that was before trump Now I watch us politics like a sitcom
it would be funny if it wasn’t so dangerous
This dude is throwing everything to try to pretend he ain’t a fucking pedophile in Epstein’s list.
They’re trying to insinuate that the accusations on them are of the same legitimacy of those they’ve been throwing at everyone for decades.
If their claims are rebuked as baseless, they’ll call the claims against them baseless as well. If the claims against them are said to be substantiated, they’ll point to their claims and suggest the same. It’s the “tails I win, heads you lose” of a political scheme.
conservatives are more likely to believe fake news, and cons more. eventhough AI is fake, its just affirmation to thier beliefs.
He’s flailing so hard he is speed running through all of his tried and true distraction techniques. It’s like watching Jordan Peterson on the Surrounded thing on YouTube. He’s a one-trick pony, and it becomes obvious when you do it that fast.
I mean … even MAGA caught on. Now, are they going to see the pattern, or are they going to go back to the mental gymnastics and become furious about a book in a school library in a state they don’t live in? Unfortunately, we could safely wager our life savings on which option they will choose.
you noticed the threat of Tariffs are having no effect anymore as a distraction even from the magats, and News are just moving on after mentioning it. he used it so much people got tired of listening to it.
Yeah, but the people know. They know he was involved.
Ang Maga will cheer him for that
Sure but aren’t these the same people who need billboards to tell them not to have sex with their daughters.
obama broke the minds of tea party crowd, and by extension MAGA.
Maga is pretty fucking pissed about this Epstein walk back.
Not.Pissed.Enough.
Just FYI. We in Europe are watching what you guys are up to and being super judgemental. Get your shit together.
Keep an eye on your own countries, you’re not immune to right-wing populism.
I hope that we’ll find a way to block that bs, like the Kremlin troll farms etc.
don’t worry. this is like the fever stage of the virus.
we haven’t even started the vomiting yet.
😢
Just FYI, you in Europe should spend more time learning how not to freak out the moment you invite a relatively small amount of Muslim people of color to live among you as refugees and start pushing boats back into the sea to drown. We watch your society start to break apart the moment it drifts even a tiny bit away from white ethnostates. Hungary and Poland fell before the US.
Don’t get me wrong, we’re a flaming dumpster fire right now, but it gets very tired very quickly listening to you people look down your noses at the US like your shit doesn’t stink as you teeter to and from the brink of far right parties taking power every 3 years on a platform of “no Muslims in Country X.” You’re not wrong, but glass houses my guy. You judge us, but the rest of the world judges us both.
And how’s Europe and such doing on gay rights, women’s rights, diversity, privacy rights, health science, climate science, wealth equality, economic policy, territorial threats…
One comparable out of many doesn’t make a glass house.
I think the point was that the far right is close to winning in Europe. If they do, you can kiss all those things goodbye, just like us.
Well that depends, how about you go ask TURF Island or Hungary or most of literally everything south or east of Germany. If you’re gonna pretend France and Germany are all of Europe then you should at least be comparing to like, idk, just NYC and CA or something. Again, reeeeeeeal glass heavy house over there.
I agree with you, trying to compare a single country to a union of countries, where every entity has their own interests and culture is kinda useless. Eastern europe has a lot of catching up to do, but I don’t get how we devolved into fighting under a video of trump using AI to post a video discrediting former president Obama by framing him as a criminal. We all just want a world worth living in, where everybody has the same chances. We ought to fight TOGETHER against these race-ideology idiots spewing hate and fake news
I mean, it isnt as bad as in the US yet, but were definitely on our way. Just listen to the garbage that sounds exactly like maga from people around you.
It feels like everyone is making hate and fear their new identity, and the minorities get blamed.
exactly! it’s just a bunch of brown people we have to abandon to maintain our perfect society. I mean they’re barely “people”.
/s
Where do you think the authoritarian, anti-intellectual, isolationist, puritanical Christian nationalism found in the U.S. historically began?
Where are concentration camps happening already?
Where is a popular fascist already in power?
Fucking Americans playing whataboutism when they’re a mile down the road already.
It’s not “whataboutism”. It’s about understanding historical context and threads that tie history and geopolitics across time and oceans.
Yes, I’m an American and it’s bad back home. Arguably worse than ever before. And the American flavor of conservative techno-feudalism certainly has its own unique stench. We have much to fight, and we suck at it (currently).
However, I live in the Netherlands currently, since July of 2022, and not exactly by choice. My (Dutch) then-fiance-now-wife got an incurable diagnosis during the pandemic, preventing her from moving to the U.S. But before, I’ve been all over Europe. I’ve read plenty of “Western Civilization” history textbooks in high school and university as well. I see all of the right-wing conservative macho bullshit here in supposedly “liberal Northwest Europe” that I see emanating from MAGA pussies back home. In the Netherlands, that would be the BBB and the PVV.
