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Vance’s week of waging war on EU tech law (www.politico.eu)
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[–] cimbazarov@lemmygrad.ml 12 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Not surprising, Vance was made Trump's VP pick specifically to represent silicon valley interests.

Vance mocked the notion that such campaigns could derail elections. "If your democracy can be destroyed with a few hundred thousand dollars from a foreign country, then it wasn’t very strong to begin with."

Vance is more dangerous than Trump. He has clear goals and knows what language to use to hide them.

EU needs to grow a backbone and stop thinking they can go back to the good ol' days of being America's lapdog against Russia

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 10 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

From what I've seen, Vance also appears to be far more intelligent than either Trump or Musk.

[–] cimbazarov@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

He definitely feels more like what people were saying Ron Desantis would be like. I think his main weakness (politically speaking) is he's not very charismatic, but it didnt matter since he ran on the Trump ticket which doesnt require him to be charismatic.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

The fact that he's young and articulate goes a long way when you look at what the dems are fielding.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Republicans like him also have the advantage that they don't have to lie and bullshit to the extent that Democrats do. Pretending to be progressive is hard when you are a racist genociders and "tax rebate for black businessmen investing in crypto" schemes don't go very far.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

Exactly, he can just be himself and that works with his demographic.

[–] bobs_guns@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago

The couch-fucker attack won't even matter that much if Trump dies quickly enough.

[–] Justice@lemmygrad.ml 9 points 2 weeks ago

God, that's gonna make the libs moan in agony. They still (some fucking how) are obsessed with the like 4 bots that Russia had on facebook 10 years ago. I doubt it was intentional, but it's almost like he's mocking them with that statement. Maybe he read some "dirtbag left" reply guy to some hyper libbed up DNC shill and was like "That's good. I'll save that one."

Since nothing is going to get better... it's at least been entertaining to see the collective meltdown as Trump gasp negotiates with Russia/Putin to end the conflict in Ukraine. I can practically see all the libs doing that scene from that Tarantino movie with Leo where he points at the TV in my head. At this point, I don't even give a shit.

Fuck, I hope Putin, Xi and Trump are all best buddies and all the conflicts end. This desire for never ending aggression towards Russia and China is just pure insanity. "Oh no, but what if..." I don't give a shit! China ain't doing shit outside of Asia and Russia ain't doing shit outside of Europe. Two places the US should be staying the fuck out of! If the map of Ukraine has to be redrawn, well, that was happening anyway.

That's the thing liberals are still coping over. Russia has held the territory for years now. When you say this they act like you're "justifying" it. No, it's just a fact. Israel has annexed the Golan Heights. I care a lot more about that than any land Ukraine will be giving up. And yet, it is reality. They took it, they held it, and it's just the way it is now until or unless someone makes them give it up.

I'm just ranting now, but seriously, fuck all these annoying libbed-up pieces of trash who pretend to give a single shit about anyone on any side of any of these conflicts. They don't give a shit. They have zero skin in the game. They just saw TV lib man say "Ukraine is important to democracy" and they've been repeating that for years while simultaneously cheering for genocide done by another "democracy." These people are devoid of empathy and understanding. So if I they cry a little extra hard over something which was basically inevitable anyway... good