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Rapist Who Wanted Vice President Dead Compares Self to Navalny (newrepublic.com)
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[–] 85 points 2 years ago (8 children)

There's an interesting dissonance here; he praises Putin for being a strong leader, a good leader, but then he compares himself to Navalny. How does this even work in his mind? If Putin is good and strong, then surely Navalny should have been killed for opposing him, right? And where does that leave Trump, if he's like Navalny?

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  • [–] 49 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Wait, are you thinking about Trump in rational terms? I think you're in the wrong man if you're looking for a rational person.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago*

    Trump wants cover from putin and his loyalists will spout what ever it is he says; true, false, incoherent, or otherwise. Say something enough, like you're the enemy of your only ally, and enough people will believe it so that no one else questions it.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    To me the single uniting thread between all the different narratives Trump attempts to weave is simply: he thinks the vast majority of voters are really, really dumb.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Sadly, given that he consistently has the absolute support of about 1/3 of the Republican party (about 1/6 of the country), and the moderately strong support of another 1/3 of the Republican party, that's not the far from reality.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago

    Your idea is right, but your numbers about population are wrong. Republicans definitely don’t make up 50% of the country given that your voter turnout for presidential elections tends around 50-60% and many who vote Republican in a given year are independent or swing voters who aren’t rusted-on voters. It’s hard to get a 100% clear number on it, but I’d estimate that Republicans only make up around 20-25% of the country at most.

    It only seems like they’re 50% of people because they win a lot of elections, but a lot of that has to do with the Electoral College, First Past the Post voting, and a lack of mandatory voting coupled with low voter turnout.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 years ago

    Logic and consistency don't figure in Rapey's mind, just rhetoric and feels. He loves power; Putin is in power and is the boss of a corrupt state, so he admires Putin. Navalny is oppressed, but still admired and loved, and Rapey feels oppressed by the lawsuits and criminal charges against him, so he compares himself to that as well, never mind that Navalny was never in power.

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