• acargitz@lemmy.ca
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    1 hour 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 The ancient antidemocratic Constitution that you revere is obsolete and antiquated and your quasi-religious devotion to it trash and downright dangerous.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.

  • reddit_sux@lemmy.world
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    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.

  • Wilco@lemmy.zip
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    MFer is out of missiles and cant make his darling billionaires pay taxes to buy more. What is the US gonna do, throw rocks at Iran?
    Nobody but Trump wants this stupid war. Dude needs impeached.

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      I think he’s talking about nuking them. The fact he says decision coming up, makes me think they’ve been delaying and putting off the conversation because even the dipshits controlling this situation know that’s going to start ww3 and it won’t go well for them, financially at least.

    • Jarix@lemmy.world
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      No one? I think there’s a lot of other people in the Epstein files who are profiting off this entire debacle that are happier than pigs in shit about it. I assume anyways

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        Big. Beautiful. Bombs. So many of them. People say to me, they say they’re the BIGGEST bombs they’ve ever seen. And I believe them. Because you’ve never seen so many bombs like that. Only in America. Only in beautiful America could you get so many bombs.

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    15 hours ago

    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.

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      The market manipulation is obvious enough that I’ve managed to make a modest amount off of it myself.

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    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.

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        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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          If they don’t everyone dies so they’re likely to be be pretty motivated to say no. Given that the Soviet military back in the cold war refused to launch nukes I’m reasonably confident the human instinct for survival will override any theoretical respect they have for the executive.