top 100 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 125 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It is often said that to truly be president of a place you must walk among the people unguarded to show that you’re in charge and not a big wuss

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [+] 35 points 9 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 313 points 9 months ago (31 children)

    The lines between Hitler and Trump are becoming less and less blurred

  • source
  • hideshow 31 child comments
  • [–] 299 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    It is almost like he told everyone that he was going to be a dictator on day one.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 79 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Technically he claimed that it would be ONLY on day one, but nobody ever actually believed that.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] -45 points 9 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 34 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [+] -29 points 9 months ago (5 children)
  • [–] 41 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (4 children)

    Ah, you are this idiot:

    “Dude I'm South Asian. As long as a Black man, South Asian man or a white man behaves and follows orders, it will be fine.”

    Must be a troll, nobody is this dumb. I have no time for trolls, blocked.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    In other comments they revealed themselves to be a full-blown Nazi just trolling.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (-1 replies)
  • load more comments (-1 replies)
  • [–] 63 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    It's not like he's invading countries and throwing minorities into camps....

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 31 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Or celebrating his jackbooted thugs murdering people.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Or hanging out in sex rings or taking drugs....

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 40 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I think you mean more blurred, not less.

    A less blurred line would be more distinct, providing a stronger, more obvious separation between the two.

    A more blurred line is fuzzier, making it more difficult to tell where one ends and the other starts.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    If the man was still alive, he would be salivating for what it is being done right now. It's the original agenda, on steroids, revised, fine tuned and turbo charged.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    When he was elected I was very scared that my son would be old enough to be conscripted and die in a pointless war based on the time line compared to original Hilter.

    Good news though! Looks like he won't even get to live to see 10 years old! 👍

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    "You cannot beat the master of genocide and racial segregation" (Hitler, if he were alive today)

    Hitler's agenda borrowed heavily from US policies. The US experimenting on his own citizens went on for decades after Auschwitz was closed.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    I get what you're saying from the context, but the way you phrases it makes it sound like it's becoming more clearly defined that Trump is not Hitler. Generally, more "blurring of the lines" equates to a thing becoming less clearly distinguishable from another thing.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago*

    If one circle is blurry, it can look like a Venn diagram.

    As it gets more focused, it looks like the Venn just overlaps more than it did originally.

    Then one day, everyone's like "wait a minute, it's been a single blurry circle the whole time" and everyone can see it.

    It's not common usage now, but has before. So maybe they switched it up on accident, but if it was intentuonal then it wasn't necessarily wrong. They just meant as the differences get more defined, we realize they aren't really differences.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 213 points 9 months ago (8 children)

    If he's the president of Venezuela then let's open up the border to them. Let them come in they're American now.

  • source
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 125 points 9 months ago (7 children)

    This is actually a good argument .

    The president of the USA can not be head of state of a different country. So they are either Americans or Donald trump accidentally abdicated the presidency.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago (5 children)

    Is there anything explicitly forbidding it? I can't say I recall anything specific about it, but I admit I could be just forgetting a constitutional clause or something.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 57 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.

    He cannot "accept ... [an] Office ... from any ... foreign State." I suppose he might argue that "accepting" and "seizing by force" are not the same thing.

    Or Congress could pass an act to allow it.

    Edit: Or, more realistically, someone will complain to the Supreme Court and they'll find a reason to avoid ruling on the issue and Sotomayor will write an angry dissent but nothing will change.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago*

    Argue? Why would he argue? He says it, it happens, nobody has a choice but to accept it, the legal system is defunct. We are living in upside down clown world now. The clown has his own Gestapo and nukes. Fucker needs to be taken out like week old fish in the bin.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    It is supposed to be covered in the emoluments clause https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Emoluments_Clause

    It actually could be OK but congress will have to vote on it to allow it.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 84 points 9 months ago

    Oh man, I sure do hope some random fucking country doesn't kidnap the new President of Venezuela.

  • source
  • [–] 79 points 9 months ago (17 children)

    When this era of terror is over, I hope we have Nuremberg style trials for all these wastes of humans. From the white house to the lawmakers who sat idly by and let this country falter, to the ice agents "just following orders". And I hope we dismantle everything trump. No courts. No mercy. Globally. Cancel every contract they have given themselves and their friends. Corrupt judges out. End this Christian fascism. Every Trump aligned son of a bitch and bitch delta with

  • source
  • hideshow 17 child comments
  • [–] 44 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You are dreaming. USA did this TWICE. There is no turning back from this. The People of the USA seems to forget a lot in 4 years. So who will the next trump be, once the egg prices goes up again? USA will never be trusted again. They are in catagory with Russia and china.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 17 points 9 months ago*

    The USA will be treated as even less trustworthy than Russia and China. Russia and China are of course untrustworthy but at least they are consistently untrustworthy. Everyone knows to give them a wide birth.

