• HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    It’s much worse than this

    I too used to believe that Trump is getting some kind of kickback for his helping Russia, and maybe he still is

    Until very recently I called Trump Putin’s puppet

    After seeing Vlad Vexler’s video

    I now understand the depths of Trump’s narcissistic psychopathy

    Trump separates people into two categories: People who have value to him and those who do not.

    Trump will freely give the US and the west to Putin just because he wants to be in Putin’s good graces because Trump requires validation from him.

    To Trump, Putin belongs in the class of people that have value to him.

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      As someone who was raised by a narcissistic sociopath (and who was fucked up by it in countless ways), it’s beyond terrifying seeing the same type of scumbag occupying the white house.

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      Post outlines quite possibly the worst-case scenario

      HappySkullsplitter: it’s actually much worse.

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      To make a long story short. Trump always claims that others do something before he has it done… He says others risk a ww3… which countries does he want to claim everything again?
      It boils down to further consolidating his dictatorship regime and completely abolishing democracy. To then attack Europe together with the ally Russia… Trump is now making sure that money and everything will flow again and Russia can rearm on the side. Your judges or anyone else won’t be able to do anything about it. The only thing that can change it are people who sacrifice themselves for their country and go and kill terrorists.

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      yes, thats what weve been saying. he just wants to pull a reverse kissinger with russia, so he can hurt china.

      i doubt he will succeed, but he will throw all he can at it because he convinced himself capable of it.

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        We are not of value to Trump.

        He does not have the mental capacity to have a conscience.

        He does not care if we live or die.

        To him, it is not Russia that he is helping, only Putin because he has a compulsive need for validation from him.

        Ultimately, it’s not even about Putin. It’s just fulfillment of his personal need for validation, a constant quest for self-gratification through the validation of those he sees as being of value

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          We are not of value to Trump.

          He does not have the mental capacity to have a conscience.

          He does not care if we live or die.

          This is true of literally every big capitalist and most small capitalists (actually the small capitalists are more likely to be pointlessly cruel, instead of simply not caring). Yall focus on individuals too much to understand the systems at work here.

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            Like all mental health conditions there are grades to its severity

            Trump isn’t a run of the mill narcissist, he has acute narcissistic personality disorder.

            Any political goal he has isn’t his own. They are only there because he is seeking validation from someone else and is enacting their will to achieve that validation.

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              i think you are overanalyzing his likely condition. his goals aligns with his chosen allies, i don’t think this is very notable.

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                  i did and i think it makes sense that hes a narcissist, its just that political leaders like him arent doing things by themselves, and they have strategic interests.

                  theres usually a group of people going back and forth before making these decisions. and i think the video guy is pathologizing his relationship with putin too much in lieau of other factors that might matter more.

                  also a lot of what his regime in general says is possibly meant to make us angry and confused on purpose. trump’s public persona should be taken with a grain of salt, and is not that relevant in face of the actual decisions made.

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          This is Great Man Theory nonsense, and frankly attributes too much of a mythical status to Trump.

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            It would be interesting to know how identifying and understanding a compromising and debilitating personality disorder made the jump to great man theory

            Because that is certainly not what we are talking about here

            The video is less than 12 minutes

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      Or maybe American fascists and Russian fascists just (correctly) see each other as obvious allies. They’re both the product of the exact same neo-liberal politics Afterall. That way you don’t need to invoke Manchurian candidate conspiracy theories or Redditeur pseudo-psycology.