• Doomsider@lemmy.world
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    He called for murder of people who were innocent of the accused crime. He ran a full page ad in the NYT advocating it.

    Could you imagine having a wealthy asshole deciding one day you should die and spending a shit ton of money to make it happen.

    This is why wealthy fucks should never be President.

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      To be clear, only one of the claims in the OP image are verified in this article; the claim that Donald Trump paid for this ad.

      The article doesn’t address how the timing of the ad relates to the timing of his trip to Russia, or who booked the trip, or whether InTourist is run by the KGB.

      Which is why I fucking hate this format of conveying “information”. This is right wing style info sharing and it’s gross.

      Maybe it’s all true. I want it to be, because President Taco is so clearly Putin’s creature that I yearn for a story to explain how it happened, or when, or why.

      But this image doesn’t do anything but force me to go try and verify these claims on my own.

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        The article doesn’t address how the timing of the ad relates to the timing of his trip to Russia

        Why would it? There’s no hard evidence. The whole point of the image is to show how suspicious the timing is. It would still be suspicious even without the KGB claim.

        who booked the trip

        We know who booked the trip because it is in The Art of the Deal.

        whether InTourist is run by the KG

        A former GRU spy and a historian say it was. I didn’t find anything to lead me to believe that it wasn’t but maybe I didn’t look hard enough. It also behaved in a manor consistent with my expectations of a KGB run tourist agency but that’s just vibes.

        this image doesn’t do anything but force me to go try and verify these claims on my own.

        Unfortunately, in this day and age you should be making an effort to verify everything before you believe it. How much of an effort is going to vary based on how important the thing is to you.

        Here’s a couple sources to get you started:

        https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/11/19/trump-first-moscow-trip-215842/

        https://web.archive.org/web/20190113232410/https://repository.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4116&context=edissertations

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      That’s “The art of the deal”, You know. They wanted 130k, but he talked them down to 95k.

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    Trump making it to the presidency shows the rot in americas core. This is more about the american people than trump. It’s not too late though people. When did politics change to become Mother Abigail versus Randall Flagg?

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      Oh geez you probalby have a point eh. But here’s the thing: the right wing propaganda is being cranked up to every english-speaking country to affect this same “rot”. It will happen to your country. Because the answer for it does not exist in practice, and basically won’t exist because money.

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    Russia did not lose the cold war, they just played to the West’s ego while they learned how to manipulate information and slowly destabilize the rest of the world.

    In this essay I will…

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      Tbh i don’t think there are any real “winners” from the cold war. Except maybe those who own defense, munitions, and oil companies/stocks.

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      In my view, the “collapse” of the Soviet Union was actually just the elites sloughing off their actual obligations to the masses, allowing them to enjoy their wealth and power openly while the ordinary people rot away. For the most part, the government officials who had been in charge of state assets in the USSR ended up owning them personally, creating the “oligarchs” we know and love today.

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      fair enough. But you do agree that russia has been developing trump and played a significant role in putting him in power.