Yes, read history or take a serious gov class.

This was almost a 1:1 repeat of 2016 and yet lemmy is still getting spammed with denialism posts with hundreds of upvotes.

Trump is representative of the systemic issues America has left unresolved, not a cause, and the writing has been on the wall for decades; so much so that people think old media (ex: simpsons) was very cunningly predicting the future when in reality it was parodying the same issues at the time.

The one key difference has been the rather recent introduction of the internet. You can often find both much more reliable and higher quality information in less than a minute that what you could get from something like 10 newspapers combined 30 years ago. Especially for the younger generation, not everyone is falling for the same stupid tricks anymore.

Great example is Washington Post. People think it dropped in quality after it was bought by Bezos, but ask any international academic and they’ll probably tell you WaPo was always hot trash.

All this stuff you see being “worse” has been predicted for years on end, so while you can technically say it is “new”, it’s nothing unexpected. Even the next level filthy mouth ramblings of Trump are just something the previous guy did off camera (cough bush).

To quote a user from another thread:

Theyre not the ones that need to learn. Voters need to learn DNC is a bunch of wealthy moderates grifting voters.

I’m fairly certain Biden would have done the same if not worse considering his lower popularity that resulted in Democrats switching to Harris.

Had they planned this out and done a primary, there’d probably be a new candidate who would have done better and possibly won.

Of course that would involve letting people decide their candidate which is a big no no and too expensive to rig and risk losing anyway just like Hillary’s campaign.

Someone joke bet $500 Michigan will be blue with a +4% lead so I think I’ll joke bet $500 it will just be a repeat of 2016-2020 except 1.5x worse and then by next election maybe the DNC will learn to run a normal primary again and promote a popular candidate who actually promises to meet constituents’ demands instead of ignoring them.

Also someone on this community asked what everyone would do if Trump won and I said I’d probably make a collage of a years worth of my comments telling people ignoring genocide would cost Democrats the election.

So I guess I might go do that now and say “I told you so” to everyone who told me I was wrong.

The protocol isn’t even the issue, banks already use XRP.

It’s the fact that USD is propped up by Uncle Sam’s globalized monopoly which is kept in tip top shape by geopolitical power.

Everyone trades in USD because it’s the de facto currency and it’s stable because the government can abuse its power to keep it that way.

No one trusts the value of the Ruble, Yuan, Rupee, or even any other currency except for maybe the Euro. They all exist for internal use, which means its just gets compared in value to USD whenever you have to deal with anything external, which is all the time.

BRICS would only fly if a stable trade medium can rapidly prove its worth with market stress and trade requirement, otherwise everyone will just continue to use USD, hence why the USA doesn’t currently view it as much of a threat. And even if you could get countries on board, the US can hold on to a massive noose around everyone’s neck by refusing to trade in anything but USD, which would effectively shut you off from trading with a massive portion of US based/owned/partner companies.

I like how Pakistan is striped as if they didn’t just throw away billions of dollars of chinese investments for some IMF loans because the US told them to lol.

Also Afghanistan being green which actually happened right before Pakistan’s thing

EDIT: Also India which always gets refused US arm tech sales because they exclusively buy from Russia lol. It’s like enemy of my enemy but also friend of my other enemy.

I mean it was the NSA that sat on eternal blue for something like 10 years.

And just seeing the defaults on Active Directory would make anyone believe they pay Microsoft to keep windows insecure.

Can’t wait to run NSA SElinux on a Chinese OEM RISC-V machine in the future.

Double the security

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Or maybe double the backdoors lmao

Pakistan will happily sell the info and tech you need, you just gotta bribe the right people lol.

That’s how Iran and NK allegedly got their start.

Just make sure the US doesn’t get wise or you’ll get regime changed.

You’d have to pay KSA double their oil money to take Palestine.

Probably better luck convincing Egypt or Iraq to take if we’re actually gonna go down this utterly stupid route.

Also Hamas doesn’t even have proper C&C. On top of the reality thay this isn’t a videogame, practically nothing will change.

The former members of SEATO can tell you how well that went for them lol.

They actually did until it backfired on them and now Iran is ultra conservative and the only Middle East nation not a shill staye.

Even if the UN buckled under pressure, I have a sneaking suspicion Ireland would not care lol.

Also very nice of them to ask the UN for things after banning entry to the UN general secretary.

Yeah this letter was penned by a whopping 4 democrats. I’m sure there are more, but nothing close to a majority.

No but obviously Russia would attack their own pipeline in a 4D chess move for public PR. Reddit assured me it’s true.

Full attention on Uighurs but absolutely nothing is happening in Gaza -Blinken probably

Bruh they really airstriked their HQ because he agreed to a ceasfire.

And it’s not even something unbelievable because Nasrallah already mentioned way back in Octobor that he was very reluctant to join in with Hamas’s attack.

They killed Ismail Haniyeh for the same reason.

Israel spent decades pacifying their enemies, and now they’re literally too passive to use as a reason for expansion.

If anything we have more chances of seeing change once Kamala is in office than Trump.

This isn’t even hopium it’s just straight up delusional.

No but blindly vote blue

Trump would be worse than the 20 billion dollars of pre approved bombs I can assure you

No such thing as a bad Democrat candidate amirite

The United States is determined to prevent Iran and Iranian-backed partners and proxies from exploiting the situation or expanding the conflict,

Also Israel literally right now: “Lmao let’s exploit the situation we created and expand the conflict”