• Ghostalmedia
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    11 days ago

    Imagine if this guy spent this much energy on building housing.

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    Hey Poland Mexico… Here comes Germany The US to liberate you from your crime problem.

    Ffs. Call it what it is: The Fourth Reich

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    11 days ago

    So like the same situation with those fishing boats? Just going to go and kill a bunch of people without a trial and claim they were cartels. ?

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    Oh this won’t go well.

    Cartels don’t… Care about war crimes. Like at all. Like less than Trump.

    These soldiers families are about to be at risk.

    Wild shit to go military on cartels.

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      Seriously, he does not have a single clue what he’s marching the US into. That’s going to be incredibly messy at best

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        Uh, pay attention, the US has been marching stupidly into shit shows since the Korean war. Did we learning nothing from MASH?

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          It’d be worse than that. We don’t share a border with North Korea. We will not like what happens if we initiate endless blood feuds with our next door neighbors.

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        Sounds like this is the planned outcome actually.

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      Didn’t he want to fly families out to surprise his military minions in Afghanistan as well?

      Not too sure how tough the Marines will be when their kids start disappearing.

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    Can we just… not?

    The Military Industrial Complex forces the US to always be at war somewhere around the world. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Palantir (the big one now), and many others are the reason the US is doing this military campaign. Gotta keep those shareholders happy.

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    Call his bluff. He just wants to wag his dick around. So mexico should mobilize their army at the border and say “cross this line and you are declaring war.”

    Guaranteed someone up high makes him understand how politically stupid that would be. Probably in pictures. With small words.

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      I don’t think we have enough time or crayons for that

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      Who else are we going to change the dissidents at? Are you going to kick off with the middle east or southeast asia, with these gas prices?

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    Yeah, this is great. We’re going to (illegally) invade Mexico ane Venezuela simultaneously, while also occupying our own cities that don’t go along the paramilitary immigration Gestapo. Oh, and we’re also waging chaotic, impulsive trade wars with literally every country on Earth. Maybe we can get a ground war going in Russia as well, really speed run the imperial collapse.

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      Don’t forget Nigeria! You know, the oil rich African country with 60 million military aged (18-35) men.

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        There’s so much terrible news all the time, I legitimately don’t know if we’ve threatened to attack Nigeria or not

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            You don’t need that finger for gran Turismo…

              • P00ptart
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                Wait till you upgrade to 7… GT sport was a decent stopgap, but 7 is so good I’m having trouble believing they can improve on it. The game is very serious but swaps can make it funny as hell. You can put the legendary 2jz Supra engine into a Yaris, a Chiron 1500 HP W16 into a Corvette, the Hellcat engine into a 1942 Willy’s jeep, there’s a lot of ridiculous fun to be had with engine swaps. You can even put a Porsche 911 engine into a VW bus. Good luck winning any races with some of these swaps, but it certainly is funny!

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            Why? No dont do that!! Keep having hope and taking action. We are all winning together. Dont sacrifice your ability to game!

            Read more goodgoodgood.co (Their article on tstudy of hope is a game chamger when you make that your main focus) and goodnewsnetwork as RSS Feeds

            Also on YouTube Sam Bentley, & Good News

            Dont give up mate. Strength in Unity. Join communities in-person and online to not be alone. Also get active with others and get others to do too. Everystate has people getting others mobilized and every bit helps!

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            You’ve got to find a way to check out a little. If you try to stay in top of this shit 24/7 you’ll have a breakdown. A little time to focus on something, anything, that gives you joy is important.

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    This must be how the people in a Civs world must feel. Like things, just not making any sense.

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    He’s not going for cartels, the US supplies cartels with weapons and gives drugs to the US. That’s their cash cow!

    He is going because the political parties the US funds in Mexico are loosing popularity and they need to interfere before it’s too late.

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    In a move straight out of Daddy Putin’s playbook.

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      But Trump knows where Daddy Putin went wrong. 3 day operation. 40 mile line of tanks to Mexico City.

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    If the cartels turn Trump and his fellow MAGATs into gas station attendants, I wouldn’t mind. They are also welcome to burn down the ballroom.

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    How are they already bored with invading our own cities? I’m not saying that I endorse any of this shit-show, but can we please just leave our neighbors alone?

    Papa Naranja, tenemos muchos personas aqui. ¿Porque necesitas tambien chinga con los personas aya? Iqualmente, por favor no chingale con nosotros. Vayas al dormir, el viejo mejor, por favor.

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      Uh, this is the second neighbour/ally/trilateral trade partner who’s sovereignty he’s threatened

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        Yes, but that was BEFORE he soft-launched martial law against cities that vote against him. Deploying troops is a huge escalation over threats and emboldens his administration while desensitizing us to his horrors.

        The last I heard, we’ve now murdered 10 boatsful of Venezuelans. I don’t even know if that number is accurate because I’ve been too busy to really catch up on all of our current atrocities. The last I’d heard before that number was 3.

        The point is, we’re getting to the point that we’d shrug at following through on a foreign invasion. What I’m saying is that while we’re now watching our fearless leader make good on bad promises, let’s keep a Mexican invasion categorized under TACOs. If we start threatening to force our way north, then you’ll get to see how much worse my French is than my Spanish.

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          The last I heard, we’ve now murdered 10 boatsful of Venezuelans. I don’t even know if that number is accurate because I’ve been too busy to really catch up on all of our current atrocities. The last I’d heard before that number was 3.

          You could take a look at the article in order to catch up: “If authorized, the planned missions would represent a significant escalation in Trump’s ongoing series of attacks against he has claimed to be drug cartel operations, which include at least 15 strikes against alleged drug smuggling boats in the Caribbean and western Pacific Ocean.”

          Up to 15 strikes it looks like.

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            You could take a look at the article

            No.

            But you’re right, I probably should have read it before responding. I was immediately reactionary.

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                From my perspective, no need to apologize. You called me out where I deserved to be called out. You did not attack me personally and provided context. I seriously thought you were offering a stern and sincere response, which I totally respect.

                That being said, I’m sorry that you were in a shitty mood. These are very stressful times and it’s easy to accidentally snap at your neighbor. Remember that the most valuable resource you can offer is yourself, which is why it’s important to take care of yourself. If you ever need to vent and just feel the acknowledgement of another human, feel free to send a message.

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                  Thanks! Elevated my mood instantly to be reminded that it’s still possible to behave as humans online.

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    The shithead-in-chief wants a war so he can declare martial law and end our chance to rid ourselves of his cancer.