President Donald Trump announced on Christmas that the U.S. has bombed "Terrorist Scum" in Nigeria.
  • Aequitas@feddit.orgEnglish
    153·
    10 days ago

    I never would have thought that the recipient of the great FIFA Peace Prize would do something like that 😮

  • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    80·
    10 days ago

    From the article:

    “In November, CNN reported that the president’s initial threat against Nigeria came after he watched a Fox News segment about violence in the country.”

      • harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        43·
        10 days ago

        For the US, generally, the answer is “yes.”

        tRump is trying to play to his base. He doesn’t care that Christians are committing the same atrocities as ISIS.

        He also needs to try to distract everyone from the Epstein files.

      • Stupidmanager@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        10 days ago

        Only if the bad people are killing the good people that we like. At this point I’ll be not surprised when we find out Nigeria has oil or rare minerals.

        • Em Adespoton@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          10 days ago

          You know those Nigerian prince scams?

          They started because the Nigerian government is in collusion with the oil companies at the expense of the Nigerian people, who have had their fishery and farming practices destroyed by oil pollution.

          The people found the only way to survive was join organized crime and scam rich foreigners.

  • Doomsider@lemmy.worldEnglish
    75·
    10 days ago

    World police again!? Didn’t our diddler and chief explicitly say he was against this. What a moron.

  • DeICEAmerica@lemmy.worldEnglish
    56·
    10 days ago

    How old ARE the kids he fucks? 4? 5?

    Put a blindfold on this mother fucker and tie him to a pole atop the Capitol Steps.

    • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
      23·
      10 days ago

      Don’t just hate him alone. Remember: he is a puppet and he is being used. Doesn’t excuse him, but see the bigger picture and don’t forget about the motherfuckers that surround him.

  • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    42·
    10 days ago

    Other presidents had families they spent Christmas with, Donnie. This motherfucker spent it in some bunker ordering murder across the world

      • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        4·
        10 days ago

        Implying killing people is less bad than being a pedo? Is he distracting from being a piece of shit by being a piece of shit?

        • BiteSizedZeitGeist@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          In his point of view, yeah. Bombing countries will win him favor with his supporters, but implications in the Epstein files does the opposite.

          He’s so guilty and has so much blood on his hands already that outrage over spurious bombings is completely ineffectual. Sure, I’m angry he’s killing people again, but that doesn’t get me anywhere.

    • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      5·
      10 days ago

      Oh fuck off, they’re out there, and you’re still parroting this? “The epstein files” (the idea of them, not the actual files) are distracting you from your president bombing people on Christmas mate

      • Taco2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        10 days ago

        Yes they’re out and there’s some terrible shit about him in there but he doesn’t want anyone asking him questions about it. You should know since it sounds like you’ve had enough time to read over 30,000 pages.

        Do I think being best buddies with a known peodphile and sex trafficker is the worst thing he’s done, probably not but he absolutely doesn’t want to talk about it because he has no good answers.

        It’s all part of his flood the zone tactics to control the narrative of anything. So, he’ll continue to violently kill and imprison people, and put his name on stupid shit, and kill the planet with coal, and tear down the norms of this country. Anything to provide distractions that his base can focus on and to avoid any questions or prosecution.

        • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          Of course he has “answers”: liberal witch hunt, they don’t want America being great, blah blah blah. If facts were relevant, he would’ve already faced the consequences for shitting on the constitution every other day since he took office. It’s mind boggling to me that Americans are still expecting justice to come from within a system that is part of the problem.

          What do you expect to happen? That if memes reach critical spiciness he will implode? Asking questions will stop him?

          And these “distractions”, they are just more heinous actions. It’s not some empty news cycle drama. Killing people across the world just adds onto the pile of reasons he needs to be removed

          • Taco2112@lemmy.worldEnglish
            3·
            10 days ago

            What do you expect to happen?

            Probably nothing and he dies a sadly comfortable life.

