• LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world
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      18 days ago

      Yeah, he’s just a vessel for the oligarchs to steer. He’ll scrape money from any step he can and they’ll gladly let him as he is getting them what they want. He said in the early 90s he wanted to make the presidency profitable for himself, and anyone around him knows he is easily bought

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    18 days ago

    Money, fame, access to higher, more depraved kind of pleasures… what do you think was and still is the endgame of aristocrats? These people don’t care about their own children, why would you think they care about anyone besides themselves, in the basest way possible too? Have some discernment and remember everything that comes out of their mouth is spin. 👍

  • residentoflaniakea@discuss.tchncs.de
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    18 days ago

    End game not so much, rather a tendency where the world around him reflects his inflated ego by leaving some sort of legacy bearing his name: a nobel price or resolving a major conflict or annexing some other nation.

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    Both, and there’s more than one end game because there’s multiple factions behind Trump who have slightly different end games in mind. There is a shared purpose and common cause built up around Trump but also some fundamental tensions within the party about what the post-Constitutional order will look like once they’ve fully consolidated power.