This man is a Tyrant. The comparisons to the Third Reich aren't just satire anymore; this is exactly what it is.
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Someone should tell Trump that Cuba is older than 16.
Cuban expats are a popular target for human trafficking. Come down to Houston or Miami and you'll find Cuban migrants all over the strip club scene.
Trump is an evil evil man, anybody who can't see that is a sociopath or worse.
No, to detect obviously sociopathic behavior is a trait normal people have. Because our morals are partially either inherited or learned because we are social beings. So we instinctively have a sense of importance in protecting each other, especially wife children and the society we are part of.
This is NOT tied to high IQ, but normal social intelligence, if you are NOT a sociopath or something similar, and that trait also exist among apes.
So to not detect an obvious sociopath exhibiting sociopathic behavior routinely, a person literally has to be a sociopath or worse, because it requires to not have empathy, and to not have any moral standards, or general regard for the community or society we live in.
In USA however, people are strongly indoctrinated to disregard moral standards, so maybe I should have written you either need to be a sociopath or American.
Because in USA freedom is indoctrinated to be the highest value of all, and sociopathy is an expression of ultimate freedom. Sociopaths don't care about norms or rules or to hurt other people. In fact they are sadistic, because sadism give them a feeling of power. But because it's an expression of freedom, sociopathy is seen as a virtue among many Americans. Lack of moral standards and limitations, also enable a person to make money at great cost to other people, for instance workers earning a non livable wage. And money is seen as the highest achievement possible in USA, and since a lot of rich people are sociopaths or worse, that is seen as positive trait, that will allow you to achieve the most important goal in USA, which is to be rich.
Failing to see that in Trump, can only happen because a person doesn't comprehend the problems of his behavior emotionally despite maybe understanding them intellectually.
If you are a stupid sociopath, you will of course not comprehend the problems intellectually either.
So I meant my post quite literally, but with the possibility that it may be that Americans are brainwashed, to ignore the problem of antisocial behavior caused by what is technically called Dyssocial personality disorder, which I call sociopathy here, because it's close enough, and people know what it means.
Psychopath, Sociopath, or worst of all malignant narcissist which Trump is are all forms of dyssocial personality disorder.
People are brainwashed to trust authorities no matter what and to pick a side. The former president of USA was also an evil man yet many even here on lemmy couldn't see it.
False equivalence. Biden was not a sociopath. Big difference.
"You can't have any Cuba if you have not finished your Iran."
Trump seems to be speed-running the "overextend yourself militarily" part of the late stage in the collapse of empires.
The investment in Agent Krasnov is paying dividends
That a sleazy criminal crook like Trump got elected and that he gets away with doing what he does is 100% the fault of the American system, the American elites and the American people.
No amount of foreign interference would be able to even wobble this building if it wasn't already rotten from the inside down to its foundations.
Trump is a symptom, not a cause, and if it wasn't him, it would sooner or later be somebody else like him.
So please stop parroting the Neoliberal version of the "blame the foreigners" self-excusing nationalist propaganda that deflects from the 100% local people who are most to blame for what's happenning, the deserved punishment for their actions at the hands of the common citizens - this shit would never have happenned without decades of pillaging by insiders, subversion of the guardians of Democracy like Courts and the Press, widespread ridiculous amounts of Nationalism switching of people's critical thinking about their country and the purposeful stupidification of the populace.
Next to the sleazy greedy assholes and a culture normalizing and even applauding sleaze and greed in America, the impact of even the most influencial of foreign states - Israel - is tiny.
You're right, Trump is the symptom of decades of corruption, the natural result, and a perfect example of the USA. He is what we deserve.
He's not even smart. This is just getting started, we live in interesting times
The local people are to blame, but they've been influenced by decades of foreign-backed media/ propaganda and ideologues. Yes, some of it is due to the selfishness and greed of American culture - at every level - but the collapse is due to a confluence of multiple factors. And a non-trivial factor has been the influence of foreign propaganda and henchmen (it's not just Donald Trump that is beholden to Russia/ Israel).
Go check who owns most of the Press in America - it ain't foreigners.
Go check who owns most of the Social Media in America - it ain't foreigners.
The rot not only predates Social Media, but the very Social Media that accelerated it is American-owned.
