Sorry if my question was weird.

And no, I am not some human’s pet that just became intelligent and took over their Lemmy account. 😺

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    11 months ago

    I am not the least impressed by criminals who violate the law (and not petty laws like I pirated a CD) in order to succeed. Try being Mozart. That would impress me and that I would call genius.

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      11 months ago

      There are many people in prison today and there is only one Trump.

      The guy took down the entire GOP establishment in 2016 and essentially owns the party today. It’s hard to understate the significance of this. It was essentially a coup, and he managed to do it with media.

      If the left ever wants real change in this country we need to be able to do the same thing. Bernie for example failed.

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        11 months ago

        His team with help from foreign powers did that. He did nothing but prattle nonsense. There are many people in prison and only one of each and only one as rich as Trump. A richness he didn’t create.

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          11 months ago

          Ok so answer this - you believe Trump played absolutely zero role in the takeover of the Republican party? You think he was simply a puppet for foreign powers and his apparent aptitude with the media is entirely due to this connection to foreign powers?

          Obviously no one leader acts alone - even Hitler himself in his rise to power had to stand on the shoulders of his advisors and supporters. But what role did he play in his domination of German politics?

          I think personally these types of people learn to surf intuitively. They ride the wave of public opinion and know what to say from some sort of intuitive sense. Trump had time to develop this sense - he has been in the public eye more or less his whole life and spent many years on TV.

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            11 months ago

            Hitler was a giant if compared to that babbling orange splash. I know this better than anyone, there’s nobody who understands that better than I do, we’ll build a beautiful wall. C’mon, he’s worse than Berlusconi and he was a clown. I can’t fathom why people vote for these idiots but then we have Miss Meloni who believes torture should be legalized cos restraints force the police to operate suboptimally. This world was finished the moment we started being cretins and it’s all downhill from here.