            I participate in protests and boycotts, I donate as much as I can to organizations I believe in. I talk to my friends about trying to organize more and I constantly talk to them about a general strike and a need to shut the system down as it is. My career actively helps against waste and climate change. You’ll probably say that’s the bare minimum and maybe it is but I have a family to take care of so I can’t be out there like Greta Thunberg. It’s not that I don’t think violence can change things but I’m a nonviolent person.

            I understand that my comments on a niche social media website will do nothing to change anything.

            My apologies if that’s not enough for you random stranger.

        • floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          10 days ago

          Uhh ok sure. I’d love to hear your reasoning behind this, but actually don’t bother. I don’t want to lose braincells

          • lIlIlIlIlIlIl@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            10 days ago

            You sound exactly like all the Russian trolls.

            If you’re not one, you got tricked. If you are one, you got tricked.

  • technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    35·
    10 days ago

    I’m just so grateful that all the previous presidents refused to do this and setup safeguards to ensure that Trump will be punished. \s \s \s

    • DarkFuture@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      10 days ago

      Previous presidents are only part of the equation.

      The other part is having a society that isn’t stupid enough to elect a felon rapist pedophile insurrectionist.

      The situation we find ourselves in is as much American’s fault as it is our politicians. Actually moreso, since those politicians are only there because of American’s decisions.

      • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6·
        10 days ago

        It’s truly more complicated than that. The USA electoral system is weird worldwide, but more than weird, it’s antiquated and by design, by tradition, very prone to be manipulated, and this goes from the caucus system to the elections themselves.

        It’s set up for the people to feel they are actually choosing leaders, but the reality is the political representation is only achieved for an increasingly narrow economical and ideological subset of the people. The American political class is very conservative, and it always breaks my heart that many Democrats feel offended when people from other countries, like me, point this out.

        • Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          3·
          9 days ago

          European countries have a variety of electoral systems, and to my knowledge right wing parties are gaining significant vote share in all of them. Is there a country whose electoral system you see as best helping them deal with populist reactionary figures?

          I am currently a proponent of ranked choice voting - Australia is the country I know of with the most widespread use example. They aren’t magically utopian, but it seems to be helping there. Always on the lookout to learn new things, though, so interested in pointers.

          • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
            3·
            9 days ago

            European countries have a mindset of colonialist countries that will try to reach for their roots. Unfortunately, that’s part of their political struggle. I actually like the way it is in my country, Mexico. You have one 6-year term only, you can’t have any re-elections, ever. It’s possible to ask for a referendum in the middle of the term, in case the person in chair is not doing as they promised. In the legislative power, we don’t have dinosaurs thanks to this, politicians can go from lower to higher level cameras in this bicameral legislative power, but that’s it. “No reelection” is ingrained with blood in our culture. Of course, electoral systems can only do so much against populist reactionaries, as you put it.

            I like the idea of ranked choice voting a lot, but I don’t know how viable that is for the USA. They need change, urgently, and ranked choice voting would be as good as it gets in terms of change.

          • selokichtli@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            9 days ago

            The people have done what they can. Politicians have failed to them. That’s why Trump was headed to last 4 years in power only, and then the Democrats handed him, on a silver plate, another presidential term by being essentially equal to their rivals. As I see it, the political class is the one failing, by showing the people there is not a real path for a leftist government once and again. Americans need brutal leftist politicians as they have brutal right-wing ones in spades. The people is eager to support a younger Sanders-like face, someone that won’t compromise the benefit of the majority’s views.

      • bunchberry@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        The alternative was an outright jingoist who ran to the right of Trump on foreign policy, insisting that she would massively ramp up military spending and build “the most lethal military in the world.” Given the history of Democrats with how much Biden and Obama loved drone strikes, it is rather disconnected from reality to think that Democrats wouldn’t be bombing as well.

        Foreign policy is something that Democrats and Republicans have always agreed upon, have always been warmongering parties and CNN and Fox News always come to agree on every war the US ever gets involved in. There literally wasn’t an option to avoid US imperialist wars.

        Well, there are third parties, but if you talk about voting for third parties then everyone will claim a third party is secretly a vote for Trump and then try to paint you as equivalent to Trump supporter.

  • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
    33·
    9 days ago

    Attacked Venezuela. Largest oil reserves in the world.

    Bombed Nigeria. Largest oil reserves in Africa.

    Expressed an interest in invading Greenland. Guess what?

    • Cloudstash@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      8 days ago

      Sure, i get it, Trump is orange bad boi living the dream in USA or whatever, but you do realise that this type of behaviour isnt new to USA, regardless of what party the president is a member of. USA will continue to bomb odd targets, stage coups and train terrorist groups to do their dirty work.

        • Cloudstash@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          8 days ago

          That’s true. However, no matter how good the food tastes, it ends up the same in your belly. Just do the best you can, mind your own business, live a happy life, and do whatever the hell you feel like. As long as you’re not actually hurting anyone, go ahead.

    • jordanlund@lemmy.worldMEnglish
      1·
      9 days ago

      When we start fighting wars over fresh water, Trumps plans for Canada and Greenland are going to be seen as genius…

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    31·
    10 days ago

    Trumps says he killed ‘ISIS scum’ who terrorized Christians in Nigeria

    1. When will he tackle MAGA scum for the same crimes within the US?
    2. Does he demonstrate that his magical weapons kill only ISIS, excluding from harm, any non-ISIS Muslims and Christians?
    3. Has he set a date to annex the oil and mineral reserves of Nigeria?
      • D_C@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12·
        10 days ago

        Here’s the thing. There’s absolutely no way his cronies, nor the American population itself (which they should feel ashamed about), will ever EVER put any consequences on this orange child rapist. Ever.
        I think he could literally rape a child on the Whitehouse lawn and nothing would be done about it. Nothing. Shameful.

        On the other hand death is inevitable. So in these two imperfect scenarios I’m wishing for death.

        My perfect list goes like this:
        1 Arrested. Convicted. Jailed for his crimes. (The same fate to his cronies, and family, will soon follow)
        2 Painful untreatable disease that debilitates him completely so all he can do is sit in shit and watch as his cronies and family are arrested then jailed. The tRUMP name becomes synonymous with corruption, and the whole empire is taken to pieces while he watches.
        3 Slow very painful death. Cronies and family get fucked over as above etc etc.
        4 Slow very painful death.
        5 Slow painful death.
        6 and onwards are the death option with various amounts of pain
        …
        998 Quickish death with pain
        999 Slow death no pain but the terror of him realising he’s dying.
        1000 Death.

        As you can see death is my last option, but it’s the only option that will actually happen.
        The only saving grace about all this is that history will treat him and his name accordingly. The recent Epstein debacle proves this. Yes he may be able to hide all this whilst he is alive, may be. But not when he’s dead.

        • foggenbooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          I don’t think he could rape a child on the Whitehouse lawn. I know you’re being over the top for the sake of the example, but the reason that wouldn’t work out for him is that:

          1. People can see it
          2. It’s close to home
          3. His supporters can’t justify it

          Lose any of those criteria and he’d get away with it, but all three? I think that’s too much. His supporters are low information narcissists who happily drink spin with every meal. But if you force them to confront something that actually affects them, or that they can actually feel, then the spell starts to break. Half the problem with everything he does is that it’s missing one of the above, or it takes too long for the negative effects to be felt.

        • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          10 days ago

          haha ok. Well, Chavez once said “I am more dangerous dead than alive,” and he was right. He died of cancer and Venezuela never recovered - he practically became an adored saint. Untouchable. Venezuela’s chavism played Cuba’s book. Now the U.S. is too with trumpism.

          Edit: downvotes by authoritarians.

      • cley_faye@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        10 days ago

        Just wish for consequences of his actions.

        He’s too old for that. A country who’s president is, say, around his 50s, should fear for potential consequences. Trump? He’ll be dead long before a single actual trial is even started at this point. Better stop the murder and destruction sooner than let it go in the prospect of posthumous condemnation.

        • El Barto@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          10 days ago

          I’d rather he spend the rest of his life going to trials, like those 90-year-old nazis.