• Archangel@lemm.ee
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    18 days ago

    It only counts if they gave him an itemized receipt, with the word “bribe” at the top, followed by two columns…one labeled “quid” and the other labeled “quo”. And it needs to be notarized.

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    18 days ago

    None of this is for the United States. It’s all for him. The greedy little piggy.

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      18 days ago

      This all reminds me of a conversation in Star Trek Deep Spaces 9. Season 5 episode 20

      For context Quark is talking with his mother Ishka about the qualities that the leader, the Nagus, of their hyper capitalist society should have.

      Quark: Of course not. He was willing to throw our entire economy into chaos just so he could grab power.

      Ishka: Sounds like a true Ferengi to me.

      Quark: A Ferengi, maybe, but not a Nagus. A Nagus has to be better than that. His personal greed has to reflect the public’s greed.

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    18 days ago

    Calling the interim president of Syria a ‘former terrorist’ is… Well, it’s something. I notice that not too many people are talking about how a large number of people that are in high-level Israeli positions were also terrorists that killed British diplomat families when Israel was trying to become independent. But when it’s a brown dude…

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    18 days ago

    And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.

    • Guns0rWeD13@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      we americans are pathetic. it seems like we fall into one of these categories:

      • christo fascists who voted for him
      • suburban sociopaths who voted for him
      • clueless libertarians who either voted for him or absolve themselves of any responsibility
      • NPR liberals who are basically useless pacifists
      • millennial/gen Z cowards who can’t even drive a manual trans, much less start a revolution

      it’s fucking hopeless and we deserve this. i’m building a bunker. fuck every one of you.-

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        18 days ago

        If you had all the levers of wealth and power in the world, or if you as an individual had access to just one of them, wouldn’t you do your part to build this kind of passive society too? Otherwise you might have to worry about your access to these levers and therefore your power being usurped. There are many ways to manipulate a person to work against their own interests, which are almost entirely concentrated into the hands of the wealthy owning class.

        This is a problem of class antagonism, not the complicity and/or ignorance of the individually powerless. As a class we have to rise beyond these antagonisms; their manipulation of us into a class that passively allows them to profit from our labor and pays no mind to their corruption; by teaching class consciousness to the other members of our class. That is just as much on you and I as it is on anyone else.

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        18 days ago

        Hey, I’m driving a manual trans don’t be putting that on my whole generation.

        The problem is: nobody wants to die, we all are fed and fat, our education system has been being weakened for 40 years now, did I mention the whole not dying part?

        I’m hopeful that our institutions are strong enough to hold until the midterm elections, Dems will take Congress with a strong majority and we can avoid mass bloodshed and actually impeach the guy and get him convicted. No doubt that may be a long shot and people will suffer but I’m not violent revolution is anywhere in the cards anytime soon.

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          18 days ago

          I’m hopeful that our institutions are strong enough to hold until the midterm elections

          lol. ok.

  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world
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    18 days ago

    Lol Trump is becoming a bitch to every country that the FBI and CIA have spent a decade to show as the main baddies. I wonder how the red necks that have “Russia and Muslims are bad” engraved into their spinal cords are taking this?

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      I wonder how the red necks that have “Russia and Muslims are bad” engraved into their spinal cords are taking this?

      If he takes money from Russia, I’ll confidently proclaim this world is done.

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      18 days ago

      the FBI and CIA

      Who do you think helped put this dude in power? It’s been decades of pumping these people with weapons, etc.

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    17 days ago

    I hate corruption in all forms, but I love the fact that Israel is freaking the fuck out right now because the Middle East just realized all they have to do is bribe Trump.

    Israeli government is pissed right now, and that’s awesome….

    But also, stop pretending like just about every politician in Washington doesn’t also take legalized bribes

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      17 days ago

      This is bad. And these same people the Republicans where trying to find anything on Biden about bribery. But are silent on this stuff that Trump is doing in the open.

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      17 days ago

      I hate corruption in all forms, but I love the fact that Israel is freaking the fuck out right now because the Middle East just realized all they have to do is bribe Trump.

      Hey, maybe netanyahu being upset will cause democrats to actually oppose something trump is doing.

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    17 days ago

    Umm the burden is on the one making the claim. It’s also customary on the net to site the source so… No I didn’t.