• SabinStargem@lemmy.today
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    1 day ago

    I think Trump wants to nuke his enemies, and is trying to normalize the idea. Iran, Canada, Greenland, New York, California, Mexico, South Korea, anyone who simply disagrees with him.

    It is my hope that the intelligence agencies of other nations are keeping close tabs on this. If need be, I hope they kill our nuclear codekeepers and destroy any means of launching the nukes.

    Trump is the kind of mad man who would sooner see the world burn in fire, before allowing it to defy him.

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      18 hours ago

      There are several reports about him wanting to nuke something and other people in the room talking him down from it. He even wanted to nuke a fucking hurricane.

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      1 day ago

      I’m terrified once he dissolves congress, he’ll start nuking countries until the nukes run out

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    1 day ago

    This is 3rd or 4th time of making the threat. Hegseth is also making mission accomplished speeches, and saying SoH should be Europe’s problem. Latter is not serious because its not his job to ask for help, but it would be way less serious if nukes were flying by the time Europe got there. I think this is all more of an end of war (withdrawal) preparation, than the 4th time being the one where the most psycho part of the brain wins.

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      1 day ago

      Riot now, what the fuck is the goddamn holdup!?

      You won’t riot, you’ll just move the goalposts to “if he invades Canada we’ll riot” or “if he puts minorities in camps we’ll riot” or “if he starts arresting political opponents we’ll riot” and then you still won’t when he does those things

    • Alloi@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      nah, you’ll see a couple protestors on your feed holding signs. feel glad that “at least somebody is doing something” and then continue to go into work, watch prime, netflix, game, etc. buy groceries. eat snacks. sleep in when you can. maybe write a few angry comments and share a few posts. but you value your life, and the lives of your friends and family.

      like everyone else. just waiting for “jesus to come back”.

      and thats basically it.

    • flandish@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      no we won’t. we’re too tired and scared of losing healthcare when we get fired for rioting.

      what we will do is pray Iran uses one back. On mainland US soil. Heck, uses 50 of them back. We deserve, 100%, to get our teeth kicked in.

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        22 hours ago

        Iran doesn’t have any. That fact that this idea has been normalized is ridiculous.

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          14 hours ago

          i unironically think they should. the only place to have done war crimes with them is the Us, who should not have them. but if they do … everyone should.

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            12 hours ago

            Maybe so. It doesn’t change the fact that Iran is not a nuclear threat and framing them as such is manufacturing consent for war.

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                  13 hours ago

                  yes. me too. the problem is finding innocents. that family down the road with trump stickers? not innocent. the one with hillary stickers? same. every veteran over the age of 75 that was not drafted, and every vet in the last 30 years is not innocent. every ceo and capitalist too.

                  the solution is no nukes. everywhere. but if america and israel “get” to have them, then everyone should, including the people who agitprop “tells” us will nuke us asap. “cost of doing business.”

  • acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    I am never going to forget that the US political system failed to employ its supposed superior checks-and-balances against a mad president brandishing nuclear weapons.

    Even if you guys elect AOC as your next president, you’re not coming back from this, nobody should ever trust you again, unless you do some big constitutional reforms. The ancient antidemocratic Constitution that you revere is obsolete and antiquated and your quasi-religious devotion to it trash and downright dangerous. Just like Nazi Germany had to denazify, you fuckfaces need to de-american-exceptionalism-ify.

    • Mulligrubs@lemmy.world
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      I am never going to forget that the US political system failed to employ its supposed superior checks-and-balances against a mad president brandishing nuclear weapons.

      Are you talking about Nixon, Ford, Reagan, Bush 1, Clinton, Bush 2, Obama, Trump 1, Biden, or Trump 2?

      (Carter gets a pass I think, don’t tell me if he did anything murderous like the others, allow me one good one thank you)

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        23 hours ago

        As far as I know (maybe I’m wrong), even if each of these fucks was a war criminal on his own right, they didn’t go around threatening to use a nuclear first strike to annihilate a civilization. There is something particularly evil about the brandishing of unclear weapons.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.world
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      1 day ago

      Not only did our leadership handcraft the bullet they shot themselves with, they poured the gasoline in the barn and set if off at the same time.

      USA is fucked for a long time. We’ve burned every bridge imaginable for a few dollars. I hate it here.

    • Weydemeyer@lemmy.ml
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      2 days ago

      The US should never have been trusted, and no superficial “reforms” the dems push should change that.

    • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
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      2 days ago

      We need to redact every single subhuman conservative cockroach from our nation. There is no peaceful solution and there can be no coexistence.

      We desperately need to finish our civil war. And this time, instead of stopping short and showing mercy to vile, subhuman vermin, we need to finish the fkn job completely. Conservatives are cancer and we are long overdue for the painful, permanent cure.

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        We need to redact every single subhuman conservative cockroach from our nation. There is no peaceful solution and there can be no coexistence. We desperately need to finish our civil war. And this time, instead of stopping short and showing mercy to vile, subhuman vermin, we need to finish the fkn job completely. Conservatives are cancer and we are long overdue for the painful, permanent cure.

        A final solution! Your honesty is appreciated.

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            23 hours ago

            Ok then get in the fuhrerbunker, you can kill a fascist in there

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          23 hours ago

          They did it against Romas, disabled people and Jews. They could not NOT be those things.

          Fascists can stop being fascists anytime.

          That’s the difference.

        • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
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          1 day ago

          Nope. Nazis (conservatives) are in fact vile, subhuman cockroaches. I will never humanize nazis. That doesn’t make me a nazi. That makes me normal. Stop defending nazis.

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            That‘s an easy out, if only you’d be free to define what a Nazi‘s supposed to be. You‘re not, tho.

            Obama bombed weddings. Biden did genocide. Especially since WW2 the USA has been a terrorist state killing millions of innocent people. That happened under any president, meaning all of them brought misery over the rest of the world. Fuck them. Same coin, really.

            You‘re not normal, you‘re coping. Or a badly themed single issue hate account, like a token to show how vile the left is or something dumb like that, „Burn the right“, lol, right. Or, you just like don‘t like the feeling of what it‘s like, now that the terror is coming home.

            If push comes to shove, you‘ll see what you are made of. Right now, it looks like you just need an enemy for yourself to morph into the monster you’re trying to destroy.

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        Your post is just more indication why the USA just needs to end. If you’re saying to want to impose your will on other Americans out of hateful spite, you’re part of the problem. Americans practice hating each other every day and sometimes that hatred boils over and impacts other countries. Your culture is built on hate and as you point out, it’s been this way for centuries.

        I don’t think a one state solution is viable any more for the USA. You shouldn’t be thinking in terms of getting revenge on other Americans, you should be thinking in terms of breaking up the country.

        • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.today
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          The only problem the US has is conservatives existing in it. They are the sole source of every evil act the US has ever done. Every single single time. If destroying conservatives would result in the US dying, then we can agree. But the disease is absolutely conservatism.

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        2 days ago

        The Radical Republicans tried to put Gen. Sherman in charge of Reconstruction, but backed down under pressure. Let’s do it right this time. Year Zero the motherfuckers.

  • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    What would anyone do if US Nukes Iran. No one will even bat an eye, sanctions would be far out of realm. West wouldn’t even lose sleep over it. What more brown people dead would make any difference.

    Global south and Middle East better find better partners.