KnightShade

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

@mdkI get my information on Trump from his own twitter feed, where he calls anyone who disagrees with him weak, a loser, or fake news/media. How is that anything other than fanning division? The democrats aren't blameless either, and especially not antifascist groups. Antifascists groups have a tendency to assume fascism is inevitable, so anything is justifiable to stop it, leading to them doing shitty things that damage their own cause. But antifascist groups aren't the only ones protesting Trump. And he's the President and they're not. He's supposed to have dignity and rise above pettiness. You can't blame everybody except the President, the buck is supposed to stop with him. I do mostly agree with you on the military points though, I like Trump's deference to generals.

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

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That works both ways though. The MOAB drop spread far more effectively across borders too. Also since WW2, the US has vastly (Vaaaaaastly) increased its military superiority to every other nation on earth, so our shows-of-force are more effective than they've ever been (short of nuking).

Non-state actors have been kicking our ass in the information-sharing department for a long time, in no small part because the last two presidents took a vastly different approach. New sheriff, new strategy, and it's a pretty sound one.

@mdk

I agree to some extent with that. I'm not going to pretend to understand fully the distinction between the strategies used, however the repetitive use of drone strikes didn't appear to be accomplishing anything to me. I don't necessarily favour a stronger approach than previously but I do favour a more purposeful one. I know that here in the UK for awhile our government only bothered to bomb ISIS before press releases, it was absurdly passe.

But globalised communications bring the fight home too. No matter how much spending you put into the military they can't fight a war in your own country. If we want to stop terrorism, which is supposedly what this is about, we have to engage in the ideological war at home too. Trump is vastly outgunned in that department. He's a caricature of an American who repeatedly seems incapable of seeing other viewpoints or stringing an argument together. He's done nothing but stir up divisions at home so far.

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

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On the contrary, bombs change mindsets all the time. Shit, we're posting in English after all. We didn't win the various world wars because of our superior identity politics.

@mdk

We can't ignore the development of the internet and growth of internationally available mass media. Ideologies now spread far more effectively across borders, with more independence from governments, armies and printed newspapers, than they did during the World Wars.

nice boy

This joke is sooo 2015.

@Vilageidiotx

You're just triggered because you identify as a pipe smoking socialist canine from the medieval ages.

nice boy

@Buddha I apologise for assuming your age

nice boy

ur like 13

@Buddha

You just made a thread around the 'I sexually identify as *insert absurdist thing here*' format, how old are you?

Trump drops the MOAB (artist's rendition)

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