no need to write an essay or anything

some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don’t know what’s serious and what’s irony

  • thisonethatone [he/him]
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    292 years ago

    At best he’s a funny symbol because he’s a ridiculous over the top cartoon character. Some of the stuff he says and does is genuinely hilarious.

    I have to laugh because I am a trans person. I live in terror for myself and my friends. I have learned to laugh at trump, because I was angry for years and I don’t want to give myself an aneurysm.

    He’s the face of late stage capitalism. I do not support him and I avoid people who do.

  • Flinch [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    trump-drenched he is swamp-ass incarnate, our big wet sloppy pissboy, may he one day have a heart attack on live TV. he’s not the guy we need, he’s the presinald the US deserves.

    for context I am a taxpaying US citizen (Death to America).

  • Zoift [he/him]
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    612 years ago

    We loathe Trump. The jokes/humor we derive from the man come from watching a clownish buffoon shitting across the theater of american politics, and he simply cannot stop shitting.

  • charly4994 [she/her, comrade/them]
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    672 years ago

    To use a meme I’ve seen centrists use time and time again.

    My rights are being eroded every day and either they brazenly cheer it on or they silently let it happen. There’s plenty said about how bullshit “lesser evilism” really is. War and immiseration continue, the paint job just changes a bit.

  • raven [he/him]
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    142 years ago

    Yes we do unironically support Trump and we also think Barbie is reverse sexism. garf-troll

  • Teekeeus [comrade/them]
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    242 years ago

    I’m not an american. No matter who the american president is, america does awful shit abroad. I would never support any of those criminals.

  • ZapataCadabra [he/him]
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    82 years ago

    We support Comrade Nation Builder in his destruction of America’s legitimacy and hegemony.

    In all seriousness Trump is awful but entertaining. Mostly because as bad as he is, he isn’t really worse than the rest of US presidents in the grand scheme of things. He’s taken the mask off of America’s destructive nature.

  • PKMKII [none/use name]
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    882 years ago

    This will echo what others have said: I think Trump was a horrible president, and him being of the capitalist class means I oppose him in a political economy sense. However, the stuff that he did that was bad was bog standard Republican shit: any other Republican would have also cut taxes, deregulated industry, and installed far right whack job judges. And I also think Democrats have done horrible shit; better/worse comparisons are mostly useless as they brush over specifics.

    However, I do think he’s fascinating, both in that he may be the perfect reflection of the American political body, and because he highlights fundamental contradictions in nominal American liberal and conservative politics that causes both his detractors and supporters to be extremely neurotic about him. He represents what liberals profess to be the ideal (coastal, urban, private school educated, Ivy League grad, made his money in NYC real estate; shit, any big money Dem donor clicks at least three of those boxes), and what conservatives profess to hate (urban, non-religious, elitist, arrogance), yet the former hate him and the latter love him.

    For liberals, it’s that he exposes the lie that elite education credentials stewed in urban culture must always produce socially progressive and competent technocrats, which is why they steadfastly insist he’s some Manchurian Candidate Russian plant because they need to see him as an abnormality and not reflective of the gross underbelly of the meritocracy. For conservatives, he exposes that for all their rhetoric they really love the idea of elites and hierarchy and being lessers to the titans of industry and the state. They just don’t want those titans to be brown, Jewish, or female. So they need to built a weird, cultish mythology around him as an ubermensch, anti-elite elite as to keep up the illusion of them being against hierarchy. All this neurosis is both highly illuminating, and really fucking funny.