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geteilt von: https://lemmy.world/post/27899430

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/27899425

Just some North Korea shit, nothing to see here. Move along.

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[–] DarkFuture@lemmy.world 45 points 4 days ago

American taxpayers funding a parade for a felon rapist traitor who's destroying our economy and nuking the middle class.

What a wonderful country we have.

Home of the brave my fucking ass.

[–] cyborganism@lemmy.ca 223 points 5 days ago (4 children)

Wow. Just like every dictator out there with a huge inferiority complex, trying to boost their ego.

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 120 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Anyone who hasn't watched Charlie Chaplin's The Great Dictator really should. In the movie they mock how Mussolini was simping for Hitler and wanted to impress him by trying to one-up him at every occasion.

This is totally what Trump is trying to do with Putin right now. Trump is a Putin simp desperate to get his attention.

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 60 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Just for the historical record, here's Mussolini's last public appearance:

Just Hanging Out (nsfw)

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[–] buwho@lemmy.ml 22 points 5 days ago (9 children)

is there a textbook that people like trump read and act accordingly. because its almost as if there is a guide book on being a self absorbed fascist tyrant baby

[–] sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trumps-ex-wife-once-said-he-kept-a-book-of-hitlers-speeches-by-his-bed-2015-8?op=1

Yes.

Literally Hitler.

'My New Order', a collection of Hitler's speeches up through 1939.

Trump kept it in his bedside table in the 80s and 90s, according to his then wife.

Did people not know about this or forget this?

Trump literally routinely read Hitler's speeches before he went to bed for years, then got very defensive when asked about it.

Lefties who were politically active during Trump's 2015 campaign were... fairly concerned about this, and basically everyone to the right of them just screamed 'You're just calling him a fascist because everything you don't like is fascist' at us.

Did this whole thing seriously get memory holed this hard that you genuinely didn't know this?

Or are you just younger and/or weren't so politically involved a decade ago?

[–] buwho@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

thanks i didnt know this. i kinda got the cibes that this was the case, but had never heard of that until now. not something they taught us in school. im not necessarily "younger" but i was very disconnected for a long time between no phone, couch surfing punk houses, hobo life, then just living in rural New Mexico until like 7 years ago.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 47 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No money for scientific research but plenty for parades

[–] slaneesh_is_right@lemmy.org 10 points 4 days ago

Sometimes you have to cut school lunches to tackle the important problems

[–] Rivalarrival@lemmy.today 67 points 5 days ago (2 children)

How long before he is wearing medals he's given himself?

[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago

#1: "2025 Stock Market Campaign"

[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Oh fuck me book marking this comment for later.

[–] BlackSheep@lemmy.ca 17 points 4 days ago

Nearly 90 million people didn’t vote in the 2024 USA election. If you don’t want to become an American, don’t act like onel

🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 GET OUT AND VOTE! 🇨🇦 🇨🇦 🇨🇦

no excuses: https://www.elections.ca/home.aspx/

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 26 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Opportunity is knocking again

[–] qarbone@lemmy.world 14 points 4 days ago (8 children)

Just like 3 inches to the right this time. Center of the target.

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[–] superminerJG@lemmy.world 80 points 5 days ago (2 children)

If this isn't waste, fraud, and abuse, I don't know what is.

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 24 points 4 days ago (1 children)

4 miles? Just have a 1/2 mile parade that goes in a circle. He'll think it is a 10 mile parade.

[–] Bahnd@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

Clear out the parking lot around The Ellipse and have them drive around that. Make sure he is facing away from the center so he cant see them circle around, and just keep going until he is tuckered out and gets tucked into bed.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 27 points 4 days ago
[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 57 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (6 children)

Let's make a four mile parade of people holding "fuck you, fascist" signs, instead.

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[–] DogPeePoo@lemm.ee 103 points 5 days ago (1 children)

DOGE: “Sounds good to me”

[–] Mbourgon@lemmy.world 40 points 5 days ago (4 children)

“Make sure to march in lockstep, boys. And can you kick the feet up a bit higher”

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[–] quack@lemmy.zip 25 points 4 days ago

Definitely not a dictator

[–] selkiesidhe@lemm.ee 72 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The draft dodger Private Bonespurs

Fuck this guy. I'd risk my career in protest of I were in the military. No way I'm going to dance like a trained monkey for some PoS like drumpf...

