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Tim Bray
Ian Douglas Scott@timbray If it turns the Iranian people also don't like or trust Trump and Netanyahu, the bombings and coups will continue until morale improves.
Gee Lou
NoNotMeNotMeNo@timbray but but but didn't your see our courageous PM: "Canada supports the US acting to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from threatening international peace and security,"
"Canada's position remains clear: The Islamic Republic of Iran is the principal source of instability and terror throughout the Middle East, has one of the world's worst human rights records and must never be allowed to obtain or develop nuclear weapons."
@timbray Its nice see all that "intermediate powers like Canada, are not powerless. They have the capacity to build a new order that encompasses our values, such as respect for human rights, sustainable development, solidarity, sovereignty and territorial integrity of the various states" stuff from Davos being put into action.
Indy Richard 🏴@timbray All Donald Trump cares about is Donald Trump. It is staring us in the face. I am at a loss as to why so many people in the US seem to imagine that he is a special man who suppresses his own needs, thinks only of others, and avoids seeking attention, just in case anyone might judge him as demanding.
Mr. Teatime@IndyRichard
Every day, I wonder more why any journalist, ever, takes anything Trump says at face value.
To Trump, words are just noises you make to get people to act as you want them to. If one set of words don't work you use another If the words don't work, you twist their arms. If that fails, you bomb them.
If someone asks unpleasant questions about that, you shut them up by whatever means work (see above).
Truth does not matter in this strategy.
The only way in which he might care about truth is his own assessment of whether or not his moves will benefit him. And *that* is his secret superpower: manipulating people to benefit himself.
He's dog-eat-dog capitalism incarnated.
@Mr_Teatime @timbray Dog shit capitalism is maybe a better term.