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[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 123 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Trolls"? Fuck off, seriously. He's going to invade and bomb Greenland and what, are the headlines just going to read "Trump trolls Nuuk citizens"?

Is Trump going to invade and bomb Canada and we'll get to see headlines the next day saying "Epic troll, Trump just flattened Ottawa"? Sorry, I guess "we" as in the rest of the world will see those headlines because I'd be dead

Fuck

[–] one_step_behind@quokk.au 80 points 2 months ago (3 children)

It's the media continuing to sane wash Trump rather than do actual journalism.

[–] PunnyName@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

It's what happens when conservatives buy up the remaining newspapers.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I watched a movie from the 90s yesterday about civil war breaking out in America. There's a scene where one newsanchor calmly tries to report on other news and the other newsanchor has an absolute meltdown telling him "fuck off, there is no other news". I wanna see a reporter melt down like on air in real life. I wanna see the insanity be properly acknowledged

[–] SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Turns out that the movie Don't Look Up may have been intended to satirize our response to climate change, but the portrayal of the media response is evergreen.

[–] FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

The movie I'm talking about is called Second Civil War

[–] NotSteve_@piefed.ca 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Yeah, I'm generally used to American media doing that by now but this headline is just so absurdly dismissive of non-American lives that it's infuriating

[–] thecaptaintrout@lemmy.zip 116 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I wouldn't use the word 'troll', maybe 'mask off'.

Edit: u/shittydwarf had "Threatens", definitely a better word.

[–] comrade_twisty@feddit.org 45 points 2 months ago

Yeah troll is something that does not apply to a US president, even if they are mentally challenged and have the brainpower of a 8 year old spoiled child.

[–] VerilyFemme@lemmy.blahaj.zone 96 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Hitler trolls European Leaders with German Map showing Austria, Sudetenland, and Danzig as German territories.

[–] Klear@quokk.au 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That Hitler guy is such a rascal!

[–] West_of_West@piefed.social 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What shenanigans will he get up to this week?

[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 2 points 2 months ago

The usual hijinks! 

oh, but surely he wouldn’t actually annex his neighbors! Nobody wants a repeat of the Great War!

[–] msage@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

Maybe we should let him have some of that land, then he will chill out.

Let him have some Poland, too, as a treat.

[–] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 64 points 2 months ago (2 children)

He’s not doing this. Someone’s feeding it to him.

Congress and Senate is virtually silent on the issues. This isn’t just Trump; this is representative of the USA.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 25 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That is what concerns me the most. There should be so much opposition to crap like this. Like he shouldn't even be able to just show that, this goes through so many people beforehand.

Edit: sorry, just realised he posted it on Truth Social so he probably did this himself and maybe didn't show anyone, but who are we kidding, he probably bragged about it in several meetings beforehand.

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 months ago

There's no way he's opening photoshop and layering the US flag over those countries himself. Maybe he asked someone to do it or he was feed the photo and he passed it by.

[–] shittydwarf@piefed.social 31 points 2 months ago
[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 31 points 2 months ago (9 children)

This media can't differentiate between trolling and threats. Just like tRump 'floating' wildly illegal actions to test popularity and desensitize the public before just doing them regardless. I haven't decided whether this is intentional misrepresentation and journalistic malpractice, or ignorance and incompetence (a different kind of malpractice), but I do know the outcome is the same either way.

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[–] Assassassin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 2 months ago

That's a troll? It seems a lot more like an open provocation from the least stable mind on the planet.

[–] TrickDacy@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

Every day he draws breath is a day the world gets worse.

[–] ms_lane@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

It's what Elon's grandaddy would have wanted.

[–] Jimbel@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

What is the us-american opposition doing about this? Trump is literally threatening ww3 and if not stopped he will start it.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

This is what the puppet-masters behind them are trying to do - the Technate of America

https://studio.brooklynrail.org/assets/3b4ad0b8-cb97-40aa-b122-720e45385c4c.jpeg

[–] redditmademedoit@piefed.zip 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He wants to own Greenland, but moreso he wants to "own the libs".

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago

He wants to own everything he can see and it still won't be enough to fill the empty husk of a man he is.

[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago

Stop. Trade.

Freeze him out.

[–] NatakuNox@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

What a loser

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Jokes aside, but what have Greenland and Canada even done to him so that he wants to invade them? I got the Venezuela reasons, but is this really again because of the oil reserves?

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Your first mistake is thinking someone has to do something for him to act the way he does. Even the rationalization for the illegal actions against Venezuela was contrived as a fig leaf to cover him just doing what he wants to for his own profit. The reason is there's profit to extort for him and his oligarchy buddies, but they'll come up with 20 justifications after the fact just to make you feel consoled.

[–] Bazell@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Then, his actions are no better than actions of any invasive leader. Madlad is actively dumping the country down the slope. I am really amazed how there were no new attempts to kill him.

[–] Binturong@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Correct. Unfortunately the groups that typically would invest real assets in assassination are the ones with all the money, and one thing he's not doing is threatening their power and profits in a meaningful way. He desperately wants to be one of the gangster oligarchs, and would never cross them cause he is cucked to their opulence (see: Putin). People talk about blackmail material controlling his actions, and I'm sure there is that too, but I'm just as sure they don't need it. No, real preemptive assassination attempts tend to target socialists and equalists and those who stand a real chance at elevating the disenfranchised and bridging the gap in the class war. Can't have that. Mind you, assassination after the damage has already been inflicted is not unheard of, like Mussolini, but that's more of a vengeful act and pyrrhic victory cause it's too damn late. Anyway, happy Tuesday!

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[–] Hypnotoad_@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

Mineral rights

[–] Steve@startrek.website 3 points 2 months ago

I wish my kids would grow out of this bad behavior

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Save us, Rand al'Thor

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Can't even change the colors on a pre-existing map without AI... These fucking chodes

Edit: oh never mind, the photo itself is AI. Still chodes though.

[–] diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

It’s YUUUUUUUUGEE

[–] Tikiporch@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

Was really hoping to find a picture of Epstein hidden in there somewhere.

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