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[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

RR is an out-of-touch boogie cheerleader on his best days, but the amount of cope he's shilling here is just tragic. He doesn't understand the meaning of "optimism" because all his side has offered for decades is "get 'em next time" nonsense.

[–] Umbrias@beehaw.org 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

optimism and hope are necessary in all scenarios, i dont know who rr is beyond this article but these are mostly fair things to be optimistic about. by optimism i do mean things that imply it's not necessarily the worst case scenario, that this is perhaps a 2 and change regime and not a 70+ year regime, and that some responses to the horrors are working. Even more someof these things imply a civil war is not as likely as it might be, which is a massive win unless you are a bloodthirsty fool. Could you be more specific with your problems here?

[–] pohart@programming.dev 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Trump is really ramping up the rhetoric on a Canadian/American war. I think such a thing makes an immediate civil war very likely.

I still think he doesn't intend a Canadian/American war. I think the dual purposes are manipulating markets as part of pumping and dumping stocks for the oligarchs, and promoting instability in the West for Putin. But a Canadian/American war would be a ton of instability in the West, so maybe

[–] remington@beehaw.org 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I think such a thing makes an immediate civil war very likely.

I don't see anything like that ever happening in the near future.

[–] pohart@programming.dev 2 points 4 days ago

To be clear I didn't mean the rhetoric makes it likely, I mean an attack on Canada makes it likely. I think and hope that the rhetoric is market manipulation, and largely empty.

Whether that changes your opinion, idk.

[–] remington@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What is a 'boogie cheerleader'?

[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I mean he is a member of the upper castes who mostly functions as a "progressive" Democrat propagandist

[–] remington@beehaw.org 2 points 4 days ago

OK. Thanks for the explanation.