you and me specifically maybe (but also maybe you and me) but all the people with a conscience, in time.

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    14 days ago

    Wut. This is beyond insane, but not beyond Trump.

    Please, Americans, be safe. As a Russian, I see all the signs of very familiar shit. This insanity is engineered, and when the feeling of normalcy is blurred, things will go south very fast.

    Edit:typo

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    15 days ago

    the plausible deniability is getting thinner and thinner - this time it was that the whole video was jungle themed, so obviously it had nothing to do with racism!