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      Hardly call him a POWER bottom. That implies he has the ability to move his shambling corpse in a way other than a lurch.

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    The author of the post that Trump is the “most powerful man that ever lived” is probably correct. Think about it: the US has the largest military in the world, and can project power anywhere. Historically, while this power has been built up, in America the ability to wield it has been carefully constructed so that it has to go through several layers of responsibility before being used, and different parts of government can perform their own checks on that ability.

    Then Trump comes along, and many of those checks and balances dissolve. Somehow, he has successfully aligned enough of our government to his agenda that he can launch a war (and lose it!) without being held responsible for the result.

    That is Trump’s superpower - the ability to do whatever he wants, with impunity. That’s not supposed to happen in our modern society, but he figured out how. Perhaps the key is having no shame, so he can ask for things that no other politician would think is appropriate? But with that kind of power, he really is ruling like a king, with the largest military in history (and all those nukes) at his command. Who’s gonna say “no” to him at this point? He got rid of everyone who might.

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      On the other hand how effective is the US military really? Its got a lot of fancy toys but sure did just fall flat on its face despite what should have been overwhelming advantages.

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        It’s the big difference between grand strategy and tactics. You can win every single battle and still lose a war. Grand strategy comes from the top. If the mad emperor tells his troops to make war on the sea, is it really on the troops when they lose?

        “War is a continuation of policy”, so what happens when there is no policy? What would “winning” even have looked like?

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        I mean do you think that every person on all the weapons of war really wanted to win against Iran or were they just showing up for a paycheck because they didn’t really believe in their orders. Like doing just enough to not get fired and everyone collectively being like yup we know it’s bullshit and stupid but let’s kill some kids I guess, I mean the computer told us to so it’s not like we can get fired over it

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          That’s possible but I don’t see the US army being super jazzed about going full imperialism either, maybe Cuba and Mexico might be initially tolerable but the latter is liable to turn into a horrific meat grinder which the population (rightfully) has never taken well in the United States. Every other option is either culturally a US ally or very far away which is a problem because US logistics are nowhere near as overhwelming without international support, or both.

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    From another article:

    Trump said the document came from a “historian,” but Haberman and Swan later found that its author was Dave King, a longtime caddy and confidant of golfer Gary Player.

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    Jesus H. Christ on a pogo stick… will you just go away already … or just die. Either is cool. Hopefully from a stroke on the toilet. Because anything else would make it worse.

    I am so tired of hearing about all the stupid shit he says on a daily basis. I will be so happy when he is a distant memory.

    I have some very expensive whiskey just waiting.

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    You know what’s funny with people who have the narcissistic personality disorder, is they themselves do not see anything wrong with them.

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    Don’t you have to conquer something to be a conqueror?

    I’ve conquered the entire world in multiple RTS games. One time i conquered an entire galaxy. Does that count?

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    Maybe Americans will finally realize their cute “No Kings” parade, mean nothing to this administration? maybe try it on a weekday so the economic impact does the talking for you?

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          And community forms where you meet people.

          At rallies and marches.

          So…like at a No Kings rally where I’ve been networking with organizers? But Jhex said those are useless? Now I don’t know who to believe. Guess I’ll just go fill out my ICE application and hope for the best.

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            yes, those are useless on weekends

            you should have reached that conclusion when your mad king sent the vid of himself, as a king, literalny shitting on the march

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              And again, your criticism is coming from your place of privilege. Most of us are one missed day of work from being fired and one missed payment from homelessness.

              Take your completely useless critique and leave the conversation to those of us actually doing something other than victim blame from outside the struggle.

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                Have you guys considered asking for foreign aid to fund a general strike? I am sure the rest of the world would be happy to support opposition to the trump regime.

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                  That is a brilliant idea. I’ll bring it up with those I know who can lend some more legitimacy than me just doing a kickstarter.

                  Edit to add: thank you.

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                you are focusing on the wrong thing here…

                if you go to school, your teacher preaches from a position of priviledge, does that render the lesson wrong?

                Take your completely useless critique and leave the conversation to those of us actually doing something other than victim blame from outside the struggle.

                if you point me the way of anyone not wasting their time, I’d be happy to

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                you can bud but the regime clearly ignores you and nothinc is achieved…

                do you think labour strikes would work if workers do it on weekends???

                the stalling of the economic activity is what gives these moves any power… it’s really not hard to understand

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        the fact that you see taking 1 day off to defend your erodinc rights as an affront confirms everything we see from the outside… yet instead of fighting the powers that put you in that place you rather attack me instead…

        Exactly like the people who don’t complain about their own poor wages but complain others are getting paid too much

        good luck with that bud

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      Every worker in the US could stop working and it wouldn’t matter much, since the economy nowadays is mostly just a handful of big tech companies shoving money around in a circle. This alone is sufficient for the stock market to go stonks, and the rich becoming richer as a consequence. We normal workers are completely irrelevant and no threat to them and their wealth.

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        bud, that is completely false… I can see how fascist want you to believe that but it is simply not true

        organize and fight, you do have power in numbers

        while at it cancel every account you may have with meta, amazon, xitter and encourage family and friend to do the same

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    Conquerors are worthless. They come and go. What makes a realm/an empire stick around and last, is if the leader is a good administrator. What set the Romans aside was not so much military ability, though they had that. What set them aside was their ability to organise, plan and administer.

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    What a terrifically stupid claim. He has no idea what is going on.

    Historian David King is even more frightening, check this guy’s hard drive.