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He definitely isn’t going to be fit for 3rd term even if he wanted to.

So Trump hasn’t been charged or convicted of anything? In any case, we weren’t debating his character, which I find questionable to be honest. We were debating whether or he’s a dictator. He’s president now, will probably pardon himself at the end of his term and ride off into the sunset. He’s...

Thank you, that wasn’t hard. Back to Trump, he wasn’t polling well before the legal proceedings against him commenced. The Republican presidential debates went from attacking Trump’s first term to all candidates pulling ranks and backing him. The image of mugshot galvanised his base and like or...

Dictator Trump overthrows democratically elected and beloved leader Maduro. Anyone who’s looked in US foreign policy will see that this ‘intervention’ does not compare to the numerous shenanigans in the Cold War. Pinochet and Noriega spring to mind immediately and there’s a definitely a coup or...

You need to move on. The American people had their say and they elected him despite Jan 6th and everything else you said. Ironically, he may have lost the Republican nomination had the lawfare against not been initiated. Jan 2029 he’ll leave office and they’ll be the end of it. I’ll ask for a...

Literally none of it applies to the USA. What are you talking about? You could argue that Trump’s domination of the Republican constitutes a ‘cult of personality’… but would you apply the logic to the Democrat party? Hillary Clinton and Biden were Obama continuation candidates and the Democrat...

Actually, Venezuela is a pawn in a wider game. They supply a lot of oil to China. Oil that China needs to sustain a war for Taiwan. This makes Venezuela of more geopolitical importance than most minor dictatorships. Something I mentioned in previous posts was that US war games predict they’d...

Everything he listed applies to every US president. It’s pretty normal presidents who win the election to have the house and senate. The midterms address this and presidents tend to have to overcome the loss of one or both houses. Applying @Brighton Sky Blue’s logic, Starmer and Macron are also...

This is getting odd now. Set Trump aside for a moment, why can’t you just call Maduro a dictator? He literally lost an election he tried to rig by banning opposition parties and hasn’t left office for 7 years. He is your worst fears about Trump personified. To address the points: Firstly...

No, follow the thread. Trump won two elections, he’s serving a second term… anyone seriously calling him an actual dictator is being ludicrous. It’s baffling that @Brighton Sky Blue has no qualms calling Trump a dictator and a ‘fascist’ previously but can’t call Maduro a dictator. You can’t...

Now will you call Maduro a dictator in name and in practice?

Did he hold onto the post past the term date? No. Did he contest the next elections fairly? Yes. Your point doesn't actually capture is that the US system (decouple from the officeholder) worked exactly as intended. That’s the bottom line and the comparison to actual dictators is bemusing.

You never know with these deified leaders in exile. They can become just as bad as the regimes they replace. Mugabe was once a ‘sir’ and ‘freedom fighter’, Aung San Suu Kyi is a Nobel peace prize winner, now on trial for genocide… After all, Maduro himself was once a legitimately elected...

That’s just a ridiculous thing say and a complete falsehood. Trump won in 2016 and 2024 fairly. Maduro did not. Condemn Trump for Jan 6th, it’s fair game. It really isn’t in the same league as the likes of Putin, Maduro or the mullahs in Iran.

If it is a ‘negotiated exit’ then perhaps everyone clutching their pearls should maybe pause on that. Maria Corina Machado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, was on Fox News talking about trusting ‘Trump’s Plan’ for Venezuela which which suggests the opposition has been briefed and there’s a...

Will you ever answer the question of whether or not Maduro won the election in 2018 legitimately or not? You dodge the question by saying ‘Putin feels that way about Zelensky’, when Putin did try to take out Zelensky as the Russia army tried to march on Kyiv and now Netanyahu.

No, it’s invoking WW2 to justify Trump’s actions. It is, however, referenced as Nazism was rightfully identified as a cancer that needed to be defeated. It became more than the territorial disputes. Notwithstanding, if there were viable plans to take out Putin, Xi, Kim Jong-Un that would not...

There’s one post that @SBT quoted made me laugh because it brought me back to some exams I was studying for. A proper wave of nostalgia! At my age back then, if you weren’t a socialist you really didn’t have a heart.

You’re projecting that onto me. I was referencing myself when talking about student union politics. As previously mentioned, in 2013 I hadn’t even started uni.

It’s not condescension, it’s a recognition that even if we disagree, I have a vague understanding of the guiding principles of your (and once my own) viewpoints. I don’t get why you took that as hostile to be honest. It referenced he won an election. A lot changed from 2013 to 2018 which is...