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Nonilex

#Trump mocked #alliances & the #UN itself, outlining something of a Trump Doctrine that prioritizes individual nations’ #sovereignty & a #transactional approach that rewards only those nations that can do something for the #US — or him personally.

“During the campaign, they had a hat, the best-selling hat: ‘Trump was right about everything.’ And I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true,” he said. “I’ve been right about everything.”

#UNGA#geopolitics#RevengePolitics
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beSpacific

#trump #humiliating cadre of #American #soldiers by ordering them to kneel on the ground in front of #Putin #jet at the bottom of the steps to roll out a very long #redcarpet for the #warcriminal #putin. This has never ever happened before and should never happen again. This was #transactional #reprehensible staged event using our country as a prop to distract from #epstein #jeffreyepstein #epsteinfiles #GhislaineMaxwell #sextrafficking #girls #crimes #criminals #military in DC war in #ukraine

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Nonilex

"Trump gave every indication right from the beginning that he was going to be purely #transactional," said Ebenezer Obadare, a senior fellow at the Council on #ForeignRelations. "He's thrown out the old playbook. He's not going through normal diplomatic channels."

…3 Americans had been sentenced to death by a Congolese military court in Sept 2024 for participating in a…failed coup in May last year. Efforts to free them by both the #Biden & #Trump admins had gained little traction.

#geopolitics
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Kevin Karhan :verified:

@collectifission @jeffmcneill @alberto the problem is that #Mozilla failed to use their past "#UncoditionalIncome" or rather absurdly good #Google deal in any meaningful and sustainable way.

Which is why I want @Mozilla / @mozilla_support to hand over #Firefox to @torproject and make #TorBrowser it's #upstream.

  • Obviously the best option would be for #Mozilla to become like a #nonprofit (#eV) or #cooperative (#eG) where they have to actually #audit their finances (in the case of cooperatives, by an accredited external auditor) to enshure they ain't wasting huge amounts of money.

  • Cuz even if everyone there makes $200k a year (obviously they don't) that's still $300M that had to go somewhere.

And even if we assume they blow another $100M on equipment, hosting, sponsorships and other expenses that's still $200M unaccounted for.

  • I'd be willing to pay for a good browser, I really would, but that also entails said #funding to go somewhere useful as per the interest of those funding.

Anything else is a #donation.

Nonilex

As #Ukraine considered how to sway a #Trump to continue supporting their country, one strategy was to appeal to Trump’s #transactional nature & offer him a deal — rare earth minerals — for aid.

Now Trump says he’s interested.

Speaking to reporters Monday, Trump said the United States wants Ukrainian rare earth minerals — such as #lithium, #uranium & #titanium — in exchange for the #security assistance that Ukraine depends on for its defense against #Russia’s invasion.

washingtonpost.com/world/2025/

The Washington Post · Ukraine welcomes Trump’s interest in its minerals to maintain supportBy Isabelle Khurshudyan
SabiLewSounds

Hi #Mastodon I'm still in danger as I have been for months

My #disabled #Latina #indigenous family is still in need of ongoing #MutualAid support

I can't bring you art and music since I was evicted but that doesn't lessen my value as a living human being

If you do expect #transactional community I do sell art and music and there's a world of old creations to consume from me

But if you just care about #harmReduction contribute pls

ko-fi.com/sabilewsounds/goal

@mutualaid @disabledvoices

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Susan Larson ♀️🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🌈

‘#Betrayed’: How #Trump’s #Alliance With #Hateful #Christians Is Fraying.

Donald #Trump is not “#oneofus,” one #faith #leader told #NOTUS. “His #relationship with #conservative #Christians was #transactional.” — #Hogwash

#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #Hategroups #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Genocide #Discrimination #Transphobia #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews

notus.org/trump-2024/trump-chr

NOTUS · ‘Betrayed’: How Trump’s Alliance With Christians Is FrayingDonald Trump is not “one of us,” one faith leader told NOTUS. “His relationship with conservative Christians was transactional.”
Nonilex

#Biden calls #America’s democratic values the “grounding wire of our global power” & its #alliances “our greatest asset.” …#Trump, called for withdrawing American forces in #Europe & #Asia & has promised… to cut loose even our closest #allies if they don’t do as he tells them. …Trump sees all countries as unreliable, the relations between them #transactional. That sentiment has spread throughout a #GOP that once championed America’s values abroad…

#BidenHarris2024
time.com/6984970/joe-biden-202

Time · ‘We Are the World Power.’ How Joe Biden LeadsBy Massimo Calabresi / Washington
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Chuck Darwin

The clear result of five corrupt Republicans on the 1978 and 2010 Supreme Courts
💥legalizing political bribery of politicians (and Supreme Court justices) 💥by both corporations and the morbidly rich
is that 👉 America is now well past the halfway mark of a fatal-to-democracy slide into #oligarchy and the strongman #autocracy typically associated with it—and the #conflict that can follow.

You can see the consequence in any contemporary survey.
The majority of people want things
—from a strengthened social safety net to a cleaner, safer environment to quality, free education
—that Congress refuses to do anything about ⭐️because it is in thrall to great wealth.⭐️

For example, just last week, Donald Trump solicited
💥a $1 billion bribe from a group of fossil fuel executives in exchange for undoing all of President Biden’s climate regulations.💥

In a testament to how today’s form of #transactional #oligarchy has become normalized in America,
the only national television news organization that reported this shocking story was MSNBC;
— every other news outlet thought it was entirely normal for an American politician to have their hand out in exchange for legislative or policy changes.

What we are watching is the final stage of the 40-year neoliberal transition of our nation
from a forward-looking and still-evolving democratic republic
into a white supremacist ethnostate ruled by a small group of fascist oligarchs.
newrepublic.com/article/181698

The New Republic · Are Our Oligarchs Going to Drag Us Into Civil War? The billionaires who own the GOP are now actively promoting the same sort of revisionist history the Confederacy did. That did not go very well.
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Nonilex

#Trump, 2X-divorced casino magnate, made little pretense of being #religious before his presidency. The ardent support he received from #evangelical voters in 2016 & 2020 is often described as largely #transactional: an investment in his appointment of #SCOTUS justices who would abolish the fed right to #abortion & advance the group’s other top priorities.…

But #religion scholars, drawing on a growing body of data, suggest another explanation: #Evangelicals are not exactly who they used to be.

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