• Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I know some people are saying it was always this way, but never have I ever seen (since the '60s) or heard of a president propose annexing sovereign nations and buying countries as casually as this one.

    I hope it’s just some strange psychological ploy, but it’s just too weird and informal to have a Presidential precedent.

    • TranscendentalEmpire@lemm.eeEnglish
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      2 months ago

      know some people are saying it was always this way

      There have been periods of fascism in the United States that have echoed what we are seeing today, namely the silver legion in the 30s. However, no one who has been so transparently fascist has ever been the head of state.

      hope it’s just some strange psychological ploy, but it’s just too weird and informal to have a Presidential precedent.

      I don’t really think it’s a ploy, moreso I think he’s just testing the waters and seeing who will stand up to his rhetoric. Anyone in the Republican party who actually tries to resist will be politically attacked or isolated.

      Fascist always purify their own hierarchy of organization before making moves on others. Unfortunately, it seems our republica future is in the hands of the Republican Senate. Now we get to see if the founding fathers were correct in their hopes that the Senate would be more resistant to rampant populism.

      I wouldn’t get my hopes up though, the founding fathers had a lot of idiotic notions reliant on decor and tradition.

    • tibi@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The biggest change is that in the past, what the president thought and said was private, the messages transmitted to the public were carefully controlled, and there were several filters they had to pass through to get to the ordinary people.

      Today, through social media, we have unfiltered access to the president’s thoughts. And we’re learning why this is a bad idea.

      • Diplomjodler@lemmy.worldMEnglish
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        2 months ago

        All other presidents of the social media age so far have managed not to make complete fools of themselves, so maybe it has to do with this particular one.

      • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I assure you, Jimmy Carter did not have thoughts of using military intervention to annex Greenland. Twitter in 1978 would have been “OMG, I got attacked by a swimming rabbit!”

        Trump really is more dangerous than all past presidents. Not even Andrew Jackson threatened to court martial politicians that didn’t support him.

  • Boomkop3@reddthat.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I don’t know how true that is, but I wouldn’t immediately say they’re wrong. Presidential debates are like a shouting match in kindergarten

    • SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      It’s amazing how almost every interaction between nations and superpowers can very easily explained in kindergarten terms. It’s so often exactly “I want all”, “I can’t have I break it”, intimidating and slapping others just because they are smaller.

      • frezik@midwest.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        International relations are in a state of anarchy. Ultimately, nobody is in charge. But it’s the shitty pop version of anarchy, not the kind that any self described anarchist would want.