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[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 113 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I figured they were next, he’ll use the cartels as an excuse to send the military into the Mexican border states.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 50 points 1 month ago (2 children)

This world is about to explode.

[–] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

Welcome to the new multi polar world

[–] Cheems@lemmy.world 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Honestly whatever, factory reset.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 33 points 1 month ago (2 children)

If only! We won't be that lucky. They will just revert to feudalism, with absolute AI surveillance and thought control. Orwell was right, he knew. I mean we all knew. We just sat like frogs in the water slowly getting boiled.

[–] prex@aussie.zone 3 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, slowly. This has been in the works for decades, and people like myself have been screaming about it and promptly ignored

[–] TerdFerguson@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it is really exhausting and not worth the effort.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Fuck going quietly into that bad night. We can't do much, but what little we can, we must.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Yeah, since at least Reagan.

[–] youngGoku@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Orwell was either clairvoyant and had Divine visions of the future or he was a time traveler. I'm convinced.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He was intimately familiar with the Soviet modus operandi. What he talked about was a reality in Eastern Europe for many decades. My own family way back when told me that every apartment had a speaker installed in the living room which would spout propaganda- you could turn the volume off but you could never turn the radio off.

I've said for a long time that the USA has been going more and more towards a Stalinist society, and I stand by that claim.

[–] Iampossiblyatwork@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Them or Cuba

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Someone needs to catch Trump and give him la chancla.

[–] ivanafterall@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I know I won't, but I do hope to see him suffer mightily before he kicks the bucket far too late. I suppose you could argue that's what he's already doing.

[–] zd9@lemmy.world 34 points 1 month ago

He'll pull a Kissinger and the pure hate and evil inside his rotten corpse of a heart will keep him alive for another 10 miserable years.

[–] AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

He should have died of a massive coronary during The Apprentice tapings.

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 month ago

The real WMDs

[–] cosmicrookie@lemmy.world 57 points 1 month ago

It's all good

[–] heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

By the time China attacks Taiwan, the US will be entangled in so many conflicts, it won't bother to respond.

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

That's their goal. Same with Russia and Europe. They're trying to divide the world up between the three nations, but the idiots don't realize neither of them will stop there

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 35 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"All the lephtismts likening Trump to Hitler are OUT OF THEIR MINDS!"

[–] BoJackHorseman@piefed.social 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Netanyahu is the Hitler, clearly

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Double Hitlers are not mutually exclusive.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Netanyahu as Hitler and Trump as Mussolini is a pretty tight fit.

And Putin as Stalin.

The good old trifecta.

[–] NikkiDimes@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

History may not repeat, but it sure as hell rhymes.

[–] tomiant@piefed.social 2 points 1 month ago

Human nature doesn't change. We can only create systems as justly as we can to prohibit and make it as difficult as we can to stop those who seek to harm mankind and society rather than elevate and evolve it.

[–] slaacaa@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago
[–] prex@aussie.zone 23 points 1 month ago
[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The Gringos are going have their hands full if they piss off Central and South America. Not to mention, the US economy will fucking choke because Mexico is the USA's largest trading partner.

[–] thorhop@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 month ago

Ffffuuuuuck I would be so pleased of UNASUR put the US in it's place.

[–] pneumatron@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 month ago

México es parte de América del Norte compa

[–] TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 1 month ago

Let me translate for him: "I'm going to annex several middle/south American countries, after which I'm going to invade Canada and Greenland."

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

That megalomaniac needs to be put down stat

[–] himmyguap@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

If that happens it could be quite ugly for the 1.6 million US expats there.

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

What do you think would happen with the millions of Mexicans living in the US? I mean, how much would they accept until the bough breaks?

Not to mention that many of the Mexican drug cartels have ex Mexican military, trained by the US. This is not going to be the same as the quick'n easy roll-em-in invasion they had in Iraq.

[–] SaraTonin@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Why does something need to be done with Mexico?i thought there was a big beautiful wall keeping all the drugs and crime out?

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

They like to say it’s 100,000 but the real number is 300,000 in my opinion!