The mentality I’m referring to is from here. In Europe. EVERYthing in modern US conservative talking points can trace its roots right back to puritanical European
Christian white supremacist monarchism/fascism/authoritarianism,“WE’RE-IN-CHARGE-FOREVER-BECAUSE-WE’RE-‘CIVILIZED’”-ism.“God, Gold, and Glory” was a thing long before U.S was. The American flavor of it has its roots here, so, please, as an American not of European descent, cut the fucking bullshit. Don’t throw stones from your supposedly manicured glass houses. Or, if I’m wrong, invite some Roma people or economic migrants from
<insertFormerColonialTerritoryHere>into your home, with all of that holier-than-thou “love” in your heart.
I’m an American who moved to the Netherlands in July of '22. I spend a lot of time going back and forth. My then fiancé, now my wife, was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis during the pandemic. Given the obvious price difference for medication to treat the disease, I decided to move in with her instead of her coming to the US.
I find it disheartening to see what the rest of the world thinks about Americans up close. I am competently multilingual enough to hold conversations. I have to admit now that I understand why other natively born Americans pretend that they’re from Canada outside of the U.S.
Despite my embarrassment about the body politic and discourse from my country, I find that the the same authoritarian, isolationist, and anti-intellectual mind-viruses that permeate through society in the United States (especially in rural communities) have a beachhead here in Western Europe. Either that or they’ve always been here to begin with. To me, the difference is that the scale is much smaller.
Yeah, for sure. The Russians have been busy in all countries. The reason things got out of hand in the states is because you have a two party system. You only need to control a few people to control enough to take over the country.
That being said, Americans need to take a page out of the French play book at this point. If you try to make a Frenchman work an extra half hour a week, Paris will burn. That’s the level of outrage you need here. Nothing short of that will be effective. Don’t protest, riot! A few people hanging about with plakards isn’t going to cut it when the government is deciding which TV shows they’ll allow, threatening politicians, protecting pedophiles, killing witnesses in federal custody, detaining people without cause, deporting/imprisoning people without trial, and deploying combat troops against peaceful protesters.
I’d like to point out that all this shit is not normal and Americans need to understand how deeply fucked up the situation is. From where I’m standing I’m not sure most of them do. Yeah it’s regrettable that fascism took hold in the states despite the rest of the world screaming at them to stop, but what’s really alarming is that they’re just kinda going along with it.
Too many Americans are eager to lick the boot. “We have to work (for free) this weekend to get this feature out [for the deadline the owner made up and customers don’t care about]” was something my old team unironically said to me more than once
As a leftist American, you’re right. There’s a simply incredible amount of the population who refuse to participate in politics at all, then another huge swathe who gets all their news from social media or a single source which never gives the whole picture. I’ve protested, I’ve written my leadership, I’ve changed family and friends to the side of sanity but it feels like there’s just no winning like this. I’m ready for a general strike, to stop paying federal taxes but it’s all self harming if done alone. Our leaders have failed us basically across the board and I’m hoping that they’ve fucked up enough in the eyes of the general public so there’s a correction and we can get this country far more socialized and kick corporations off welfare.
I think what’s pissing me off about the US most right now, is even through the dumpster fire and their idiotic elected leader, Americans are STILL moraizing, looking down on others and being the world police
For the record, we average citizens don’t want to be the “world police”. This is what President Eisenhower was referring to as the “Military Industrial Complex”.
Starting in the 1980s, the United States, which insisted on strict terms for the re-payment of Third World debt, itself accrued debts that easily dwarfed those of the entire Third World combined — mainly fueled by military spending. The U.S. foreign debt, though, takes the form of treasury bonds held by institutional investors in countries (Germany, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, the Gulf States) that are in most cases, effectively, U.S. military protectorates, most covered in U.S. bases full of arms and equipment paid for with that very deficit spending.
This has changed a little now that China has gotten in on the game (China is a special case, for reasons that will be explained later), but not very much — even China finds that the fact it holds so many U.S. treasury bonds makes it to some degree beholden to U.S. interests, rather than the other way around.
So what is the status of all this money continually being funneled into the U.S. treasury? Are these loans? Or is it tribute? In the past, military powers that maintained hundreds of military bases outside their own home territory were ordinarily referred to as “empires,” and empires regularly demanded tribute from subject peoples. The U.S. government, of course, insists that it is not an empire — but one could easily make a case that the only reason it insists on treating these payments as “loans” and not as “tribute” is precisely to deny the reality of what’s going on.
- Except from the Beginning of David Graeber’s Debt: The First 5,000 Years
Nobody else appointed the US as “world police”.
It’s a role that they gleefully took on so they could go around telling others what to do.
The young left has become the world moral police and it has nothing to do with the military, right wing uses the military. The young left is just using shit slinging. But Americans need to get to the back of the line when it comes to moralizing or leading global issues, the rest of the world doesn’t want to hear it from Americans
I don’t understand anything you just typed. Who’s “young left”? The global “young left”? You think only the “right wing” uses the military?
