Trump threatens to blow apart entire G7 to protect Putin
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Coming from a country with ranked voting and more than 2 parties, this looks so ridiculous. It's like the USA electoral system is designed to make people bicker amongst themselves about who is the lesser evil, while oligarchs take control.
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What style of ranked voting does your country use?
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AND.. within Nazi Germany, were real Germans who stood against Nazism, however they could..
there are a few books on that, "An Honorable Defeat" is one I've heard-of.
Oversimplification is anti-survival: it is just another ideology/prejudice/"religion".
The US, the official US, is now Trump's property, & Trump ( CURRENTLY ) is Putin's property, & Musk's.
I expect Trump to have a minor aneurism/stroke or something, which will remove empathy from him, completely.
( he's fighting that personality-conversion, in my view )
But no matter how psychopathic/machiavellian/nihilist/sadistic the official US becomes, there's good people there.
( remember that biblical thing, can't remember who it was, perhaps Abraham,
who argued with G-D, that if there are good people there, then don't destroy the place?
I think he was doing the wrong-selectivity: he should have been demanding that they, the good people,
be spared the destruction that G-D was about to toss on the evil..
& if it was the Sodom & Gomorrah story,
then as I've pointed-out before, if the angels visiting the good guy who lived there had been female angels,
& the gang-rapers trying to get in had been intending heterosexual-rape,
that would not, in any way, whatsoever, have made their intent non-evil.
It wasn't their sexual-orientation, it was the gang-raping-angels, that made it abomination.
Anyways, back to the original message : )
Back on reddit I was permabanned from some communities, simply for posting in specific-other communities.
The Problem(tm) I had with that?
I'd been commenting in those other communities specifically to counter the abuse they were heaping on somebody.
So, I got judged to be one-of-the-abusers because of the venue I'd spoken in, which I'd spoken-in only to counter its abuse..
I've been gaslit all my life, & am fed-up with it.
Differentiate correctly, & don't abuse the innocent, is one of the rules-of-life I live by, now.
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You're missing the point.
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I think the Dems are more guilty of being foolish, than of intentionally-accommodating "GEOTUS"..
Biden blocked Harris from campaigning until it was too-late, & .. whatshername .. Pelosi's threat to destroy Biden's campaign was the only thing which finally pried his hands off the opportunity..
They lived entirely-within Hopium.
They .. mostly, or nearly-all, possibly-all, .. aren't going to survive the US Civil War Part2 which will erupt when it becomes enacted that there isn't going to be any 2028 election, or sometime around then, anyways..
I don't expect much of the population of this continent to survive the next decade..
& many have worked, hard, at preventing this..
The male-supremacists & the white-supremacists who voted against Harris, THEY are guilty, certainly..
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Veritasium, on yt ( not a guy I recommend frequently ) has a vid on election-systems.
Approval-disapproval seems to be the sanest electing-system there is..
All the ranked-choice-systems logically have problems, though no-where near as bad as 1st-past-the-post idiocy.
Please, people, if you're interested in the sanest voting-system possible, watch that video, & then organize to replace your system with the currently-best-option, which seems, from that vid, to be the approval/disapproval system.
( it makes the most-approved person win, and one can approve-of multiple different candidates,
so the majority-of-voters get heard, no-matter-what, see? )_ /\ _
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Party-fascism & individual-faschism are both fundamentally the same, in their hatred-of-civil-rights, hatred-of-accountability, hatred-of-integrity, hatred-of-responsibility, etc..
The CCP's as fascist with China as Putin is with Russia: it's just individual-vs-group fascism, no other difference, fundamentally..
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Unfortunately it's likely going to take more than just electing a nice guy for USA to earn back its status as a trustworthy ally. When the country can just go rogue every four years, making threats against allies and backing out of agreements — and half of the country is so nationalist that they applaud it — you can't really establish a basis of trust.
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Yeah, China's not in even though it's the second largest economy in the world. In the 90s it almost became G-8 to include Russia, but then Putin screwed that up.
It's not all that different of a situation from Russia being kicked out because of Putin's shenanigans, really.
Should try to get Brazil to leave BRICS and join the G-7 club. The US could go be in BRICS bullshit (or maybe then it'd be called the USRICS?) with the other authoritarian assholes of the world.
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Agreed. We earned this. I hope we gain the world's trust again, but it'll most likely never be like it was...
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I'm a US citizen. Please kick us out. The more countries that take concrete action against us that actually hurt us the more likely congress and the voters are to stand up to Trump.
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By allowing our politicians a seat at the table you're opening yourself up to more harm.
Isolate us, make the voting public feel the consequences of their actions. Respond to tariffs with tariffs on red states. Sanction administration official of the inevitable human rights abuses that are coming. Call out the lies of our Government openly and with evidence.
This isn't going to change if there are never any consequences for the people who're doing this as well as their supporters. Revoke the visas of our oligarchs, limit their travel, stop doing business with their companies. Create incentives for educated Americans to immigrate to healthier democracies and ban our social media companies before they finish poisoning your country as well.
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I mean, can’t we go back to the way that the Dems refused to see that Hillary was not popular, and how party leaders actively intervened to make sure that no one resembling an actual Dem (Bernie) got the nomination?
I think that’s really where the writing was on the wall - sabotage a popular candidate with the kind of populist support that we saw launch Trump into office, to platform someone who was probably one of the most hated women in America?
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I don't think I am.
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Got me feelin’ so fly, like a G6
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If you can shoot Hitler in 1937, would you think it would be a bad idea?
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The fuck is G7 anyway, but the face of global capitalism?
Just doublechecking my premises, there's this from Investopedia:
The Group of Seven is an intergovernmental organization made up of the world's largest developed economies: France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada. Government leaders of these countries meet periodically to address international economic and monetary issues, with each member taking over the presidency on a rotating basis...
Yeah, fuck 'em, but all is forgiven if G7 has the balls to expel America.
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Precisely this. Once this trust has been lost and the 'G6' face a world where they cannot count on the US, geopolicies will change and the US will not be perceived trustworthy anytime soon. As it stands, it will be considered yet another global power with anti-democratic tendencies, policies that endanger world piece and disrupt the common pursuit for prosperity and is considered best kept in check.
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Then you simply didn't understand, or are refusing to understand.
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We don't want educated Americans emmigrating elsewhere. We want you to fix your shit and educated Americans are the only ones that can do that.
If you leave, the idiots are left in charge of some of the spiciest military hardware and without smart people, will probably end up using it.
The voting public seem to be pretty susceptible to whatever spin the Orange House puts on the consequences of their actions.
Do you really believe they'll see through what Trump does and blame themselves before blaming Canada, for example?