    But the USA, they insinuated themselves into high-level defence pacts and international military cooperation. Then they decided to turn fascist and destroy everything for no readily apparent reason.

    If there is going to be any repairing of fences, it's going to have to start off with the US paying for all the damage they have done to the world order and all of the renegotiating of contracts that has had to be done because they didn't feel like fulfilling their international obligations. And also justice, if the Trump admin don't end up in prison then the rest of the world is going to see that for what it is. An attempt to defend the indefensible, and therefore an indication that they have not truly changed.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (13 children)

    There had to be a World War for Nuremberg to happen. What my fear is instead of World War there will be a World Civil war.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    I just thought about ww2, and I just realized how egregious it is that the Japanese and Italians sided with Nazis.

    They thought "yes, mhm, we are on that side".

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 9 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Don't sell Italy and Japan short.

    Mussolini invented fascism, and did population-scale deployment of chemical weapons in Ethopia.. Imperial Japan are absolutely an all-time G.O.A.T of horrific war crimes.

    Their behavior was egregious, and that's why they sided with the nazis.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    A slight nitpick but Japan didn't side with the Nazis. They had their own thing going on with China and simply saw the Nazis as an opportunity for some payback. It wasn't like they really bought into the Nazi ideology as didn't really apply to them. The Italians were all in on it though.

    Had the war turned out differently there would have been a radical cultural difference between Nazi controlled Europe and Japanese controlled Asia. In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (1 child)

    In the long run it would have probably led to another war because of the extreme cultural differences.

    Like a cold war.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Alternative history is sort of difficult because we don't know what the capabilities of those powers would have been. In order for the Nazis to have won the war a lot of people on both sides would have needed to make quite radically different decisions.

    However it doesn't take much theorizing to suggest that Nazi Germany would have probably had nuclear weapons in that scenario (the Germans were moving in that direction towards the end of the war, but were never really able to make much progress because by that point they were losing badly and didn't have the resources anymore).

    I can't see how Japan would have ended up with nuclear weapons though. So I suspect a certain amount of power imbalance would have existed.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 9 months ago*

    Italy was more of a trapped situation

    Japan pre-nukes however were extremely genocidal fascist, look up some of the stuff they did just before WWII, such as the "Rape of Nanjing", if anything the Nazis took some inspiration from them

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    What is a "world civil war" and how is that different from a world war?

    My understanding is that a "civil war" is a war within a country, for the dominance and rulership of that country, usually over ideals or laws or something. And a world war is just.... a worldwide war. I wish my grandparents were still around to seek real advice on this, I truly miss them and their experience and wisdom.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    They will be factions within countries fighting amongst each other. There maybe alliances amongst those factions but no nations against each other. The end an apocalyptic fragments of Nations

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 3 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    You could say that some of the national borders as they exist right now are needlessly artificial.

    Take Spain and Catalonia for example. The only reason that Catalonia is not an independent country is because Spain won't let them be. There's no real reason other than Spanish national pride and if there was a war between the two you could classify it as a civil war or you could classify it as a war between two countries, it's entirely a matter of opinion.

    But I don't think that US politics has any real bearing on whether or not that happens. Political instability in the United States doesn't really lead to any obvious change in internal politics for other countries. External policies obviously would change but not internal ones.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Right wing nationalism is spilling into Europe, Aisa along with bad actors like Israel, China, Russia it will lead to factions and if we are truly unlucky civil war.

    There is unrest in France, Germany, many of the Baltic nations, UK.

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 64 points 9 months ago (6 children)

    Fine. I declare myself god. Checkmate.

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 8 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    I declare myself as One-above-god, checkmate on you, loser!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    Well I declare myself One-above-god + 1! You are inferior deity!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 154 points 9 months ago (9 children)

    We better do NOTHING AT ALL about This! Not even a SLIGHTLY Stern Letter!

    -World Leaders Apparently! And Democrats!

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 25 points 9 months ago (6 children)
  • [–] 13 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    There's literally protests all over the country.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    There's literally secret contingency plans you don't get to hear about...

    ...what? You think world leaders are stupid enough to telegraph this stuff? Who do you think they are, Trump?

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 80 points 9 months ago* (6 children)

    Text of the Foreign Emoluments Clause, U.S. Const. art. I, § 9, cl. 8.

    “No Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under [the United States], shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”

  • source
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago

    I declare him a traitorous orange turd.

  • source
  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago (4 children)

    Man. All them politicians in DC must be writing some mildly worded letters. Cause they sure as fuck aren’t doing anything else.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 15 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Their owners told them to be happy about this, so they are.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago (3 children)

    He really suppose go to prison wtf

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›
    6 comments in c/worldnews@midwest.social view that post