And who should be leading global issues? Europeans? Chinese? Russians? Indians? G8? G20? UN? Who?
Or is it that Americans are the only ones who can’t or shouldn’t be allowed to “lead” or “moralize”?
Genuinely confused.
Yes, Americans need to shut up, we don’t wanna hear it, fix your damn country before you start criticizing others. You only cheapen a movement by leading out and infecting it with your toxicity.
It’s hard to explain who the “left” is in the US right now because you all think the left means just you and your group of friends. You are all punching left and fighting each other while the right is united and you guys let them win. You’re all so weird and you can’t see it from the inside, but the rest of us around the world don’t want to hear your opinion anymore
pedophile president breaking his own law about posting bullshit online
Terry Crews’ character in Idiocracy was non-satirically a better President at this point.
well, he wasn’t a pedophile at least.
It is a low bar, but it is a bar
FAR better! Like, not even ironically better, all the way better.
Yea, at least he cared about the crops or something
At least he gave a shit.
That movie promotes eugenics, discrimination and ultimately genocide
I wouldn’t use it as a comparison. It is made by a Nazi.
It’s not being serious. I understand intelligence isn’t a breeding stat, and smart people having kids isn’t going to produce a smart society, if it would only talk about reduced education and cultural trends as the cause of mass idiocy, but that’s really not what the film is about. It’s not actually advocating for eugenics.
What ever you want to tell yourself
What the fuck are you talking about?
The movie is a comedy, not a serious attempt to diagnose the world’s or America’s problems, but the emphasis on ‘‘only stupid people are breeding’’ in the beginning of the film is one of the causes of the dystopia, that is eugenics, which is a disproven racist part of academia that had it’s part in the nazi movement. So it’s a dangerous idea to promote, but that’s not what the comedy is about. It’s just a gag.
based on his other works? absolutely not.
Hey USA.
What the fuck.
Sincerely,
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Rest of the fucking worldI dunno. I just live here.
you inspired me to make an easy to use meme in this situation.
I’m assuming this is just a joke but in case is not, PSA on, please get involved in your local community some way if you’re not already. It will be important to be involved at local levels if we’re to clean up the mess we’re in. Thanks for listening to my PSA
What the hell am I going to do about the way things are? I can’t fix it. I inherited it. And the dumb people are taking over. I’ll spend my knowledge but life is too damn short to go on “fighting the good fight” when the majority is morons.
As he said, “please get involved in your local community if you aren’t already.”
He didn’t say “fix the problem.”
There were more words than that. But even a local investment should not be my responsibility. I pay taxes and work and have a kid with hobbies. The system was designed to not be in the middle of all the time and monitor it like it’s on life support. The system was designed to pay attention every six months to a year and hire someone to represent our interests. Not make it a damn hobby.
You make it sound like this system was designed with your interests in mind.
The problem is, the system is broken without direct participation, and most people expect it to just work for them with no more effort than paying most taxes and obeying most laws (and possibly voting).
That is not how it was intended to work. It was never meant to be a high maintenance endeavor. It was meant to be representatively maintained with the constituents in mind.
Almost forgot about the Epstein case there for a moment, except I didn’t.
the ways he’s trying to distract us are telling.
He’s on the list. Frequently enough his magic sharpie ran out of ink.
I would have if donny two scoops didn’t keep bringing it up every 5 minutes
I can use AI too
Sorry Trump, you’re still a pedophile.
Will an AI make a video of him being innocent in the Epstein case, or is the technology still not that good?
I’m sorry, Dave, I’m afraid I can’t do that
No, but I know he has AI videos of other people that he’s obsessed with.
Anyways, on a totally, definitely, and completely unrelated note, didn’t he say Ivanka was a piece of ass…?
Lack of training material
an AI cannot output something that does not appear in the training material …
🤔 wasnt there recently some anti-deepfake legislation passed?
well i guess someone must be above the law then
Epstein’s best friend, convicted felon and adjudicated rapist Donald Trump, is a human trafficking child rapist.
I’m starting to question how much the average person actually does care about children.
Who would have thought?
jesus, The US is absolutely off rails. This is insane
Literally every time I hear news out of my U.S my brain is boggled.
Weak attempt to distract. Stay focused folks. EPSTEIN FILES, RELEASE THEM.
Correct.
Do not get distracted folks. He’s on a mission to make you forget about Epstein.
I like how Ezra Klein put it, “Trump isn’t trying to confuse you, he himself is confused.” Just listen to him talk, guy can’t focus on a single thing.
The pedophile in chief is just spraying videos hoping something distracts people
You mean the pedophile and convicted rapist, sexual assaulter , con man, incompetent businessman, fraudster, tax evader, and likely insurrectionist ?
He is the most prolific traitor in American history, worse than all other American traitors COMBINED. Any list should START with TRAITOR.
