• console@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    I feel like it’s extreme ragebaiting/trolling. Either way had a massive laugh despite him being an ass

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    Trump, that’s not how it works.

    Just because you ordered Vance to assassinate that old man doesn’t mean you’re the Pope. Vance, as his slayer, is the Pope now, so you have to kill Vance.

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    6 hours ago

    What did it say that the president of the USA is non-stop pulling attention seeking stunts like your crazy aunt on Facebook? Guess it must be lonely being surrounded by sycophants.

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      Nah, he is just gaslighting overwhelming everyone. Tons of insane and insulting shit to occupy the media and people, so that he can pull all the stunts he he wants. Drowning everything in noise so that no one knows what to focus on anymore.

      Don’t get me wrong, he is batshit insane bud there is a certain method to his madness.

      Edit: Looks like I was using ‘gaslighting’ incorrectly.

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        It’s a terrifying mix of a Gish gallop (a stampede of lies and half truths, delivered so fast they can’t be countered) and razzle dazzle (camouflage via a swarm of irrelevant or counter intuitive points).

        It’s terrifyingly effective, and very difficult to counter.

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          Would be much easier to counter if there was a functional system of checks and balances or a well-educated population that’d hold their leaders accountable, but here we are.

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    Trump has said that although he was “confirmed at a Presbyterian church as a child, I now consider myself to be a non-denominational Christian.”

    Uhhhh…he’s not even Catholic? That’s kinda a prerequisite for THE LEADER OF THE CATHOLIC CHURCH!

    He’s completely trolling, right? I mean it’s gotta be cover for something happening that he wants to distract people from. He can’t be that stupid that to think he can actually be Pope…can he?

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    9 hours ago

    He’s distracting from the fact that he called for all Democrats to be removed from Congress. It’s a smokescreen bc of how ludicrous it is.

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      8 hours ago

      Why should the call for removal not be a smokescreen?

      What is the thing that the upper class does that doesn’t receive any attention but should make us worried?

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      Exactly.

      It’s all meant to make people outraged and distracted, and we all keep falling for it.

      Please let’s not entertain completely absurd shit like that.

      Imagine every time your boomer aunt posted that same shit Trump does on her Facebook it ended up in the news-- it’s clearly delusional and giving it attention gives it validity even if it is only criticisms.

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        This is so frustrating, right? The king of the baboons is insane and addicted to attention, so he throws shit around and spits at everyone who comes to close. And all the other baboons circle around him, watching every move he makes so they can jump and scream as soon as he does.
        Stop reporting, stop reacting, it doesn’t accomplish anything, it’s a waste of time.

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    I think he wants to put the idea out there that he could “step in” as pope if needed.

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      The Bible is more of less a study in human error and human potential. Of course they have caught on to the concept of narcissistic idiots in power being a bad thing. I’m sure there were plenty of those back in the day and plenty who were far worse than trump.

      Hell, we have leaders right now in the world who are worse than trump and they have all been in power for decades. The biggest difference is that most of them are smarter and more cunning than trump, who is an 80 year old toddler that wants attention all the time.

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      I’m agnostic as American Christians are pure evil but there’s a lot going on now that lines up with warnings issued in their book

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      As a former Christian, It’s been SO hard keeping my non-faith while actively living at the same time as the Anti-Christ.

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      Dude REALLY wants to be the anti-Christ, and the “Christians” that put him in office want that too. They think they’ll be rewarded for putting their fellow humans(& the planet) through hell, and bringing on the end-of-days sooner, rather than later.

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        The Bible says there will be many antichrists. Anyone who contradicts Jesus’ teachings, or misrepresents or misunderstands are antichrists. That would include misogynistic apostles. (1 John 2:18)

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          Hard agree, but I’m not here to argue against entire denominations. I personally despise any organization/religion above the Congregation level.

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            So, Nathaniel Hawthorne has been on my mind, recently (oooh, illuminati, Freemason! They used to have some measure of honor, you can search up the Freemason symbology of pauper Mozart’s The Magic Flute, Manly Hall and Lon Duquette do excellent justice to the topic), he wrote Young Goodman Brown for reasons (although being guilty himself of not understanding indigenous American culture, but ignorance of the time, we all are guilty).