Use gold rimmed paper to get his attention.

Advice to Zelensky:
Say to Trump Ukraine will stop bombing Russian oil, when USA has fixed the Hormuz strait problems and Oil is down below $60 like they were before USA attacked Iran.

Trump is a traitor, and he is insane and a liar and corrupt and has dementia.
But other than that, everything is fine. 🤥 🤡

1. They abandoned their nukes on a promise that USA would protect them.
2. They are defending democracy against a totalitarian regime. Something USA claims to support.
3. They are fighting against Russia that is undermining USA and allies.
4. They are buying weapons through the coalition of the willing at a 10% surcharge from USA. All weapons to Ukraine are taxed an extra 10! by Trump, so USA is making huge profits from Ukraine!!!
5. They have supported most of Trumps peace proposals, it is Putin that refuse to negotiate anything but complete surrender.
6. Ukraine supported Trumps idea of NOT bombing energy infrastructure and actually stopped. Except it was only within hours that Russia attacked another Ukrainian power plant!

If I was moderator here, you would be insta perma banned from all subs I moderated!

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It’s literally the first point of the first rule!

WTF? Of course a toaster can’t be fanatic!?!?!?! What’s you point. Also a nationalist dictator can be equally fanatic, I never claimed otherwise!?!?!

What are you on about? None of that changes the fact that the Saudi regime is both religious and fanatic, any debate on whether they would be as fanatic without relifion is irrelevant, because that’s not the reality we are dealing with.

widening the meaning of the word too much it loses its explanatory power.

I am absolutely not widening the definition, I stand by my claim that regimes like the Saudi are literally fanatics by any sensible definition just as much as the Iranian regime is. And their death penalty for apostasy is part of that.
The fact that you can do other normal things without the death penalty does not change that the things that are fanatic remain fanatic.

I have no idea what your agenda is, but it certainly isn’t compatible with democracy or humanism if you defend a regime like the Saudi.

So you call it normal to execute people simply because they don’t believe in Islam?

but what does it do for the US?

Nothing really, but it makes it look like Trump is doing something. And he also makes Russia look good, which Trump likes too.
The reality however is that Russia doesn’t even have enough diesel themselves, they have to buy reined dieself from China and India and still they have a serious shortage, so diesel prices in Russia are record high, and many farmers haven’t been able to get the harvest done.

So this Diesel from Russia, is in reality from China or India, the shipped from Russia to USA if that ever actually happens.
But USA is a net exporter themselves, so chances are that it will then be shipped to a fourth country.

Completely moronic all the way through, and nothing more than at most a PR stunt, and probably only 1% of people know how stupid it really is!

The energy ceasefire is a good idea and would save the Ukrainian people a lot of suffering and death.

Ukraine has suggested this for years. But Putin has refused all suggestions of an energy ceasefire.

Yes it is, you have to be a fanatic to base the law of the land on 1500 years old superstition. It’s no different than fanatic christians in USA that contrary to scientific evidence want laws that make life worse because (they think) that’s what their religion says.
Being a fundamental Islamist is being a religious fanatic.

Sharia law is a thin veneer of religiosity that the MBS regime violates on a daily basis

Doesn’t change the fact that there is death penalty to “offend” Islam in Saudia Arabia based on Sharia law.
And what they call offend can be an extremely mild questioning of a religious practice.

I must admit I didn’t know that either. But I do know that Saudi Arabia has tried to be an influence on Islam, and they are leveraging Mecca for that.

Yes they do, it’s the people who buy it that are stupid.

Sharia law, enough said.

I don’t think you realize how big that family is, they have dozens to take over the throne if necessary.

Those hackers probably aren’t teenagers having fun. This is more likely part of a moronic Russian cyber attack against Europe.
They are doing their job, and waging cyber warfare. Why we (Europe, NATO, USA) keep just taking it without retaliation IDK?
It is also moronic how these system are allowed to be remote controlled, the risk of mistakes seems way greater than the cost of having a manager perform the control locally based on local observations.
Even if the routine could be fully automated with an algorithm, there is no reason why that couldn’t be local.
But it will always require human interaction to handle the content, so I simply don’t see any purpose of having these coolers connected to the Internet?

This is why you need a fridge that is connected to the Internet. Same with all other household appliances.
It’s the best way to support the cyber revolution, and make everybody suffer equally.
-Putin

Fuck the Saudies and their psycho murderous king. It’s despicable how USA has supported that religiously fanatic regime for decades, and it clearly shows the hypocracy in being against a somewhat similar religiously fanatic regime in Iran.
They are both equally bad, but USA is the true villain, for trying to control the oil of the region without any respect for either democracy or the good of the people.

He negotiated it in his head, and is probably surprised that his thinking doesn’t equal reality.
The man is completely delusional, he actually thinks he can make things real with his will!
When he claims “only I can fix that”, he actually believes it. Because he believes he is the only one with a mind strong enough to will it to happen.

This is a common phenomenon among for instance the very rich and highly positioned CEO’s and wall street traders, although generally to a smaller degree, like thinking they can influence how dice fall.
It is also common within religion, like thinking praying actually works, which again turns to things like prosperity gospel, something Trump apparently also believes is true.
And finally it is also something that tend to happen to narcissists.

Trump is all these things, and has been delusional about having “powers” for decades, and his progressing dementia is making it worse.

It’s the same mechanism that made Steve Jobs declined to have his cancer treated when it was discovered early enough to have a very high chance of success. He thought he could get rid of it himself somehow. When he finally realized he couldn’t, it was too late.

True, but USA has more crazies as a result of the society being sick. The inherent number of potential crazies is the same in all countries.

democracy has never done that historically

It absolutely has, Scandinavian countries are good examples of democracy actually working. They rank highest on the democracy index, and they also rank highest in satisfaction in the population and quality of living, and quality of public services.
The better the democracy, the better the results.
Problem is that USA is an awfully bad democracy, and for half a century nothing has been done to improve it. Not even making gerrymandering illegal, or remove the idiotic FPP voting for federal elections. Which are so obvious and a bare minimum to move forward.

For now our democracy here in Denmark where I live is working very well, but that is not an automatic thing, it is something we need to continuously protect, and in general Europeans are better at that than Americans.
We (EU) have the same problems USA do, like AfD in Germany and Le Penn in France, the difference is that here those extremists although popular, cannot take total power of the system, because in functioning democracies you have representation of many parties, and no government is allowed almost total power like the US president has.

The US system with a very powerful president is based on an idea of efficiency to get things done, not an idea of democracy and fairness like most European democracies.
Don’t judge democracy based on the flawed democracies that exist, democracy is the least bad system we have, but a flawed democracies like USA and UK, are doomed to make HUGE mistakes in the name of efficiency, because too much power is concentrated with 1 person. Except when it comes to it, they are only efficient at maintaining the status quo of the power structure, and never really getting much done to benefit society as a whole.