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[–] in4apenny@lemmy.dbzer0.com 80 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Imagine fighting and risking your life in a foreign country on behalf of a pedophile.

[–] Dorkyd68@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago

You forgot oil . Those executives cant get that 5th yacht unless innocent desert children die

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[–] 0x0@lemmy.zip 49 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

I feel like this needs to be updated

NVIDIA OpenAI Palantir Meta X Google Apple Anthropic

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[–] Ulrich_the_elder@thecanadian.social 140 points 6 days ago (5 children)

@ickplant Putting soldiers in harms way to distract from the epstein files should get the fat fuck the death sentence.

[–] ameancow@lemmy.world 72 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I've been saying that cutting USAID and the nearly million deaths that followed in the subsequent months as a direct result of cutting a program that as much as a couple of his planned ballrooms, should get him hanged slowly at the hague.

Out of everything he's done, this along with rolling back environmental protections will have caused the most harm and suffering to humanity and these are the things getting the least attention.

Imagine having the power to ruin the lives of countless millions of living souls and doing it for no other reason than to prove how "not woke" you are and to add another several cents per share to your donor's investments.

[–] btsax@reddthat.com 40 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Nixon and Reagan both conspired with hostile foreign governments to win elections and we let both of those guys off the hook. Why would this be different?

[–] PlutoniumAcid@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Because we've had enough? Because we've learned our lesson?

Or maybe we haven't?

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[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 33 points 6 days ago (4 children)

💯

But instead it will probably get him more adoration from his base.

Who am I kidding? It’s not probably, it’s definitely.

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[–] tomiant@piefed.social 20 points 6 days ago

Pedos or not there is no way the USA would stay out of waging new wars either way, it's literally its bread and butter and can't exist without it. The machine is getting itchy, it needs blood, that simple.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 70 points 6 days ago (4 children)
[–] mlg@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

It actually spiked to 3 on Sunday night lol

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[–] Eximius@lemmy.world 20 points 6 days ago

I love this. Can't believe I didnt know this site before.

[–] ickplant@lemmy.world 16 points 6 days ago

This is incredible.

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[–] Dearth@lemmy.world 41 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Isn't this the 3rd time during the Epstein presidency that soldiers have been served their penultimate meal?

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 31 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Approximately 45% of the available combat ready aircraft are in position at various air bases, which include carriers. One does not deploy and concentrate air assets like that unless you want the shit to hit the fan. Wasting billions for nothing.

[–] ShergalFarkey@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (4 children)

This is Trump's MO, I think he was hoping for a lot more coverage from the media on this to drown out the Epstein stuff. I guess he thinks if he does order a strike, it will help take the pedo-heat off him, but it'd be the most foolish decision he's ever made, Iran are not to be fucked with militarily.

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[–] desiccated_event@piefed.blahaj.zone 90 points 6 days ago (1 children)

My dad who served in Vietnam looked at this tweet and went silent. My mom is now really upset. I am so tired.

[–] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

But they still both voted Trump 3x, right?

To assume makes an ass of you and me. I do not dispute your anger and frustration. Please do not insult my family without prior introduction. I ask for comity.

[–] kurmudgeon@lemmy.world 51 points 6 days ago (1 children)

All those Iranian citizens who think the U.S. is doing this for them... They're about to find out the hard way what putting your trust in the U.S. is like, let alone Trump. You would think they'd learn from the last time.

[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world 100 points 6 days ago (28 children)

Nobody thinks this. Lemmy users need to stop being racist like this. Iranians are not stupid, these people have agency. They know what a war with the US means, they had two of their neighbors go through it. They know it's hell, but the thing is that the regime right now is so cartoonishly evil that if a war loosens their grip on power and opens up a real possibility for a new government, then it might just be worth it.

I'm Iraqi. My family lived through the terror of Saddam Hussein. The US invasion was hell. It destabilized the country and a lot of people died. Nobody recalls that time as a good one. Yet, at the same time, you'll be hard pressed to any Iraqi that wishes the US didn't depose of that evil regime.

