• martin4598@lemm.ee
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    As a french, I expect an apology. Come on, you expect that from Zelensly so it’s not that hard.

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      Couche fucker. Vance is the couche fucker, cheeto is the dick puppet. Get your facts straight!

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    Haha! Yeah! Wouldn’t want some loser military that hasn’t won a war in the last 80 years. Haha!

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    Britain hasn’t fought wars? Try Googling Iraq and Afghanistan, Mr. Vice President.

    🐱

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      Someone really should ask if the Whitehouse cleaning staff are being paid extra to get Vance’s emission’s out of the furniture.

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    Vance is Peter Thiel’s hand puppet, just like Trump is Musk’s. Thiel and Musk first came to serious money when they merged their companies to create PayPal, and since then they’ve been cooperating on various projects. Their current project is to establish corpo-feudalism in the US, and for that they need geopolitical isolation (Thiel’s job) and the dismantling of all social safetynets (Musk’s job). That’s all the context needed to understand Vance’s behaviour.

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      So Thiel is really in control then, since Musk is actually an idiot. The idea that Thiel thought “I can’t trust this guy to do anything” when he kicked Musk out of PayPal, and now “Wait, I need someone to ruin something and run it into the ground, I’ve got just the guy” is somehow absolutely hilarious to me.

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        Yeah this has been what I’m wondering lately. Clearly Thiel can’t be super in love with Elon since they ousted him from PayPal while he was on his honeymoon… but if he’s a useful idiot that can take the attnetion and heat, when everything implodes it’ll be on Musk and then Trump, and then Vance, who has been higher profile as VP than most, can try and worm his way in there and voila, Thiel has got what he wants. Vance is pretty off putting to most people though, which seems like bad judgement on his handlers part if they want a pseudo-legit govt CEO… but then the handlers are also super off putting in real life and clearly live in a alternate reality/bubble so maybe it’s not that far fetched.

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        It would be hilarious if it weren’t for the 75m Americans being sacrificed because of these idiots. If it just affected morons who FAFO, it would be a bit more lighthearted.

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    Well, it shows Vances vast knowlege of politics, history, and reality. It fits on a very small piece of paper.

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      They are evidently trying to destroy the USA’s traditional alliances and weaken its historical allies. The most immediate benefit is to Russia, but China also benefits while North America and Europe lose out. Their motivation seems to be that turmoil offers billionaires new opportunities to make more money, and they may also hope to strengthen their dealings with Russian oligarchs.

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        War is good for business.

        And despite the next rule being “peace is good for business”, that’s not actually all that true.

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            Yes, this is crucially what is often forgotten

            If you are actually directly participating in a war, then it’s nothing but destructive

            “War is good for business” would apply mostly to china in this case, and a little to Africa and maybe South America depending on how involved they’re gonna end up being

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              Yup, the country whose infrastructure is getting obliterated does not profit from war.

              Care to elaborate on the South America/Africa part?

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                Well I’m mostly thinking they’re gonna benefit depending on how ignored they end up being in any potential conflict, as a consequence of not being in that conflict. That’s mostly speculation, I don’t have anything to actually back it up beyond my meanderings

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                  I see what you mean, benefitting through not getting involved. I can totally see that going for South America Unfortunately, Central Africa would get deeply pulled into such conflict given its vast rare earth resources, so I doubt they could benefit.