• Rob Bos@lemmy.caEnglish
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    9 days ago

    I would not ordinarily recommend Hitler’s tactics and strategies as a general rule, but he sure knew how to solve the Hitler problem, at the very end. Donny, maybe look into that.

  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml
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    8 days ago

    What is it with Trump and always “being subsidized by us” and “take away from us” while the US has trillions of debt in other countries? 300 billions to my home country alone, which doesn’t even compare to other countries.

    • ThraawnSolo@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Because Trump is a troll. He doesn’t give a shit if what he says or does is correct. Trying to make sense of the schmuck gives me a headache.

    • AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      He is incapable of understanding mutual trade and cooperation. To him every human interaction must have a winner and a loser. So if Canada is benefiting from trade with the US in his mind it must be at America’s expense. It’s a disturbingly simple view of trade and cooperation, and one that makes actual good faith discourse with the US near impossible.

    • ryannathans@aussie.zone
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      8 days ago

      He keeps referring to the disproportionate US export income to import costs. Something like 2 trillion in exports to 3 trillion in imports. 1 trillion lost from the US every year, and ~30% to Canada that’s his math

      • RaccoonBall@lemm.ee
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        8 days ago

        He trusts that his followers don’t, anyway. Based on some arguments I’ve seen online, he’s right about that.

        • Alaknár@lemm.ee
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          8 days ago

          I mean, he always calls trade deficit a “subsidy”, and has since 2016. I honestly don’t think he understand what that concept means, he’s not that subtle with manipulation.

  • Cocopanda@futurology.todayEnglish
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    8 days ago

    Can’t wait for the senate and congress to flip Dem. Nothing will get done. But I’m sure plenty of Trump operatives will be jailed for breaking congressional subpoenas.

    • OutlierBlue@lemmy.caEnglish
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      9 days ago

      Poilievre alrady said he wants to align more with Trump’s America. He’ll absolutely sell us out.

    • paperazzi@lemmy.world
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      8 days ago

      Yes, indeed. If you check out Poilievre’s platform, he almost entirely mimics Trump’s, right down to promoting Canada’s own version of DOGE. That’s why there was such a huge turnout at the voting booths. The writing was on the wall with that guy and becoming American was not what the majority of us wanted.

    • AtomicPinecone@lemmy.ca
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      8 days ago

      Well Poilievre, who’s party lost tonight, has been extremely limp-wristed in his opposition to Trump’s threats, but he hasn’t outright said he’d surrender, just implied it with his weak rhetoric. More likely to me is that Trump in his dementia ridden mind was literally calling for people to vote for him. Like somehow enough Canadians would write Trump on their ballots that it would “win” the election for him, which demonstrates such a fundamental lack of understanding about our electoral system that I don’t even know where to begin.

  • thefartographer@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    It’s like a truck carrying punctuation got into an accident with a train carrying words. This is so hard to read.

  • Sylvartas@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    8 days ago

    “increase your military power for free”… what’s the portion of the federal budget that is allocated to defense again ?

    • db2@lemmy.world
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      9 days ago

      I’m still trying to figure out how everything in the last 15ish years isn’t. Why do we have to be in the dumbest timeline.

      • blargle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        8 days ago

        This is actually one of the most interesting and entertaining timelines.

        There was only supposed to be enough source data to make it to 2012- and that was originally a very generous buffer, since a fraction of a percent of Earths last more than 10 years after both networked computers and nuclear weapons have been invented in-simulation.

        So, the operators decided not to pull the plug and just let this one run its course.

        As it extrapolates history farther and farther outside of the initial parameters, the simulator is cannibalizing itself with feedback and undergoing model collapse.