I'm sorry but you're just being a useful idiot when you parrot the very deflection propaganda of the local power elites that I mentioned in my last post.
Agree that the problems predate social media. Also agree with your assessment of the courts and insider palm greasing. To the dumbing down of the populace: there has always been an undercurrent of conservative white people trying to maintain the county's wealth and power for themselves.
But this:
widespread ridiculous amounts of Nationalism >switching of people’s critical thinking about their >country and the purposeful stupidification of the >populace
Was made infinitely worse by the media environment post-9/11. Since at least 2005, it has been apparent that there was an intentional effort to sell conflicting versions of events to the people so that they could not discern what was true. Yes, all of the American media at the time contributed to the garbage decision to go into Iraq. Initially though, the worst of the confusion of facts was largely driven by Rupert Murdoch-owned Fox News. All of the Internet has greatly exacerbated this since then, and it has been asymptotic post-2020.
Yes, American culture has (always?) been narcissistic and obnoxiously self-aggrandizing. But America had been a gigantic population of wealthy consumers for decades. So it draws all the avaristic psychopaths from around the world like moths to a flame. Are the local people to blame for the machinations of Rupert Murdoch, Peter Thiel, and Elon Musk? Saudi Arabian and Russian wealth underwrote Musk's acquisition of Twitter, even if you count him as one of "the local people". To the headless beast that is social media now, you have Russia contributing millions of dollars via Tenet Media in the 2024 campaign.
Obviously there are plenty of American bad actors in this stew of billionaire-owned manipulative media, but most of them act with an agenda that does not involve ripping the country apart.
What I'm talking about here is the massive social, political and economic trends of the life-cycle of an Empire.
So keep on Zooming Back your perspective.
Here is an historic graphic of Social Mobility in the US.
Here is the Gini Coeficient that measures inequality (the higher the more unequal), which actually understates the reality because it's not that great at reflecting internal inequality in the top quintile (i.e. things like how the top 1% are now way much richer than the top 10% than before).
So all the way back in the 1970s, America started changing from the "Land Of Opportunity" were "everybody has a chance" as shown by it's massive social mobility back then to the equivalent of a feudal system - a zero-merit environment where the rich are rich because their parents were rich and those born into poverty are unable to rise up from poverty - AND on top of that the richer were getting richer and the rest were getting poorer.
For most of the population that meant more povert and less opportunity hence less hope. From that you get more discontent.
So, how do the elites pillaging a society deal with such increase in discontent due to the activities of said elites?
Deceive the masses (for example: more and more lying in Politics, Press capture and subversion into a Propaganda machine and in present day psychological manipulation via Social Media), increase oppression (for example: ever more murderous policing, criminalization of "no victim" activities and harsher punishements) and in the case of a Democracy subvert the systems by which the citizens chose who will manage the nation (for example: political corruption, Gerrymandering, taking the vote away from felons - which typically hail from the poor - and, specifically in the barelly-Democratic US system, internal capture of the two parties in the duopoly of power that rules the country as illustrated by how the DNC gave the nomination to Hillary Clinton some years ago).
So the entire system was pillaged by local elites and then when the discontent caused by that pillaging grew, it was corrupted by those very same elites to redirect or suppress the consequences for those elites.
Foreign interference in present day America, is like maggots in a zombie - they're not what made it a zombie and there would be no maggots in it if had not already been turned into a zombie.
Agreed! Russia can't even afford to sit at the table with the real players, they are "second string" at best.
Russia's economy is smaller than California's. Can they afford to influence a rep? Yes, as always. But our reps will take money from absolutely anyone, get in line Russia, you're right after Amazon and McDonald's and Walmart and Tesla and Blackstone and Blackrock and so on
Here is an historic graphic of Social Mobility in the US.
Here is the Gini Coeficient that measures inequality (the higher the more unequal), which actually understates the reality because it’s not that great at reflecting internal inequality in the top quintile (i.e. things like how the top 1% are now way much richer than the top 10% than before).
A problem with these graphs & your inferences is it's objectively unclear what to expect. What do they look like for other countries? What part of this is explained by other factors like unique historical advantages (eg, an industrial base untouched by war during the postwar boom) dissipating as other countries rebuild & catch up? Can we decouple these time-dependent factors to get an expected baseline performance apart from them?
