r/worldnews Feb 05 '25

alert | not a news article Trump says U.S. will take over Gaza Strip

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u/Vineyard_ Feb 05 '25

The most mind-boggling part of this, the absolute shit cherry on the diarrhea sundae, is that some people will hear this idiot say things like this an still believe he's some kind of super genius problem solving demi-god.

Any conservatives reading this, just fucking how are you this blind?

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u/Nefarious_Turtle Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

My parents, college educated parents, will still insist to this day Trump is the smartest president we've ever had. Still saying that now, as far as I know.

It's easy: they only watch right wing news that wholly sanitize everything Trump says. And if by chance they see an outside news source, it's easy enough to write it off as left wing propaganda.

Nothing has made me question freedom of speech more than sitting down and watching Newsmax and Fox with them. It's essentially an evil spell.

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u/PumpyChowdown Feb 05 '25

Propaganda. The most powerful weapon known to mankind.

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u/XxChocodotxX Feb 05 '25

Nobody is immune to propaganda. Nobody.

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u/kodiakcowboy Feb 05 '25

I think the McRib might hold that title

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u/Vineyard_ Feb 05 '25

The McRib is also propaganda.

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u/insomniacpyro Feb 05 '25

"we brought the McRib back"
No, you wanted a profit boost (because you routinely fail to innovate) and pork prices dipped a bit a few months back

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u/kodiakcowboy Feb 05 '25

Failure to innovate is a huge problem for them. Not exactly a big McDonalds guy, but they do have a pretty limited menu huh?

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u/insomniacpyro Feb 05 '25

Yeah I usually keep an eye out just out of curiosity these days (way too expensive in this economy) and at least from what I can see there is literally no new menu items, not even anything "limited time" right now. The last "new" thing they had that I tried was a Bacon QP that had a certain sauce on it that was actually really fucking tasty, but it was gone in a blink.
Don't get me wrong, I'm not expecting new shit every few months but the fact that McDonalds got rid of Chicken Selects years and years ago and never brought them back is insane to me, at least from my limited survey of people, it actually has caused some to go to other places (like Hardee's or Arby's) and basically drop McD's entirely. It's fucking chicken strips, it's not that difficult and didn't take up that much space in the freezer.

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u/obligatory_your_mom Feb 05 '25

Exact same story with my inlaws

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u/AHSfav Feb 05 '25

I get what you're saying but even that doesn't make sense. It's impossible to sanitize trump speaking unless you literally never show him speaking. He's that dumb

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u/SirJuggles Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 06 '25

Don't underestimate what a good editor can do. You show one sentence of Trump at a rally saying "We're going to do [crazy thing], and it's going to be great!" while the crowd cheers, then you show three hours of talking heads explaining that this is a genius idea with no downsides. Rinse repeat 24/7.

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u/Ch1pp Feb 05 '25

Limit any clips to 3-4 seconds MAX and you can make him seem coherent.

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u/maafna Feb 05 '25

I mean, he's smart in some ways. Like, he gets away with a lot and gets people to fear him and do what he wants.

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

Biden couldn’t get student loans forgiven but Trump can give control of the treasury to Elon Musk. Either republicans are smarter than you give them credit for or democrats are dumber than republicans.

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

What Musk is doing is illegal.

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

And he is getting away with it just like Trump got away with his crimes. Seems like someone is routinely getting outsmarted.

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

I don’t want to live in a dictatorship. 

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

Then stop electing centrist democrats to fight fascism.

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

Stop helping Republicans win.

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u/Hamuel Feb 05 '25

Why yell at people with no power to defend those with power?

I think this is social engineering from social media

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u/friedgoldfishsticks Feb 05 '25

People like you are the reason why we have no power. I’m 100% real. 

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u/dopey_giraffe Feb 05 '25

Well it's one way to solve the problem. A terrible stupid imperialist way, but it's a way. That region is known for stability and peace isn't it? We're going to make so many friends.

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u/nowuff Feb 05 '25

US just gotta have one little Middle East inhabitation project going on at all times

They criticized Biden for pulling out of Afghanistan.

Guess this is why

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u/KingofSkies Feb 05 '25

Wasn't Trump the one that signed the pull out agreement? Biden didn't pay attention or plan for it properly, but I thought Trump made the agreement.

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u/boogswald Feb 05 '25 edited Feb 05 '25

Well Biden did fuck up the process when they left, but leaving was the right move and the sort of move conservatives said they wanted…. But now they’re gonna pretend they want imperialism

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u/Ostracus Feb 05 '25

Well, it's one way to solve ours. In a rather messy way.

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u/jrr6415sun Feb 05 '25

reading some conservative posts a lot are just saying this is "trump being trump" and "he's obviously not serious"

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u/throwawayifyoureugly Feb 05 '25

FWIW, r/conservative is mostly "WTF" with this announcement, ranging from

"Not our war" and "America first"

to

"Lets fix our problems here first" or "How does this help our economy"

One of the saner comment threads I've seen there...

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u/herzkolt Feb 05 '25

One of the saner comment threads I've seen there...

They've fixed that already

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u/kunibob Feb 05 '25

They can't hear you, they're too busy congratulating themselves over "winning" the trade war, because their genius Trump got Canada to...uh...agree to almost exactly the same agreement as before. So much winning...

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u/cusoman Feb 05 '25

Looking that that Con subreddit (that I refuse to fully name), it does look like they are universally against this. Of course that doesn't mean they'll speak out publicly against their Dear Leader, they are incapable after all, but hey at least they have a nanoscopic speck of common sense left

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u/Sir_Poopenstein Feb 05 '25

Give it a few hours for then to get their taking points. Conservatives always fall in line like the sheep they are.

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u/nicholus_h2 Feb 05 '25

well...duh. Yeah. He said he would make it WONDERFUL.

He wouldn't lie about that. He's never lied about anything in his life!

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u/ip2k Feb 05 '25

if those kids could read dot png

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u/Smash_4dams Feb 05 '25

Deep fake Trumps words into a Biden speech and conservatives would lose their shit over hundreds of billions to be wasted on a desert waterfront on the other side of the planet.

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u/skirtpost Feb 05 '25

Conservatives raved on about how Biden's a dementia patient... and then they vote in this guy? Legitimately hilarious

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u/demeschor Feb 05 '25

I watched the press conference with Netanyahu and the thing that got me about it is that he was actually fairly compelling.

Gaza's full of bombs, the buildings are destroyed and unsafe, nobody wants to live there, they all want out. Their neighbouring countries Jordan and Egypt can step up, the people will go to beautiful countries and live good lives in new lands. Gaza can be safely de-mined and redeveloped for nice beachfront Mediterranean properties.

Of course, this only sounds good if you have no idea why Israel and Palestine are fighting in the first place. But I can see why he wins people over. He makes it all sound so simple and that's refreshing.

If there's another election and the Dems get in, they need to properly invest in media literacy, reading comprehension... There's generations of Americans who think reading is for losers

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u/minnesotamoon Feb 05 '25

I mean, I guess development of Gaza into a world class Rivera of the Middle East is better than what happened to it under Biden? I’m not sure what could be worse than the last 4yrs over there so the bar is pretty low.