• nickiwest@lemmy.world
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        You can tell when he learns a new word because he’s like a first-grader and wants to tell everyone the “new” thing he just found out about.

        Groceries, affordability, magnets … The list of basic concepts he’s learning at 79 is kind of shocking.

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    I kind of wonder if the shooting was planned when looking at the facts

    • shooter background was an Afghan CIA operative
    • shooter was vetted and given asylum by Trump administration in April 2025
    • months ago Trump deployed National Guard to DC without justification citing “crime”, despite crime rates dropping
    • a week ago, a judge ruled the National Guards deployment in DC was unlawful and he lacked authority or cause for it
    • two days ago, operative shoots 2 guardsmen not far from white house and immediately surrenders
    • Trump and Hegseth immediately respond saying not only are the national guards presence there legitimate and justified, but they are activating 500 more to head to DC

    Curious.

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    I am getting whiplash from how quickly this man contradicts his own statements

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    No, he didn’t stage it to stop immigration. Like this is an every day stuff.
    No one is trying to change narratives, me good them bad. Take example of Charlie Kirk.

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    Should be noted that his justification is a lunatic the CIA hired and then brought back from Afghanistan.

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      Should be noted this is a lunatic brought back from Afghanistan, who Trump threatened to vet refugees from before the attack. If returned back to Afghanistan now would likely be put to death. That adds a lot of fear into these people. And life and death level of fear is dangerous.

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    But we are a third world country… Last month there were churches all over the world raising money to help feed American children while our government was shut down and couldn’t help cover subsidies for food.

    Make it make sense 🤡🌎

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      Third world means “brown people country” to him, that’s how it makes sense for them. Almost every question about why this administration does or says anything can be answered with “racism” or “pedofilia”.

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        “third world” is an outdated Cold War term that referred to countries that weren’t aligned with either the US or USSR.

        It’s loosely bandied about these days to indicate an undeveloped country. Out of the developed countries, the US cares the least about its citizens. But anyone who thinks it isn’t a developed country hasn’t been to undeveloped one.

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          “decimate” is an outdated term that means to destroy one tenth of something.

          Language changes over time. With the Cold War being over there was no longer a need for a term that referred to countries not involved in the Cold War, so the meaning changed to something useful

          But anyone who thinks it isn’t a developed country…

          And speaking of meaning, 3rd world does not mean underdeveloped. However, one of the criteria for a country to be considered “First World” is “having a stable democracy.” So whatever you want to classify the US as it sure as fuck isn’t a First World Country.

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          As someone who was born and raised in an undeveloped country, and also has been to Europe, the US, Africa, Asia and all over Latin America. US ain’t all that.

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          Yup, glad someone else mentioned this. First world was allied with the USA. Second world was allied with the USSR. Third world wasn’t allied with either.

          The reason “third world” became synonymous with “undeveloped” is because of why countries tended to be third world. Countries were largely third world because they weren’t developed enough to be notable allies to the USA or USSR. They didn’t have enough development to be able to contribute things like military tech or manpower outside of their own borders, or corruption was so rampant that the first and second worlds didn’t feel like they would be reliable.

          As far as the USA and USSR were concerned, third world countries were only “useful” as land for staging proxy wars. But that meant “third world” quickly became associated with “undeveloped, corrupt, and war-torn.”

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    Does this whole scenario seem sus to anyone else? There was NOTHING about this on Wednesday and by the time I saw reporting on Thursday they’d already resolved thr situation, somehow captured the guy without killing him (he’s got the wrong skin colour to be captured alive), and spun the whole thing into their typical escalation of anti-immigrant rhetoric.

    Am I slow in hearing about this, or did they work with this formar governmental collaborator? Seems like a false flag?

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          for the same reason the Jews had a hard time fleeing Germany.

          All that being said I’m very happy for you that you were able to get out. Good luck I’m hoping the best for you.

          • They won’t renew passports with “incorrect” genders but also won’t process passports with a gender marker change, and are actively looking into revoking our passports. They already stopped recognizing passports with an X marker, for those who have them.

            They’ve been hitting lots of legal stumbling blocks but are persistent if nothing else

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      I live in a poor war-torn country. We don’t have many immigrants but those immigrants who still come to us (our education is miraculously still not destroyed by our esteemed masters) are behaving nice. The “secret” is obvious: let students, engineers, etc in and keep bandits out.

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        But they can’t add skin colour requirements yet, hence - no immigration for all.

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    Does he even have that power? I feel that’s a very important question that no one is asking.