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MicroWave@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth

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Donald Trump suggests US could join British Commonwealth

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    I think his plan would be to try to take it over and become king somehow?

    Charles, fwiw, I feel like this situation is so unprecedented that you could very feasibly let him try, and then just whack his head off at some point with a fuckoff huge claymore and remark disdainfully that “his life was an insult to Our Throne and Empire”, then everyone would nod and agree, and then nip down to the pub for a pint.

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    He’s just saying crazy shit to distract peoplefrom all the stuff his administration is trying to do.

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      At this point, please take us back. We weren’t responsible enough for democracy.

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        • ripcord@lemmy.world
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          Australia’s pretty nice.

      • TooManyFoods@lemmy.world
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        We were for 200 years, but then Nixon happened, and instead of fixing it, we doubled down with Reagan, then instead of fixing that we got here.

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          Uh no. Your whole history has been fucked from the start.

        • NABDad@lemmy.world
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          Civil war happened, and we didn’t fix it because Lincoln was assassinated, and Andrew Johnson was pro-South.

          We were on this path before Nixon.

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            That shit already started with Washington, the first american conspiracy theorist poisoning the ideological well of the nascent country by cautioning against enemies from within and without trying to undo the country instead of appealing to the coherence of a newly forming society.

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              Correct me if I’m wrong, but haven’t we just experienced the results of enemies within? Trump, Vance, and Musk are all American citizens.

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                Yes. And yet, they used the same concept to justify their grasp for power.

                The important part to understand is the paranoid style of the appeal. It’s not an appeal to unity. It’s one to vigilance.

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                  Maybe we should appeal to engagement and voting along with vigilance so that the enemies from within don’t find a malleable minority to exploit for victory.

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          This calls for a time travel movie, titled Fixin’ Nixon

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      It sounds ridiculous but then I wonder if trump could resist the offer of a knighthood.

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        We can only hope Charles takes the opportunity that would avail itself: photo of King Charles knighting someone, sword upon their shoulder near their neck

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    Wut.

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    I don’t think Trump realizes how many brown people there are in the Commonwealth

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      He needs them to feed into the machine that powers the Elitewealth.

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      Aren’t the Brits also legendarily racist? Like, we had to get it from somewhere.

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    Brits:

    “Nah bruv. We’re fine.”

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    I mean, go ahead. It’d be funny for America to join what they fought so hard in the 18th century to leave.

    America’s founding fathers are rolling in their graves.

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      I don’t know , it’s certainly better than the tyrant in charge now.

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    Isn’t that the literal opposite of what the founding fathers wanted?

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    Trump HATES America

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    He doesn’t understand the King of England isn’t in charge of shit…

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    NO. KINGS.

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    Do you want Oceania? Because this is how you get Oceania…

    doublethink

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    How well would US Xian nationalists (Christofascists) get along with the CoE? Is the latter, like the former, actively attempting to acquire absolute power over social matters in their country? Would the two be of like minds w/respect to doctrine?

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    D’you think he mis-heard ‘commonwealth’ as something else?

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    Bout to be British innit?!

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