• NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone
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    4 hours ago

    Same energy as the million dollar email service where the idea was that people knew you’d blown a million dollars to have an email on that domain.

  • Switorik@lemmy.zip
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    8 hours ago

    Can we start a go fund me to remove him from office since no one else with the power has the balls to do so?

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    Every pro Trumper I know also has a deep fear of the UN or some shadowy organisation controlling the world. Every conversation ended up with “Well at least he will take back power from the elites”. Now Trump declares he wants to rule the world, and outlines their exact fears as his plan and they are silent. No comment. Why are people so stupid? And pathetically so. It not even hard to see how ridiculous this guy is, but people are still bowing down to it.

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    10 hours ago

    The words in the picture are wrong. It should be:
    I’m going to build my own UN with
    little children and more little children!

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    13 hours ago

    So a protection racket, in other words.

    Setup by the dollar store godfather wannabe

    Ever since trump got elected, the news has been either bizarre, devastating, hilarious, insane, removed, cringe, maddening…

    Can that heart attack come already? Come on, McDonald’s hamburgers, do your job

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      Absolutely fucking terrible protection racket if that’s what it is.

      The US spends 7tn per year on government spending. Even if the entire UN ponied up a billion each, every year, that would be less than 200bn in additional revenue. Not nothing, but barely a fraction of the 5tn in tax revenue the US government takes in every year.

      That’s like the mafia hitting you up for $50 a month.

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    15 hours ago

    The document describes a mechanism resembling the “purchase” of influence: standard membership in the Board of Peace is limited to three years and depends on the will of the chairman. This restriction is lifted for states that contribute more than US$1 billion in cash to the fund within the first year.

    “Decisions would be taken by a majority, with each member state present getting one vote, but all would be subject to the chairman’s approval,” Bloomberg says.

    Pay a billion to get a vote, and everyone gets a vote…

    But trump can overrule any vote…

    And he can kick anyone out that he wants, so if you ever go against his opinion of the moment, he’ll kick you out.

    Why the fuck would any country pay this?

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      8 hours ago

      He’s going to play this whole game of doing military actions and stuff. Then people complain and he’ll just say the decision was made in his board of peace. If you wanted something different, you had to be there and vote.

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        I mean, to be real it’ll be an invasion club.

        Join and pay up, and everyone votes that your invasion is for long-term stability and peace.

        Don’t join up, and get labeled an aggressor for defending your own soverignity.

        If Russia, China, NK join up, it stops being a joking matter

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      14 hours ago

      Why the fuck would any country pay this?

      Same reason they would gift Trump an airplane?

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      11 hours ago

      Because it would be a shame if the military had to pay a little visit to your country if you don’t.