And none of his followers think anything about the potential annihilation of a whole country. Truly despicable. At least they'll keep each other company in Hell.
I remember when i was a kid my mom would say shit like "we wouldn't be in a war if we just bombed the shit out of them til there was nothing left." They dont see the people living in the middle east as people, they didnt 15 years ago and they dont now. there is zero empathy and its disgusting
It's just the natural continuation of a mentality that allowed "people" to come to a different land, rape and murder everyone in sight, settle in the graveyard they filled themselves, and still call themselves people, supported by God even. Nothing new, but the fact it's been over 200 years and it's still prevalent enough that Trump, the figurehead of Western imperialism and white supremacy, has over 30% approval rate, makes it all very sad. But John Brown existed, so I keep my hopes up that one day, God willing, humanity and the desire for peaceful coexistence will settle in the heart of "radical" Westerners.
Every people has some black stains on their past...but it really seems like white people are the last ones to realize it.
We (white people) are the bad guys.
There's been lots of bad guys, but for the past millenia or so, white people have been and continue to be the worst.
We're #1?
I guess what we have to accept is that if we're not the bad guys, then someone else is and then we are the oppressed. So we can't just forfeit being the world's assholes, because somebody else will do it to us!
In my opinion, wealth is the primary driving factor of that. Exploitation and abuse of the bottom by the top seems to occur in nearly every culture that doesn’t put in strict safeguards to neuter the privileged.
The British empire dominated so much of the globe that the white elites advanced to the Olympic level of exploitation, but if we blame it on their color alone, we are leaving the back door open for other ghoulishly rich groups to stand in their place.
I believe the real issue is the aristocratic class. In England, it was determined by heredity, and in America, it is determined by money, but the kind of person who inhabits that role is the same: mean spirited selfish assholes who fundamentally believe they are better than everyone else and that they deserve to get everything they want because the average Joe is inferior to them in every way. They think normal people serve no purpose unless they are serving the needs of an elite.
That attitude strikes me as profoundly anti-human, and I think they should be treated as what they are: a predator that threatens the entire species who must be eliminated for the common good.
damn, just imagine if instead of doing that, they’d exhibited some solidarity(I’m assuming it’s about manufacturing jobs related to cars)?
I bet if Americans had held strikes in response to layoffs OR chosen not to buy foreign cars back then, today their unions would be stronger and their cars wouldn’t be so… wasteful (in many ways). Sure does suck to suck.
It is! But how I feel about it doesn't make it any more or less true. And likewise, I try to behave in ways to avoid the same ending, even if it means less hedonistic enjoyment and material comfort.
You can be a rational person and be entirely immoral and self serving. And idk what those people believe in, they're extremely confused, the worst form of Trinitarianism is the one that denies God's judgment and I guess that's what they're about? "Jesus forgave my sins so I can colonize, murder and rape with impunity"? They can say they "believe in God" in whatever way they want the same way a wife beater can rationalize it as love and passion, doesn't mean it makes any sense.
Trump supporters are selfish people. The fact millions of innocent people would die is less important to them than the fact it will increase the price they pay at the pump
At least they're upset with the war because of gas prices, I guess
I mean, Donnie boy done annihilated Iran 16 times. How much more winning you need? Pretty soon he going to be annihilating them with canon balls cause all the missiles got used up in the previous annihilations.
My only problem with "backed down" is that he says a lot all the time, but what he does or not does is completely different. He hasn't actually taken any action against Greenland, just talked about it. (That company that was going to drill is, as far as I can tell, not related to the Trumps in any meaningful way)
So not that I disagree with you per se, but.... Iran he has actually attacked, although not invaded (ground troops).
It’s like when a parent gets frustrated and starts yelling at a kid without thinking anything through. “When we get home I’m gonna…well you just better hope I don’t decide to annihilate Iran, mister.”
