uh yeah how much more evidence do you people need

So, Trump siding with Putin over the USA's own intelligence agencies wasn't a big enough red flag for these people?
- Nothing is a big enough red flag, but the last thing we want to do is ridicule them when they are starting to see the truth of the matter.
  
  Can't melt those snowflakes.
- In all seriousness, we’ve got to make room for folks to return to sanity. When they have these “ah ha” moments we should take those opportunities to walk them back to reality.
  All the “leopards/faces” jokes, while cathartic, aren’t really helping and encourage people to turn their backs on sanity for comfort.
  
  Is there actual concrete evidence of any MAGAs "returning to sanity" over this stuff? As much as I'd love to be wrong, I'm skeptical that anyone still in the MAGA camp after the past 10 years could see this administration do any kind of heinous shit and not immediately dismiss it as false or rationalize it in a way that conforms to the party narrative. I think they've all been irreversibly brainwashed by Fox News and weaponized social media.
- Those people love that red flag hat.
- Plenty of regular people are rightfully very distrustful of certain 3 letter agencies because of the histories of those agencies. That alone is far from a red flag. Combined with his positions on things like the BLM protests though...

Honestly I dont care if they divine it through the splash their shit made against the bowl this morning as long as they come to the conclusion.
- brb I need to go file a trademark request under the names "Shit Psychic" and "Poo Prophet"
  
  I'm not sure you've really thought through what that economic endeavor would entail.
- You get partial credit for the right answer, even if you got there by accident.

been more than a week since I got to use this
- ironically Mike from PA up there isn’t even MAGA. he’s a vocal pro-union progressive 😬
  
  yea used to make one tailored to every group but turns out there are too many so just using this now

I mean, Trump is also supporting a genocide in Palestine... So...
- Yeah but conservatives don't care about brown people, remember?
  
  the irony is that Mike from PA is a vocal self-described progressive, not a conservative
  he just has a really flawed/compromised understanding of international politics
- He got them to agree to a cease fire and Israel had to withdraw from most of the land in the 1st 20hrs in office. What did Biden do?
  
  You mean the ceasefire that Biden negotiated, that is about to fall apart under Trump?
  Go move to Russia since you love it so much, traitor.

Known as Mike from PA, Mike is a progressive Political Activist from Pennsylvania and is known as the Steelman of the left, Mike advocates for union labor and social democracy.
So… False flag Tweet?
- Progressives aren't libs, so nothing false flag about a progressive saying "the libs might have been right".
  The assumption that anyone who calls liberals "libs" is also pro-Trump is incorrect.
  
  exactly lol it’s worse than a false flag he actually believes what he’s saying as a progressive
- no he’s approaching this from an absurd leftist position, i actually thought more people would know who this guy was so sorry for the confusion
  mike from PA is what a lot of people categorize as a tankie and was one of the people who was VERY vocal about not voting for harris under the pretext that trump might be better. so he does a lot of rhetoric that’s basically semi-MAGA advocacy
  
  I'm not American so I don't care either way. But it was my understanding that he voted against supporting the genocide of Palestinians. Kamala was still going to support the genocide.
- Missing from that summary is the fact that he's a confirmed moron.
  
  i literally have not seen one good piece of analysis from the man despite him ostensibly being “on my side.”
  don’t put your voice leaders and influencers on pedestals, folks. not every pro-union organizer has correct opinions on the rest of the political landscape.

He's been a Russian plant since he helped the Russian mob take over the construction racket in NYC from the Italians in the late 80s/early 90s

I didn't think I'd see the day Mike admitted a mistake like that. Times are dire, folks...
- like how long has it been since the first evidence of trump russian ties was public 😭 almost 40 years? the abject hatred of “libs” from the far far left is clearly blinding and i wish more people would see that
  
  Truth be told, I don't even know what an actual far left is. I always saw the left-right spectrum as woefully asymmetrical, because there's a handful of ways of getting things right (as in being correct factually + morally) and a million ways of getting them wrong. The former generally aligns with "left", and the latter with "right".
  I've seen some vile opinions from people supposedly on the left which were indistinguishable from the far right, and it starts like you said with this irrational need to avoid agreeing with liberals at all costs, which in time leads them down delusion avenue.
  
  and Trump has been in power 40 days lol. A little over a month. Not even 3% of his term.

What is the difference between a president beholden to a foreign adversary and one who just acts as though they are?
- A pay check and some brain cells, both belonging to the president

I personally think Russia has something on him (and, indeed, many people in power), but to play devil's advocate: we'll never know if this is truly the case form him until the future if ever. There are all kinds of other reasons in line with narcissism and a number of other things/rewards that could explain it otherwise. Something something correlation causation.
- This is your regularly scheduled reminder that the RNC got hacked in 2016 alongside the DNC, but the material was never released. That event coincides with the pivot Republicans made toward being pro-russia.
- i appreciate the sentiment but this devil has plenty of advocates already

holy shit is the first reference of genocide in relation to russia since the start of the israel palestine war? Based.

Fash support fash. Trump does the same thing to Natanyahoo, Saudis, Kim Jong Un, et al...

This guy is such a fucking chode.

Who’s this bozo?
- mike from pa he’s a leftist but he gets international politics so incredibly wrong also he hit a couch once
  
  Vance must hate him. That’s how you treat women, not couches.
  Thanks for clarifying.

Is this broken for anyone else?
- some isps block catbox for some reason. sorry :( the alt text should be accurate tho
  
  Never even heard of catbox. But there's nothing showing.
  Funny know if that's my app failing it what. But heads up, whatever you post from this apparently crappy site might just be completely broken, fyi.
- Yes
  One thing I like about Mastodon over Lemmy is that images more often than not have alt text, so if the image doesn't load or it's too low quality, you can still get the gist.
  
  my post has alt text too

Is this that weirdo that punched a couch?😂
- yes 😭

Almost.

- Putin can stop this war today. He rather his people keep dying, his country invading territory as long as the money in coming in. Zelenskyy will own all of Ukraine at this pace. It's clear Putin is not looking for peace!
- Interesting take. Let’s try it another way, Putin can stop his war I mean 3 day turned 3 year special military operation today. The Russians have failed. His people keep dying, his country’s economy obliterated, his military stopped by a tiny ass country, needs prisoners and North Korean soldiers to fight his battles. Revealed to the world Russia is a petrol state with nukes not a super power. This war would never have started if Ukraine kept their nukes.
- This is a truly insane take. A peace agreement was never on the table. All that was discussed was a ceasefire deal without any security guarantee from the US. That is, a pause in the fighting allowing Russia to regroup. Russia has invaded with the intent of taking all of Ukraine (remember the tank column heading to Kyiv?). He will not stop until either he captures Ukraine or there is a security force in place to stop him.
- So if someone would bust down the door of your house, kill some of your kids, kidnap the others. ::: spoiler Tap for spoiler Rape ::: your spouse.
  Then tell you, let us keep the leftover kids we didnt kill and keep most of your house. You can live in the basement. We will probably come for the basement too sometime soon.
  Then you yell for help and others tell you "you could stop your partner from being
  
  And your other kids from being killed if you just accept it and stay in your basement. Or do you want your family to continue being in pain?
  Would you be like "will do! Thankyou! 🤗"?
  Is something wrong with your brain?
  I mean, i know you people have a cuckold fetish, but this is taking it to the extreme...
- Fwiw, I'm 99% sure I saw this comment word for word on YouTube last night.
- Consider it done.
- Stop hitting yourself!