I get that, it’s just that they didn’t do it because they were the good guys, just because they got fucked over by the other group of bad guys, and slaughtered lots of their own people doing it.

After starting the whole WWII thing by allying with them, and only turned on the nazis after the nazis backstabbed them. And afterwards, occupied half of Europe.

Because making sense is so 2010, grandpa

He is a member of the in-group for many. He is using the arguments that will actually make some in said in-group listen.

Bro is a cognitive dissonance junkie

Mercosur-EFTA-CA-SEA global free trade regime let’s go

Hehe .ml user being defensive

Sure, but I’d wager it goes beyond the singular manifestation of power as money. Plenty of other manifestations, and all lead to similar places.

At this point, anything remotely near bare-metal material reality triggers such a cognitive dissonance in a lot of folks, on account of all of the bs they have in their heads, that all of that bare-metal material reality is discarded as too painful.

Love the assumption that the elections aren’t already fixed.

On the bright side, his family might get a solid chunk of dough instead of an abusive husband/father. If they’re lucky, that is