• HugeNerd@lemmy.ca
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    9 hours ago

    And all of it seems perfectly fine-tuned to distract from the fact that this all benefits one country…

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      Stop it, Israel is a tool of Western imperialism and they really can’t do anything without American support… It’s just that the current leader is a particularly evil and hedonistic person and the Mossad has a lot of shit on him so he has to make the proper moves that keep him in power. Yes, AIPAC invests a lot of money on American politicians, but the problem at the end of the day is the amorality and corruption at every level of government. The main difference between regular Americans/Westerners and the so-called Jews is that the latter group is more united in their depravity, hence the power disparities we see sometimes.

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      There are a number of laws regarding wars, and when it is and is not permissible to engage in hostilies against another country.

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      Wars of aggression are immoral by default (if you subscribe to a religious moral framework, like the laws of Moses or the teachings of Jesus or the word of God in the Qur’an, at least, but I’m sure even Western secular movements oppose murder), but international and American law are a bit more flexible, I guess.

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      I’m sure they just voted for Trump because he’s white and they felt threatened by people like Bad Bunny, idk. 😔🤷

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      We just killed the dude, that killed another dude we put in power, after we killing a fourth dude. Fucking circus of circles.

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        I woke up to a three-day ban from reddit for ‘inciting violence’ by saying

        Hey Trump, if you’re gonna go around bombing world leaders, there’s one I’d really like to see taken care of. Pull it off and you’ll be more famous than the guy that killed Hitler.

        I didn’t incite shit. Trump started it.

        More reason for me to think that Spez is trying to be Trump’s hype-man. Like Lefou to Gaston. Except at least Gaston was handsome.

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    The fact that the US Military has conducted this illegal war without congress approval means their Oath to the us constitution has been breached. Now that they no longer feel obliged to honour their oath means the other rules, like not being used against the us population also no longer apply. Tremble.

    A Chinese attack on Taiwan is no less illegal than what americans are doing right now.

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      9 hours ago

      Citizen, please turn to page 1 of your copy of The Ultimate Guide To Good And Bad For Citizens. Does it not state

      “Russia bad. China bad. Israel good.”??

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      That should be the case, but Congress has very clearly granted the Executive the right to start military action at nearly any scale. He is only required to NOTIFY Congress within 30 days. After that it’s up to them to find or not.

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        Yep, yet again this is a case of Congress derelicting their duties and letting the executive do whatever the fuck. We really need to scourge a lot of post 9/11 laws from the fucking books.

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    “Semi sentient” seems pretty generous when applied to this shit-stained chucklefuckster .

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      Sentient just means aware of one’s existence. More or less. E.g. all mamals are sentient. The orange idiot falls into this category (or partly).

      Sapience means to be able to think and reason.

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        For a split second I thought “orange idiot” was referring to my red mackerel tabby and the world was a brighter place

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          I had an ill-tempered tabby when I was kid. He’d fall into the malevolent category. He was one cool orange asshole.

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    That takes a back seat to two other driving forces.

    1. Feeling emasculated by the beginnings of the fruition of women’s lib, this legal equality thing chafing so hard they want a rollback to mommy mode.

    2. Manipulated displacement of blame for the oppression of billionaires. Distraction from the 40 year class war.

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    To be fair, the Iranian theocracy kinda deserves this.

    Not that that is the reason the US and Israel is doing it.

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    I’ve been seeing these posts all over that the draft is coming back, and that we’re now at war.

    I don’t see the story that everyone else seems to know about.

    Who are we at war with, and when did this happen?

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      The Trump administration has executed a strike on Iran, supposedly killing Iran’s head of state, and Trump has announced ‘major military action’ in which US soldiers ‘will die’.

      The full extent of it is yet to be realized, but talk is that a lot of US troops are going to be put in harm’s way.

      Oh, and Trump has requested a 1.5 trillion dollar defense budget for the coming fiscal year.That’s a 50% increase over what it currently is.

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        Holy shit. This is like when I left my house at roughly 3pm one day, took a 2 hour hour train ride to my friends house, and when I walked in my friend says “So…what do you think?” And I said “About what?” And she says “Micheal”.

        We both knew a guy named Mike, but we never called him Micheal.

        So I was just confused. I said “Uhhhh, I don’t know what you’re asking. Mike didn’t come with me…”

        And that’s when she said “Ohhhh…you don’t know. Micheal Jackson died.”

        And EVERY single friend I called already heard. They were like “Yeah…that was an hour ago. Where have YOU been??”

        “Uhhhh…the train.”

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          That’s like a few years ago, I was on vacation. My wife’s mom was turning 60, so we went on a big family vacation to a resort in Mexico.

          It was a great vacation. We were coming up on the end of a New England winter, so a tropical beach resort was very much needed.

          But, of course, being in a different country, we were all about as disconnected as it gets. We weren’t receiving text messages, or phone calls. We weren’t doom scrolling. We didn’t bring laptops or tablets. Though a couple of us spoke some broken Spanish (mostly, ‘mas cerveza, por favor’ or ‘dame dos margaritas, muy fuerte’), we couldn’t really understand the newspapers or broadcasts. It was all quite peaceful.

          On the way back from the airport, we stopped at the store to pick up some groceries and dry goods we were low on in the house. Nothing extreme…toilet paper, clorox wipes, hand sanitizer. You know, basic hygiene staples that you could usually find anywhere. But weirdly, today, the store was out of all three. Like, shelves-stripped-bare out. Finding any of these three was like finding a Turboman doll.

          The next day, the Governor declared a state of emergency. March 10, 2020. An outbreak of a novel virus doubled in state-wide cases overnight, the majority of which traced back to a conference a block away from my office (in a building my company rents space from). I could have been sharing a subway car with one of them a couple weeks earlier.

          When we left, we were a little concerned, but not particularly. There were fewer than 100 cases in the whole country, most of whom had travelled from Wuhan or aboard the Diamond Princess.

          Although by that point we (my family) completely distrusted Trump and all shit that dribbles out of his mouth, we didn’t have much reason to not accept his handling (yet). It sounded, sincerely, like he actually had a hold of the thing and was taking reasonable action to prevent the spread.

          Man I had no idea how naive that was at the time.

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        Apparently the Iranian government is spineless because the US dropped three bombs on them in June 2025 and they did nothing 😂 That was all the response needed to go in for the kill.

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      Remember, we have a lot of Tankies here and their Ayatollah just died.

      They’ll be lashing out and making things up wherever possible.

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    I still wonder about Obama having a joint at night and guessing how he could fuck up even harder those minds with Michelle.

    The absolute cinema in that situation is Obama probably has never spent so much time thinking about Don and the other. He didn’t care.

    But now 😂. I hope now he has his deserved showtime.