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[–] 4 points 1 day ago (17 children)

but... it's a "dividend". uh huh, never will pay out regardless

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  • [–] 7 points 1 day ago (16 children)

    Doesn't matter if you pay or not the attempt to sway votes with gifts, prizes or money is specifically illegal.

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  • [–] 2 points 23 hours ago (3 children)

    Theoretical illegality loses to practical unenforcement every time.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (2 children)

    No one had to enforce anything. The international community is what matters and they don't enforce that they just judge you by it.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago (1 child)

    They didn't properly for decades, but I guess they have finally caught up. Not that their judgment has helped any, mind.

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  • [–] 1 point 22 hours ago

    We're losing gdp hand over fist, losing trade deals, getting pushed out as the oil currency, multiple countries have already divested their good reserves from us shores. We are losing in every single measurable metric so yes it has helped.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (9 children)

    Of course, but you'd need to be missing part of your brain to ever think he WOULD pay. Also, what is illegal for a working yank is not illegal for the epstien class

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  • [–] 4 points 1 day ago (8 children)

    Doesn't matter, it calls to question the legitimacy of the election and no international body that isn't directly corrupt would accept them as legit leadership.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago (5 children)

    ... I've got some bad news for you, friend.

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    ... so you think other nations are going to stop interacting with the United States if the US legislature is installed via bribery and corruption?

    Has that happened for any other country? Let's look at the 2025 Corruption Perceptions Index list, and you tell me which countries are getting kicked out of the UN or cut off from international diplomacy.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 day ago* (2 children)

    No one said that.

    No one is getting kicked out or cut off. Please point to where I said or implied that.

    You can read into it wherever you'd like to fit your ideology but losing trust isn't just getting kicked out of shit it's losing deals and getting trade reduced because you can't be trusted which I might add is already happening. Soft power matters and this administration should be learning that lesson but they almost certainly will not and it's going to cost us in his phrasing "bigly".

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago (1 child)

    You said:

    no international body that isn't directly corrupt would accept them as legit leadership

    If other nations are still interacting with, conducting diplomacy with, and trading with that administration, they are accepting the leadership as legitimate. They are not running around the back to deal with or support an opposition leadership; they are accepting the results of the election as presented. That is directly in conflict with the point you put forth.

    Trade is being reduced, soft power is drying up, but that is specifically because the current administration is accepted as legitimate. Everyone in the world is agreeing on who is in charge in the US, and they're pulling back as a result, but there's no circumstance where nations stop accepting Trump as the leader of the US based on the results of the midterms. Which, to your definition, makes all of those nations corrupt as well.

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