• Victor@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Maybe Putin Musk should launch a special military operation in Ukraine Britain to de-nazify de-tyrranize them. How kind and noble that would be.

  • Dizzy Devil Ducky@lemm.ee
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    2 months ago

    Imagine that! Wannabe dictator asking whether or not they should invade a sovereign country! He’s truly a good person because he asked his people if they should invade instead of flat out invading!

    /s

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      2 months ago

      I’m also positive that the pole was representative of the US population as a whole and not just his idiot supporters.

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      2 months ago

      And we can trust the reliability of the data, given the sterling reputation of Twitter and Musk himself, of course.

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    2 months ago

    How… kind of him… always nice to see the richest man in the world having fuck all to do but shitpost.

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    2 months ago

    My bins weren’t collected last week, now we’ve got snow in them and all the cardboard’s all wet and soggy. If that is not evidence of a tyrannical dictatorship, then I don’t know what is.

  • M0oP0o@mander.xyz
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    2 months ago

    So between this and trumps statements on Canada are we getting the commonwealth back together? I could go for another burning down of a white house.

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    2 months ago

    Given his role in the upcoming cabinet, it’s no doubt going to be very cost-efficient and won’t increase the size of either government

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    I genuinely can’t believe what is happening. What timeline are we living in?

    Maybe it’s time we designated Musk as a terrorist?

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      I genuinely can’t believe what is happening

      Then you should pay more attention to history…

      And I don’t mean that as an insult, all this shit is reruns of shit we’ve already been thru. WW2 had a large push by wealthy American businessmen to not just abstain from the war, but they advocated for joining the Axis back then.

      Capitalism and fascism go hand in hand, the ultra wealthy will always want fascism because fascist leaders love bomb them to get their wealth and power behind the movement.

      We all need to understand this shit so we can understand what worked last time and why it didn’t work permanently

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        Fascism cannot exist without capitalism. Capital is what supports and strengthens fascism - the idea that business is more important than the people. This sounds like how the world has always been but it wasn’t until the 60s, at least in the US, when the business leaders wanted to stop unions, make more money, stop the possibilities of environmentalists from hurting profits, etc. The pushback from the people in the 60s spawned the Civil Rights and threatened to derail the business first approach America had gotten used to from after the Depression. The war years gave too much money and power to too few people and things like the Business Plot simmered under the surface of our grandparents’ generation. Two generations of propaganda that made social and community based governing sound villainous has brought us to a full on fascist revolution slow burning through wealthy democracies.

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          There’s a lot of details in there that are wrong, but I’ll touch on the part that’s UK relevant since this is a UK sub:

          The pushback from the people in the 60s spawned the Civil Rights and threatened to derail the business first approach America had gotten used to from after the Depression. The war years gave too much money and power to too few peopl

          The big driver of the civil rights movement in America was the treatment of Black soldiers in WW2, the English and especially the French didn’t give a fuck what color an American soldier was, they just cared they were killing Nazis.

          For a Black man from the American South in the 1940s, the tiniest but of basic human decency was unknown from a white person. But they quickly got used to the idea that all men were born equal, regardless of the color of their skin.

          So when they came back, they refused to go back to being treated worse for the color of their skin.

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        Black and viscous - bound to cure blue lethargy
        Sugar-plum petroleum for energy
        Tightrope-balanced payments need a small reprieve
        Oh, please believe
        We want to be
        in North Sea Oil

  • surph_ninja@lemmy.world
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    How many of the people pearl clutching didn’t even notice we just overthrew Syria?

    But I guess white western countries are supposed to be off limits.

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      Hmm, let’s see, one country was ruled by a murderous dictator using chemical weapons against his own people and crushing dissidents to a pulp in secret prisons. The other is a mature, functioning democracy with rule of law and a free press.

      Yes, yes, I can see how you think that’s exactly the same.

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        The chemical weapons claim has debunked many times since the claim was made by intelligence orgs, and the white helmets exposed as a western regime change operation.

        Which country is the “mature, functioning democracy with rule of law and free press”? Would that be the UK, which is crushing pro-Palestine protestors, arresting journalists for criticism of Israel, arming genocide, and participating in CIA torture black sites? The country that has openly declared it will defy ICC arrest warrants?

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          Yes, as I said, it’s exactly the same. I’m really glad you’re here to make it so plain to everyone.

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          The country that has openly declared it will defy ICC arrest warrants?

          You need to stop listening to the British right, that never happened. The conservatives threatened it and then they got removed from office and now it’s not a thing anymore.

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              Not that it makes any difference because the government don’t decide policy like that it would be the police that would arrest him should the impossible occur and he actually turn up in the UK

              Also let me know when you can be bothered to actually put forward an article from a non-biased source. They’re all forces out there that want to completely discredit the left-wing government and while they are absolutely not been the best they could be they’re an infinite amount better than the utter corrupt nightmare that was the conservative party.

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                  Yes that’s actually what the government was saying the entire time it was just idiots were construing something else from that.

                  I don’t know what you think “local cops” are but there is such a thing as Interpol remember. There is a standing instruction to arrest them if for some reason they ever came here. You don’t think the police consult the government do you?

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    Brit here. What a complete wankpuffin. He should focus on liberating himself from his own stupidity.

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    Can’t tell if this guy’s finally lost it or I just have a very different sense of humor from him

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    The best thing I can say about Musk is that watching him spiral even further into madness will be fun.

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      Yup, even better since he’s buddies with Trump right now, when the shit hits the fan it will be better than reality tv.