• Zier
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    165 hours ago

    ‘Day One’ LOL. This dude has 123,964 things scheduled for ‘day one’. The man who didn’t get to works before Noon when he was pretending to play president last time. He will be playing golf on ‘day one’.

    • Flying SquidOPM
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      75 hours ago

      It doesn’t really matter if this doesn’t happen on day one if they’re still planning on doing it pretty quickly. And based on the article, they are.

  • @Treczoks
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    136 hours ago

    It needs a really sick mind in seeing any kind of advantage in such a move.

  • no banana
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    418 hours ago

    Entirely ignorant to soft power

    • @[email protected]
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      347 hours ago

      He was just today saying about Musk:

      "No, he’s not going to be president, that I can tell you,” Trump said. “And I’m safe. You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country.”

      No understanding of soft power whatsoever.

    • @[email protected]
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      115 hours ago

      Soft power is for soft people! Trump is hard! That’s why he’s coming in threatening just about everyone. That makes him strong and hard!

      And his followers lap it up.

      • @[email protected]
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        112 minutes ago

        I did not need an image of Trump being hard. Even Melania doesn’t want to see that anymore at this point.

    • @[email protected]
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      67 hours ago

      I doubt he knows what that is. Probably thinks it’s forcing himself onto someone with a limp dick.

  • Nougat
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    238 hours ago

    I have to say that I am totally fine with the US no longer having influence over the WHO.

    • @[email protected]
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      258 hours ago

      Yea, it’d be pretty fucking awesome. Maybe we can convince the US to withdraw from the security council and surrender their veto power as well?

      • @mean_bean279
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        37 hours ago

        Then we could use our nukes instead of diplomacy! Nothing like wiping countries off the map because we disagree with them.

    • @mean_bean279
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      117 hours ago

      That would be minimum 15% of their budget wiped out. If we force other US charities (really just 1) to stop, or “convince” them not to we could be talking about a 30% decline in revenue.

      Source

      • FaceDeer
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        86 hours ago

        In exchange, the WHO gets to make sane policies about vaccines, women’s health, and sexual identity. Could easily be worth it.

        • @NOT_RICK
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          104 hours ago

          If you think the US is the only place where people have backwards views towards vaccines, women’s health, or trans rights I have some bad news for you

          • FaceDeer
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            42 hours ago

            It’s not the only place, but it’s particularly loud and forceful about swinging those views around internationally.

      • Nougat
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        47 hours ago

        If that means the Trump administration not having sway over WHO, it’s probably worth it.

    • @AA5B
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      25 hours ago

      Thanks for the link