When did we say he wasn’t? Just because his camp isn’t speaking the obvious doesn’t mean it isn’t abundantly true. I’ll never understand how human shit piles seem to live forever, while death creeps up on the few remaining decent people in the world. Guy I work with who would literally go out of his way to help ANYONE with ANYTHING. Even helped me swap my car’s alternator in the work parking lot one afternoon (we work in IT). Lived with cancer for 9 years, died last month at 59. Meanwhile, the Pedo Party 70+ crowd dismantles the world, laughing all the way to the bank, raping kids.

Because the US/west gets to decide who the terrorist is? I mean the US can invade a country to protect against communism, but Palestinians protecting themselves* (yes, I agree the asterisk is doing some heavy lifting) are terrorists. So on and so forth.

As someone from East, being politically active and living as an expat in a western country, I learnt this fact/double standards the hard way?

Why dosent social media, traditional media, reddit, lemmy, democrats, ANYBODY ever call this gu ya terrorist.

We actually do all the time. He’s the president of the most powerful and wealthy nation on earth. Most presidents cannot contradict him even though they all think he is an idiot.

SCOTUS got hijacked

In irony you haven’t seen Bush’s consequences.

But last president atleast were attacked or provoked by recognized threat

Not to defend Trump but that’s not true. US has been starting illegal wars of aggression for it’s entire existence.

The Iraq war was “justified” largely for the same reason the Iran war is being.

you would be surprised about how little the average person cares about whether the president is a huge asshole. half the population is fed fox news, which means they’ll get whatever narrative is handy to the rich. the other half is having a mental meltdown on social media which honestly doesn’t help anyone. then there’s the whole thing that i feel like america is just a fundamentally broken and sick society with like 50 problems (each of which feels like it should be lethal) and trump is yet another one of those.

Imagine this scenario: you have a group of friends. You’re not equally close with all of them but you all hang out together and do stuff together and you all get along fine in general. You help each other out with tools and food, you lend each other your cars, you attend each other’s parties, you defend each other against other people who are not part of your group, you might even date each other or each other’s siblings. It’s not always sunshine and roses but you’re generally able to solve most issues that arise by working together. Any differences in opinion can usually be resolved or worked around.

And then one of you starts acting out. They seem to go through some really tough shit. Maybe something happened in their private life that they’re not willing to share. Maybe there’s some serious medical stuff going on. They yell at everybody, antagonise everybody, don’t return the tools they borrow, don’t contribute anything to the biweekly barbecue, and demand that everybody come around every Friday and do work around their house, for free. Because of all the things they did for everybody else in the past or something.

You wouldn’t instantly kick them out of the group, would you? You’d try to reason with them, try to find out what changed, try to help with whatever issue they seem to have, maybe you’d try to sit it out and hope they get better on their own. You’ve been together in this group of friends for a long time and all of you have generally always benefitted from it. Also, you’re still using their streaming account and you’re only halfway through Last of Stranger Thrones.

It’s going to take a while until the people in your friend group, one by one, reach their limit and are ready to tell the person who’s making everybody miserable to fuck off. They’re not going to do it on their own either, they’ll be waiting for everybody else to signal their readiness, because they’re afraid of being singled out of the group. You can only hope that by the time everybody is ready, your houses and cars and families are still intact.

It’s infinitely more complicated on an international scale.

I mean, is he not? The rest of the world is just scared he’ll nuke something if they push back in any real way.

Don-estic terrorist.

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He’s not a terrorist, doesnt match the definition. You may notice a lot of comparisons to hitler though. Trump is a better match for a despot

A terrorist is someone who uses violence to change government policy, if you are the government then by definition you can’t be a domestic terrorist.

The correct charge is treason, but I imagine getting a conviction for that would be difficult? I’m not familiar with the American legal system. The last time England charged a head of state with treason it was because he started two civil wars.

Lemmy

We do lmao, you’re just in the wrong communities.

Donestic Terrorist.

Unclear if typo, or the new correct spelling for that term.

the one controlling trump is a greater threat but he funds enough propaganda and right wing governments to insulate himself. trump is a mere tool.