• @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      You are just insulting other people’s bodies using this type of response instead of attacking all the things Trump is actually doing wrong.

      • FlashMobOfOne
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        64 months ago

        You’re right. I should only make jokes that satisfy your personal sensibilities.

  • 2ugly2live
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    204 months ago

    It would be cool if no one went. Just him, Musk, and some right wing drifters on empty streets.

    • Guy Ingonito
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      174 months ago

      It be cool if the protests were so big they had to cancel the parade route

          • @[email protected]
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            Military personnel sell their morals to the highest bidder. They listen to the orders of their higher ups and hide behind the narrative that: “I’m just following orders” / “I don’t make the rules”.

            • Guy Ingonito
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              34 months ago

              Every so often you do get a few who are unwilling to run pwotover in tanks, or launch the nuclear missiles

            • @[email protected]
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              54 months ago

              As much crap is is going on in the world right now, the US military still has some scruples. They don’t just blindly follow Trump’s orders. And especially wouldn’t just fire into their countrymen. Trump hasn’t managed to take over every institution yet. Especially the military.

              Service members know how to complain and think for themselves. And if something doesn’t seem right, they will clarify the heck out of it and push back. It’s not the Russian military

              • @[email protected]
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                44 months ago

                Yet they will gladly shoot up farmers and whole villages in the middle east because their institution and higher ups say so as they continue to blindly believe the “we bring democracy” narrative.

                If you are military in the information age, you are willfully ignorant.

                • @[email protected]
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                  14 months ago

                  That doesn’t really have much to do with domestic stuff. I mean, every military does fucked up stuff, but at the end of the day, they’re made of people and have their families. Even myself.

                  As a service member, I educated myself on tactics, philosophy, diplomacy, economics, culture, mental health, geography, and many other topics to understand how and why military force is used. I know it’s not for democracy à la Helldivers. It’s used to keep the trade going and to conduct politics through harder power.

                  You might be an isolationist and that’s fine. But don’t insult the intelligence of myself who dealt with all sorts of philosophical dilemma and educated herself and others around her

  • Avicenna
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    54 months ago

    welp, he achieved the full definition of fascist dictator with that one now.

  • @[email protected]
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    hope he rides in that ol 1961 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible “X-100”

    ik the cia prolly still has one in storage.

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  • @[email protected]
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    194 months ago

    all dictators like to parade, nothing new. wake up us. time to impeach that orange shit!

    • @[email protected]
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      34 months ago

      LOL you definitely were going to get him in jail 4 years ago.
      It was ridiculous back then and now even more.
      If only they would’ve called to impeach Hitler, history would’ve been different.
      What a bunch of weak pussies americans are.

  • @[email protected]
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    664 months ago

    Other unnamed officials told the paper that a big military parade will require a huge amount of coordination between the six branches of the armed forces, along with several federal agencies and regional officials.

    If it happens it’ll be a shit show…

    To quote Henry Zebrowski:

    I have a bad idea, and I’m gonna execute it poorly

    • @[email protected]
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      124 months ago

      IIRC our asphalt roads are not built to handle tank tracks and you know little king shits in pants will insist he has tanks going vroom vroom for his big boy parade.

  • Cyborganism
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    2244 months ago

    Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.

    • @[email protected]
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      Anyone who hasn’t watched Charlie Chaplin’s The Great Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and wanted to impress him by trying to one-up him at every occasion.

      This is totally what Trump is trying to do with Putin right now. Trump is a Putin simp desperate to get his attention.

      • sp3ctr4l
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        594 months ago

        Just for the historical record, here’s Mussolini’s last public appearance:

        Just Hanging Out (nsfw)

      • @[email protected]
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        244 months ago

        is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby

        • @[email protected]
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          34 months ago

          there’s a playbook, for sure. it’s not officially published, but every d-bag like this gets a copy

        • sp3ctr4l
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          https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?op=1

          Yes.

          Literally Hitler.

          ‘My New Order’, a collection of Hitler’s speeches up through 1939.

          Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.

          Did people not know about this or forget this?

          Trump literally routinely read Hitler’s speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.

          Lefties who were politically active during Trump’s 2015 campaign were… fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed ‘You’re just calling him a fascist because everything you don’t like is fascist’ at us.

          Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn’t know this?

          Or are you just younger and/or weren’t so politically involved a decade ago?

          • @[email protected]
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            14 months ago

            thanks i didnt know this. i kinda got the cibes that this was the case, but had never heard of that until now. not something they taught us in school. im not necessarily “younger” but i was very disconnected for a long time between no phone, couch surfing punk houses, hobo life, then just living in rural New Mexico until like 7 years ago.

        • The Quuuuuill
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          74 months ago

          i mean. i guess. it’s titled “my daddy never hugged me and kept me away from my mom, whom he may or may not have effectively purchased on account of how incredibly impoverished she was”

        • Cyborganism
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          64 months ago

          Yeah there’s a bunch of history books. My mom had a collection of history books on the second world war with accounts of what happened and the atrocities committed.

          You just have to take notes in a notebook and call it Project 2025.

        • @[email protected]
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          144 months ago

          I know you’re being facetious and asking this from their side, but from our non-Nazi side I highly recommend “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” by Shirer which is a great telling of how Hitler rise to power and a study of him and his crew. I’m sure Trump types read these histories to learn and try to pick up where Hitler failed.

          • @[email protected]
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            154 months ago

            My reading of history is that Hitler failed because he was Hitler.

            He was a powerful orator, and also a narcissistic man baby, high on his own self importance long before he was high on meth/cocaine/heroin/etc.

            He was too paranoid to trust anyone more competent than he was, and he was fucking incompetent.

            I could go on, but in short, Hitler was a conman who tapped into that special hatred that some people have in place of their hearts.

              • @[email protected]
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                34 months ago

                Pretty much the exact same except that Hitler was a hardened war veteran, and Trump has been a conman all his life. Most of Trump’s cons were stupid and failed, but never quite hard enough for him to ever see consequences.

                Hitler also went to prison for his coup attempt. It was a daycare style prison, but he still went.

                Other than that, the similarities are striking. Likely because the only book that Trump in known to have read, is a copy of all of Hitler’s speeches.

    • @[email protected]
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      84 months ago

      We should all show up.tp fucking protest and ruin his birthday fucking sociopath mother fucker.

  • @[email protected]
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    184 months ago

    They’re going to try to scramble it together last minute so newspapers can’t blast out the several hundred million dollar price tag before it goes down.

    • @[email protected]
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      44 months ago

      There is a standing army. Where do the costs come from? Like flyovers, it will be an exercise.

      • @[email protected]
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        64 months ago

        Last time they refused to release the cost breakdown, but quoted 93 million (but that one sounded smaller).

        So other than expenses faced by any parade, I don’t know details. Transporting the vehicles, road prep and repair (city cost seemed like a big part of it), they might all get paid for anything not routine.

        Either way, captain bonespurs can run a parade up his own ass

  • Match!!
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    214 months ago

    someone on lemmy mentioned that Trump’s economic policies are north korea’s juche and it is all shaping up that was