Apparently this happened three weeks ago and the news is just coming out now. Winston Peters as usual has no idea what is happening and is too busy licking Trump's boots to actually say or do anything.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Please accept our apologies, hopefully we're able to get our shit together at some point but it's likely to be like this for a while and probably get substantially worse before it gets better.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I hope it actually does get better but looking at authotarian rulers Trump is following in the footsteps of it might never get better. Look at Putin, Ergodan, Netinyahu, Oban etc. Trump is using their playbook.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

On the other hand, he's an absolute fucking moron.

Trump is the fascism vaccine: He is the weakened form, so the system can learn about it, recognize it, and respond with no fuckin' around when it happens for real.

I'm not saying he is not dangerous. The camps are going up right now, and people packing into them every day. I'm just saying compared to what he could have been, we might have some kind of chance. Or I hope so at least.

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

He is not weak and neither are any of the people pulling his strings.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

He is absolutely weak. "When small men cast long shadows" type of thing. ☹️ Like I said, it doesn't mean he's not very very dangerous...

[–] BalpeenHammer@lemmy.nz 1 points 4 hours ago

He is not weak because he wields the largest economy and military in the world.