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John Gordon 📷
@Bluedonkey@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@pluralistic Honestly, hardly surprising given he has been a failure at pretty much everything else he has done in his life.

He would have had a much more successful first term had he just left things as they were and taken the credit for it. Same with the current term. But the narcissist in him cannot do that. He believes he knows better than everybody else, and the result will be his biggest failure yet. Sadly, we all have to suffer the result too.

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Jack William Bell
@jackwilliambell@rustedneuron.com replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@pluralistic

Some relevant Machiavelli quotes:

> “He who becomes a Prince through the favor of the people should always keep on good terms with them; which it is easy for him to do, since all they ask is not to be oppressed.”

> “He who is highly esteemed is not easily conspired against;”

> “Therefore the best fortress is to be found in the love of the people, for although you may have fortresses they will not save you if you are hated by the people.”

And my favorite…

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dragonfrog
@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@pluralistic "Neither the U.S. military nor National Guard troops signed up to be MAGA brownshirts (...) potentially fight citizen militias"

Well, good thing for them the "citizen militias" in the US are exactly the people who *did* sign up to be MAGA brownshirts, and will definitely not be fighting to prevent the US military or National Guard troops doing dictator shit.

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John Gordon 📷
@Bluedonkey@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@pluralistic Honestly, hardly surprising given he has been a failure at pretty much everything else he has done in his life.

He would have had a much more successful first term had he just left things as they were and taken the credit for it. Same with the current term. But the narcissist in him cannot do that. He believes he knows better than everybody else, and the result will be his biggest failure yet. Sadly, we all have to suffer the result too.

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Bandersnatch
@Bandersnatch@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@Bluedonkey @pluralistic

Yup. If #pedophile#Trump hadn't been born rich & illegally given $400m he'd been a shitty used car salesman somewhere & the rest of the world would be a better place.

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Tall Simon
@TallSimon@mstdn.ca replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 weeks ago
@pluralistic Lukashenko knows this. He has carefully avoided making daily life in Belarus suck too awfully, keeping Turchin's "Population Immiseration" index off the boil.

The people around Trump are stupid enough to kill the goose that is laying the proverbial golden egg.

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LastOfThem
@lastofthem@mastodon-belgium.be replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pluralistic Trump isn't the problem, it's the much smarter people around him that you need to worry about.
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(((Cindy Weinstein)))
@CindyWeinstein@zirk.us replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pluralistic

Stephen Miller is not, though.

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Stefan Edward Jones
@StefanEJones@dice.camp replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pluralistic

They're flailing idiots.

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Asking NG troops showing up in Portland "Guys, does this look like a war zone to you?" in a friendly, sympathetic manner might be a good tactic. Maybe suggest some good food carts.

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SigmundFreudsBartender
@sfb@nerdculture.de replied  ·  activity timestamp last month
@pluralistic I strongly disagree with the analyses of ns-Germany...
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