• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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      7 hours ago

      It’s not a carefully choreographed puppet show…

      It’s like an art exhibit where any random person can walk up and yank on strings, often in opposite directions.

      You’re assigning order to chaos, the same reason every early civilization had a “lightning god”.

      Our brains want an explanation, so we invent them to explain chaos. Even when the explanation is clearly not matching up to reality.

      Reality is a lot worse than just trump doing whatever Putin asks.

      It’s less “puppet” and more multi-player QWOP where random people each have a single button.

      • Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
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        2 hours ago

        To steal a wonderful turn of phrase, Putin doesn’t pull Trump’s strings because he doesn’t have to. Getting him elected was enough. “Trump is a fire and forget idiot.”

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      6 hours ago

      The orange child rapist is an idiot… the occam’s razor is still that he is too stupid, has no clue how anything works and is simply making one foolish decision after another.

      Being this stupid, he is very easily manipulated (as is evident by now), so maybe Putin is manipulating him… but honestly, trump is simply too stupid to be anyone’s “asset”