With that social mobility graph, should we expect nearly all children to earn more than their parents every subsequent generation indefinitely? The remarkably similar graph provided by the source cited by yours shows birthyear of the child starting in 1940. Couldn't their parents earning substantially less, perhaps by living through the Great Depression, and the postwar boom significantly explain the high proportion earning more than their parents? And as GDP per capita growth rate declines, wouldn't we likewise expect a declining proportion of children to earn more than their parents? A base of reference would really help here.
As for the Gini coefficient, we see a 7% range from 35% to 42%. While this is an increase, it doesn't seem staggering & needs evidence to distinctly support your conclusion.
Some problems you mentioned were always present or worse when that Gini coefficient was lower: gerrymandering, obstructions to vote (felon disenfranchisement, intimidation, poll taxes & tests), discriminatory incarceration, 2-party system due to plurality voting, etc. They're not new developments systematically leading in the direction you claim.
It looks like you started with your conclusion & worked backwards to confirm it with evidence that is not as conclusive as you claim. An open-minded skeptic wouldn't be convinced.
Social Mobility measures both people going up and down in social class, and its relative rather than absolute - it's a measure of movement between social classes in society, not about children being wealthier than their parents.
Your entire line of argumentation to deny it (one wonders what's your motivation to do so) is completely wrong because you don't even know what it actually means.
Rather than a wall of text of denialism, how about you provide an alternative explanation for the status of modern America compared to the days when a single white collar worker could earn enough to feed a family of 5 and have a car and a nice house.
Or is it your whole point that America is just fine and has never been better?!
Rapist language.
He's talking awfully big for a guy getting his ass kicked by a country with a depleted military.
a guy getting his ass kicked
The Americans and Israelis have massacred an extraordinarily large number of people, demolished billions in critical infrastructure, and plunged the country into a bleak future of warlordism, poverty, and famine.
It cannot be adequately expressed how nightmarish life will become in Iran in the next few months, without a globally organized relief campaign.
What they've accomplished militarily is impressive, but it hasn't come anywhere close to breaking the genocidal grip of the imperialist powers around their collective throats.
Military force kills people and breaks things. The US military is incredibly good at this. Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes is the job of politicians, and the Executive Branch happens to be incredibly bad at this.
Wielding the power of destruction in a manner that produces positive outcomes
Is this even possible?
Talking awfully big for a man threatening a country with arguably one of the best infiltrations of the US intelligence network since the USSR. I'm unsure how true it is since the Cold War, but time was when you couldn't go take a shit in the Pentagon without Castro knowing about it.
Only a couple a years ago the US ambassador to Bolivia was arrested for being a Cuban spy. I’m sure they’re still punching above their intelligence agency still punches above their weight. I’d be curious to know how they can actually leverage that strength if Trump really decides to go after Cuba.
.... ass kicked huh?
Yep, and literally begging our allies to save him.
Mar A Lago is drone & missle range from Cuba. He should not be poking that bear.
Oh, pretty fucking please blow it up when he's there!
didn't the military just blow up a leader of another country? i imagine it can't be to difficult with the right intelligence and military tech these days
And in doing so, showed that if you're capable and make up a reason, there is nothing wrong with it.
If USA can murder leaders around the world, so can Cuba.
I think there will be a large tourist line for that. Even Americans will want to partake. Haha
you probably won't be able to afford the ticket..... if there is one thing i know about america's capitalist pigs, is that you will 100% be charged money at the gate to go and piss on his grave, and it will cost more than fifa tickets.
although, ironically.... i only ever had to pay to use the pissers in europe lol, this will be america's first pay toilet lol! ...and that is still a better legacy than her deserves
I can piss on it for you so you don't have to visit this shit. Besides my piss is extra acrid and dank.
Cuban CIA, could do the funniest thing and nobody would know because it would just look like he died of burger.
“I do believe I’ll be the honor of – have the honor of taking Cuba. That would be good. That’s a big honor,” said the president.
“Taking Cuba. In some form, yeah,” the president confirmed. “Taking Cuba.”
“I mean, whether I free it, or take it... I think I can do anything I want with it, to tell you the truth,” Trump said.
