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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (16 children)

Oh shit. Either he’s trolling Harris’s campaign or they really are a cult. Very popular decision joe, sure people will forget till november.

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

The people are fools and leaders are cunts.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 2 days ago (17 children)

US President Joe Biden has said he is "absolutely, positively" urging Israel to stop firing at UN peacekeepers during its conflict with Hezbollah in Lebanon, following two incidents in 48 hours. Source

Some hours later: Biden absolutely, positively sends troops to help Israel out. WTF...

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 2 days ago (2 children)

One day closer to World War 3, I guess.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 days ago

As an aside, "THAAD battery" sounds like someone harnessed exasperation towards a rich kid and converted it into electricity 😁

[–] [email protected] 90 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I hate how I can't even comfort myself by knowing this idiocy will cost them the election because these fucks are the less horrible option.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Yep, this is coming from the most 'leftist' candidates we are allowed to vote for. Pretty fucked up options we get to choose from. I hate it here.

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Imagine dying not to protect US people or not even their interest.

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[–] [email protected] 107 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

I feel so bad for the people being deployed and their families. These people are being positioned to be triggers for a war against Iran. They believe it will be easier to manufacture consent for that war if the administration (whichever one we have) can point to dead Americans. Sick shit.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 days ago (2 children)

They should point to the Americans killed by Israel

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 days ago

They don’t care about kids dying in their own backyards. They definitely don’t give a shit about Americans abroad.

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[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 days ago

Sounds like someone is trying to immanentize the eschaton.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Well time to find out if Iran has a nuke and if we get to solve climate change by inducing a nuclear winter(yes I know nuclear winter isn't real).

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

yes I know nuclear winter isn’t real

That's not a consensus view.

According to a peer-reviewed study published in the journal Nature Food in August 2022, a full-scale nuclear war between the United States and Russia, which together hold more than 90% of the world's nuclear weapons, would kill 360 million people directly and more than 5 billion indirectly by starvation during a nuclear winter.

Another paper published that year, from the Tohoku University Earth science scholar Kunio Kaiho, compared the impact of nuclear winter scenarios on marine and terrestrial animal life with that of historical extinction events. Kaiho estimated that a minor nuclear war (which he defined as a nuclear exchange between India and Pakistan or an event of equivalent magnitude) would cause extinctions of 10–20% of species on its own, while a major nuclear war (defined as a nuclear exchange between United States and Russia) would cause the extinctions of 40–50% of animal species...

Wikipedia

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There isn't currently a scientific consensus, as wikipedia should be pointing out, with studies differing massively depending mostly on what model of soil uptake and preservation in atmosphere is used.

We know that the majority of in air debris would not come from the explosion, which is designed to minimize fallout in all modern weapons and deployment models, but from the resulting fires. We also know from previous tests the resulting fires don't actually last long as they tend to burn through areas quickly.

In short it's not a sure thing, and if any cooling effect does occur it wouldn't start to touch the average heating we've introduced through climate change.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago

That long Wikipedia article conveys quite well how there isn't consensus. We don't know how bad it would be, because our various best models give different results. But to say it's not a sure thing is different from saying "nuclear winter isn't real," which suggests a consensus that it won't happen.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Biden is really trying to start a whole new war and make the Democrats lose this election.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly, I think Biden supports this unwaveringly because it aligns with US policy to keep the region destabilized.

I mean they helped overthrow the Shah, aided the Taliban in fighting the soviets, invaded Iraq and Kuwait (which led directly to the creation of jihadist state -- ISIS), aided a US-aligned faction in the Syrian civil war, helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions... there is so much more.

And for what? To keep them from realizing they are all arabs and are sitting on the largest collective reserves of oil in the world...

Evil Empire.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago (2 children)

helped put down the 2011 democratic revolutions...

Holy shit tell me more. I'm an Arab and this is my first time hearing of this.

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[–] [email protected] -3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

He is petty enough to do that. We'll and doesn't seem to give a shit about what terrible things Israel does

[–] [email protected] -5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Either he's making too much money from AIPAC to stop now. Or he's bitter about being pushed out of the race for president this election. Or both.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Or he's a true believer. He's admitted to being a Zionist. The man has a history of being as Pro Israeli as humanly possible to the detriment of everyone else.

This is just who Biden is. His lack of morals make him believe Israel is doing the right thing.

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