I feel like, and this isn't in dreadful anticipation of anything in particular or anything, but like the UN General Assembly should get together and vote on a resolution saying the nuking countries is bad and that any country, no matter who they are, that nukes another country without being existentially threatened themselves first, is a rogue nation and that if it ever happened, the entire rest of the world would do something about it.
If the UN ever enforces a resolution, it should be this one. This war has not changed my mind anout Iran having nukes, but it has become crystal clear that the US should NOT have nukes.
Truman won't be the only war criminal that used nuclear bomb. Truman, Trump, there is something about stupid arrogant Americans which name starts with Trum
Using the bomb saved lives though. Using it twice was overkill perhaps, but a ground invasion of Japan would've caused so many more casualties. I would remind you previous napalming of Tokyo killed more than both the nuclear weapons.
Their culture was fight to the death, it would've been magnitudes worse with a ground invasion.
I think you mean using the bomb saved American lives. Because hundreds of thousands died because of said bombs. And they were overwhelmingly civilians.
But wait I thought they were already totally destroyed and decimated and annihilated and embarrassed and begging for a deal. President Warloser and the Secretary of War (crimes) couldn't be lying to me and the state of the "Trump Strait" that he definitely controls could he?
This isnt even saber rattling anymore. Its just an old man threatening the kids to get off his lawn, except its not his lawn, its a lawn on TV, and they aren't even kids, they're deer.
Short of nukes, they're not competent enough to do so and the American economy and the people are not in a position to support a major ground offensive. Nukes probably wouldn't even work to destroy the political apparatus so it would just be mass murder.
No fucking clue. Depends how well they've purged the military leadership and replaced them with yes men and psychopaths. I would imagine the leadership of the last several decades would be very strongly opposed, ultimately I don't know if they'd refuse an order form the executive. You'd think nukes would require congressional approval except during a Congress declared war, but I don't think so.
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Master167@lemmy.world · 107 pts · 13h
Is anyone keeping count on the times statements like this have been made? It feels like it's on a 3 week cycle.
Almost like he's trying to distract from something.
Jiral@lemmy.world · 45 pts · 12h
I guess it is to normalise the call for a genocide in public.
jrs100000@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 12h
That man does not think that far ahead. He just wants wants people to stop questioning the size of his hands (penis).
Jiral@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 10h
You mean, he wants them to stop talking about his pal Epstein?
Murse@slrpnk.net · 22 pts · 11h
With Operation Epstein Fury?? Naaaaw!
protist@retrofed.com · 13 pts · 9h
For fucking real. Stop reporting on what the man says he's going to do and report on what he actually does
ms_lane@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 12h
It's Friday.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 7h
Time to manipulate the markets until after opening on Monday
auzy1@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 10h
He probably takes his dementia medication every 3 weeks
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 55 pts · 12h
And none of his followers think anything about the potential annihilation of a whole country. Truly despicable. At least they'll keep each other company in Hell.
dragonlover@lemmy.zip · 50 pts · 10h
I remember when i was a kid my mom would say shit like "we wouldn't be in a war if we just bombed the shit out of them til there was nothing left." They dont see the people living in the middle east as people, they didnt 15 years ago and they dont now. there is zero empathy and its disgusting
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 10h
It's just the natural continuation of a mentality that allowed "people" to come to a different land, rape and murder everyone in sight, settle in the graveyard they filled themselves, and still call themselves people, supported by God even. Nothing new, but the fact it's been over 200 years and it's still prevalent enough that Trump, the figurehead of Western imperialism and white supremacy, has over 30% approval rate, makes it all very sad. But John Brown existed, so I keep my hopes up that one day, God willing, humanity and the desire for peaceful coexistence will settle in the heart of "radical" Westerners.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 8h
Every people has some black stains on their past...but it really seems like white people are the last ones to realize it.
We (white people) are the bad guys.
There's been lots of bad guys, but for the past millenia or so, white people have been and continue to be the worst.
We're #1?
