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[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I begin to wonder if this is how these fuckers planned to slide out of sight all along. I know they don't seem very bright, and they aren't, but they are crafty. Trump isn't a 'smart' man - he's crafty. Smart and crafty are two completely different things. There's been a rash of this type headline - republicans spouting batshit crazy lies and spinning them into worse lies.

Was there a bachelor's to be had in "Lie Your Ass Off - 101 → 666"? (i don't remember this being a course objective during my time in school)

So anyway, they spout some shit like this even they don't believe in order to be kicked off the team and into ticket sales... cash baby! Hard to follow with "donation" rules.

...say something stupidly preposterous - get kicked out - disappear into the fundraiser scam... more money in their bank.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (3 children)

he should be removed from office.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He should be thrown from a bridge, actually.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Yeah, we ran that bridge over with a ship.....

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

he should be removed to a jail cell.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yeah, in Canada this would already be unambiguously criminal. Once the new law passes it will also carry a potential sentence of life, which is based.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

He voted nay to "Providing for the expulsion of Representative George Santos from the United States House of Representatives." Another old fart that graduated bible college

[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago

Average American power holder

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

He's just saying the quiet part out loud.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

See: America has Nazis too!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Always has.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

how is this any different from Genocide Joe's or any congressperson's position? Israel has already dropped the equivalent of several nukes on Gaza, and they still have the US's unconditional backing.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Genocide Joe is much more polished than this loser. It'a genocide with American characteristics.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

The whole region should be placed under international administration, just like Germany after the war.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

It is the international meddling that caused the problem

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

It was before, under the League of nations. Jewish terrorists under Irgun and Stern group (which later formed IDF) bombed the international administration to get land and get them out. When England gave up, Israel took the land

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (5 children)

It just occurred to me that there are probably people who look at those bombings - after the war was effectively over BTW - not as evil (my view), nor as a regrettable but necessary way to avert American deaths, but as an actual heroic act.

Jesus, how do I live in a world where there are people like that running around having normal lives...?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

but as an actual heroic act

They’ve been doing it since at least 2014:

Israelis Watch Bombs Drop on Gaza From Front-Row Seats

(Sorry for the nyt article, here’s the guardian as well)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

If you were in the other thread about these bombings yesterday, you'd see that viewpoint is basically what the US teaches in school. It's disturbing to see that so many people actually believe this was for the good of humanity.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The argument doesn't just include American deaths, but Japanese deaths as well. You may not agree, but the us just finished in Europe far past the point where the war was effectively over, and there was the belief that the Japanese would always take it further than the germans. Part of it was the japanese war strategy. They wanted the enemy to think they would have to cut through them to the last man woman and child, to get them to give up. There was a belief that maybe a shock would do something, but there was also doubt to that. 7 more bombs were going to be ready to soften up japanese defenses during downfall. They thought they would have to do much more damage.

Edit: I messed up my words in a way that subtlety changed the meaning of a sentence.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

subtlety

subtly

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

That’s not the real reason. It was meant to scare the USSR, Japan was already defeated.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago

That continues to be my parents' view (I suspect the same is true for many of our parents). It'll be a few generations before the fiction around Hiroshima gets wiped away. Hell, the '21 Tulsa massacre is only now getting some actual cultural awareness, and that's only because it was depicted in the first scene of The Watchmen.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 5 months ago

Least genocidal conservative

[–] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don't think the Man from Galilee would appreciate any of this.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

I thought it was a magic dragon.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't the congressman know that you aren't supposed to say the plan outloud? You are just supposed to provide all the bombs and arms required no strings attached. These new republicans just don't understand decorum.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago

It's not like anyone in the Israeli government was hiding the fact that their plan was genocide either. It's only the state department and mainstream media that are pretending to be shocked that there's 'collateral damage'.

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