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    7 days ago

    Trump is clearly a bumbling idiot but certainly not with good intentions. He’s a great representation of Hanlon’s razor. Or the notion of a Useful Idiot, his goals align with foreign actors but Trump does these things because he wants to do them. Trump also has deep seated issues with pleasing male authority figures, ‘strong men’, which totally makes sense with how his father was towards him.





  • This is all just Japan from the 80s all over again. There are a bunch of movies from the period with Japan as the bogeyman. The peak probably being the backstory of Die Hard.

    The key difference this time is the USA was paying for Japan’s defense, had a massive military base, etc. China doesn’t have that problem, so they can counter American demands with their own demands.

    Interestingly, look at interviews with Trump from the 80s, he’ll talk about Japan almost with the same language that he uses for China now. The most famous was probably an appearance of Trump on Oprah.