• lightnsfw@reddthat.com
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    I don’t think there’s a single thing he does understand. He was an idiot to start with and now his brain has gone to mush. The fact that there are no adults in our government disposing of this motherfucker for his incompetence (let alone the fact that he’s a criminal and a traitor) being a danger to our country is insane.

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    Two weeks ago, I was saying this guy was desperate for an off-ramp for this war. I really thought that there were other options that made sense from the perspective of saving face and making a show of it.

    I did not expect it to be “surrender completely, pay hush money, declare undisputed victory”.

    BUT I SHOULD HAVE.

    After all this time it still seems preposterous that someone so stupid and utterly incompetent could be holding the levers of power after all of this. It is so beyond belief it is amazing.

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      As others have said elsewhere: he does this with the complete supine support of Congress.

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      These people aren’t smart. They don’t think strategically. They literally can’t think beyond the first move. They can only comprehend “Give them a lot of money, and they’ll surrender.”

      The guy that can think 2 steps ahead could overthrow this administration with a knock knock joke.

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    Dimbulb donnie thinks he’s a bigly genius because he passed a cognitive test, FFS. He thinks it is like an IQ test.

    That’s the level of stupidity we are dealing with. And he’s surrounded himself with bootlicks that won’t do anything to correct him even on simple matters like this.

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    Did trump not understand the Declaration of Independence when they read it to him and drew stick figures for him?

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    Lets not let him take all the credit. Congress utterly failed to put a stop to it. The military’s performance was just as bad. Like shockingly bad.

    This was a team effort.

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      Bunch of dead US soldiers, lots of destroyed aircrafts and vehicles, billions in reparations, and completely dismantling trust on the world stage.

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      It’s not just that precedent…

      It’s giving them 1/3 of a trillion dollars to fortify the stait.

      Like, we showed them they can’t trust America long term, then essentially gave them a blank check to scale up defenses.

      Like, their drones are <30k each…

      They can build over 10 million of them and have billions of dollars left over.

      This will most likely be looked at similarly to how WW1 was mainly just setting the stage for WW2, we all accomplished nothing and just gave a bunch of countries reasons to sink all their money into their militaries

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        It’s giving them 1/3 of a trillion dollars to fortify the stait.

        That’s restitution for bombing the shit out of their country, their kids, their water supply.

        You do see this, right? It’s not a pay-off; it’s a pay back.

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      No. He made a lot of money.

      Don’t fall victim to him. He’s winning, and he’ll keep doing it until we make him lose.

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    Let’s be honest here:

    NOBODY understands that war. There were no objectives and no chance of success. It was just rushing in to do a murder and then letting israel bomb more civillians because they are running out of them in Gaza.

    And, like all the “great” regional wars: There actually was a REALLY good reason to go to war with iran. They were murdering protesters by the thousands in the lead up to this. Just like how Saddam and the Taliban were complete and utter monsters too. But selling on “we are going to help the brown people” would never sell either aisle on a war.

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      There was absolutely no reason to go to war with Iran. Killing protesters happens everywhere and is never an excuse to bomb a country or invade them. War is a form of terrorism and should always have a meaningful (and achievable) political objective that benefits the state engaging in it.

      There are no humanitarian wars. Intervening in domestic politics implies that Iranians are children who cannot govern themselves. They vote. They have a democracy. Their society will move according to the conditions they live in.

      We have had an oversized impact on Iranian life through our tariffs. We do more to undermine Iranian life with our economic policies than the leaders of Iran do with their governance. When we hear protesters used as an excuse for war, we become part of a conspiracy to further undermine Iranian democracy through escalation, when we should have been calling to better Iranian life by putting an end to tariffs.

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        There was absolutely no reason to go to war with Iran. Killing protesters happens everywhere and is never an excuse to bomb a country or invade them

        So you would be opposed to any kind of intervention to prevent israel’s genocide of Palestine? And… while people often forget the order of operations, nobody should have gotten involved to stop nazi germany and imperial japan when they were getting their genocide on back in the 30s/40s? Not gonna bother to ask about the Uyghurs because… we can both guess how much you care about them.

        You and I are fundamentally different human beings.

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          Compares dead protesters with genocide and makes other false equivalencies.

          I know better than to follow politicians and support their wars. If you want to support Palestinians, then engage in boycotts and demand the US stops giving material support to the Israeli military. If you wanted to help Iranians, then you should’ve opposed tariffs.

          If the peace deal holds, then the tariffs will be lifted, meaning that the Iranian government will have won back better conditions for their people with this war. That’s what victory for Iran means: no tariffs and money to rebuild to create better conditions for regular Iranians.

          Iran is up and you’re complaining you didn’t get to bomb them more. We really are different.

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        I do not argue your point on invading another country. However, a lot of states are democracies on paper. In the case if Iran, there is no vote that will get them out of this situation.

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    Apologies for the vulgarity, I don’t know how to be any clearer. Somewhere in there is this voice saying “I can do better than that fing n!”

    Even before then Trump had a serious racist powered grudge against President Obama but I think the 2011 White house press dinner ratcheted it up https://www.youtube.com/shorts/nykVn_XAEks

    I am hard pressed to remember any other time President Obama was this eloquently vicious. https://youtu.be/-QqVyd6WMg4 (18 minutes long, but totally worth it). Kinda sad that President Obama called it with what has happened to the white house.

    Side note I am skipping over using the title of president for Trump because he stated publicly they rigged the election https://youtu.be/TTHonqrM7Vc