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Re:Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy indepe... by energy123 on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:09AM (#46857628)
Trump supporters believe that the status quo was intolerable, and interpret Trump's bad qualities as further evidence that he has what it takes to smash that status quo. He's the bully on your side. In an intolerable situation, the nastier and more volatile that bully is, the better. It took me a long time to understand this.

Different Trump supports will have different parts of the status quo that they personally despise. The abstraction is universally true, however.

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Re:Greenland tensions harden Europe's push for energy indepe... by Throaway1985232 on Monday February 02, 2026 @11:21AM (#46857803)
Trump was change. It was so long ago now that we forget just how different he was from the candidates like Bush. But people have demanded change for decades now. Trump was smart enough to give them his version of change.
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