Spyke
feddit.org

I'm always surprised at myself how surprised I am at Muskrats stupidity.

Geeting guarantees about the train not starting again is a pretty big and reasonable thing. Especially since it probably wouldn't even be years...

So even when he tries to make somebody else the victim of a joke, he just reveals how stupid he is.

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morrowindreply
lemmy.ml

It's not stupidity, it's targeted propaganda. He knows what he was doing

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4amreply
lemm.ee

The stupidity to be amazed at are the morons who still believe him

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An unknowable percentage of them are like Musk: they know it's propaganda, but they figure propaganda for their team is justified.

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Clentreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

What does it take for you to stop thinking he knows what he's doing?

He's is clearly a very stupid and selfish person and what he is doing isn't a lie because he believes it because he cannot believe he has ever been wrong.

This is like thinking your dog shit on the carpet again on purpose. It's just a dog and it just needed to shit. The rest is anthropomorphism.

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morrowindreply
lemmy.ml

The more you think like this the more you underestimate him. It's dangerous. There's a reason he seems to be running the white house more than trump these days

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Clentreply
lemmy.dbzer0.com

Because he bought his seat and benefits from it financially and emotionally. This idea that it's 4d chess needs to end.

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It's checkers but three guys own all the checkerboards and the machines that make them.

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And whilst the train is stopped the opposition could rig it to go even faster when it's next turned back on meaning it'll soon catch up and exceed where it would've been if it just kept going

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FundMECFSreply
lemmy.blahaj.zone

If Russia stops fighting, there’s no more war. If Ukraine stops fighting, there’s no more Ukraine.

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This! Surrender a country to feed the hunger for growth of another country never worked in history.

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x00zreply
lemmy.world

Always sad to see obvious propaganda.

"Bow to us or it's your fault we'll kill you."

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Prunebuttreply
slrpnk.net

Wouldn't this critique also fit with OP's post?

Edit: not trying to excuse anyone. Just stating that wars don't happen because one guy feels like it.

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lemmy.world

Uh, the war in Ukraine absolutely happened because one guy felt like it.

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Prunebuttreply
slrpnk.net

Ok, if you think so. I'm afraid that the politics of the real world is a bit more complex than "Putin is a Supervillain and must be stopped by the avengers NATO.

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lemm.ee

Nobody thinks he's a supervillain. He's am egotistical asshole with power.

But he needs to be stopped and gtfo Ukraine.

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Prunebuttreply
slrpnk.net

People act as if he's a supervillain. The other person literally said that the war is happening "because he felt like it". How is that not supervillain logic? How does that not abstract away that Putin acts in the political interest of a national state?

I'm not trying to argue for sympathy for that asshole. I just want people to think a teensy bit about the fact that states do things out of political calculations and interests. Not because one guy "feels like it".

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It seems you are the one arguing he's a super villain, not the rest. And don't you dare argue Doom is not a supervillain because he does things "out of political calculations and interests".

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How quickly people forget it's called Putins "war of choice" for a reason.

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0xDreply
infosec.pub

https://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/66181

Putin is a geriatric, history-revising madman who thinks he should be the tzar of the Soviet Union. He has been an autocrat for too long, has had only yes-men around him for more than two decades, and his head is simply too far up his ass. He has lost all grasp on reality.

It really is that simple. The world would be a better place without Putin and his cronies. There would be less violence in the world without Russia. What meaningful except for terror and fear has Russia exported in the past decade? Two?

Right.

Enough with the false equivalences, this war is unilaterally Russia's fault. Russia is a rabid dog, bleeding out and trying to take down everything with it.

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Prunebuttreply
slrpnk.net

[...] who thinks he should be the tzar of the Soviet Union

Sorry, I can't take you ser after that display of utter historical ignorance/stupidity.

Your stance wouldn't be too far off from "Jeder Schuss ein Russ"

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My stance isn't very far off for all Russian soldiers in Ukraine and Putin, as well as anyone affiliated with him.

If you're talking about there being no tzars in the Soviet Union: Obviously. It's a figure of speech. The actual point went riiiiight over your head, Sherlock.

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I have a hitch that the reason they don't want to give security guarantees is to not only please Putin, who wants to take us back to the era of territorial conquests, but also to use it even more as a leverage against Ukraine. You can just force them to do away with every job safety, to sell of their health care and transform it into the same horrible mess the US has, to dismantle their education system for cheap labor for the mines, or else the tanks are going in the country and Ukrainians will get tortured to death again for not speaking Russian.

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While communicating this to the constituency: "my people, it is not a tram or a trolley as in other such trolley problems, it is just a lever that I must pull for the benefit of akk of our futures. It comes with great savings an a satisfying crunch!"

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lemm.ee

I didn’t have Twitter before Elon and I don’t have the energy to start now.

What was the original?

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I cant say the R word.

So I will call him a clown

Civil law is suspended, clown law is now in effect

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Remember the man, some November evening, being told the dream he'd spent his whole life believing collapsing just a few streets away, while his dear leader ran around in his underpants demanding a pizza.

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