Bluesky Post.

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Reporters, I beg you: When voters claim they have doubts about Trump’s personality but support “his policies,” ask one simple question:

Which policies?

The stammering will be more interesting than anything they have to say.

  • @[email protected]
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    511 months ago

    You’re right about Canada. I debated whether to include that point, but being Canadian myself, it felt wrong not to mention it.

    Saying “peace out or I’ll nuke you” is literally the simplest possible way to start a war. You can’t just walk into a building waving around a gun and expect things not to escalate. We’re lucky things happened to work out the way they did.

    • Lung
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      111 months ago

      There are many people who find this attitude heroic, it’s the isolationist ideal, where instead of America fighting all the wars in the world / being the world police, we instead stay out of it and use our superior weapons to deter others (and secure our own borders)

      So that’s what “peace out or Ill nuke you” is meant to convey. I know many peaceniks who agree with this foreign strategy, and find the constant war depressing