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[Ryuu96]

the-pi-guy said:

shavenferret said:

He's just showing his swagger.  And even if serious, he would lose the respect of the world and almost everyone in the United States.  Respect and admiration are everything to Trump so i doubt that he would even consider such things.  

Sure, that's why Trump is so careful to not say anything stupid like windmill sounds causing cancer. 

He was recently attacking UK's windmills too, Lol. Demanding we open up the North Sea and get rid of windmills.

shavenferret said:

the-pi-guy said:

Sure, that's why Trump is so careful to not say anything stupid like windmill sounds causing cancer. 

Donald Trump has an extremely infantile view of what "respect and admiration" mean. To Trump, an enemy that sucks up to him to his face, regardless of any back stabbing, is better than an ally who acts like an equal. 

To the rest of the world with any sanity, even if he is legitimately joking about these things, already views him as someone who does not deserve any respect and admiration.

People that want to be genuinely respected in any kind of mature sense, learn from what they've done and adapt. They don't double down on their idiocy, with more serious threats of action. 

The people that take this seriously are just bored and don't have anything of substance to discuss.  And I believe that not everything a politician says should be taken seriously, especially by someone who turns spectacle into an art form.  

Europe seems to be taking it pretty seriously given their response. Plus I'm sure the citizens of these countries don't give a fuck if it's a joke or not when it comes out the mouth of the President of the United States, it should not be said at all, especially during a time where Europe is quite literally being attacked by Russia. All these comments do is sow discord and distrust amongst allies in a fragile time and will push Europe to become more isolationist which would actually be a bad thing for America despite what MAGA idiots think and other American allies to question their relationship with America. Trump will be the biggest contributor to things like BRICS growing and Europe becoming more isolationist then wonder why a bunch of countries hate America. It's really no surprise considering how America has acted under two Trump terms.

BraLoD said:

That Zuckerberg video was one of the most pathetic things I've seen in some time.
It was so scripted that I could predict what the sentence he started would end up going right away.

Why does mostly everyone that get such ridiculous amounts of money eventually turn into/reveal itself to be such a disgusting waste of matter?

Zuckerberg's Facebook has been a massive contributor to disinformation in the past so it's really no surprise, Twitter only had more impact because the only people that use Facebook now are oldies, Lol. Basically all billionaires are the same, unless they've inherited the wealth like Bezos wife, in order to become a billionaire in the first place you almost always have to be cold hearted and a bit of an asshole, almost all of them take advantage of their consumers and abuse their workforce or knowingly contract out to abusive workplaces. It's zero surprise to see billionaires kneeling down to kiss the ring of King Trump, they're the same at the end of the day.

Techbro billionaires especially are going to contribute massively to a decline in humanity, via misinformation and AI slop. They don't care though, as long as they make more money and no amount of money will ever satisfy a billionaire, $10bn? $100bn? It's not enough, they will always want more, they always seek more, they don't even fucking use it, they just want to hoard their wealth and while us common plebs fight amongst ourselves and blame each other for our problems, the billionaires sit and laugh at us.

Like Henry Ford working with the Nazis, capitalism doesn't care about things like fascism as long as they continue to make money, human suffering isn't important. Most of them would be happy to work with Hitler 2.0 if it made them money still. Probably most of them would still be doing business in Russia if they weren't being pressured by governments to pull out and if Russia was an actually important country to them businesswise you can guarantee they'd be throwing their prams out the pram to continue to do business there.

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