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      Or he does have an idea, and the nonsensensical lies he spews just serve to reenforce the talking points for his MAGA base.

      I don’t know which one is scarier.

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      I didn’t bother watching (I prefer to read), but this comment got me to play the video. Macron giving the wink at the end really got me. Pwned.

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    I have a feeling the “freedom fries” are making a comeback in the congressional cafeteria.

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    Great, I am just annoyed that his English is so hard to understand.

    Now the average MAGA person can’t understand that

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    This is how everyone should handle trump and his ilk at every opportunity. Talk over him, call him out on obvious lies, chuckle at him when he says idiotic things. Just generally treat him with disdain and derision. He has this hero status with his followers that could be chipped away at if he’s the subject of serious, casual ridicule. Not the stupid, desperate, “mango mussolini” “lord cheeto” junk, but the stuff that makes him feel self-conscious and lash out like a stupid, bumbling old man. This has been the most successful rhetorical/propaganda strategy whenever people have employed it.

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      He’s also not fast enough or coherent enough to respond to it anymore. I think you can cow him. Because I imagine that’s what his handlers do every day. He’s used to submitting.

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          Yup. Trump was a master of the Gish-Gallop debate strategy. Basically, the goal is to overwhelm your opponents with arguments. Even if they’re not accurate or well constructed. The goal is simply to preoccupy your opponent’s speaking time with debunking your claims, rather than making their own arguments. Because claims are easy to make, but comparatively take a lot of time to debunk.

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      Not saying you’re right or wrong, but these types of events only happen occasionally, mais non?

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    I’m curious if this is going to be the way leaders treat Trump going forward. And by curious I mean hopeful. Because that debacle in the Oval Office when Elon Musk completely owned him I think has made it clear that powerful people can dominate this man fairly easily. The guy who used to terrorize people in 2016 on the debate stage is gone. He’s a dotering old man who doesn’t even know where he is half the time. Interviews like this with other world leaders should be able to dominate the conversation fairly easily.

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        He should stop being a public figure then because he always looks like that. He’s just lucky most amaricans are too dumb to notice.

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            How though. Every time I see him talking he’s making a fool out of himself. How can people take anything he says serious when he constantly lies and talks like a 3 year old.

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                Like the movie Idiocracy. It used to be a pessimistic view of the future meant to be a comedy, yet it looks like an optimistic view of the near future, and looks more like a documentary right now.

                It shows how extremily dumb the Americans are.

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      I mean it was pretty well known that in his first term Trump was really awkward in meetings with foreign leaders. His schtick is very much catered toward Americans, and he’s got that aspect down pat. He says shit that flusters and disorients American democrats but when he’s with foreign leaders it becomes much more apparent how much more intelligent literally everyone else in the room is than than him and how utterly out of his league they are, and they’ve always treated him like an idiot child spouting off and often even openly laugh at stuff he says in earnest much to his embarrassment and anger

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      There is zero chance. I think the only thing that would happen would be he would just shut down all in person meetings in front of a camera. Just like he does with news organizations or press people he doesn’t like… He just cries “they treat me badly” and bans them from the White House If something makes him look or feel bad he just shuts it down.

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        Every time he says something off the wall. Someone needs to lean in, sock him, and say something like, “think before you speak.” Including, and especially his secret service detail. I don’t think he can learn to do otherwise, it’s just a tangible acknowledgment if his inherent idiocy.

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              While you may find it cringe, I meant it as a courtesy to you. I’d rather not engage with you at all beyond informing you of what i just did, if it’s all the same to you. The less iterations of 100% legally pointless comment “footers” i can see spamming this comment section the better. I am grateful nobody else is doing this though. It would make it unbearable to read any comments.

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                I’d rather not engage with you at all beyond informing you of what i just did

                The option to block me is available to you.

                You and others don’t have to repeatedly comment that you disagree with me using a footer, you can just block me.

                I am grateful nobody else is doing this though. It would make it unbearable to read any comments.

                People have had footer sections in their comments since the beginning of the Internet and somehow commenting and posting continued to exist.

                If Lemmy wanted to give me a better way of licensing my comments that others would see, when they’re reading my comments, and most importantly, that is supported by law, I would be all for it.

                Otherwise, I use a small font text to minimize the impact of the footer, something I don’t have to do.

                This comment is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

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                  Yeah so is the option to inform you, you are bothering people. Blocking is an eventuality of course, but i usually only block right away comments whose content i dislike and except your cc license i have nothing against the content of your comments.

                  Theres a reason why the 90s web forum design was never widely adopted and it’s dead now. Nobody cares about witty quotes or how many posts an account has, or badges, or a little picture or footers.

                  Anyway, i won’t even comment on the law part because that’s a can of worms and i don’t want to write a huge wall of text. Like i previously said, for the purpose you think the footers have, they are pointless. Nevertheless, i appreciate at least the small font.

                  Anyway i think i said what i had to say about this.

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              Agreed, but I got scolded by the mods of .world because I was “harassing” them.

              Thought I had them blocked. I’d recommend that’s what everyone does and just move on.

              Edit: The fact that meta pirated a crap ton of ebooks says that that link is going to do fsck all.

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    Macron interrupts to say to the face of the orange thug that Europe provided 60% of the money and clearly he is there for negotiations. As he puts it, it is russia who should pay back : first pay compensations to Ukraine, then other countries.
    Next a journalist asks the orrange nazi if russia will pay since they are the aggressor … no answer + diversion + end of press meeting