I’d like to believe he started off with good intentions (might just be bias based on media coverage from before) and slowly turn to the dark side. It’s crazy what money (and the promise of influence) does to a narcissist.

Oh, must no longer be a problem now that he left /s

I think hurting his ego also hurts him, just look at the amount of people that get banned from X for doing it.

I agree with you that it’s systemic. If I look around me (I live in NL but I also see it across the border), people have just become more right-leaning. Talking about foreigners like they’re the problem, blaming them for stuff, it’s all part of “normal” conversation to them now. This really changed a lot the last 5-10 years, before that there was maybe the occasional nut job but everyone else was pretty moderate.

If anything, being locked in their houses for so long and the (at times pretty intense) discourse around getting vaccinated is what drove a big wedge between groups of people that were before able to discuss things in a somewhat civilized way. I don’t think Putin had much to do with that but he sure profited from it.

Yeah, might as well close down the ICC then I guess. Not much use for it if governments do whatever they want anyway.

I mean, they’re just gonna go from genocide Joe to genocide convicted criminal Donald so not much of an upgrade there.

Most of the EU is part of it though so if they stick to it they’d have to arrest him if he enters their countries. Although I already saw France was calling it “a complex case” and saying that they weren’t sure whether they’d actually arrest him if he visited…

People who voted for Trump lack the ability of foresight and can’t be concerned until it directly affects them. Otherwise they don’t care and will probably cheer as their neighbors get deported.

The difference is that Europe should be more capable of resisting America. We’ll see if that actually happens but given how things have gone before when the EU went after American companies I don’t think they’ll budge easily.

Lol. “Be happy we’re killing people damnit!”

I think I saw a movie about that, they ended up shooting down the Eiffel tower or something /s

It’s kinda crazy that the descendants of people that potentially lived through the holocaust are now calling the shots and basically committing their own genocide. It’s only been about 80 years since WW2, how are we here again?