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[–] Naevermix@lemmy.world 0 points 3 hours ago
[–] spacesatan@leminal.space -3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

Since like half of the comments are saying this was racist can anyone explain how?

Genuinely what the fuck are you guys on about. I would understand if she was an ethnically Japanese leader/diplomat from Brazil or something but what. So obsessed with race that you forgot Japan is a country?

It's a stupid deflection but it's not racist. The thought process is pretty obvious 'Why didn't you tell Japan before the attack' -> 'To keep the element of surprise' uhh Japan + Surprise attack -> 'Who know's better than Japan about the value of stealth for a surprise attack, like pearl harbor'.

He just doesn't even have the capacity to coherently make the bad comparison. He also completely whiffed the cadence of the joke he was trying to make causing it to come out even weirder. It's a brain in decline trying to fall in to patterns that it used to be able to somewhat execute on but is now just grasping at straws.

*thing bad, so anything negative about thing must be correct and must not be questioned. I hate lemmy sometimes.

[–] poopkins@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

You disagree with his comment being racist? Well since you're not with us, you're against us! There's no middle ground, no nuance and no discourse in this community!

[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 22 points 13 hours ago

Guess his joke bombed.

[–] PhAzE@lemmy.ca 35 points 21 hours ago (10 children)

Remember that the US nuked Japan in response. So I guess he'd be ok if Iran nuked the US in response?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

They also put a tooon of Japanese people in camps

Same thing they're starting to do to immigrants, trans people, and dissenters

[–] xta@lemmy.world 14 points 20 hours ago

Remember that the US nuked Japan in response.

Twice.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 10 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

This guy needs to be put down like a rabid dog.

[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago

Not according to republicans and the GOP that controls them.

[–] roofTophopper@lemmy.world 35 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

Bro. The people coming to his defense is mind blowing. "That's not what he meant!", "He didn't mean it in a racist way!" Shut the fuck up. He knows what he's saying. He doesn't care. The mental gymnastics his cult does for him is crazy. Just own up to it. He's the racist pedophile Uncle who makes bad jokes at a family gathering that you wouldn't leave your 10 year old with.

It is what it is.

[–] Oodlenoodlenoo@lemmy.zip 11 points 21 hours ago

It's the same shit they repeated on the campaign trail god I got tired of being told "it's all hyperbole" from people I know didn't even know what the word meant

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 8 points 22 hours ago

Something something narcissist's prayer.

[–] MuskyMelon@lemmy.world 40 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Time for Japan to dump their 1 trillion in US bonds. That'll be worse than Pearl Harbor for them.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 11 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (1 children)

Japan is like the rest of the world, they bought into the idea US was too big to fail. You can't just "dump" $1T in bonds.

[–] mlg@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago) (3 children)

BRICS replacing USD is like how we declare every year the year of the linux desktop lol.

When USD goes down, its gonna bring down the world with it ~~lol~~.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

Alternatively we can transition to the Eurodollar, which some people trade with already.

[–] MonkeMischief@lemmy.today 6 points 17 hours ago* (last edited 17 hours ago) (2 children)
[–] mlg@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago

It was the only one that survived along with lmao

RIP roflcopter

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[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Nobody is mentioning he said why didn't you warn me.

[–] nickiwest@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

His handlers would probably just claim that he meant "Why didn't you warn POTUS?"

But that doesn't mean that every news outlet shouldn't be pointing out that what he said, in addition to being extremely rude and undiplomatic, was utterly nonsensical.

If you compare his performance now with videos of him from his first term, the decline is extremely obvious.

[–] harsh3466@lemmy.ml 7 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I caught that too and was flabbergasted.

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[–] icedaemon0@lemmy.world 12 points 23 hours ago

Ehh not suprised with how stupid donald is.

[–] Jaysyn@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (5 children)

The dementia really reduces the inhibitions, doesn't it?

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[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 50 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Its crazy how well he represents the worst of america so well. Let me tell you folks no one does it better. The best people are all saying it. Top people in fact.

[–] Mulligrubs@lemmy.world 1 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

This is what we deserve for decades of celebrity worship, it is strangely appropriate that he is our President

[–] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 1 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

More like the apathy about the governent id think

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[–] 6stringringer@lemmy.zip 16 points 1 day ago

He lowered the bar to the ground & then went at it with a shovel. Ooooo dayumn.

[–] Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The biggest buyer of US debt everyone. Lucky for Trump she's a boot licker.

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[–] compast@lemmy.zip 14 points 1 day ago

trump embarrassed lady trump

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