[ExI] Please explain

[Adrian Tymes]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2025 at 11:38 AM Henrik Ohrstrom via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> Hi all, this is the highest concentration of members of the USA that I
> have contact with.
> Your esteemed leader are doing strange stuff.
> Can you please explain what's up with this sudden support of the former
> soviets?
>

This comes from Trump personally, not the USA as a whole.  If Trump were to
fall (die, get impeached, or be removed from office by any other means),
this would likely abruptly end.  (It is unknown if VP Vance would need to
be out too, or if - minus Trump - he would abandon Trump's positions.  The
next in line after Vance would almost certainly push America's former
position on this front.)


> Considering Spikes suspicious attitude towards the baltic states just due
> to the unfortunate fact that they where occupied by the Moscow state during
> the cold war, how come that the republican party now are happy to support
> that same socialist state?
>

The elected members of the Republican party are trying to display fealty to
Trump.  Some are doing so because they think that is what the voters
demand, but the degree appears to extend well beyond that.


> Also all this talk about invading countries that have been actively
> supporting the USA is, strange.
> Why is that something you seem to support?
>

To quote a certain iconic TV series, "Who 'we', kemosabe?"

Those Americans who voted in the last election (there is a large percentage
who did not vote) can be roughly divided into three groups:
1) Those who voted for someone other than Trump.
2) Those who voted for Trump because they thought that Biden and Harris
were so corrupt that literally anyone was better than them.  These people
are being proven incorrect in that belief.
3) Those who voted for Trump because they actually want American fascism.

Group 3 is by far the minority, but they are effectively in power now.

And last but not least, if trump et al are busy abolishing the first
> amendment,  what is stopping them from doing the same with your beloved
> second?
>

Nothing, except that they don't yet see a reason to: they think they have a
sufficient monopoly on violence even with that consideration.  The 22nd
Amendment is more of a barrier to their intentions.
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