Donald Trump has been appointed new administrator of lemmy.ml.

"Far left"

"Tankie"

Choose one

Almost like the throughline is authoritarianism. They like it when they have control but they don't like it when who they don't like has control.

Honestly, it feels like those with lower iq and less ability to inform themselves are the ones that love authoritarianism. They can't form a coherent ideology and devolve into just trying to control everyone to their underdeveloped beliefs.

That's where the whole bullshit idea of horseshoe theory comes from. It's people leaving out the authoritarian axis because it's beneficial to divide actual leftists and make us seem crazy.

Most people who try to describe their enemy “the left” have about as much brain matter as JFK

What a pedo rapist little bitch trump is

I heard a conservative say the Iran situation is because Trump used to be a democrat and there's still some democrat in him.

A 100% republican would have fixed Iran in 2 weeks.

I heard recently on a podcast a friend put on after we broke a 'length of time arguing about music' rule that 'horseshoe theory exists and is real, but only for idiots'

This is the truest thing I have ever heard.

Like attracts like. One egomaniacal narcissistic dictator likes another egomaniacal narcissistic dictator.

Ok, so the basic gist im getting is that he begged sk to help save him from his iran quagmire, and when they rejected he said "ok fu" and took strategic resources (includong air craft carrier) out of the region, which finally reduced the pressure enough to sk to finally request peace from nk without daddy US butting in?

Trump got mad at being rejected, and tried to threaten imperilment, but instead it got nuetralized by peace because the us was holding up nk/sk tensions, especially in the latest while?

If so, this should be the strongest evidence for the technique of dealing with us foriegn deplomacy, just turn the chud down and he'll just give you your soverignty back.

Just stand up to the pretensious bully

My god he is such a cunt. Has anyone asked Dennis Rodman’s opinion on the matter? They both seem to love NK.

North Korea has the files, and are blackmailing Trump with it.

Hackers: You can hack hackers to do the funniest shit in the world, if the Lazarus Group happen to have some unredacted Epstein Files on a computer connected to the net.

This is such a lemmy.world flavored thread lol

There is no left-right. There is only auth-lib.

And no, Libertarians (with a capital L) and ancaps are not on the "lib" end.

It's what happens when you don't have the the ability to analyze through dialectical materialism. It's confusing when suddenly the fascist mad man is seemingly taking the same stance as "tankies" on normalizing relations with a non violent country who's only crime has been being victim of a genocidal campaign over half a century ago. Trump likes Kim for the same reason that he likes Xi. He thinks they are actually the evil dictators that the US makes them out to be. He wants to be an evil dictator. He will always respect any leader that panders to his ego and treats him like a leader. Ironically, Western countries are bad at this. It's why he hates europe. Hell, Mamdani was smart enough to play a similar game of charisma. That's the dialectics. At least from what we are hearing from Trump. It's why he says things like this.

The main material reason is that the defeat in Iran has made any chance of the US maintaining its military in East Asia laughable. It cannot maintain its illusion of China being a threat. If China was going to invade Taiwan it would have done it. Instead, China cut its oil imports to help all of its Asian neighbors. The dream of a "shift to Asia" that happened under Obama is gone. The US power in West Asia is dying and they are pulling weapons and troops from East Asia to desperately attempt to hold onto it. They are stuck with capital invested in a region that they are showing absolute failure and weakness in. With capital investments in Israel and the military industrial complex Trump is being pressured to just "bring things back to how they were". They never will be. It may take a long time before that is admitted. I expect another round of bombing campaigns and maybe even a desperate small ground troop invasion to attempt to save face and "claim the strate". But this likely will fail and remain in this denial state for some time; ending through a different president most likely.

He will continue to deny the defeat and soon desperately shift to the one region of the world US capital can continue to exploit: South America.

Some of this is me mixing in my own predictions. Feel free to critize that. But, we obviously all know "JDPON Don" falls into the correct position sometimes, often because of his own ego and the shifting global relations in the face of a dying empire.

TLDR: The "tankies" are against American Imperialism. American Imperialism is losing its power and is forced by material circumstances to take actions that "tankies" would consider good. Trump is appealing to the "strong man" in Kim to make his weak move (failed Iran war causing troops and weapons to be removed) look like strength.

What Smoke and Mirrors! What bombast! Now release the trump-epstein mp4s and remove the degenerate-in-chief!

He can't ask his very good friend Kim in NK for assistance with Iran? What is he even trying to say in the message, other than "herpaderp I have dementia"

I'm so confused

I'm so confused by the way he ends so many messages with, "Thank you for your attention to this matter."

Is his brain so thoroughly fried that he can only regurgitate bits of corpo-speak regardless of whether they are applicable?

My headcanon is that someone sent him a letter with that closing 45 years ago and he thought, "That's a classy way to close a letter," so now he always uses it when he wants to feel official.

I also tend to read it as conveying the sentiment, "Please pay attention to me because I fear I will die if you stop paying attention to me."

Can someone point me at one of these "tankies"? I only ever see strawman posts about how stupid they are.

Yes, tankies are fascists and think almost exactly like MAGA.

I'm not sure socialism as a concept even makes sense when used together with authoritarianism. "Far left" looks like it's exclusively a made-up label for some flags the Alt-Right uses.

Unthreatening and respectful, they just did a nuclear weapons test like a week ago