[–] Riverside@reddthat.com 30 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (22 children)

Edit: as short as 4 months ago, the user above was referring to the Israeli genocide of Palestinians as "the Israel-Palestine conflict". They have posts complaining about leftism on Lemmy, praising the Cybertrucks and Teslas, and edgelording AI. Also, their posting and commenting hours suggest timezones in the continent of America, contrary to their claim of being Iraqi.

The main problem in Iran and the reason why protests broke out last months is simply US + EU sanctions. The Iranian currency imploded over the past months and drove many people to desperation, the current exchange rate is like 1.5mn to 1USD, and this is unequivocally the fault of the US + EU. However bad their regime, US+EU sanctions murder HALF A MILLION PEOPLE YEARLY in the world, the death burden of these sanctions is astronomically higher than anything you can ascribe to the Iranian government. The literal, EXPLICIT POLICY of sanctions is, and I quote official US documents: "to bring about hunger, desperation and overthrow of government".

Iran could have been a secular socialist democracy as Iranians democratically decided in the previous century under the government of Mosaddeq, but UK+USA conspired to bring the government down and brought back monarchy. The Iranian government is literally the fault of the Anglos. Stop doing atrocity propaganda for the US empire on the fucking verge of an invasion. And there are plenty of Iraqi who wholeheartedly condemn the invasion of Iraq even if it brought down the government of Saddam, because what followed was orders of magnitude worse. An example is Hakim on YouTube.

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[–] dismay3915@lemmy.world 13 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I'm Iranian, living in Iran. He is right.

A very big portion of people think trump or netanyahu's attack and war will save them from the islamic republic.

When people are angry, hungry, getting killed, hopeless and poor, we can't expect their brains to work properly.

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[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 24 points 6 days ago (2 children)

May they suffer in eternal hell for what they are doing

[–] meep_launcher@sh.itjust.works 16 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Focus that rage upward.

I have such distain for our military industrial complex and ICE, but I recognize so much of the problem is desperate people taking desperate measures. They decided it's better to risk your life in a foreign war than it is to be home watching you and your family whither away with no healthcare, education, or money. I don't agree but I can understand- debt will put anyone in a pressure cooker. Two things can be true at once- being a stoog for American imperialism makes you horrible, but people who are stooges can still be people to show sympathy for when you consider the factors at play.

When the revolution comes, as all revolutions do, it is only when the military allows the people to storm the gates. In my head we don't need to thank service members as much as say I'm so sorry what this country did to them.

[–] hamid@crazypeople.online 27 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (14 children)

I'm Persian, from Iran. I don't give a fuck why those yank butchers signed up to go murder my family. They already killed my moms side in Iraq now they're going to go kill my dad's side. Fuck them and I hope they burn in hell. I wish they would skip to the part where they shoot themselves drunk and spare my family that remains in Iran.

[–] mirshafie@europe.pub 11 points 5 days ago

As an Iranian, I agree. Oh, poor baby needs to pay for college, so my dad needs to die? Disgusting ghouls.

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[–] BranBucket@lemmy.world 42 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (11 children)

I'm not saying this isn't a sign of something, but Surf and Turf nights are fairly common at overseas bases. Sometimes once a week.

EDIT: Pie is pretty much nightly anywhere with real kitchen.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 51 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Does it count as stopping the most wars when you started them all?

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[–] Gonzako@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

They're sending them to kill and be killed

[–] Zamboni_Driver@lemmy.ca 21 points 6 days ago

Isn't this an old tweet? Why is there no date on it.

[–] dellish@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago (8 children)

Has there been at least a piss weak justification for this new war? Or is he still crapping on about Iran developing a nuclear weapon in the next five minutes? At least the last Iraq war had a good foundation of lies leading up to it.

[–] Mrkawfee@feddit.uk 24 points 6 days ago

Fighting Israel's wars is the justification

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[–] formergijoe@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It means it's surf and turf Friday at the chow hall?

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[–] goedel@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 5 days ago

tomorrow we dine in hell

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