• Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    Fully agree. I hate these clickbait articles that for example say“Here is why Trump wants to annex Canada as the 51st state” to proceed explaining me about Canada’s strategic location and it’s mineral resources.

    No Trump does not have a rational idea about why he wants to annex Canada, beyond “it looks nice on the map”, and all the mineral wealth in the world does not make up for the cost of antagonising your closest ally.

    These ideas are all completely bonkers. You may have discovered a rational justification, but 1. Trump is not a rational actor, and 2. The justification is always insufficient to cover the damage it does to the US, and the world.

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      14 hours ago

      I mean just watching him talk about the “Gulf of America” provides enough proof to me that you’re right. He spent the entire time talking about how beautiful the name was or whatever. He doesn’t have a greater purpose in mind. He’s a criminal nutjob handed the keys to the presidency at the most dangerous time to do that in the history of the republic. For all of this bullshit about the land of the free, it certainly doesn’t seem like anyone’s free to criticize his lunatical actions as the obvious chin dribble they are either.