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[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Pissing people off does not make your cause palatable. Especially when there is no obvious correlation between what you're doing to piss them off and the goal you mean to achieve.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

They kicked him out after he led Labour to it's biggest loss in ninety years.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 week ago

Not only is there no evidence they're following her order, there is proactive evidence of them defying her order.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago

The best measure of how unelectable a politician is how much Lemmy likes them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

"May" nothing, I don't.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

ITT: A demonstration of the precise behavior OP is trying to warn against.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So it's okay to try and kill Americans so long as they aren't in America?

You are still arguing that we shouldn't be bombing them, despite the fact they're bombing us and arguing that their bombing us is understandable because we're bombing them, even though we're only bombing them because they're bombing us.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Didn't this happen last time? Less dramatically, but still.

He puts in a bunch of tariffs. China reciprocates. The market is thrown into chaos. He shouts and screams. China ignores him. He backtracks. China ends the tariffs but doesn't do anything to try and appease him. He claims it's a victory. His fluffers say the tariffs were just to bring China to the table, which justifies the hit to the market, despite the fact China didn't come to the table and President Pigshit didn't articulate what China could actually give him to end the tariffs.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Whenever I see this argument, I am stunned by the lack of self awareness.

We bomb them, so it's natural that they want to bomb us.

They bomb us and we need to accept it and self-flagellate over past wrongs.

You hold a double standard and a stupid one at that, considering how much more we can do to them than they can do to us.

The premise is, frankly, racist. You treat the Arabs as if they're too stupid to think in the long term, to look beyond short term retaliation.

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