• WatDabney@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 hours ago

    Right, but they also went out of their way to drum up as much public support as they could first. Granted that it was all lies and greed and corruption, at least they went through the motions of trying to make it a war the people supported.

    Trump didn’t even bother to do that much.

    Even though it’s just two variations on awful, there is a difference between pretending that the people matter and not even bothering to do that.

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      17 hours ago

      “The best summary of Trump’s trade “philosophy” comes from Trashfuture’s November Kelly, who said that Trump is flipping over the table in a poker game that’s rigged in his favor because he resents having to pretend to play the game at all.”