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[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 40 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

If anyone had any doubts about whether or not Putin was pulling the strings, this should silence them.

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 26 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) (2 children)

It's not a carefully choreographed puppet show...

It's like an art exhibit where any random person can walk up and yank on strings, often in opposite directions.

You're assigning order to chaos, the same reason every early civilization had a "lightning god".

Our brains want an explanation, so we invent them to explain chaos. Even when the explanation is clearly not matching up to reality.

Reality is a lot worse than just trump doing whatever Putin asks.

It's less "puppet" and more multi-player QWOP where random people each have a single button.

[–] Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

To steal a wonderful turn of phrase, Putin doesn't pull Trump's strings because he doesn't have to. Getting him elected was enough. "Trump is a fire and forget idiot."

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 16 points 6 hours ago

Putin controls a large number of strings and buttons.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

The orange child rapist is an idiot... the occam's razor is still that he is too stupid, has no clue how anything works and is simply making one foolish decision after another.

Being this stupid, he is very easily manipulated (as is evident by now), so maybe Putin is manipulating him... but honestly, trump is simply too stupid to be anyone's "asset"

[–] Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk 3 points 4 hours ago

Yeah I'm giving him way too much credit

[–] WanderingThoughts@europe.pub 5 points 5 hours ago

In the end it's just a rich kid used to getting what he wants even if it's stupid that got a fat cheque from his father