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[–] jubilationtcornpone@sh.itjust.works 67 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The guy literally only remembers the last conversation he had.

[–] radix@lemmy.world 38 points 1 week ago

Person, woman, man, camera, TV

[–] Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago (2 children)

This is fun.

Trump praising a self described socialist. A Muslim socialist at that.

I can feel the power of the reeeeee screeching of the still devoted MAGA cultists. Hook it to my veins.

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 26 points 1 week ago

They’re trying to pretend Mamdani “bent the knee” and that we’re “all mad at him”

Tanks of copium going empty tonight

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Trump was praising the Soviets in the 80s.

[–] halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

Well of course. He was a Russian Asset "Krasnov", and had tens of millions of dollars in loans from them. And he's always been open about admiring Putin.

[–] altkey@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Not to forget about sex services and human traffic from ex-soviet states. His wife Melania is a slovenian model that happened to imigrate to the US. When soviet empire collapsed, a lot of young women wished to leave it whatever the cost is.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 days ago

One tiny nit: Yugoslavia wasn't a Soviet state or a member of the Warsaw Pact. It was nominally non-aligned, though Tito would often cooperate with the USSR.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago

The loans were from the Russian mafia state after the collapse of the communist state.

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 32 points 1 week ago
[–] minorkeys@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

Wtf is going on?

[–] CmdrShepard49@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

So, what, did he reveal to Mamdani all the kompromat they have on him and get him to kiss the ring during their meeting?

[–] IronBird@lemmy.world 46 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

opposite, mamdani played these idiots like a fiddle

basically just wore a bunch of tacky gold rings and shit and made very thinly veiled jokes with trump as the joke, which trump is too far gone mentally to grasp while distracted by shiny gold jewelry.

in return, trump says he's great...days/weeks after calling him the communist antichrist to his cult followers, even the most die hard maga could struggle to perform the required mental gymnastics to accept this. and every chip in that wall is a good thing.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 20 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

MAGA has been praising Mamdani for weeks. It's along the lines of "his policies are wack but at least he talks about the relevant issues and isn't anyone's female dog, oh and also fuck Israel"

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

You can say "bitch" on the internet. Also in the real world.

[–] _Nico198X_@europe.pub 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

i often see it removed for some reason. it was removed in your post, for example.

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[–] limelight79@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Some instances have block lists for certain words.

[–] renzhexiangjiao@piefed.blahaj.zone 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Because the admins are censorious bastards? 🤷

[–] Drusas@fedia.io 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Huh, this is the first I've heard of that behavior.

[–] clay_pidgin@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Neat, it must happen on the readers instance rather than the commenter's. The word is visible to me.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Maybe it's just my client but I see a lot of words censored. The word I originally wrote was removed, so naturally I went back and edited it. New to Lemmy so not sure how this works.

[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

even the most die hard maga could struggle to perform the required mental gymnastics to accept this

I wouldn't bet on that.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

They'll be bewildered for a few days while the the mental gymnasts in their brain pivots into its new position.

[–] quick_snail@feddit.nl 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I guess Mamdani gave Trump some gift and told him that his penis wasn't small.

Nah, he's apparently just THAT charming and eloquent! 🤷

[–] Fourth@mander.xyz 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You have posted that line a lot

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 days ago

Oh well it's probably true.

[–] LostWanderer@fedia.io 2 points 2 days ago

Interesting, Mamdani isn't above manipulating idiotic narcissists to get the American people what they need...I trust that Mamdani knows what he is doing. As all of his actions indicate up to this point, he wouldn't just abandon people to become just another MAGA simp. He's a competent lad who's going to go far in politics.