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  • "I have the best approval ratings anyone ever had. Even better than Kim Jong-Un who has an approval rating of 100%, I have an approval rating of 120%, 150%, 1200%, 20000%. It’s amazing because it’s true. Yesterday I was called by the Nobel committee, they were crying and told me they made the biggest mistake of their lives, they said ‘Mr president, how can we correct our mistake, we are so stupid, we are so dumb’ and I said yes you are, make a new Nobel prize called ‘the best person who ever lived’ and they will and give it to me. Putin called me, Xi called me, they asked me 'Mr president, you are doing so well, you are so amazing, would you like to be president of our countries too, would you be world president? And I said yes. The pope called me, he said God wasn’t worthy anymore, he asked me if the church could replace all instances of Jesus with images of me, and if I would want to be pope pharaoh as I am the only person in the world who is better than God. And I said yes. My approval ratings are ‘one hundred million dollars’ and I’m going to build a laser on the moon, it’s amazing, it’s true. "









  • Ah, the “I had no choice!” argument for scaling up world tension. Yeah, we’ve never heard that one before. Hitler also “had no choice” but to invade Sudetenland, Austria and Poland.

    The “we had no choice” argument is always used to take the victim role as an excuse to justify anything you like. Whether it is joining wars because they sank your illegal weapons shipment hidden in an ocean liner, invading a country because you made it look like they sank your ship, invade a country because a few terrorists attacked your country, invade a country because you claim there might be weapons of mass destruction, send troops and chemical weapons to a dictatorial regime because the freedom fighters threaten your overseas naval base, invade a country for denazification, commit ethnic cleansing, genocide and other horrible war crimes because some terrorist extremists attacked your country after years and years of oppression and apartheid, etc etc etc. There are so many examples in history where this tactic has been used. The entire cold war thrived on this bullshit argument “look at them, I have no choice”.

    “I’m going to do something bad, so I find a way to justify it.”

    • every dictator, agressor, war criminal in history.

  • So? Let’s compare just one American city to the Netherlands, the entire country. Because an American city isn’t bigger then our entire country.

    I live in the centre, in Utrecht. I can take a train to Groningen or Maastricht, the 2 cities furthest away from where I live. I can bring my ebike on the train or take a public transit bike (so rental) at the station I arrive. Or I take the bus for the final part. Or when I go to Amsterdam, I take the subway and/or tram. Or when I go to a rural area, I take the strain, then bus or bike. Within 2 hours I can reach any city in my country with public transportation or 3.5 hours for any rural location. I can reach any part of Berlin in 7 hours. This is on the other side of Germany.

    It’s the layers of public transportation which solves issues of being sprawled out or super dense. Sprawled out? Faster transportation, like trains, bus and subway. Super dense? Tram, bus, bike.

    I understand many Americans don’t see it as a solution, as they have busses, trains and subways. But these networks are poorly planned. New York for example, all metro lines run to the centre making travel between suburbs a living hell. They have taxis, awesome, but they clutter the already cluttered streets even more. It’s so dumb.

    See these videos:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zysL_lkdtys on the design of Tokyo

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP-G-inkkDg on the design of The Netherlands

    You might say “but it’s impossible to change our cities to public transit heavy, walking and cycling friendly cities, we’re too far down the drain!”. No. You’re not. We designed Rotterdam, one of our largest cities, as an American city completely focused on cars (after it was wiped from the earth during the Second World War bombing by the nazis). It was shit. They changed the entire city to car unfriendly with the focus on walking and cycling, with public transit to support that. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=22ovt1EMULY




  • Many maga and qanon supporting Trump said democrats run an illegal pedo ring (pizzagate for example) and they were strongly against pedophilia. Now it turns out many of them were pesos themselves, as many have been convicted for child porn or sexual child abuse. So if you’re a corrupt pedo president with a pedo conspiracy loonie fan base, nothing has to make sense, you just do it and say it’s the best thing and your opponents are the bad guys. It’s like having a discussion with a flat earther or a Christian. Nothing they say makes sense and everything you say will just make them mad. Anything their leader will say will be followed blindly and fully supported. Even if it’s the most evil thing there is.