• No_Ones_Slick_Like_Gaston@lemmy.world
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    25 days ago

    Never thought I live to see someone fuck up worse than Bush Jr.

    He just got the US into a war where there’s nothing to gain, zero upsides other than bending the k we to Israel.

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      25 days ago

      Musta missed 2019 when the US was caught with their pants down during a global pandemic, despite having a pandemic plan in place just a few years prior. Ultimately ended up killing over a million Americans… And the guy got re-elected.

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          25 days ago

          No one said otherwise.

          The original commenter said they hadn’t seen anyone fuck up this bad since Bush. The responder is simply implying that they think the covid response was an equally bad fuck up.

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    25 days ago

    I was kinda hoping the US would collapse into civil war before they helped start WW3.

    Bugger.

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      25 days ago

      The drives too long for your average US Citizen. at least that was the common excuse on the other site. “Drive is too long to DC” or “I have a job that’s tied to my medical insurance” Best they could do was ONE day of protest. On a Saturday.

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    22 days ago

    What’s next? Launching a war against the Ukraine to please Putin?

    You dumb fucking orange man.

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      25 days ago

      I have to say, the one good part of Trump in office is at least you lot aren’t lecturing people on why invading Iran is good, actually!

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        25 days ago
        • W. Bush says Iran is in Axis of Evil bullshit basically telling Iran “you’re next!” while invading Iraq. Iran starts a nuclear program in response.
        • Obama fixed things by making a treaty with Iran, and got the Nobel Peace Prize (though not in that order which was a bit weird, but whatever)
        • Trump cancels that treaty and assassinates an Iranian General
        • Biden tries to restore the Obama treaty, but Iran doesn’t trust the US (wonder why?). So no treaty, but also no war with Iran.
        • Trump gets in again drops some really big bombs on Iran

        “BOTH SIDES!” say both the MAGAs and leftists in unison.

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          25 days ago

          Yeah, you’re right. I’m sure the Democrats would not have supported Israel in Iran, same as how they didn’t support Israel in Yemen, or in Lebanon, or in Gaza, or in Syria, or in…

          • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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            If Kamala had won, I (trans latina) would not have had to flee the US. But they’re both the exact same amirite? (I’m honestly a little grateful for that. The US is trash. I’m never moving back)

            Edit: my point is that people are literally fleeing the US because it’s a sinking ship. Under Kamala, immigration and tourism wouldn’t have changed much

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              …Here’s a thought exercise for you: The year is 2028, Trump is running for a third term, and the Dem ticket is… IDK, Newsom/Buttigieg or whatever, and the big thinkers of the DNC have come up with a foolproof plan to steal away MAGA voters: they will agree with exterminating trans people, but! BUT! will firmly, and I mean FIRMLY stand behind gay marriage. And you’re trying to explain that both of those choices are unacceptable to you, and in response are met with an avalanche of mockery because “sure, yeah, one side wants gay marriage banned, but they’re both the exact same amirite?

              Seriously, though, best of luck. Not to assume stuff about your situation, but getting out sooner rather than later sounds like a good move.

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            25 days ago

            You’re doing the leftist reductive thing so complex issues become a simplistic “it’s all the system, man…”

            This doesn’t make you look as clever as you think it does. It’ll eventually turn you into a conspiracy nut where everything is because of “them”. Please make an effort to stay on topic.

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              Oh, it’s not the “system, man”, it’s you. As in, you, @SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca, personally. You are the exact person I’m thinking about when I say this, and it’s frankly amazing you decided to throw your hat in ring here, while simultaneously defending attacks on Iran elsewhere.

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          25 days ago

          Obama fixed things by making a treaty with Iran, and got the Nobel Peace Prize (though not in that order which was a bit weird, but whatever)

          I don’t understand how anyone could be so blatant about their own mental gymnastics.

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              Ah, sorry a lot of folks here are getting a bit wacky with apologia, and I could see them actually putting forward the nobel peace price as an argument for Obama not being a war criminal, so I did take it a bit too seriously. Poe’s law I guess. My apologies!

              That said, he is a war criminal though, and I feel like you’re cherry picking little bits out of all the presidencies to confirm your point.

              Here’s an example in the other direction, maybe it’ll help you see how unconvincing an argument you’re making:

              • Clinton: illegal bombing of Yugoslavia, sanctions in Iraq that have been estimated to kill 500k children.
              • Obama accelerated the drone program, killing 10s of thousands of Afghanis. Under his leadership, and entire wedding party was murdered in Yemen. Pledged 3.8 billion dollars a year for a decade in military aid to the apartheid ethnostate Israel as they were regularly bombing the Gaza strip. Pledged not to persecute the CIA operarives who carried out the torture of uncharged civilians.
              • Trump withdrew from Afghanistan.
              • Biden sent 17.9 billion dollars in nilitary aid to Israel as they were carrying out the genocide in Gaza. Bombed Syria.

              You’ll note that I omitted Bush. He was really bad. Like, Hitler bad. Not a redeeming quality about him.

              At any rate the point is that every single president since Eisenhower, every single one, no exceptions, has been a war criminal, and pretending that any one of them was pro peace is a joke.

        • Aqarius@lemmy.world
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          25 days ago

          Man, you Americans really do think everything is some foreigner’s fault?

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              The fact that you think the constant whining and blamecasting at nobody in particular constitutes a callout speaks volumes. And the fact that your first resort on being challenged is a barrage of insults speaks even more. Someone more intellectually minded might even use it as a jumping off point for some introspection, or see the parallel with US politics in general and foreign policy in particular - but, of course, that would risk recognizing the nose and rainbow hair as the reflection in the window pane that they are.

              Honk-honk, Buttons. Honk-honk.

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      25 days ago

      When the corporations start dividing your population and guaranteeing their own interests over democracy, look at what happened to us and learn from it. It doesn’t stop here.

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    Can’t wait for all the Americans who haven’t done a thing to stop him or to fight his voter base to show up and loudly proclaim that they don’t support this.

    Will also get a nice shitty side of “well what do you EXPECT me to DO?”

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      The only reason you people care so strongly is because of the “51st state” crap. You’re the same small, scared little people that every American is, that any person is, really.

      If you think upending your life to start an insurgency on behalf of other people, people on the other side of the planet even, should be expected behavior, why don’t you slide on down here and show us how it’s done? Let’s see your face and a body count on CNN.

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        Imagine having the gall to not only say you won’t fix your problems, but then call on others to go and fix it as well.

        Americans really are the laziest people.

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      Give them a break, a new season of oligarchs housewives just started and it’s not like they can just not go to work. They’ll be out next month on Saturday.

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        If the weather is nice, and, you know, if they can get all the proper permits for their parade.