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Trump's dictator envy
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"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostI have zero problem with being friendly in person to people you're negotiating with. That's basic diplomacy.
Where I have problems with Trump's behavior, is when he's away from the actual diplomacy and is just speaking to the US populace in general as their pretend TV president: He doesn't choose to talk about or endorse American values, he chooses to praise various dictators around the world, states that he wishes the US was more like their countries in many and various ways, says he wished US media praised him as much as NK state media praises Kim, gets excited about how Kim's able to kill generals he doesn't like, etc."The man from the yacht thought he was the first to find England; I thought I was the first to find Europe. I did try to found a heresy of my own; and when I had put the last touches to it, I discovered that it was orthodoxy."
GK Chesterton; Orthodoxy
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Originally posted by Charles View PostA dictator who was recently responsible for the death of an American citizen, runs his own concentration camps and is generally speaking a really, really bad and immoral guy does not deserve the friendly treatment he got from Trump.
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Originally posted by Starlight View PostI have zero problem with being friendly in person to people you're negotiating with. That's basic diplomacy.
Where I have problems with Trump's behavior, is when he's away from the actual diplomacy and is just speaking to the US populace in general as their pretend TV president: He doesn't choose to talk about or endorse American values, he chooses to praise various dictators around the world, states that he wishes the US was more like their countries in many and various ways, says he wished US media praised him as much as NK state media praises Kim, gets excited about how Kim's able to kill generals he doesn't like, etc.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostExactly, it's a nuance that Trumpsters are just not intelligent enough to recognize. Trump praises autocratic dictators not as a negotiating tactic, he praises them because at heart he is one himself.
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postso why do you want him to take away guns and use his executive powers to overwrite congress on immigration?
Because he's a duplicitous hypocrite who wants Trump to act like a dictator while screeching and squealing that Trump is a dictator?
I'm always still in trouble again
"You're by far the worst poster on TWeb" and "TWeb's biggest liar" --starlight (the guy who says Stalin was a right-winger)
"Overall I would rate the withdrawal from Afghanistan as by far the best thing Biden's done" --Starlight
"Of course, human life begins at fertilization that’s not the argument." --Tassman
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Originally posted by Sparko View Postso why do you want him to take away guns and use his executive powers to overwrite congress on immigration?
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThat's another false narrative Sparko, pushed by the NRA and those Republican politicians who want to scare you into voting for them. Nobody is trying to take away your guns, what we're trying to do is to keep guns out of the hands of the irresponsible and the mentally ill by regulating the kinds of arms available as well as the sales of those arms. This is just another tiresome argument because we have, and have showed to you, the statistics in countries who have taken these actions, and as usual the data contradicts your argument. Not that the data ever matters to you people with your fixed and unchangeable beliefs.I DENOUNCE DONALD J. TRUMP AND ALL HIS IMMORAL ACTS.
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Originally posted by rogue06 View PostUmm...
Because he's a duplicitous hypocrite who wants Trump to act like a dictator while screeching and squealing that Trump is a dictator?
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Originally posted by JimL View PostThat's another false narrative Sparko, pushed by the NRA and those Republican politicians who want to scare you into voting for them. Nobody is trying to take away your guns, what we're trying to do is to keep guns out of the hands of the irresponsible and the mentally ill by regulating the kinds of arms available as well as the sales of those arms. This is just another tiresome argument because we have, and have showed to you, the statistics in countries who have taken these actions, and as usual the data contradicts your argument. Not that the data ever matters to you people with your fixed and unchangeable beliefs.
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Originally posted by JimL View PostNope, you're just being your idiotic self and are striking out because you have no idea what you're talking about. Btw, Trump is a wannabe dictator, you're just to blind to see it, and I never argued that he should take your guns away. Do you see how stupid your comments are now rogue?
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Originally posted by Sparko View PostBut if Trump is a dictator you should be advocating for more people to get guns. We need to protect ourselves from Trumpler.
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