• TrackinDaKraken@lemmy.world
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    The standard response is always “I didn’t vote for that.” Whatever “that” is that they don’t like.

    What did they vote for? The angry, racist nationalism. The blaming of everyone else for their self-inflicted problems. They ignored the all the evidence that it’s a class war, and everyone with a net worth less than a billion is on this side of the wall together.

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    It makes me fucking sick to my stomach that these dumb fucking nazis think the issue is that Denmark would fight back.

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      If the United States had to be summed up in one word that would would be “overconfident”.

      The level of arrogance that the US government has about its military simply based on its size is profound. Military size would be a highly relevant factor if your enemy was expected to engage on your terms. However for some reason this tends not to be the case and you end up spending the entire war defending your flank.

      Look at Iraq, the US government sent thousands and thousands of troops in only for them to huddle in fortifications afraid to go out because of homemade explosives. Why didn’t the massively superior US military simply shoot the enemy combatants. Oh yeah that’s right because they couldn’t find them because the insurgents decided not to engage the US in direct combat. End result, essentially complete defeat.

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    The real reason that the US hasn’t legally declared a war since the 40s is because we haven’t been able to win a war since then. If all of our wars were officially declared as our constitution says they should we’d be like 12 losses under at this point.

  • DrivebyHaiku@lemmy.ca
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    Funny how many US bases are on foreign soil and exist almost entirely at the pleasure of their host countries. Would be a real shame if all that airforce base infrastructure suddenly disappeared and shortened the tactical operating range of the us airforce.

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    Of course they won’t.

    The pussy bitch ass dumb fucks who votes for that orange shit stain will slink back to the shadows they crawled from and pretend like they were never a part of it.

    • Daftydux@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      Its Bush II all over again. The collective sigh of relief after he was gone. Obama getting elected. All forgotten in the matter of one election cycle.

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        I miss the days of Keebler elves for President, when at least we weren’t threatening allies or tearing up our constitution and every commitment we made

  • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
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    If you think people voted for Trump to stop new wars you’re the one that got fooled. Trump’s base just wants immigrants to suffer. They want to go back to the time when they were the privileged race. Trying to fight MAGA on foreign policy and economy is a waste of time. They don’t understand either. The left needs to finally understand this and stop falling for this distraction.

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      I don’t like these comments because it isn’t only ignorant, it actually derails one of the in roads we have to engage his base. There’s always die hards who will go down with the ship. But politics is all about fence sitters. Hell the whole fucking reason people protest is to raise awareness. Who do you think that awareness is for?

      Derailing people who are pointing out that yes there are Trump supporters that hate these decisions only makes it harder to remove it at the end of the day for what benefit? To dunk on them?

      Every right leaning group i go to I am seeing more and more staunch republicans and MAGA already laying roads to peel the fuck out. The algorithms are being weighed to the left again finally.

      Also not wanting illegal immigration is not a crazy concept. The problem is it’s propaganda they’re buying telling them regular legal immigration is illegal.

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        By definition, everyone is opposed to illegal immigration, though they might differ in opinion about what immigration should be illegal.

        Opposition to “illegal immigration” is practically always just a fig leaf for opposition to immigration. You can verify this easily by asking an opponent of “illegal immigration” whether they think legal immigration should become easier to reduce the incentives for illegal immigration. My counter for those who have answered in the affirmative is currently at zero.

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      Yes you can pull yourself out of the fool pool, but all your friends are there and no one wants to get out first.

  • FauxPseudo @lemmy.worldM
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    But would we just be fighting Denmark or would we end up fighting NATO. Not including former USA NATO member aircraft that’s something more than 10,000 combat aircraft. Which changes things a bit.