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 Originally Posted by OngBonga
If there's something I can do to change this, please let me know what it is I can do. If you expect me to hate Trump passionately, that's not going to happen.
I think Trump has the least personal autonomy of any leader in recent memory. He seems to be almost exclusively driven by the desire to please his voters. I don't love it when people call a leader "the symptom, not the cause" because I think it unduly absolves the leader from responsibility, but it has never been more true than with Trump.
So no, I don't want you to hate him. I don't hate him. When I look at him I see a pitiful pile of daddy issues, desperate to please strong men... I will celebrate his death, but I think those can be separate.
Obviously nobody can do much. I do not understand the americans reluctance to protest especially given their comparatively successful history of protests. As europeans... whatever politician runs on sanctioning the US as long as they keep supporting the genocide in Yemen, the human rights abuses in for-profit prisons, keeps employing extrajudicial law enforcement agencies like ICE, keeps running Abu Ghraib and Gitmo and keeps employing no-accountability mercenaries like blackwater - gets my vote.
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