I guess what we have to accept is that if we're not the bad guys, then someone else is and then we are the oppressed. So we can't just forfeit being the world's assholes, because somebody else will do it to us!
WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 5 pts · 7h
In my opinion, wealth is the primary driving factor of that. Exploitation and abuse of the bottom by the top seems to occur in nearly every culture that doesn’t put in strict safeguards to neuter the privileged.
The British empire dominated so much of the globe that the white elites advanced to the Olympic level of exploitation, but if we blame it on their color alone, we are leaving the back door open for other ghoulishly rich groups to stand in their place.
I believe the real issue is the aristocratic class. In England, it was determined by heredity, and in America, it is determined by money, but the kind of person who inhabits that role is the same: mean spirited selfish assholes who fundamentally believe they are better than everyone else and that they deserve to get everything they want because the average Joe is inferior to them in every way. They think normal people serve no purpose unless they are serving the needs of an elite.
That attitude strikes me as profoundly anti-human, and I think they should be treated as what they are: a predator that threatens the entire species who must be eliminated for the common good.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 10h
In the 80s, Americans sported "Bomb Japan Again" bumper stickers. So being cunts is not new.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 7h
Fucking boomers need to die already
myrmidex@belgae.social · 6 pts · 7h
That's why they're speed-running the surveillance state. The billionaires know full well the Overton window is about to shift on them.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 4h
damn, just imagine if instead of doing that, they’d exhibited some solidarity(I’m assuming it’s about manufacturing jobs related to cars)?
I bet if Americans had held strikes in response to layoffs OR chosen not to buy foreign cars back then, today their unions would be stronger and their cars wouldn’t be so… wasteful (in many ways). Sure does suck to suck.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 7h
I had a boss who said the solution to the middle east is to nuke it. I thought he was kidding at first, but I don't think he really was.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 6 pts · 10h
It must be nice to believe this.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 9h
It is! But how I feel about it doesn't make it any more or less true. And likewise, I try to behave in ways to avoid the same ending, even if it means less hedonistic enjoyment and material comfort.
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · -3 pts · 7h
No offense, but what a stupid way to live your life.
Actually, I dunno why I said "no offense."
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 6h
I'm sure many rich and powerful people agree with you. 🤷♂️
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 2 pts · 5h
I would say "rational people" is more accurate. Being rich and powerful is not relevant at all is it?
Most of the rich and powerful people who are currently ruining the US agree with you that hell exists, by the way.
Are we really gonna sit here and pretend that Christian nationalist don't believe in hell? Give me a break.
The entire concept of hell exists to control people like you.
ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 5h
You can be a rational person and be entirely immoral and self serving. And idk what those people believe in, they're extremely confused, the worst form of Trinitarianism is the one that denies God's judgment and I guess that's what they're about? "Jesus forgave my sins so I can colonize, murder and rape with impunity"? They can say they "believe in God" in whatever way they want the same way a wife beater can rationalize it as love and passion, doesn't mean it makes any sense.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 4h
Yeah, what a rube! They have beliefs that bring them comfort and that compel them to treat others well. So stupid.
Taldan@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 4h
Trump supporters are selfish people. The fact millions of innocent people would die is less important to them than the fact it will increase the price they pay at the pump
At least they're upset with the war because of gas prices, I guess
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz · 54 pts · 12h
Hasn't Iran already been annihilated several times?
farmgineer@nord.pub · 27 pts · 12h
they re-nihilated.
patruelis@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 12h
Then re-re-nnihilated.
MrChewy@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 12h
Did you even read Nietzsche?
SapphireSphinx@feddit.org · 8 pts · 12h
The last thing I read was that the US runs low on interceptors while Iran restarted its missile production.
AmyAye@nord.pub · 4 pts · 10h
Turns out he was right, I am in fact tired of all this "winning" against Iran.
rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 8h
Don't you know that iran is a phoenix?
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 36 pts · 12h
Trump Says "Big Decision" Coming on Whether to "STEAL" Iran's Oil.
UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 12h
That’s always been the game. It’s why America toppled Iran’s democracy back in the 50s.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 10 pts · 12h
Iran has been expecting a military invasion their entire lives.
We sent some real estate agents.
Guess who won?
UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 11h
I mean, Donnie boy done annihilated Iran 16 times. How much more winning you need? Pretty soon he going to be annihilating them with canon balls cause all the missiles got used up in the previous annihilations.
SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 5h
Now WHY would you tell the WORLD that you are out of ammo??? No logic there.
What I suspect is a special "someone" owns the munitions factory that "desperately" needs to be in high gear right NOW. There's some logic here.
That's SOP for this president. Gee some more logic.
West_of_West@piefed.social · 36 pts · 8h
He decided he can't beat Canada. Back to Iran!
TheBloodFarts@lemmy.ca · 19 pts · 7h
Next up, Greenland!
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 6h
Trump backed down on Greenland when Europe said “nuh-uh”. He will go slaughter some starving cubans instead.
What a lionheart trump is.
daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 5h
My only problem with "backed down" is that he says a lot all the time, but what he does or not does is completely different. He hasn't actually taken any action against Greenland, just talked about it. (That company that was going to drill is, as far as I can tell, not related to the Trumps in any meaningful way)
So not that I disagree with you per se, but.... Iran he has actually attacked, although not invaded (ground troops).
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 3h
I'm picturing a spinner with all the countries he likes to threaten. He spins the arrow and decides which one to threaten next
UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 12h
We’ve already annihilated, we can’t annihilate any farther.
UsernamesAreForSuckers@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 12h
How many times Donnie Small-hands gonna “Annihilate Iran” ?
prex@aussie.zone · 4 pts · 10h
Donnies been at the snozberries again.
dickalan@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 11h
that's. amazing
LincolnsDogFido@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 7h
Lol. Well done
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca · 22 pts · 10h
Sure, Jan.
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 9h
A Brady bunch reference? Here?
darvocet@infosec.pub · 7 pts · 8h
In this economy??
puppinstuff@lemmy.ca · 5 pts · 8h
Localized entirely within your kitchen?
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 8h
Can I see it?
SippyCup@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 7h
No.
genzboomer@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 5h
How much could a Brady Bunch reference cost Michael, 10 dollars?
im_fine_sandy@nord.pub · 19 pts · 9h
LOL. If there was a big decision he wouldn't need to announce that it was coming.
LordMayor@piefed.social · 9 pts · 9h
It’s like when a parent gets frustrated and starts yelling at a kid without thinking anything through. “When we get home I’m gonna…well you just better hope I don’t decide to annihilate Iran, mister.”
cecilkorik@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 9h
I'm going to turn this car around right now!
4am@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 8h
Yeah this is market manipulation. Again.
KindnessIsPunk@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 8h
Dude's vague posting like a twitter influencer
anon6789@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 7h
I dunno, this was my first thought yesterday when I saw the news of a potential withdrawling of 25-50,000 US troops from Europe...
daychilde@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 5h
In two weeks he will have a concept of a plan.
rozodru@piefed.world · 16 pts · 3h
well it is Friday so I guess more market manipulation.
Christ on a cracker people he ALWAYS says this shit on a Friday, I would have hoped we would have figured that out by now.
Tango@piefed.ca · 16 pts · 8h
I feel like, and this isn't in dreadful anticipation of anything in particular or anything, but like the UN General Assembly should get together and vote on a resolution saying the nuking countries is bad and that any country, no matter who they are, that nukes another country without being existentially threatened themselves first, is a rogue nation and that if it ever happened, the entire rest of the world would do something about it.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 6h
If the UN ever enforces a resolution, it should be this one. This war has not changed my mind anout Iran having nukes, but it has become crystal clear that the US should NOT have nukes.
