Trump is so unhinged that I am now looking at posts from the speaker of the Iranian Parliament and thinking, "He is not wrong".

[sstrader@masto.ai]

@randahl We're all going through an "are they the goodies?" moment.

[docwu@troet.cafe]

@silkester @nomadskateboarding @tomatensson @randahl no, he's right. Robot are the thing. With ellbox rockets, for the better punch!

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@mason @randahl No, it is just that the Trumpista messaging style has been accepted by many as "normal".

So any actual "normal" communication, that is pointing out clear truths in a coherent way seems to come from the minds of genii.

[the_wub@mastodon.social]

@wesdym @randahl I suspect that most of the RotW just wants its cheap oil back.

Go back to Carney's Davos speech.

We just wanted to believe that the US were the good guys.

Now it is not just that the signs have been taken out of the shop windows it is that the shops windows together with the shops themselves have been bombed out of existence.

[nimbius666@comp.lain.la]

@randahl clearly a reasonable man who didn't watch us try to murder the head of state of Cuba 62 times and fail. The man literally outlived Reagan.

[lynnd@spore.social]

@randahl here’s the thing that I keep thinking. Our Western (Israeli-propaganda sympathetic) media has continuously demonized Iran leading the West to continue horrific sanctions against the Iranian people. Now, I’m not claiming that Iran are a “good” regime, but are they any worse that say, authoritarian Saudi Arabia, (whose citizens quite literally attacked the US on 9/11), and who for years have imposed much harsher restrictions on women, torture prisoners, etc. etc. ?

[xs4me2@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Can say that again indeed…

[idjansazov@mastodon.social]

@randahl

Just checked ... Trump is the only person in USA to launch nukes, and no one has the authority to veto it.

This is so messed up!

[cwsound@mastodon.social]

@randahl is it a good time to remind people that Trump thinks that pilots who gets shot down are loosers? That’s what he said about John McCain

[panel82cz@mamutovo.cz]

@cwsound @randahl Thanks for the reminder, I almost forgot... He should be confronted with it..

[melissabenyon@climatejustice.social]

@randahl Right? This whole thing has made me realise how much I value competence and rationality. I'm looking at two violent, evil regimes and about one of them I find myself thinking, "But at least they're logical and use language well," whereas the other, "And on top of all the rest, they're so ignorant and stupid." It is yet another disorienting element in humanity's tightening predicament.

[chemicaleyeguy@mstdn.science]

@randahl The #FelonsCrusade in #Iran is going according to the nonexistent plan. https://newrepublic.com/post/207228/donald-trump-benjamin-netanyahu-iran

[rjohnston@techhub.social]

@randahl "Front Burner" is a daily news podcast that did a show recently called "Iran and the propaganda war" in which the first few minutes is mentioned some interesting memes that Iran has posted.

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/209-front-burner

It would be interesting if someone could find them all and post them here, for those academic interested.

[gwentlarry@mastodon.social]

@randahl

I can't decide whether Trump is a psychopath or suffering from dementia. I fear it's now both.

[frankfrank@newsie.social]

@JamesAshburnerCBR @randahl

Remember the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, 1941-1979, the guy who westernized Iran? Yes, the IRGC fully understands the U.S..

[susannelilith@rheinneckar.social]

@randahl Wer sagt, dass der Pilot nicht absichtlich nicht gefunden werden will?

[dresstokilt@mastodon.social]

@randahl this post should be added to textbooks as an example of asymmetrical warfare.