• 1984@lemmy.today
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    11 hours ago

    So good we got away from twitter so we can see the same content here instead…

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    16 hours ago

    This does not appear to be real. He did have a similar truth social post:

    Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP

    Archive link

    The posted image doesnt exist at the date shown in the picture. Its effectively misinformation as its similar to but not actually a thing he posted

    Someone posted this archive tool, this link is to the 100 items per page view, you can scroll past the date in the photo and the post doesnt exist: https://www.trumpstruth.org/?per_page=100

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        40 minutes ago

        That may be fair I don’t fully understand the reap one- is the point that hes gonna bomb their power plants and bridges? The fake one suggests hes going to nuke them…

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        39 minutes ago

        Its not really satire if its almost exactly what he said but slightly worse, theres not really a joke or commentary and it does succeed at being misleading, I feel like describing it that way is unreasonable. Its just an exaggeration of how bad what he said is.

        There are people in this tread litterally claiming its true because there are sources that substantiate him saying something very similar.

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          there are sources that substantiate him saying something very similar.

          As in, you can go read Trump’s actual post yourself.

          I don’t like this shitpost. It is too close to reality, so it effectively becomes misinformation, doesn’t add anything to the world.

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    22 hours ago

    I hope he drops dead on stage with cameras rolling and he’s unable to be resuscitated. That shit will play everywhere.

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      22 hours ago

      He would be remembered as a martyr. Someone who gave up his life for all of us.

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        Not sure why you got downvotes, that’s exactly what his followers would think.

        I saw a video of a young girl in the middle easyt conflict who’s mom had died. Her response when asked if she was sad about her parents being dead, was less emotion about loss and her words were I’m glad she was martyred, I hope someday I get to do the same. That’s what MAGA will be like.

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        7 hours ago

        Lumpty Trumpty has to die the most embarrassing way to avoid being a martyr. Cause you are right, before Lumpty Trumpty’s body has hit the floor; conspiracy theories and martyring will be happening.

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          I’m reminded of an exchange in an old TV show:

          Well take this for what little it will profit you. As I look at you ambassador Mollari, I see a great hand reaching out of the stars. The hand is your hand. And I hear sounds. The sounds of billions of people calling your name."

          “My followers?”

          “Your victims.”

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            15 hours ago

            He and his goons are speed running global financial collapse so he’s probably going to be remembered, not how he hopes though …

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      1 day ago

      I couldn’t agree more, especially since, for anyone not from the US, even the most moderate White House posts are so utterly absurd that these days it’s really hard to tell the difference between satire and real-life clown show.

      I can assure you that everyone is trying their best to adjust somehow, but it’s really hard given this level of absurdity.

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        I don’t follow US politics very closely, but the other day I saw the official whitehouse twitter account posted footage of them bombing someone, with wii sports ‘nice shot’ shit over the top.
        These cunts have no concept of remorse, they’re having fun and joking around.
        Seeing that shit doesn’t make anyone respect them, it makes us wish somebody did the same thing back to them.

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    1 day ago

    I don’t get it. This guy is completely nuts. Why make shit up? Just give it an hour and you’ll have something tremendously fucked up that he actually posts…

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      6 hours ago

      Conspiracy brain thinks of a few reasons:

      1. To preemptively establish what “real crazy” looks like so that we tolerate what he’s actually saying and doing more

      2. To muddy the lines between fake and real so that everyone is too confused to fact check anything

      3. Garden variety people being stupid and wanting to exaggerate something because exaggeration=funny, and they’re not aware of the harm this does

      4. To bait the left into accepting the same sort of “the fact that this is believable (to me) PROVES that this is valid possibility and worldview” mentality that the right adopted a decade ago, which ultimately makes people much easier to manipulate

      5. To position the left as yet another entity that promotes its views via misleading “jokes” that on the one hand legitimately misinform people, but when called out can be defended as “just a joke that you were too stupid to recognize” - that is, borrowing another successful but evil strategy that the right has recently made use of

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      24 hours ago

      Yeah it makes no sense; he literally posted something as bad as this:

      Tuesday will be Power Plant Day, and Bridge Day, all wrapped up in one, in Iran. There will be nothing like it!!! Open the Fuckin’ Strait, you crazy bastards, or you’ll be living in Hell - JUST WATCH! Praise be to Allah. President DONALD J. TRUMP"

      We don’t need a fake variant of it.

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        That’s something funny to be honest. I understand that it’s supposed to be that way, but I picture him being jumping angry like some toddler and screaming this out red faced and I can’t get that out of my head. I think he’s really loosing his marbles because he can’t get out of that stupid war he started and he’s been realizing now that it was a mistake and he doesn’t have anyone to blame for it.

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      Yeah I’m tired of seeing this too, if it’s fake and I assume it is.

      It just muddies the water. There’s enough without making shit up.

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    19 hours ago

    Did he really do a follow up to his Easter day tweet? This man is losing marbles at an astounding pace.

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    21 hours ago

    … the Trump bomb means he literally explodes where he stands with the force of “5 magatons” (he shits himself 5 times).

    The very surprising part is how the Tsar bomb had any magatons at all.

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      20 hours ago

      This is the guy who threatened to nuke a hurricane because it wasn’t going the direction he wanted. I think we can safely assume all options, no matter how batshit crazy, are on the table.

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    23 hours ago

    What I don’t get if it’s really such a priority from him and he is so mad…doesnt America have enough bombs to just level the region? Can’t he just make a call and say “kill everyone, make it glass” and it would be done?

    That would be horrible to do. I’m not condoning it and thousands of lives would be lost. That said in the 80s America could literally destroy the earth… With advancements in technology and the money we spent couldn’t they just say “do it” and make the whole area done for atleast a few generations? How do they lose wars? If they are so dead set on this can’t they just carpet bomb the entire country?

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      I think the military is pushing back on him, that’s why they fired four generals yesterday. If it were up to him we would have dropped many nukes already.

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        Seems systemic… Spend trillions every year and never win a war since desert storm or ww2 before that. It’s not budget, it’s not man power either the military are doing something really poorly or there is some type of corruption somewhere taking that money…

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      I’m under the impression that no, the US does not have enough conventional weapons to do this. If he were to escalate to non-conventional weapons that would change things but I don’t want to think about how the rest of the world would react to the US carpet bombing an entire country with nukes…

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        I agree I’m just confused how us seems to spend so much on military yet lose every war. It’s like a jock spending 12 hrs a day in the gym and losing every boxing match against the local chess club.

        Not to mention so much news that we “rescued” one airmam from a down helicopter. Great, now compare that to D-day or any battle in the US civil war…no contest. We are using so many resources for “war” rather right or wrong doesn’t matter, we do nothing but lose. I’d fire every officer in the military, you have an effective unlimited budget, you have millions of man hours at your disposal but consistently fail at every “war” since… Desert storm? Even that is questionable. Even before that have Vietnam… Lost… Korea… Didn’t actually lose but still didn’t win… Ww2 ok yeah we won with cooperation from most other countries.

        US is a “super power” and spend more than the 9 countries in the top 10 of military spending but we always lose…wtf??

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          I think the issue is that winning long-term requires investing in the defeated country, like you guys did with Japan. Rather than just stopping bombing them and leaving them to fend for themselves, breeding resentment. Resentment is gonna happen regardless, of course, which is why the best move is to not start a war in the first place.