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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Fuck you, Stephen Miller. Stop being a chicken and fight me.

[–] Nebraska_Huskers@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I'm approaching 50 years old I've had a lower back fusion and I'm 2 months out from a C6 neck fusion. I want to fight him

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 days ago

We only pick fights we know we can win. I’m a 5’4” woman who is a little over weight and I don’t exercise.

I hope enough people start sending him fist fight challenges that he explodes in cable news like that guy in Big Trouble in Little China.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The other day Stephen Miller was on Jake Tapper's show and was ranting about how everything went bad after the end WWII.

I can understand why some people want to go back to how things were in the 50s and 60s because there was a lot of economic prosperity then.

But Stephen Miller wants to go back to the times before the Nazis were defeated. So that's a little unusual, isn't it?

[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 6 days ago

But Stephen Miller wants to go back to the times before the Nazis were defeated. So that’s a little unusual, isn’t it?

Not really, Nazi saying Nazi things. I would guess Jakey Tapper didn't even follow up on that statement.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I would like to see someone ask him what that's even supposed to mean? Wasn't America in a Great Depression just before WWII? Or was he pining for America fighting WWII and things being rationed at home and more women in the workplace?

[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 10 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

You sure it's not an inferiority complex?

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 3 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Pretty sure, yeah. It's named for the behavior not the cause. The cause is his deep sense of inferiority which he overcompensates for both in his behavior and self-presentation as well as, I would imagine, in the construction of his worldview. According to his maladjusted worldview and behavior, he appears to believe himself superior, but he's driven by a sense of inadequacy.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago

His follical psychic, he reads the GLH pattern on Miller's head and predicts the future.

[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)
[–] tgcoldrockn@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

Krusty 'Vag' Noem

[–] Lutra@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago

unelected minion

[–] BeautifulMind@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

To be clear, he essentially claimed that the US has the capability to forcibly do that- which isn't so much an assertion that the US has any right to do a thing, it is that laws and rights are meaningless in his view. He's framing a potential invasion or coup not supported by law or rights as if it's legitimized by either, while fundamentally subverting the notion that anyone but the powerful have rights the US is bound to respect.

[–] Etterra@discuss.online 3 points 6 days ago

Look, Dollar Store Lex Luthor has a point. If we don't needlessly ravage or outright steal other countries for exploitation and profit, are we even America anymore? It would be a slap in the face to every one of our forefathers who cruelly and/or indifferently oppressed and exterminate America's indigenous Peoples. What did we inflict all that suffering for if not for the gain of not only poor settlers but also robber barons, political power, and gross exploitation of natural resources? If we leave those maliciously greedy traditions behind can we even call ourselves human? If civilization is built on the backs of the oppressed, then we must not only continue to crush our poorest citizens under stifling debt and abuse of power, but also find new targets who can't fight back and oppress them as well. We must strip their lands bare and crush the peoples' spirits if not simply exterminate them, as would the Tyranids or the Borg. Only then can we proudly assert our Americanosity and confidently turn a blind eye when our rivals do the same, all while telling those victims that their suffering is not our problem.

/S in case it's not clear. Fuck this inhuman ghoul.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Steven millers ass hurts for greenland

[–] Leather@lemmy.world 144 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 123 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (18 children)

Actually, they don't.

When Denmark sold the Danish West Indies to USA in 1916-1917, part of that deal was to ratify that USA accepted the full Danish ownership of Greenland.

At the time, this was done to keep Norway from making claims to Greenland.

But anyway, we quite literally have a document written by USA and signed by USA stating that Denmark alone owns Greenland.

Edit: Took some time to find, but here it is signed by U.S Secretary of State Robert Lansing who made the deal under President Woodrow Wilson.

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[–] foggy@lemmy.world 118 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Stephen miller asserts obviously morally objectionable thing. Gets red in the face and foams at the mouth trying to appear confident when attempting to explain it's logic or morality.

More at 6.

[–] foodandart@lemmy.zip 67 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Yaah, the guy's got terminal "little man's" disease.

Also, he's a tool.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 92 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Miller to CNN Host Jake Tapper:

“We live in a world, in the real world, Jake, that is governed by strength, that is governed by force, that is governed by power,” he said. “These are the iron laws of the world since the beginning of time.”

Stephen Miller is a sociopath, a fascist and a deeply insecure wannabe bully with a massive inferiority complex, second only to Trump.

Make no mistake: This is it, the fascist and authoritarian takeover that history has been warning us about for 80 years. It’s back. These people will do everything in their power to make this happen, and they mean what they say. Greenland and Canada are already boosting defense spending. The world is gearing up for war in response to the belligerent Hitler-like threats from Trump and Putin.

It will be almost impossible to prevent the use of nuclear weapons in a third world war. If Trump and the neo-fascist Republican Party are not removed from power soon, they will attempt to take over our half of the world. China will take Taiwan, and Putin will shoot for Europe after support for Ukraine wanes. When they’re finished, they’ll all turn on each other.

That is where this kind of naked violence-is-the only-true-power kind of logic leads.

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[–] Pat_Riot@lemmy.today 62 points 1 week ago (12 children)

It's wild to me that the US is going to make a run at taking over the world. Growing up here in the 80s and 90s we were taught that we were the country that prevented anyone else from trying that. Hell we, according to our schooling, ended both world wars.

I don't mean that I grew up trusting the government, but it wasn't on my life bingo card that we would ever attempt world conquest. Trump was a guy everybody made fun of when I was a kid, so him as president was unexpected the first time, and unimaginable a second time after his first performance.

We live in a bad novel. The plot is stupid and the characters suck and the ending is going to be ugly.

[–] bufalo1973@piefed.social 1 points 6 days ago

Back to the Future, Aliexpress edition.

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