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[–] Fingolfinz@lemmy.world 72 points 5 days ago (5 children)

My mom voted for and still defends this piece of shit. I blocked her number.

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[–] alvyn@lemm.ee 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

all dictators like to parade, nothing new. wake up us. time to impeach that orange shit!

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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 23 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The USA is extremely lucky that Trump is 79 years old. Imagine if he were 40. By the time he turned 79, they would be living in a totalitarian dictatorship. The luck is that they will suffer for another 6-7 years. Yes, Trump will have a third term, in three years there will be no free media or independent judiciary. The public administration will be turned into mindless voters. All critics will suffer the fate of the oppositionists in Russia and will become "allergic to windows". Forget about democracy. Land of the bigots and the home of the bully.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 30 points 4 days ago (3 children)

He can (and has) done plenty of permanent damage. I don’t think age is doing us as many favors as you think. He can put us in the exact same position in 4 years a younger dictator would.

The only difference is whether or not the US can recover some actual semblance of the democracy it once was. The world is already turning away from us and I sincerely doubt we’ll be welcomed back should trump no longer be president. They forgave us his first term, but the second term with him openly threatening other countries is a line that cannot be uncrossed. With us being held at arm’s length it will be all but impossible to recover our position in the world as well as mend our democracy.

[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 15 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The reputation that America lost is gone for good. It will take a colossal effort and time, and these people who caused the problems are not going anywhere. They will continue to cause problems and oppose any solution no matter what.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Conservatives ruin everything.

[–] AHamSandwich@lemmy.world 7 points 4 days ago

I wish they were actual conservatives, not fascists and grifters.

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[–] Phoenicianpirate@lemm.ee 10 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Trump has been called a super ager by some people. That means despite a highly unhealthy lifestyle he has managed to remain active and functional despite all else.

Don't think he could just drop dead tomorrow. While I am sure millions of people would like it if he died suddenly of a heart attack or stroke, that probably isn't going to happen. Kissenger lived to be 100 despite not being much of a healthy looking guy for decades, and his slurring speech patterns were widely mocked as early as the 90s. I am not sure if anyone who wrote his Freakazoid appearance in the 90s ever thought he would live as long as he did.

What I am ultimately saying is that he might make it to 90 and still keep going.

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 66 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Other unnamed officials told the paper that a big military parade will require a huge amount of coordination between the six branches of the armed forces, along with several federal agencies and regional officials.

If it happens it'll be a shit show...

To quote Henry Zebrowski:

I have a bad idea, and I'm gonna execute it poorly

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[–] DontMakeMoreBabies@lemm.ee 18 points 4 days ago

FUCK THIS IDIOT.

Disgraceful.

[–] LovableSidekick@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I remember him wanting a big military parade during his first term too. Somehow he didn't get it.

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[–] suicidaleggroll@lemm.ee 41 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Just another day in the DPRK...I mean US

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 33 points 5 days ago (1 children)
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[–] resipsaloquitur@lemm.ee 36 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Where was he when the dead soldiers were returning last week?

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[–] anonproxy00@lemm.ee 14 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

hope he rides in that ol 1961 Lincoln Continental 4-door convertible "X-100"

ik the cia prolly still has one in storage.

edit:1*961

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[–] Bloomcole@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

No need to insult and compare NK to that pathetic banana republic

[–] RamblingPanda@lemmynsfw.com 29 points 5 days ago
[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago

welp, he achieved the full definition of fascist dictator with that one now.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 21 points 5 days ago (6 children)

Small pene energy.

Full stop.

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[–] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 20 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It would be cool if no one went. Just him, Musk, and some right wing drifters on empty streets.

[–] kandoh@reddthat.com 17 points 5 days ago (12 children)

It be cool if the protests were so big they had to cancel the parade route

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[–] SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 10 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The article says "A source in the capital told the Washington City Paper that Trump has earmarked June 14—which is the 250th anniversary of the U.S. Army—for the event."

He can stand on a podium and wave like the Soviet leaders of old.

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[–] JeremyHuntQW12@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Vive « Papa Trump », héros national et président à vie !

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