Chainweasel @ Chainweasel @lemmy.world

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Getting upset over this is so draining, especially because there’s nothing we can do to stop him in the short term.

For me personally, I think the most draining part of the whole thing is that nothing was done to stop him in the 4 years he was out of power.
1,461 days, all of them spent listening to people talk about how horrible it would be if he got back into power, and yet absolutely fucking nothing was done in that time to prevent the horrible things we were warned about from happening.

Honestly, the journalists who normalized Trump for the last 4 years are responsible for the mess they're about to be in. Refusing to ask Trump hard questions while making Biden and Harris answer for every rumor pushed by the right.
I won't say I'm glad to see it happening, because an attack on journalism and the press is horrifying and carries some huge future implications, but I won't deny that I feel a bit of schadenfreude about it.
"Leopards will never eat my face"

Don't respond. Anyone who feels the need to express that is just looking for a reaction. Don't indulge them. When people genuinely dislike someone they tend to only interact with them when absolutely necessary, so if they're volunteering the information without being prompted it's only for a reaction.

Absolutely.
There are two ways to make sure nuclear weapons are never used in war:

1. No one has any nukes
2. Everyone has nukes.

#1 is never going to happen. The US, Russia, and China are for sure never ever giving up their nuclear weapons.
So #2 it is, level the playing field and give everyone nuclear weapons. A nation is far less likely to use a nuclear weapon if they know they can and will get nuked back right away.

Michael Caine

What national security? If we had national security Trump would have been behind bars Jan 20th 2021.

Do people really think it's to keep people out?
The wall will be there to keep us in when his policies start to hurt everyone including the people who voted for him.

Russia

Trump won with less than 20% of the vote if you count all eligible voters, he won because most people stayed home.

War weariness is a thing.
I wouldn't be surprised if a non-insignificant number of that 1/3 that doesn't oppose Russia keeping some territory are just tired of the war and want it to be over.
3 years is a long time to live in a war torn country with frequent power outages and food shortages. People tend to disassociate when it doesn't affect them directly and if they happen to live on the Western side of Ukraine, losing territory on the Eastern border will have less of an effect on them than continued food and power shortages.

Well good thing the DOJ spent years dragging their feet instead of actually doing anything about it.

Schadenfreude

The opposite. Google won't be able to leverage chrome to drive website design and Internet policy anymore and it'll give smaller companies an opportunity to get a better foothold in the market. That's the whole point in breaking them off from Google in the first place.

If the United States leaves NATO they no longer have veto power. It's probably more advantageous to Putin to keep the United States in NATO and kneecap any efforts by the entire organization to resist Russian aggression than it is to simply remove the US from the organization.

People who can afford cruises aren't going to be the ones disproportionately affected by Trump's policies.

About the time they start walking.
Once they're standing up, they're tall.
While they're still laying down, they're long.

Do it, pussies!
I'm so over the bullshit of the last decade or so that a quick death in nuclear hellfire sounds absolutely merciful compared to what awaits us if we continue this downward spiral.

Exactly, the phrase "violence is never the answer" breaks down pretty quickly when your adversary is not only okay with using violence, but opens with it.
Passive action against violent people facilitates oppression.