Wasn't he trying to make people forget about the Epstein files? Because jfc that isn't how you do it
Honestly, I don’t think this is really meant as a cover up. The war crimes he’s committing are far more atrocious than anything he could have possibly done with Epstein. It would be like trying to distract from an assault by becoming a serial killer.
The reality is Iran and Cuba have been on the hit list of the American right wing for almost half a century. Trump is just such an arrogant narcissist that he thinks he’s uniquely capable of making those bloodthirsty dreams a reality. The idea that prior republican administrations didn’t go to war with Iran or Cuba because they knew the US wouldn’t win doesn’t event occur to him. The sycophants and yes men he’s surrounded himself with in his second term are also too cowardly to tell him.
The war crimes he’s committing are far more atrocious than anything he could have possibly done with Epstein.
Yeah, but unfortunately the severity of the political consequences for each does not correlate well with the severity of the offense, especially for the person living in the bubble of the US Presidency. Double especially a Republican one!
When it comes to their voters, a president like W or Trump is pretty much expected to generate a steady flow of corpses of dehumanized non-people on the other side of the world somewhere.
But release just one video of Trump raping a child, or one pic of Trump blowing Bubba, and that's literally a thousand times worse. There are so many millions of ignorant people who just go along with what they're taught and have reinforced through echo chambers. They are seasoned pros at making excuses for their cult leader and looking past faults. His crimes are him being a shrewd and smart businessman. His cheating and predatory behaviors are because he's a lion among men who drowns women in testosterone if he doesn't move along.
But a real pic of him with a dick in his mouth? Like, corroborated with sources by multiple journalists who release it at the same time? Imagine the number of supporters Trump has lost because of Gaza, Iran, and all military stuff combined over the past decade. He loses 10x that number within in the first day after the pic. It's a horrible thing to say, but it's true.
I honestly think he could get away with it if real and verifiable pictures of him abusing children were to be leaked. Most of the news media is controlled by people sympathetic to Trump and he’d wield the power of the state to go after anyone who doesn’t fall in line. As long as it doesn’t threaten capital, right wing judges aren’t going to rein him in. His sycophantic base would be eager to believe in narratives of it all being AI even if those claims were easy to disprove.
That said, the war he’s launched against Iran is beginning to have a major impact on the global economy. He only has so many tools to buffer the US from the consequences of that war. The sickening thing is, it’s much easier for Americans to have moral clarity on the horrors of imperial violence once it starts to negatively impact their standard of living.
"The honor of taking Cuba" sounds like an old man talking about a young girl he's about to rape.
The USA is a terrorist country.
filled with a terrorist population
yeah, sure, a third of them aren't terrorists
but the other third? either openly approve or don't care enough to even vote against it lol. the bare minimum
The US has had centuries of the conservative white majority consistently trying to suppress the vote of minorities and the youth. Hundreds of thousands of voters were purged from the voter rolls shortly before the 2024 elections, with a majority of those purged being minorities. Sauce: https://sdvoice.info/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won-here-are-the-numbers/
Many conservative states put fewer polling locations in poor communities. They block measures to make voting easier like same day registration and vote by mail.
Stop demonizing people that have been systematically disempowered. The Republicans in the Senate are about to shut down all other business in an attempt to strip married women of the right to vote.
Maybe if they get spread thin enough, Greenland can launch a counter attack with their polar bears and moose. Come on Latin America, stir them up a bit more just by being there minding your own business speaking "foreign" and looking tanned. That'll do it.
When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything.
“I do believe I’ll be the honor of-- have the honor of taking Cuba. That would be good. That’s a big honor,” said the president.
“Taking Cuba?” asked Fox’s White House reporter, Peter Doocy.
“Taking Cuba. In some form, yeah,” the president confirmed. “Taking Cuba.”
If nothing else, at least future history class will be fun.
“So what are you taking next semester?”
“Trump Studies”
“Oh, I’ve heard that’s so easy. Just remember when you’re writing a test that everything he did was wrong.”
In the fifth year of WW3, the US is going to be saying the same damn thing. Gotta finished up your Iran before you get any Cuba, little Donny.
Ha ha!
It's funny because no one in a position of power will try and stop him and he will fucking kill us all for his vanity, or to escape narcissistic injury, or because he's bored...
Wait.. yeah, that's not funny. Can someone please take away grampas nuclear weapons and put him in a home/jail?


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