KC_Royalz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 5h
If the United States ever nuked anybody I think the entire world would just cut us off of trade completely and we would f****** deserve it
rumimevlevi@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 4h
It like saying to a judge you should put a person in jail after conviction. A judge like the UN has no executive power
itisileclerk@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 8h
Truman won't be the only war criminal that used nuclear bomb. Truman, Trump, there is something about stupid arrogant Americans which name starts with Trum
bedwyr@piefed.ca · -3 pts · 6h
Using the bomb saved lives though. Using it twice was overkill perhaps, but a ground invasion of Japan would've caused so many more casualties. I would remind you previous napalming of Tokyo killed more than both the nuclear weapons.
Their culture was fight to the death, it would've been magnitudes worse with a ground invasion.
iza@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 4h
There were other options besides nukes or ground invasion. Yes napalming Tokyo was also horrific, targeting civilians is never okay.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 2h
What other options were available? Genuinely curious.
demonsword@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 4h
I think you mean using the bomb saved American lives. Because hundreds of thousands died because of said bombs. And they were overwhelmingly civilians.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 7h
But wait I thought they were already totally destroyed and decimated and annihilated and embarrassed and begging for a deal. President Warloser and the Secretary of War (crimes) couldn't be lying to me and the state of the "Trump Strait" that he definitely controls could he?
peopleproblems@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 8h
This isnt even saber rattling anymore. Its just an old man threatening the kids to get off his lawn, except its not his lawn, its a lawn on TV, and they aren't even kids, they're deer.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 10h
The top cop, mister flip flop. He would nuke anybody if the spotlight were to get too close to the proof of his degeneracy.
Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de · 11 pts · 4h
Trump is trying the Madman Theory again. With his usual bluntness and terrible poker face. Why would it work this time? Is he stupid?
Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 3h
"anything could happen with me". Excellent! My hope is on his very unsuspicious death!
HubertManne@piefed.social · 11 pts · 2h
nothing says good guy like annihilate.
Avicenna@programming.dev · 11 pts · 4h
wasn't he going to annihilate their whole culture in a week or sth?
III@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 8h
Oh, so upcoming news on one of the other despicable things he is doing to harm people and he needs a distraction.
lemmy_outta_here@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 6h
It’s a race! Iran has been 2 weeks away from a nuclear weapon since 1978. Trump has been 2 weeks away from annihilating iran for 6 months.
Trump propagandists could teach Zeno a thing or two about finish lines.
OrteilGenou@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 9h
Fuck, it's just as we've feared, the Yanks have developed used diaper catapult technology
CarrierLost@infosec.pub · 5 pts · 34m
Ok, grandpa. Let’s get you back to bed.
Aqarius@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 6h
Friday already?
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 2h
Short of nukes, they're not competent enough to do so and the American economy and the people are not in a position to support a major ground offensive. Nukes probably wouldn't even work to destroy the political apparatus so it would just be mass murder.
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 2h
What are the odds the army would tell him no to nukes?
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 51m
No fucking clue. Depends how well they've purged the military leadership and replaced them with yes men and psychopaths. I would imagine the leadership of the last several decades would be very strongly opposed, ultimately I don't know if they'd refuse an order form the executive. You'd think nukes would require congressional approval except during a Congress declared war, but I don't think so.
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 3h
What are you gonna nuke them? Do it and America will become an enemy of the world.
T00l_shed@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1h
They are WAY ahead of you
Smaile@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 1h
Oh no I mean the moderates of those country's would be going "we need a coordinated responce and embargo." like with russia
switcheroo@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 2h
Just shut the fuck up, taco!!! God, we're all sick of your sorry ass!
sportsjorts@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 4h
Is he going to issue the order from inside a dinner dolly bunker?
NoForwadSlashS@piefed.social · 1 pts · 7h
Now I'm going to sit forward and play properly
bedwyr@piefed.ca · 1 pts · 6h
Translation: He's not getting enough attention so he found something to say to get everyone talking about him all day again.