• three_trains_in_a_trenchcoat@piefed.social
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      20 hours ago

      Sure, maybe, probably, but even if that is 100% true, I don’t think it’s the whole story. I think that the interests of the Russian Federation and the interests of our ultra-wealthy sort of accidentally aligned insofar as they both believe they’d be better off with the US federal government deligitimized and destroyed. Whether it works out the way they’d hoped, well, we’ll see. History is kind of a funny thing.

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          They might think so, but they’re really not. Billionaires here were much less likely to fall out of windows. We were much more based on laws than a series of buddy systems.

          It was better to have a billion dollars than ten billion rubles. We’re working to change that.

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          19 hours ago

          People fall out of windows all the time, even if they have billions. Clearly, not all of them are aligned.

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            17 hours ago

            They don’t all have to be; the majority of them are aligned, because those that fall out of alignment…

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        19 hours ago

        Here’s a pretty wild idea that just occurred to me. Let’s assume that Trump being a Russian asset is far from being the big picture, but a tiny part of it. What if some people have planned something much bigger, and the Trump administration is just one step along the way.

        Maybe the goal is to make people rise up against a tyrannical dictator, and tare down the whole administration. Then, something new could rise from the ashes, and that’s when you have a unique opportunity to design the whole system to your liking. Consider it a hard reset, where you purge every cache and memory. Well, who would design the new constitution and a new government at that point? Even if it’s the people who do that, their opinions can be easily swayed, distorted and guided by social media. What if some people are just waiting for each piece to fall in its place.

        Well, I have zero evidence for any of this, so consider it nothing more than food for thought. You could also use that as a prompt for a scifi book if you want.

      • breecher@sh.itjust.works
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        Why would you not assume they are all Putin assets? They are all for sale to the highest bidder, and have been so for quite some time. It wasn’t Trump who went to Moscow on that 4th of July some years ago, but some of his fellow assets.

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        17 hours ago

        Might explain more then you think. Those dudes are cheap, like 15k cheap