• jdr@lemmy.ml
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    4 days ago

    "Better to ride a wolf and

    be thought a fool than ridden by a donkey

    won’t get fooled

    again."

    Oscar Wilde

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    5 days ago

    I thought China and Russia were allies of Iran and didn’t want the US to kill Khamenei. Oh well. No cognitive dissonance here. Trump just does what he’s told by people who wouldn’t tell him to do those things. Makes sense

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      4 days ago

      Tbh I think he is easily swayed by those people but also he just… Listens to whoever he met in person last.

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        Or he is brought into fake SCIFs in Mar-a-Lago for photo shoots because he’s not actually making any of the decisions he’s just responsible for telling everyone that he’s making the decisions and in fact the decisions are being made by the joint chiefs