trajekolus

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Defeatism leads to losing

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

His cognitive decline might mean that should he win the election he could be less able to direct all his spite into action than during his 1st term. So his decline may be less scary than the writer thinks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago

He is not an Afrikaner - as the child of immigrants he went to English schools, and has nothing to do with Afrikaans.

Your prejudice makes you dishonest.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

While he grew up in SA, he has no loyalty to South Africa either. We don't want him nor be associated with him

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago

Reich did not suggest using a British alternative.
His words from the article: "The sooner the US government revokes his security clearance, terminates its contracts with him and the entities he controls, and builds its own alternatives to Starlink and SpaceX, the safer America will be"

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Do you really need to be an expert to see a problem with Musk's Russian sympathies?

[–] [email protected] 73 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Bezos owns the Washington Post, not the NYT

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Looking at the European situation from outside is also baffling, with putinite parties on the rise by whipping up fears over migration. Similarities with the USA situation easy to find

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Defeatism has a self fulfilling outcome if enough people have it

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Would it be incorrect to think that Mark Twain already described how scammers feed off the US religious right in "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1884). I am referring to "The King" and "the Duke".

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